Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-01-26
NO. A..
GENERAL NEWS.

bis residence in Brooklyn.
Rev. Enoch Pond, D. D., president of
the Bangor theological seminary, died
last Saturday night, aged 81 years.
The clerks in the Census Office have
given Superintendent Walker q gold
watch, chain and seal, costing nearly
800.
Ex-Treasurer Spinner is eighty years
old. lie lives in jacksonville, Florida.
and appears good for number Of
years yet.
Attorney General Stockton, Of New
Jersey, United States Senator from 1869
to 1875, has just been renominaied for
his fourth term.
Nellie Grant Sarioris is enjoying the
Washington germans. hut startled the
ladie. the other evening by appearing
IN red kid glove.
The Indiana Secretary of State re.
ceiyed an application from a Justice Of
the Peace who wanted an appointment
as ''noter republic"
Edith Gray Is q variety actress who
charms her audiences by her shrinking
bashiuluess and fragile beauty. Still,
she fired four shots at gambler in
Council Blun-.
Boston's two heaviest taxpayers are
Moses Williams and Joshua Sears, who
are assessed for e., 300 coca g.. .2s4 0OO
respectively. Sears is q young fellow
not long out Of college.
Henry G. Spa,dinr, whose name vas
made familiar IN connection with glue,
but who got none Of the millions made
out OF II. was lately arrested at New Al.
bsny, Ind, foT drunkenness.
There was 70 much drunkenness in
Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Christmas
holiday, thst tue City Council passed a
special ordinance foib.ddng the sale Of
Intoxicating liquors on New Years dsy.
Senator Fair lives in Charles Summers
old quarters at Washington. He ~ the
richest man in Congress. and perhaps
the richest Office holder in the world.
His leisure Is devoted to the study OF
finance.
The expert accountants from the
Treasury department st Washington.
who have been engaged in the official
count of the wealth slowed away in th,
sub-treasury at New York. concluded
I their laborso on Saturday and report ESQ.,
. 100000.
ThgSta,c oi Texas has pretty large
fili sraintt the General Government.
( 10 amounts to over two millions OF dol
I Arr. - just ascertaincd by Adiutant
+ General King, most of which Is for
monies expended by the State in the
protection oi it, frontiers
/ John Soiouruer. of Louisiana. has
( given uumi-takablc evidence Of his be.
/ lief in mairmnny. Although % years
+ Of age. nc has just married his finh wife.
[ The rutire time 81 his wgdowerhood put
/ together being otly little over one
year. The last wife is about 80 years of
/ sgr.
Commissioner Du3ley slated on Fri.
/ d-y to the CommIlee on pensions that
-! he had four hundred men to place
I ~ the Geld So specis. agents he could
eliminate all pension frauds within
I three years time. lie thought such
special agents should receive about
Z 81 400 per year and expenses"
The house commerce committee on
7 Friday heard jon Roach, of New
York, William Ros -, Of Maine, and
others ia advocacy Of certain amend.
ments To toe navigation laws. The
I speakers asserted that the laws in their
/ present shape were adverse 10 Amer.
can ship building, both OF iron and
wood.
The Maxwell ranch contains l,1OO0.
600 acres Of New MEXICO land, and the
AIchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
passes through il. The man whose
ns'ue it bears fot it BY marriage aud by
/ purchasing various interests. He has
put IL into au English stock company.
and q fence is being built around IL
preparatory 10 the raising OF blooded
stock on n large scale.
The grand jury at Columbus. Ohio. on
Friday. returned fiity-two indictments
against Frederick w. Newburgh, assis' I:
ant secretary Of the state board Of pul
lie works, Tor forgery, issuing fraudu.
lent certificates and securing money
under false pretences. His operations
covered about $4,000. ~ convicted on
each indictment, his lowest aggregate
penalty will be 6fty.two years in the
State peniientiary-his highest would
call for 579 years.
At William III. Nanderbilt's house
warming, the other day, in honor Of his
recently married daughter, Mrs. Dr..
Webb, The name Of Asior, quite prom
ineut New York family, does not Ap-
pear among the guests. These two dis.
linguished society people ought not TO
tell out simply because the ancestor of
one sold pelts a little earlier In the
century than the father Of the other
rowed passengers to Staten Island for
50 much a head.
Dennie Dunlap was three card
monte man attached 10 . circus. A
greenhorn whom he had swindled Gus
Of 5000. at Assumption. Louisiana, com.
planned TO a justice, who not only issued
a warrant, but went 10 the tent 90 serve
IL. 4Issnnie was operating on another
victim, and he quietly offered the justice
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