THE CENTRE REPORTER THURSDAY MAK 12.. 1*74. LOCAL ITEMS. t>ur friend* will oblige by srnding u* item# ot local notr in their locality. give u the facta only, and *t will b wt tham in shape, aim nottcaf of death* and marn % highly until within a few weak*. Brown measure* "honeat Samuel Uramlay" according to whom h* decides to favor with patronage Brown ia * groat annihilates# -ha ha# annihilated half deaoti paper# la Bellefonte, in the last fifteen year*- and they were all hi* own too. Mr. John Rishel. acre** th* valley. haa a horse afflicted with lha apiaooly. "Belter late than never." Th* vendue, at Mr Kliaa lloy'a in Xillany vallay, last week, Sd, wa* probn bly tha largeat aver held in th* cauaty The crowd wa* e*timated at 'AW and con sumed th# bread of ten buthel* of wheat betide* the other "eatable*, aad than lhay were only half eat -"fled, and not a bile wa* left for supper, *o completely d*d the crowd eat him out. Mr. Jam#* Foreter s *a!e, the following day, alao had an un usually large attendance. The poaloffic* at Fowellon, Centre county, ha* beeddiscontinued. A boy near Tine UroT# Milla, coa fiacated a bora* nr.* day laat weak -Tom a Mr. Weaver. Mr W. succeeded In cap turing hi* horse, and ha* eonfieated the boy who i* now in Ballefonla jail. (ireen pea# and #trawberriaa were shipped Irom Charleston, on AMh of laat month. We have groan-horn# up thii way, anyhow. Another |2tt> conacianea money wa* received at tha Treasury, on Saturday, due for customs, Irwin New York, Solution* l-i th# problem of'X In last week's Reporter ware taut by W. K.. of this place, and by A M S., of Peno lie.i, both having it U> &-Sof A'*, which C has !#*. Correct. On last Friday forenoon we had a briak snowstorm, turning into fleet in th* afternoon and night, making altogether a depth of 8 or 10 inch**- On Saturday a slight rnia; Sunday cold and blustery; Monday and Tuesday cold and fierce Hortu. Wednesday do Letitr front Missouri Correspondence of the Keperter. 7nuiun, March 1. 1674 Dksb KniToa:—Seeing nothing in your moat valuable paper of Morgan county, i thought a lew item* frvtu hare would not he am it*. The location of Morgan county is almost in the centre of the state. It* cli mate, a* in central Missouri, generally it delightful, being subject to neither of the extremes of heat or cold. No portion of the state—or in fact the entire West—can lay claim to greater bealthfulness. Chills and lever*, the curse of new countries, are almost unknown here. Versailles, our county soat, is located on the dividing ridge between the Missouri and Ossage river*, and ie a flourishing town of twelve hundred inhabitant*. Morgan is not a first class agricultural county, although in portions we have very fins farming lands. About one fourth of our land is prairie, the rest is limbered. The prairie lands are good and produce abundant harvests. They are frequently broken by water courses, the bank* of which sre lined by • good growth of timber Tbe entire south ern part of the county is timbered and rougb. This portion abounds in minerals, consisting chiefly of lead and iron. In places the timber land make* most excel lent farming land. Wheat docs especial ly well, and some of the best farms in the county, are the rich bottoms of the Osege, Uravois and Moreau. Howeeer the great er portion of Morgan county ia well adapt ed tograxing. Although tba prairies are noerly all fenced, there are many thousand* of acre* of timbered land unfenced where grass grows luxuriantly. Here cattle roan the year round, and there are hut few days even in the coldest winter that that they do aot find something green to eat. Morgan county is well supplied with running wtcr, and mill seal* are nu merous. 1 have not seen a place in the Ur? West that has as fine and nuuiarou* water; ewers as Morgan county. Prom W inquire iHtiitinuilly "Who I# i'ncl* John T" Wb* you Hupid blockhead, you long-eared hora, don t vou see him ivory day? l>o yau contempt ible fop* presume to put on city air*, where folk* don't know lhair nait naigli bore? Mora anon. l?ait.g Jon* LotL'i' from Nebraska flrri^oiUH, , < i)/ tk* Rtporlrr. Hi NOXLY, Nan , Jan. 'dttlh. 1574. Kturoa UxrearEH Tarhap* a few items front here woild not he alittas in your oolumnt We had a aary mild win tar. and little tnow lime* are hard, and why ia it? Market* hate net been eo gaod for tome four year* a* they ara at present- Why i* it that there ara no njore eastern people coining te Nabraika to gel home* of lhair own f The Hat* of Nebratk* 'of IBT4 aUnd* to be admired i liar broad field* baa* yielded an enor tnou* inoroaa* and har cttiaam are justly proud of it. W* have let* swamp or waata land than any other Hal* in the I'nion; eur educational tyalew ia aueh that we feal proud of; c-hool-houe* ara being erected on nearly every auction of thickly aeltled land 1* re vision haa been made for a ichool fund which will b* aec ond te nan* in the country and churvhaa of all denomination* are becoming nunier aua. Flouring mill* are alao numerou* The great I'nion Pacific Railroad run* through the atate which afford* facilitiea lor at porting our product* Nebraakai* about 30 year# old. an I ha* been a *late only about aeven year*. With bar rich and unrivalled tillable land* tbar* ia in duceiuan' and room forcounlleas more set tler*. Where *o lately tlood the wigwam of the poor ignorant red man, now| tand* the mansion of hi* conqueror, and what ware vnre hit happy hunting ground*, ev er which roamed counties* number* #f buffalo, elk and dear, now dwell thou sand* of civil lead human being*, rapre venting nearly every nation upon tb* earth Th* tomahawk and acalping knife have given way to implement* of luduatry and the plowthar* it fast turning Una v*l prairie into a cultivated garden, and rich product* are the reward of toil. Wi have exchanged the buffalo for lb* ox, th* atk , and th* dear lor th* Isorva, and the watch-; dog ha* taken the place of th* howling ooyot# KM. L. , TTNCLE SAM S FARM. Four UuuiimJ Million Acrca of Ar able Laud Open lor Settlor* —A New Hotnaalead Ltw to Oonwet the Abuaes of tbt Old Bjrttew. Washington. Feb 29.-The Committee osJPublic Lead* of the House of Repre sentatives, in a recent report say that the whole arable public land remaining, after deducting mountains, alkaline plains, sand and sag* deserts, swamp lands and shoal lands, railroad grant*, Jfcc., cannot exceed three hundred and fifty to four hundred million acre*. There were taken up by homestead entries alone last year nearly four million and as our population in creases this yearly amount will also in crease, and al so rapid a rate that in lea* than a century lb* whole arable land vf the Government will be absorbed by set tlers. Although it has here lb* beneficent intention of these preemption and home stead laws to afford cheap hemes to the people, yet both laws and especially that which allow* pieeniptioa, have been perverted from their original design and have been made the instruments whereby speculator* have ob tained Urge arras of land and hold them unimproved waiting until the neighboring improvements of industrious settlers may enhance their value and afford a|prvfilthle sale. In a limited degree the same abuses have grown up under the present home stead lew. To correct these abates,.to insure le eve ry one who wants it a home, to prevent frauds wa tha national Government, and to brirg under improvement the public lands, is the object of the bill reported by the committee. It repeals the preemption lows, except that it allows inchoate titles under them to be completed nccording to their provisions. It also substitutes for the present Homestead law all entirely new one, retaining all the best features of! the existiag law, and adding others that the experience of the working of that law seemed to require It does not interfere with the Soldiers' and .Sailors' Homestead law. Its new features areas follows: It requires actual settlement and cullivi cation fur five years which, on due proof thereof, the settler can obtain a title to 100 acre* of land, tha whole cost of which will < bcslUon entry of.the land, and $8 on final proof. If, however, the saltier wishes t obtain a title earlier than in five years, ha can do so at ths end of eighteen months on payment of the minimum price of the lend. Tb* bill exempts "pine lands," with mineral, coal, and heretofore' exempted, in order to sav • vast tracts of valuable pine timber to the Government, that are r.ew destroyed under the present lawi, without insuring settlement or culti vation. It extends to minor beirs, at the death of thair parents, the right to contin ue the parents' settlement with the consent of the guardian, and allows widows, after settlement and before entry, to make entry in their own name. It provides for the determination of controversies where two or more persons have settled on the same quarter section or smaller legal subdivi sian ; also that vacancies in the office of register or receiver shnll not prejudice claimants as to any matter necessary to the establishment of their claim. Among other provisions, it allows the purchase by cash of small tracts of forty acras for sites for mechanical, commercial or manu facturing purposes, after ene year's occu pancy thereof, and provides 'that all the United States {reserved (lands within the lateral limits of railroads shall be held at tho double minimum price of $2 50 per acre. AN EAGLE'S STRUGGLE WITH A GIRL. [From the Jacksonville (Ala. • Kepublcan.j j Ob Saturday, the 3d inat., a girl nauisdj Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Alberl| Moore, living in the northeast corner of Cleburne county, was returning home; from a neighbor's bouse, whither she had been tent on an erranj, when she felt smething heavy strike upon her shoulder,: and the next instant she was horns to thej ground. She says that her flrtl impression was that she had been seized by a panther or some other wild boast, but soon felt the talons of what proved to be an eagle; clutching her side* and arias, lacerating! tbe flesh in a fearful manner, ami with it* beak picking her on tho head, she Was dragged some distance on the ground. Pretty soon the eagle, having secured his prize, with claws and bill firmly fixed raised her from the ground, and sailed along at from three to four feet above the earth for some distance. Occasionally she was dropped on the ground, but tbe eagle would as often raise her agein, tuak . ing now and then serious wound* with bis talons in her body and his beak in her bead, till at last he reached the height of ten feet, and attempted to light a a limb of a red oak tree on the roadside, when hi* hold again gave way and the girl fell to the earth seriously stunned and hurt. She was unconcioui for a time, then clamber ed over the fence near by into her father's orchard and began making tbe best of her way to the house, near which she was met by her mother, who bad been attracted by her screams, and was hastening to her re lief. The most remarkable part of the matter is that the girl did not see the eagle at all. A shawl which had been securely fastened about her head, so as to project over her face, hid her rude antagonist from her view. Tho tiack along whichshewas dragged, however, ** plainly visible ill lb# ral Tli girl Kliiabeth U fourteen years of age, end weig* Let roll eighty hit>l ninety pounds Tim eagle lim been (wire eeti *ino* by the hunter*. who err making awry eflort to kill or capture him. TUK BLACK M A .UNO Ill's 1 N KSS Keaull of the Labor* of the llouee In vestigeling CoinrailiM— Dimmick.l tit* rx lsC|>iaigtor Mini Originator of the Scheme ao far a* known (o have Uted the Mntiey for Hi# own I'ri ' vale Hcnclit. II *Hai*ut an, March 4 The follow ing it the report of the committee appointed hy the Mouse of Kepresenlative* to raves ligat* the authorship *f certain circular* addrested to bank* and banker*, relative to bill No IH. entitled "An act to rrpoa! the usury of this Commonwealth and to fit the rata o( interest ' 7b (A< //. ilui iiih the l/imif */ liffi esm bifire* o/ /Viusy,'r.iHi i The uudersigned commilte ap|>ointed by your honorable body to investigate the authorship of a certain circular, signed K II tiibboni, making assessment* upon the batik* and banker* of the Comuimon-. wealth, avowedly to aid in the passage of - House lull No IS. entitled act to repeal the 1 usury law* ol It it Couatucnwealth and to 1 fit the rale of interest, have discharged the duties imputed upon theru, and re- 1 spoi tfully beg leave la report That they hare eiaaiiitrd a large number of witness- ' s and have eihauiled all available sources of information in order to arrive at all lb* I (act* bearing upon the subject From the ' evidence taken, and which i* herewith 1 •übiuiilrd a* a part ot tin* report, the com- ' millee have drawn the following cenctu- 1 At sorue time prior to Januar*- 2l>. A. i> " 1574, Mr. William II l>ituuiick, lata a • member of lha House of Representative* 1 from tbe county of Wayne, or touia one in hi* behalf, caused ta be printed a cir f cular under data of January, IST4, and signed "K. H. Gib ban*," secretary (oe exhibit Dl, requesting the several ban hi throughout the State "to circulate pell ' l on* favoring an inert a*e of the legal rat* •of interett to aeveu per centum per an* 1 num." and ill like manner ptocured blank 1 petition*, with printed heading* i*ee ex* 1 Libit II , to be enclosed with lha circular* ' to the bank*. On or about the 'JUth af Jan. ' Mr. William 11. Diuimick and Lewi* it. I Kichluiycr, potma*ter of the senate, in room No Ml, State Capitol Hotel, ilarri** burg, eacloeed arid addressed to the bank* and banker* of the Stat* copiat of the fore going document*. The adore** of the bank* and banker* wa* taken from a banker*' almanac of 1873 'borrowed of J. W. Weir, ca*luer of the Uarri*bu National liauk. by Mr. J M r| Kreiter, far the u*e of Mr. Win. 11. Dint* jmick. Mr. Diuimick fttrnithed the print i jed document*, envelopes, and ttamp*, and Mr Richtmeyer cor.rayed ihtui ta the II po*tofl!ca and mailed them. To these cir- I 'cular* tundry replia* war* received el the i llarrubu rg poeloffice and rent to the Sen ale pottoffice by the order ef Mr. Kiobt uiyer. At the request of Mr. Din "o*u>lEce they were de livered to Mr. Dimauck, by Mr. Kicbl uiyer. Subsequently, during the early , part of February, Mr J. M Kreiter, of r lb* city of llarruburg, by tie request of Mr W. 11. Diuimick, obtained the tigna t luree of the llarruburg bank* to a written document relative to this metier, i The authenticity of the paper U admit l led by some of lha banker* aud denied by > other*, lb* evidence*, however, prepoa ; derating in favor of the claim that the i document wa* materially alterad before it wa* printed- Tbi* paper, together with a : circular under date of February Ik', tigned ; K. II Gibbune, eecretary, making attest menu upon the various bank*, and a pro* . posed copy of llou*e bill No. 18, wax en* •closed and addressed to bank* and banker* . by Mr. J. M. Kreiter in hi* office in Mar ket meet. Mr Dimmick being present at • 1 le*t a portion of the lime. AfUr they 1 were ready for mailing Mr. Kichtmyer I took them from Kreiter'e office to the po*t j office, and mailed them at the request of Diiuuilck. A portion of the replire re ceived te thete circular* were *ent by re i quest to the Bolton House and dalivered • to Mr. Dimmick, and a portion were re turned to the writer* e* uncalled fur by the party to whom addressed. To preci**- fjly what axtent the bank* responded by u check* or drafU at requested your com* niitlee are unable to at certain. l'robsbly i torn* of the letter* delivered to Mr Diro hmick, or returned to the writer*, contained such enclosure*, but of thi* your commit . tee have no information. The only in* r *Unce* of such remittance* that came to I the knowledge of tho committee were *ent to thecare of Harriiburg bank*. The [ Union National Bank, of Philadelphia, > wrote John A. Riglar, vice president of i the City Bank, Harriburg. to pay one ! hundred end twenty-live dollar* to Saun* . der* when the bill p***ed. The Manu facturers' National Bank, of Philadelphia. i tent to James W. Weir, Cashier Harris , burg National Bank, a check fr two bun- I dred.'and fifty dollar* Drexel A Co., of l Philadelphia, rent a check for H. 11. Gib* t bon, af reventy-five dollar*, to Doughcr . ty Uroa. A Co. Tbe Western National , Bank of Philadalphia authorised the First . National bank of Ilarriiburg to any nee* I etsary expense* attandiag the passage of . the bill, and the Sacond National Bank of . Titusvi]!# sent to the tame bank a draft , lor one hundred dollars, to be paid if the J matter was all right. .| With the foregoing exception* your .[committee have no information that banks f or bankers responded to the assessment* or . remittance*, and are led to belioveby the )' testimony and other information that but I vary f*w of the banks msde any response Ij to the circulars. Your committee are un r der many obligation* to tbe bankor* of . llarruburg for valuable assistance render* ed in the discharge ef the duty im|>oeed upon us. and desire to state in this con- B nection that the committee have no reason t to believe that the banker* of liarrltburg r bad any knowledge of tbo intended use of money or other corrupt mean* to pa** House bill No. 18. L la the discharge of their duty your com mittee found it necessary to visit I'hiladel j pbia, Reading, and llonesdale to obtain j testimony. In the latter place y< areola* t millet ascertained that parties named K fU. Gibbons and K. L. Sounders were „ known there. Mr. K U. Gibbons wa* j called at a witness, and stated that he I knew nothing of this matter under investi gation, and had not authorised the use of ~ his itnmo by any person in that connec ,, lion. The K. L. Saunders known at r lloncsdule is a lady that is said to reside at .New York, but who had visited Honrs* dale since ISkiil, a portion of the time I slopping at tho house ol William II Dim , mick. So lar a* your committee have , keen able to ascertain, the originator ol of thi* scheme. Win. 11. Dimmick. iid , mitted no one ilo share in a full know ledge of the transaction, hut gave to oth- I ers such information only as served toac p complish his purpose ; and so far as the , committee know or believe no other meni . ber of the Legislature ha 1 any knowledge ol it. It is evident from the testiiuony | that Dimmick had no intention of using . the money received from the bunks, to aid I in the passage of Hou*e bill No. 18, but | solely for hi* own private benefit. , II >w Justice wnn Defeated, i On Monday, the 23d of February, your > committee were prepared to report a por tion af tba testimony, nnd n resolution ex pelling Win. H. Dimmick from member ship, but having bnen anticipated in this ky his resignation, concluded to postpone any report until tha investigation was com pleted. Your committee submit these facts to the House for such further action as it may deem proper, and ,'ask to bo dis charged from the further consideration of this matter U. I) McCItRXHT, A. B. YOUNU, j JoIIN U. Davie, i .STKHUOI.INO CCIIA. KiH'tMiragiiig Advictl fiuin tltc Inland. ' New York, Match ft.- The rumor of the death ofei Fresideul Caspedo*, of the Cu ban republic, I* generally dlabolleved by Cuban* here, who regard it at a Hpanith canard, intruded to dlehearion tha patriot* • and tnjuru the cauo The latest iiewe, r fo<-aired through Cuban source#, of thr 1 |irugrM of affairs in Cuba ie mwi encour aging In Cnmaguey the Cuban* have ' more men and horae* than the Spaniard*, tin the I'.nh uf January a halt)* *n taught at Melon#* between fIUO Cuban*, partly latr, en account of the insurrection in Paraguay, wa* increasing, and there wa a general decline of value* lu CuOMxjueioc. Troop* and vetsel* were going forward to Paraguay. At liuenot Ay re* tho election* were in progress and wera attended with intense etcitement. Troup* wer<<|beiiig dispatclied l various point* on the frontier*, and war with llralil waa looked upon a* liable to break out at any moment. Munition* of war wera arriving from the United State* The cholera continue* to rage and the death* from the dl*t-ae average ** cii daily. I'KAYINU IN TilK MUD AT CO I LU M BUN. [ Columbia*, O , March 4 —Tha women'*' . ruade *a continued this meriting, their courage being itn reaied previous to begin-1 mg their march by the new* that Mr. Up ton, proprietor of the Zcttler House, who; had declared that he would do all that he!, could in opposition to the movement, had , without being asked taken down hi* bar!, and slopped the sale of liquors. Kerr's!, billiard-rooui was first visited- The ladies , were well received, and sang and prayed, hut Karr refused to sign the pledge Mar selti a and Kritdlender's drinking places , were visited, but both ret used to sign the', pledge. The laJirs prayed and sang el M each place, kneeling on frightfully muddy pavements The saloon kept by Antoine , Chop pa, an Italian, was also visited, but Choppa, scenting the battle from alar, j hurriedly shut up shep and refused to be, seen Prayers were offered for him. It is, understood that the liquor dealer* held ; maeting last rughl and resolved to Ucal | the ladles courteously, but not to admit theui to the places. A prominent preach- i er of the city forced himself into the pio-11 cession this morning, thereby doing more | harm than good. At three o'clock p. tn. loU ladies renew ed the crueade against the liquor-sellers llefore the procession got one square frou. the church dense crowds ol curiosity seek I •rs, men, women, and children surround-': ed them. Making progress was almost I impossible. At several points on litgh i street, cetwithsiauding the utmost efforts < of the police the sidewalks were complete- ly jammed with a noisy and not very so- I lect crowd, it is highly probable that if i it had not been for the police it would I have been nccoasary to abandon anything I like visiting work. Kivc saloons were vis i i lied and the proprietors were talked and i prayed with, but no signatures to the . pledge were obtained. One Italian agreed l not to sell liquor after his present stock I was sold. At one saloon a crowd of men i made au attempt to drown the prayers and I singing by cheering, but they were sup- I prosed by the proprietors, who at first i • ere very defiant, but afterwards insisted that the ladies should be treated with re < •pert. The druggist* ol the city held a I meeting to-day to oontidcr the situation, i and twelve of them signed a pledge not to I sell or give awey any alccholic liquors ex cept for medicinal, chemical, mechanical, < or sacramental purpose*, and in either I case to parties personally known to the I druggist, or upon a physician's prcecrip- I tion. Those signing this pledge embrace I nearly all the prominent druggists of the ! city. At a prayer meeting this afternoon 1 the committee appointed to call en the General Aseembly relative to the move ment reported that they had interviewed several legislators, and ware told that be- < fore any special privileges to hold service* ' in the Slate House could be granted tbey < must knew just what service* would be held. MAKRIAGK IN HIGH LIFE New York, March 6 One of the most f magnificent weddings of the seasr-n took ( place yesterday at the rcsidcnco of Cyrus , W. Field, No. 123 East Twenty-first street. ( The bride wa* Mr Feld's daughter. Mis* , Grace, aud the bridegroom was Mr. I>an-!| iel Allen Lindley, of this city. Nearly ( 1 600 cards of invitation wsre issued. The ( guest* ware among the most dislin- ( guiihed familie* of New York. Ilrida! presents worth haifa million dollars, com prising numerous rare and valuable arti cle*, wera received by the bride. After ( the ceremony a reception wa* hold, and in I the evening th* young couple started on < their bridal teur. They tail soon for Eu rope Now what do some of our Centre county ladle* think of that? Perhaps many of them will have no presents at their wed- i dings, but a far happier wedded life than those whose Urge presents are paraded in the papers 1 DON CA It LOS'B PLANS London, March 6,-—A special despatch! to the Time* from Doyenne contains the following intelligence obtained from Car list sources : Don Carlo* ha* announced that it it not. his intention to impose a contribution up on tha population of Uilboa when that place is taken. On hit entrance into the city he will pro- | coed to Uie Cathedral and he crowned King of Spain. Ho will swear to support tho lib erties of the people, and will constitute a ! government with Goncrel Kliu us Presi dent of the Council. An appeal will he' made to the foreign powers t recogniee the beligereitoy of the Carlits He well declare the Spaniards exempt from nllegi ' ance to nrty ether government than his | own. He will draw $5,000,(14) aa the tint instalment of a Ivan previously contracted. | CKSPKDJCS' CAIiKKK KNDKI) lluviina. March 7.—The reported killing ol ex President Ce*peds by ■mns tm-iu burs of thn Sn (Jiiinfin Itatlalions is colt tinned It appears litst on February 27 the troops capture.) a negro, and were or dered by their commander to shoot him The negro promised if his lite was spared to lead them ts the spot here CexpeJcs could be found. This was assented to, anJ the ex-President was ciscovered with a few friends, five leagues from AssesoraJi na. His friends succeeded in getting away, but he could not escape, and, while closely pursued by a dctatchmvlit ol troops, led by a sergeant, turned and fired six shots from his revolver. This was returned by the troops, and Caspedes received bullets in his head and breast, causing instant death. Hi* body was brought to Santiago du Cuba and buried on the Ist instant. A LEAP FOR DEATH Abby L. Mirrii.m, daughter of the pub lisher of Webster's Dictionary, und a res idunt of Springfield, Mass , committed sui ride to-day by jumping from it fourth story window of u water-cure establishment in Madison avenue, while laboring under a fit |of temporary insanity. TIIK PKN N MA NORM IN PKNNHYL VANIA. The Royal Charter v*tod In William Peiin anil lilt Imln the ahiolute ownership 1 of the toil of Poiirny Ivania. Kroni 11,81, the Unto of the charier, to July 4, 1770. the ■lain of the Dec la ration of 1 itdepotidelita, all title* had to he derived from the I'ena ' family ; and within the reserved manor* ' tinea all tillet have till 1 to be traced to them. The Surveyor (leiieral, under the I'ennt, had tele, led ami turvcyed oil tomu forty four manort for the more eicltuive u*e ol ' the proprietor*. Large |K>rtiou* of the luanora had been disposed of balore the Revolution, M|it> cially In Katlern I'enuty Ivania. How much ivillained untold in IT7O 1 have tio meant of learning. William I'enn, by hit will, had left to each of hit children ten ihoutand arret o| land in Peuniy Ivania, and at variout time* tome of the family had attigned to them poitlon* of land. Thete are the "Private Kttatet" referred to iu the act of I "TV. The Leguialota paaaed an act on the twenty-seventh ol Nuveintiar, 177 V, in con tideiatton of one hundred and thirty thou •and pound* sterling, lor ill bundled and fifty thousand dollar*.) veiling in the Com monwealth all the proprietary right*, un der the Royal Charter, reserving, hawev er, to the I'enn heir*, their malum *urvy cd and returned prior to July 4, 1770, and thair private t*lal* —meaning, I pretume, ail properly which had lieen severed from the general proprietary evlalr, and vested in any one or more member* of the Peiin family. Tbo vightb and thirtaonlb sec- Uont are a* follow*: "\ 111 I'roxidtd aU u, amio* if enact' td. That all and every the private estates, land* and hereditament*, of any ol the taid proprietaries, whereof they are new pos sessed. or to which they are emitted, in their private teveral right or capacity, by devue, purchase or detcrnl, and likewite all the laodt called aod known by the name of the Proprietary Tenth* or Man or*, which were duly turveyod and return ed into the Lend Office, on or before tbe fourth day of July, in the year of our laird one ihoutand *ven hundred and ! aeventy-tig, together with tbe ifuit or oth er rent* and arrearage* ol rente, reserved out ef tbe taid proprietary tenth* or man* or*, or any port* thereof, which have been told, be confirmed, ratified and establish ed forever, according to *uch relate* there in, end under *ucb limitation*, ute* and lrut, a* in and by tbe teveral and respec tive retcrv at ton t, grant* and conveyance* thereat, are directed and appointed, "XIII. lit if furtktr enacted, That Uic turn of one hundred anil thirty iboqtaini pound*, trrlil g money uf timet ilrilaia, ta paid ui of the Trcaiury of thta Stale. U> tha drvuae* and legatee* of Thotna* Fatiu and Richard trim, lata propriet* rira of I'enntylvaaia, respectively, and to lit widow and relict of the taid Thuniai I'ann, in tuch proportion* a* thai! Lercaf (or by the Legulalura ba deemad equita { bio and Jui. upon a full investigation of tbair respective claim*." HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. limytKtfti oiIAJ /.if oof SitrL —A ftarful. heart rending accident occurrad at tba Steel Work! balwaan tba hour* of 9 and 10 o clock on February 18tb, by which about fifteen urn wara mora or lea* injur ed. From tba meager information thai could ba obtained wai a* follow* : When tba niollan itarl bad bran emptied frun. ooa of the large converter* into tha bug* ladle from which it emplia* into tba mold* the ladle, accidently, *ai overturned, and tba liquid fire wa* thrown overthoaa work mar. engaged in iu immediate vicinity. About fifteen wore tuorc or la** burned, three of that number *o **riou*)y that u u feared they cannot recover. Tha clothing of none of tba man wa* literally burned I rum tbair bod iaa, wkila drop* of rod but liquid burned through tba Aoth of aoine unfortunate one* almoat t* the bone*. Ma**rt Frank Jonea, Jo*eph Nebular and John Whiiatnan, were moat aarioualy burned, Mr. Nebular'* injuria* being oi auoh ettrauialy acrlout aatura that it wa* impoMibl# to convey him to hi* home. M Jama* F. lla*b, Michael liogan, Jacob Swarnar. Jo*epb Miller, l*eac Hu lan, Cbarle* William*. John Cro**low and Cbarle* Andrew* were among tba unfor tunate v ictimi, though *omc ofthi* num ber were not *eriou)y injured. Mr. Swarnar, betide* tba burn* received, alio had an arm broken. ~Jkn*totrn Icier. A GREAT FIRE Coiolantinople, March o.—An exlantiv* conflagration in Salovia. An immenee amount of property wa* destroyed. Elev en person* burned to death. DEATH OF KX-PRESIDKNT FILL MORE. HuiT.lo, March B.—Ex-President Millard Fillmore died at hi* residence, in tbi* city,] at teu minute* past II to-night. He was; conscious up b> that time. At BP. M., in] reply to a question by hi* physician.be] said hi* uurishment was palatable. These ware hi* last word*. Hi* death was pain* less. Some time sine* ha had a stroke of paralysis, and ha been failing ever since, so that his death was not aliogethr unex pected. THE FAMINE IN INDIA. London, March &—Dispatches from Calcutta report that the distress among the famine stricken people in Terhoot is in creasing. Inane Village alene eighteen parsons have starved to death within the past four days. The number of applicants for employ ment on government relief works has in creased from 15.U10 to 30,000 within a week. OUR AMERICAN WOMEN. 'Rev. J r Thompson to lbs Amsrloss I'hnpsl. Berlin.! The position of women in the United States marks the high poeilion of the na j tion in the scale ef civilisation. With a large practical equality of privilege, and a healthy measure of independence, woman also retains her pretogalive of sex in the homage accorded her by courteey and honor. If. as Hurke lamented, the ago of] jchrivalry died out in Earopo with tho de cay of feudalism, it has revived with the new type of manhood in tho New World. I am awaie that "tha American girl' 1 is a phenomenon that puaales and startles Eu ropoan society by her independent ways, quite as much as she daxxles it by her beau ty of person. her grace of movement, her taslelul extravagance of dress. She has 100 much the reputation of being free, for-1 ward, "fast;" and I have sometimes blush ed to feel that this might 1 r deserved. The native go-ul sense of my country we j men sliould leecli thou) when abroad l< restrain the charming freed "in of their home life, in order no to shock the con ventiunal usages of European society Hut I look upon ilia American girl, taken all in all. as a proper subject tor thanksgiving! -ha can be trusted to go out alono by day ight, without the whole family guard turning out to protect her against innocent young men ; for through the very freedom which is allowed her, she is trained to lelf reliance and self-respect, and should any man presume to be familiar, she would not need the family guard to aid her in re pelling him in away that would forbid him ever to return. And the statistics of married life show that, on the score of so* cial virtue, we have reason to be thankful that in our country, the relation of the sexes in youth is based not upon suspicion and fear, but upon confidence and honor. The advance in education, both as to methods and to results. Is another token under this head that calls for devout thanksgiving. We lack yet a uniform law inaking attendance upon ptiuiHry schools co;i pulsory throughout the whole coun try ; and the debates and r|>orts of touch ers' associations and of educational con vention* show that those are tar from re garding our system as perfect or final. This is a healthy and hepeful sign ; for a r ruadine** la profit by experience, a will* Ingnrts to b* criticised mid to bt improv* 1 fd, it iiti-ir a part of g<>*d education Hut '' hut (mt an advance in Ilia avorag* oi • |'J|'nlm *du< alien lha past fifty ycara have in ill..i.luglm*** oftuII, and 11. Ilia Irnning of teacher* bjr normal Imolt wliilf, at the same lima we hav* hal l fast two . ardinal prim iplea "( American education. proved by expc rit'iii i naiualy training Ilia pupil to aalf ' ;>. > llir 'liltli daily '< < itati .in or aier riaea up. .11 tha lupir band, and training ilia ratiiii.g ( Win ! ■ tho . inunl no and application of tin- knowladge acquirsc) • fr..in tail.l k> an.l li--. lure Cp"" the** ' prtn<'lpla bare been grafted from other countries whalevar of good could ba aim- | ' ; ly adapted to the i oftdiliun* .it Ainrrnan, ' aocinty. • .... a -WWi a■ ■■■'■■ ■ " i In a lecture delivered in Han Krau< uco i recently Prof U Co nlo gaea aoma inter esting informaliun regarding tba lava bad* i at California, Oregon, and British Coluiu* • Ida The graal lava b.d, be aald, begin* ■ in middle California and appear* in #|>a- I rata stream* of lava which grow and grow • | until in northern California lhay merge : into a grand flood. In Oregon, Waibiug jUm Territory, Montana, and British Cul- I oiuhia, an area a! from itUO.UIIU to fIUU.OIXi I square mile* ia coveted with lava, show- Iling, a hare it ha* baau cut through by the Columbia river, a thickness of 3.T feat. The l>ea Chutes river, emptying into the ■ Columbia, run* for HW mile* ia a deep, narrow gorge, on the side* of which are lava layera from 1,1X1) Ui I.UUU faat high Th* clear section of ibt lava ia War* pro. i bably naar B.OUU feet in thichnaaa. Th# northern portion of thla lata flood, which came I ruin the IW0 Coal per Ton (<">. so Egg Coal par Ton 50..... Limeburner's Coal per Ton (3.50 NOTICE Letter. Tes j lamentarv having been granted to the undersigned, on the estate ol Francis Alexander late of Fotter Township dec d, they request all peraon* indebted to aaid estate to make immediate payment, and thosa bat ing claims to present them pro perl r authenticated for aeulement, alo all parties wishing to transact business with aaid eitate, before April lt 1874, will be mat for that purpoee, by the Executors at th lata reaidonca of tha dee'd in Centre Hall, on Saturday March Slat. JAM KS ALEXANDER. EMILY ALEXANDER, W. A. MURRAY, JOHN P. ROSS. i UDITORS MEETING .-Notice I* hereby given that the Auditor* of rotter township will meet at Did Fort, on TUESDAY MARCH J4th at 8| o'clock to audit and settle the accounts <>f the "Overseers of Poor and Road Supervisors. All person* having business to transact with the audit are requested to attend. W. A. Kaim. Clerk. W. W. I/)VK, JAMES M CLINTIC. JOE. M. GILLILAND -'mi sr. Awfrs The Granger Store! Something New! CASH AND PRODUCE FOR CHEAP GOODS. .SHORT CREDIT 4 SHORT PROFITS. ISRIUM.KIAOIiI.i, Spring Mill* ha* established a store to suit the times, and he* a complete tock of DRY GOODS. NOTIONS, G ROCK RIBS. IIA HI) W A RK. yUEKNSWARK, iu short, any thin* usually kept in a well regulated" store. He intends to sell on short credit for Cash and Produce, giv ing the highest price for the latter, and has marked his good* with a view to small profit*. Prime Rio Coffee ut 32 cents. White sugar 12 cent* hy the pound and II cts. at wholesale. Light hrown sugar at 10 cts. Kssence cotTue 6 cts. which other stores sell for 10 cU Appleton's "A" muslin 131 cD, por yd ' by the web. Augusta muslin 121 cts, per yd. by the : wob. Cuttendry 30 cts, per pound. Rest Navy Tobacco 30 cts. per lb. ' SEED.'POTATOES. NEW YORK LATK ROSE. It. 11. All* El. 1J miles East of Centre llall. t 1 Planted 1 > Eyes Late Rose which 1 yielded 46 pounds. M. M. CONDO. PB t'HI4C BALK Will b <>Ul al tha residence ef Ik, Ciiitir.if nn.l | CKNTRE HALL on SATURDAY. MARCH IHh, IIH at 1 o'clock : 3 bnriM. 2 cow* and I half nr. 6 head of aheap, and a lat of lafttb*. I 2 bor*e wagon. I aprlng wafan. 1 bohalad t Key-atone Reaper, I oorapianler, 3 plow* corn*crapr, corn cultivator. iiorerahe, ha v ladders. 1 pair tugbarneaa. buggybar I.4**, i'ivSgsar, ai d man/ other artiala* too uumerou* to rain lion. JACOB DINOKB PUBLIC SALK. Will be told at Public Bala, at tba residence of tba undersigned at Aaron*- burg, SATURDAY. MAR. Idth. at I *are, floe Toa*ett, and all kind* of kitchen Furniture spuming wheal, Tub*, Barrel*, grain Hag, Woodaaw, Ail, Iron V***l, liegr of Spath, and many other aiUcle*. JOIIANNA KURTZ. VALUABLE PAKM AT PRIVATE SA I. K • -Tbc undersigned oflera it t"i*eU uli hi* valuable Parm, altuale in Narruiwp Centra c< unty. near Linden indebout 1 mil* from the L. C. & !* k .j onuuahg 91 ACRES OP Lli'JlCK PAKMISQ LASi), of which kL ul *J Acre* art flu* Wt.ODLAND. Toe farm u under good fence* and in ■ Mgh >UU of cultivation. Thereon are erected • very large IIKU'A HOUSE good HA N K HA EN, and all other aece* **ry Outbuilding* the Wales i* j M p*d u. the bout* and barn Thara U alio a lame and thriving ORCHARD. with all kind* of choice fruit, upon the plana Taken alL..geti.cr tin* i* eae ef the meat deeirahle farm* now offered for aete in thi. valley rurchaaer* can buy thi* preparty at a great bargain, it application u eiada on er be fore April let IS7I. For further particu lar*, add re**, WM. I>. ROSS. Bhavera Creek Huatingdoo Co , Pa..*r Joku or J a*. ROM,Linden Bell.Pa. jan'.'J Jtm niHTII BALL , Furniture Rooms! HRIMHIVCA UKOIMIiX, repectfully inform the chi sen* of Cent rt county, that they have bought oat the old aland of JO. Ilviniager, and have reduced the price*. They haru constantly on hand, ' end make to order BEDSTEADS. BUREAUS, BINES. Vt ANHSTANDS, CORNER CUPBOARDS, 1 TAHLK*. Ac , Ac. liugißibi ('Haias ALWAYSov lltie. ' Thrir stock ef ready-made Puralture is large at.J warranted ofgund workmanship i end i* all mad* under their own immedi ate uper*um, and is offared at rat** cheaper thaa aL*where. Call and tea our stock before purchasing etevwbire. fcb. ly. Keystone Store. ; POE FARMERS AND ALL OTHERS Go to H. YEARICK 4 SON, FOR FOREIGN 4 DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. HATS. CAPS, BOOTS A SHOES. CLOTHIMG, OIL CLOTHS, OC BE NSW ARK, OROCRBIKS. PRO VISIONS, FLOUR, 4a. No. 6 Buab'a Arcade, Bellefoale, Pa. All kioJ* of country produce tak en. Beat Bargain* in town to be bad. uov2otf Short lidge & Co., PROPRIETORS OF THE Beilefonte Lime Quarries, The only Manufacturer* of Lime, burst exclusively with wood, in Central Pennryleaaia. DEALERS in Anthracite Con!, White Lime, Du Font's Powder, Sporting nod Bleating Powder on bend, Fuse for Blasting, Fire Brick, Ground Fire Clajr, Fertilisers, Implements. janJO 73 Otßcc ud yard sear South end of tbe Bald Kagle \ alley Bailroad Depot, Beile fonte. Pa. jan KITS Miller & Son, CENTRE HALL, PA. DEALEBB IN PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. OILS, DYE STUFFS, PKBFUkKKY. NOTIONS, FANCY ARTICLES FOR THK TOILET. Ac., Ae_, Ac. PI'RF. WINE AND LIQFORS, J for medicinal purpose*. Trusses A Supporter* in great variety. Also, choice CIGARS AND TOBACCO. ' and all other article* usually kept ia a ' first class Drug Stare. 1 Prescriptions carefully Compounded. , 2*octtf MILLER A SON. STORE Woodring d *ut to auk. Immediate pajruiant. sod IboM harm* damanda against lb* aw to present thorn duly authenticated by law to* antti* inut JACOB P iBISBBL, ■ear Mt, Aitwlatstrator , VNULIBR ROOfINO mt, ! Mifcw* s£Sinaut * THREE-PLY MLT. For Roofiog. 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