Che Centre Democrat, ———— THURSDAY, Avaust, 22. 1880, Fd dn CHAS. R. KURT LOCAL DEPARTMENT. —J. W. Gephart, Esq., is expected home from Europe this week. —Morris Swartz, arrived in town on last Saturday morning for a short stay. —The cool mornings and evenings are gentle reminders that the summer sea son is waning. —Zeller's drug store will be located in the Crider exchange in the early part of September, —~James Bayard, typo of this office, is engaged in laying patent asphalt pave- ments a#T'yrone. —Jerome Harper left on Tuesday evening for an extended trip to Chicago and other points in the West. —Arrangements have been made to have trains leaving Bellefonte every two hours during the Patrons picnic at Centre Hall. EDITOR | THE YOUNGEST MERCHANT AT JOHNSTOWN. Pays a Visit to Belle loute- The Guest of Col spanglor—A Modelof Pluck and Energy A Good Example, Col. J. L. Spangler had the pleasure of entertaining over Sunday Master Joseph W. Dixon, a young hero of the Johns. town flood, Young Dixon is but 15 years of age and very small in stature vet he is one of Johnstown's most pros: perous business men. When the fatal dam above Johnstown broke Master FAILED TO COME OUT, Spring Mills Festival, | f ha On Saturday afternoon a large crowd | assembled at the depot to take the | train for Spring Mills where a band fes- | { tival was to be held, In the crowd was | pervades the negroes neat Bos the Bellefonte band and the Undine | the country intermedinte by Hose company, both organizations being | in full uniform. Bldding, A ‘3 . I'he most remarkable religious craze per and Ng place an rapidly grow When the train pulled | Alabama. i Birmingham. the aisles, on the platform or crawled | phet, and doing all Kinds of into a coul attached on the rear. | Wild and queer things, Along the road passengers got on at | this sectionare ignorant and supersti_ every station until breathing room was | tious, and Jackson's il netions and the | been invested with enjoyed the situation, awed the simple When the train pulled into Spring | minded negroes. Saturday last Jack. Dixon had a stand near the Penna. depot | and kept newspapers and stationery for | sale. He enjoyed a profitable income from his place of business and managed | to help support the family. When the | flood came upon Johnstown he had suffi. cient time only to run for his life and | reached the high ground in time to see | the angry waters sweep away his little store, along with hundreds of other buildings. But the sadest part was that his father was drowned and a large | family was left homeless and without any means of support. Young Dixon | wis not discouraged in the midst of all this distress ; possessing rare pluck ~The amount of personal liberty dis. played at Spring Mills, last Saturday, was enough to turn the average man into a temperance fanatic the rest of his life. — Landlord Brandon, of the Brocker- hoff House, leaves this week for Mill. waukee to attend the national conven. | tion of the G. A. R. as one of the del. egates from Pennsylvania. —We would like to know what Billy | (iray intends to do with that elegant residence on Lann street which will soon | be completed. It is none of our busi- ness, but would like to know anyhow, —The base ball enthusiast who in-| quired at book “Fall of the Roman’ rival in a sufferer from trying to purchase “Pilgrim's Progress.’ —We would call the attention of our | readers to the advertisement of a fine | farm and other valuable real estate to | be sold on Friday of this week, as the property of Henry Krumrine, deed. Spring Mills, a store for Gibbons Umpire” has a | corns who is Junion ~The corner stone of the Reformes church at Coburn will be laid on Sun. day, Sept. Sth, at 10 o'clock a. ma A | number of other ministers will assist the, | pastor on this occasion. ally invited to be present. i ~The advertisement of Edward | Rhoad’s coal and grain establishment | will be found in another column. Mr. | Rhoads is a young man of good business | qualities and possesses the necessary en. | ergy tomake his new venture a success. | All are cordi- | —Centre Hall is becoming quite a pious little town. All the residents are | law abiding citizens and members of churches. As the ministers have noth. | ing to do they have handed in their res. | ignations and are going to new fields of conquest, ~The Bucktail reunion isin progress at Philipsburg, Wednesday and Thurs day of this week. On each train passing through Bellefonte, members of the as. sociation appeared with the unique bucktails on their hats and caps. The reunion will be largely attended by citi- zens of this section, —In this issue will be found the adver. tisement of Bucknell University, located at Lewisburg, Pa. This institution is one of the oldest and foremost in the State and in its course of study and sup- ior advantages it surpasses most and is excelled by none. If you have a son or daughter you wish to send to a first class school write for a catalogue of Bucknell University. ~Extensive preparations are being made this year by the committee in charge of the Patrons picnic to be held at Centre Hall next month. The display of implements and machinery will be larger than last year. A number of Philadelphia houses will have represen. tativeson the ground with samples to take orders. The number of tents will be larger and on the whole everything will be conducted upon a larger and improved plan. ~Liregg Post, of Bellefonte have de cided to attend Grand Army Day, at Sunbury, October 9, "80, This gathering is a re-union of the Grand Army Posts throughout Central Pennsylvania, and is largely attended by members of that order. The Penna railroad is expected to give excursion rates to all persons who desire to attend this meeting, For information address R. C. Irvin, A, V. Smith, or Thos. Donachy, of this place. Gregg Post will go via Lewisburg road. «~=During the past week we have no ticed articles in our exchanges to the ef. fect that Penns Cave had been purchased by some Pittsburg capitalist and that tion and opened the first store in Johns- | { employs three clerks to wait on custom i obstacles are overcome and | side of life again appears. i assaulted nnd and energy he determined to try and support the family by his own efforts. Scarcely had the waters receeded than he established himself at his former loca. ] town after the flood. | The young man's venture came {0 the notice of Col. Spangler, who assisted | him in various ways and enabled him to | replenish his store with new goods. His | | little business increased from day to day has a large trade and | | and at present ers, and is younger than any one in his | employ, i He secured a comfortable home for his mother and brothers and sisters and | provides for the entire family from the income of his store and manages to lay a little sum by for some future invest. ment. t his coun- | To the young men of t | try we would commend the energy and | pluck of this young hero as a fit exam- ple for them to follow. It is but another illustration of what can be accomplished by an honest and noble effort and how easily the greatest the bright Young men, th) study these few points in the career of ! Joseph W. Dixon, the 15 year old hero of Johnstown, and you will be impressed with the great possibiiities in a noble and honest endeavor, Served Them Right, i | | On Tuesday, a hearing before Justice Linn, in which three young men wae charged with waylaving and assaulting a young man attracted considerable at. | tention. Harry Lambert, employed in Nevhart's barber shop, was the party the information. Lambert is a new man in town and it appears that he attended a hop recently made | and won the good graces of some of the young ladies present and at the sume time aroused the wrath of some of the young bloods who did not like to we themselves beat in such style, and ewe ally by a stranger. The next was to do Lambert up and get even with him for beating them out of their girls, About two weeks ago, one night as Mr. Lambert was on his way home from a visit he was stopped by three men who were going to do him up. One of them struck him in the face another got a club and started after him threaten ing to kill him, but he managed to get away from the ruffians with a few slight bruises. The young men charged with committing the assault were Boas, Gar. is and Smith. After the Justice heard all the evidence in the case he held Messrs Garis and Boas for their appear. ance at next term of Court. This case of assault is one of the many which occur in our section regularly. There seems to be a class of ruffiansand toughs who are in the habit of painting things red and do not hesitate to com. mit deeds of violence, Thiscase of as sault isnot a very severe assault but the manner in which it came about calls for the severest punishment. Belle. fonte has no use for a set of lawless toughs and bummers and the sooner they are disposed of the better for the community, even if they have to be sent to the Western penitentiary, nove A Lewisburg Tale, Recently at Lewisburg, as Under. taker W. C, Ginter was embalming the remains of Mes, William Searles, he was startled by three or four rappings on the floor directly underneath him, the knocks being immediately followed by loud sereams. ‘What made these knock. ings 50 peculiar is the fact that there is no cellar under the house. Notwith- standing his fright, Mr, Ginter made a thorough exploration of the promises, but found nothing that seemed to offer any solution of the mystery. The knock. could find it, | it was, a couple of tables made out of | | to attend this festival. | traction was at | were iHluminated by the flickering glare one could only move | Valley and are anxions to have The darkies ia | | ] For some time past an old | up to the station about one half could | negro, named Tobias Jackson, has been obtain seats the other portion stood in | proclaiming himself as Daniel the Pro. | singular, § H 5 ' i in demand, Everybody was happy and | great power which he claimed to have | Mills the natives were astonished at | son persuaded three young negro men | 4 | the size of the crowd and some thought | that they were representatives of Shad. | that the bottom must have dropped out | rach, Meshach and Abednego, of the upper end of Penns Valley, . Everybody was looking around to see | flery furnuce of Nebuchadnezzar of old. the much talked of festival, and nobody | He proclaimed that a furnace where In the midst of consternation we spied Manager Brown, the high cockadoreum. To him we rushed for information as to where this | festival was being held, “Over there, | don’t You ses?" he exclaimed and there | the “children of Israel,” under the in. fluence of their new prophet, deliberate. ly entered the gate of the cupola of the . X : : "HACE | wd lone » With’ great big vacuum in the region | furnace and rushed headlong the { white heat siting ir of our bread basket, we came to thecon- | © heat of melting iron. forms was the furnace of Nebuchad. pass through without the smell of fire old boards and a platform for dancing. | \ into clusion we would have to fall back on | Davy Rhule again for something sub. | ed that he saw them rising in the air stantial to satisfy a great big appetite: | the rest of the crowd did the same, In the afternoon a game of base ball : between Bellefonte and a nine from | State College was the only attraction. | The game was an interesting one as | Seon? of some fine playing was done by both teams. The Bellefonte bovs eame out victorious by a score of 22 to 7, In the evening 4 special train arrived and bronght many more to Spring Mills ed by angels, and said that they would i revisit the earth again next Sanday. the three childien of Israel. ed about the matter, said, ‘I feel just as sure my boy is in heaven as if I'd been there and seen him. Jackson, the phet, commended him to walk into the fiery | i h Uae alu ¢ was pledged ter obey him.’ During the evening the point nt- ‘ the near the An immense crowd was there, foutival estival, The New Gas Plant station. : As pliant, a the Bellefon gathered around the solitary lee cream | Dall wor is almost completed and form, all of H xpected Lhal il start the fires The pl onsidering stand and dancing plat whi ant of a lantern. hung on a mb of a tre and With so much light in a about several small lights here and there has a foundation of On thi t arge crowd safely by | ¥iuare, carefully and cautiously feeling his way, | OF Cupoias The Undine boys in heir bine | AO uniforms and gandy hats captivated the fine where bitumin. girls in Penns Sm oke and hearts of all the pretty another It ul Mills soon ALNin. Mills and ad the picnic to Spring was a big day fo o Spring big crowd was assembled to attes . +11 14 . v ¥ tival which was a great big failure [he Coil tar o what is ter which can bx med a hea Hundreds of Indian Relies Many the flood that ha the soil that was washed a the thus a writer's n from borhood of Muncy are fifteen J» celts, a still larger of flaked celts, two AXON peste], one gorget Indian relies were found after 1 Yonser : iy i long Ia length of time a ble gus T! plant is the great saving of buried in Among added to the neigh shed way. perfect specimens | or the economy In the of bitumin in combus A 11 » + colicin F ol as oof ordinary Pros cowbustion ous coal, under’boilers and in number rude | furnaces, it is estimated that over 80 per grooved one cent. of the beat units pass away, in the particles of pon, several drills, besides several hun- | oorbion in the air By this new method, dred darts and spearheads; and among | (4, object is to convert all the combusti- the many fragments found are pieces of | ble material, in the coal and ofl used. pottery and soapstone vessels, Many | into a gas in which combustion will be articles were doubtless broken by the | perfect and will be a great saving of turbulent current and the violence of the drift. And many articles were no donbt washed out only to be again bur. one ceremonial wea. form of gasses and fine lishment where many fires are in pro. the three children of faith who entered the | | OVER THE COUNTY, Negroes Enter a Ulery Furnnee at u Vanatie's | FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRES. PONDENTS. tween that | | An Interesting Letter from Pine Grove-The Happenings at Mills, Philipoburg snd H Bpring Vine Grove Mills Pine Grove Mills is If it were not fou Pine Grove Mills would slowly and peaceably pass away, here on earth is Indeed its stay t all permanent not at i passed over the andienee, It is a happy thing that we have a few ministers of the goune! who have not Le. CON vigh 91 8 rel fromm fr tomp natn fheories whiel £ nohald » absurd and : ridienlong Philipsburg Pointers Miss Adan Rumberger, chief franserib. ing clerk in the PR, I. freight office at in Ferguson twp. | Ferguson township, | Valley come up to the top of the second | mountain every Sunday to see if it still here. But I can assure them that it is still here, very still, many is | and | i | many a man has privately remarked to | all the iron is melted and cast into all kinds of ! me of its remarkable stillness, ple believe that silence is golden, that Its peo | | activity is a commendable trait, and | that the four churches which are clus- | | tered bere insure the heavenly flight of | nezzar and that they could enter it and | The three negroes, calling themselves | every resident. That is the reason no | one «ver moves away from Pine Grove | Mills. In writing of and addressing | letters to this place always add the | “Mills™ never omit it ; if you do your | When they | | failed to come out the prophet proclaim. | letters will never, never reach here, for there are very few people who know just | what and where this place is even when with the smoke of the furnace, attend. | The negroes propose to meet at church next Sunday and pray, awaiting the de- | The mother of one of them, when ask. | | clumsy pro- i : P ne ly | ened despite the gress and many car loads of coal are | the full name is given, If it proves too | laborious to write “Pine Grove Mills" | In full I would suggest for the sake of | and in jumping from one car te anoth. brevity, to contract the syllable “Grove” | er he made a inisstep and fell under the {one day last { field, i som station, on the and it is sald that the people of Stone | Ont, this place, hing been granted a leave of aheence and is offon a visit to friends in Petershurg and she expects to take in the Newton Hamilton eampmeeting before she ret irns Mr. Josephs Knowles, of Point T.ook was found dead in bis bed on Thareday morning, He was a moulder in the employ of John Goodwin, at the foundry and machine shops bere and after he had hard dav's work went to the drinking dens and drank. it is said, sev eral gallons of beer and a quart of whiskey, from the effects of which he died that night. done a He leaves a wife and two children to mourn their lorr ard to battle with the world as best they ean for a subsistance—anoth. er sad case of too mueh* Personal liber. iy.’ the A man hw name of Bloom had both lege and arms cut off by the ears week and died before he could be gotten to his home in Clear. The aecident ocenred near Mun. och ereek road, {| Hewas a breakm an on a freight train and represent it by the initial “G* with | a period following ; then the name Pine | G. Mills would be too : on the contrary it not get mived with the other Pine Groves in the it would be unique, and just too ente for State, original anvthing Mills desires to state to the pub it needs Hie that s large quantity of Husi entermrise Its say cemetery but I am not looks lik wed patch and brush thicket f the absalt le T have heard tv of the svard present grave vad certain ts orthography viel from world in and, wh from an inmates, an imposition on good nature to throw up different parts of sxeletons from new- iy made graves, This much in g say something I racial umers of Ferguson to leave their 4 ff é t Of Lim r bats ’ r FEEL \ The woods r * {| hnckle-berry This townshi 11 cratic candidates for sheriff Who can beat it ~~ ive Sey irrel shoot ng has already made bef core ¢ iw penalty ile] by law for so doing. pros first of Sept Jacob Keller, { the carpenters of this place, One « many has just com- pleted the erection of a blacksmith shop and hen house on the Kepler farm Keichline of Bellefonte visiting his parents here, Charles Chadman, a Lawyer was student Farmers’ High school expects to enter ing in September. | highly respected young lady of this place, fed in the deposits of fine sediment, or mingled with the gravel in the bed of the river. The impetuons flood spared neither the homes, possessions, public improvements of this generation, nor the long preserved relies of a former population. We often found relies of consumed each day. When this plant is | " : : in operation no smoke or gas is given off | occurred Sa Priday laste = She died of | consumption and in the furnaces where the gas is consumed no smoke arises. The smoke, | The game of base ball between the a very important item as the dark cloud s | 1am terminated in a victory for the ff heavy black smoke which arise | Visitors. The score was 30 to 31. 1 Hoffman one of | happened to be present wherever bituminous coal is used can be avoided, the two mces lying close together, and were thus reminded that in many things the white man has really no pre-emin ence above his red brother, THE GLASS WORKS TO START. On Monday the Glass Works were sold at sheriff's sale to John P. Harris, cashier, of the First National Bank. An effort is being made to reorganize a new Suicide, The Philpsburg Daily Journal says Sadie E. Sharpe, alias Grace Goodman, comphny (the daughter of James Sharpe who has | “0 Ped. traveled Centre county from end to end | ® Success at the nail works they claim delighting his audiences asa ventrilo. | tht they can introduce the same system quist) came into Philipsburg on Monday sot wih Je Wig to Wagubictue glass of last week, and took up her abode for | oo Per than Where natural gas is used. one night at the Potter House and The success of this gas plant will insure ahiorward domiciled ab the well knows new Hite and energy in business in our house of Sarah A. Butler, where he SUH Ny and all anxiously await the died at her own hand by taking poison. test which will be made in a few days, No evidence was adduced to show why Seed Wheat for Sale she did it but it is supposed she became { 150 bushels of “Big Yield" an excel ashamed of the life she had been living i lent quality of red seed wheat for sale. for some time, although only now about | Address or call upon twenty years of age. Letters were | WALLACE C, CHADMAN, found on her person received from ber sis. Pine Grove Mills. Pa. ter persuading ber to alter her course of life and return to her home, To Enlarge the Altoona Shops The Pennsylvania railroad has decided to add to its shops at Altos. A site has been selected about two miles from the present shops where will be erected boiler, machine and blacksmith shops, boller-house, electric and hydraulic houses, paint shops and storehouses, giving employment to over 50 wen. MARRIED, x i REARS “WiHirro-At the home of the Wie s parents, in Bellefonte Pa. August 15th Iss, Me. Kimer E Mulberger, of Lemont, Centre Co. Pa. and Miss Grace Whippe, of Bellefonte, Pa. by Rev, W, A. Trostie, . Wit ass Eveny At Boalsbarg. Pa. lh Jemn, / the same, Mr dames © iiss: and Miss Maggie 8. Every, both of Lemont, Centre Co, Pa Tdlenras is » Dangerous Fault I the kidneys. When inactive they speedily fall into disrepair. Those obstinate and fatal maladion, Bright's disease amd diabetes, snsue wilh Yorribie certainty upon ihe fnsetion of the organs affected. Catarrh of the bladder, enuresis, gravel and strangury aro also to be apprehended from a partial paralysis of the bladder, of which weakness and On Friday while workmen were cleaning out the cellar of the former residence of B, ¥. Hoffman, the hack. man, corner of Vine and Market streets, siuggishness Johnstown they unearthed a lot of gold | are the causes, Wostottor's Stomach Bitters is gia, whieh when gathered up by | 5 foe tone and promoter of setivity for the wan found £0 | mening them-an sine | renal organs, and one whieh ean be relied the sons who : i If the new gas plant proves | don’t know much about base ball but there are some people here who know good players when they see them. One of these intelligent spectators remarked at the conclusion of Saturdays game that “both teams are composed of good play- ers, just look at the runs they made.” An amusing incident occurred at a re. cent obsequies at which our two young preachers officiated. One of them in his | zeal to make converts of people who are susceptible of Leing frightened and deeming a funeral as a fitting opportu nity, told his hearers in substance that the death bed of a christian was like unto passing from tired wakefulness in to a sweet refreshing dream, that rap turous scenes of beauty and angelic | forms passed before thie sufferer’s eyes, while music from the holy cherubim softened the pangs of dissolution, ete. He then depicted the awful condition of the sinner at his transition from this world to the one beneath, and cited the delirious mutterings of oneor two noted infidels to prove hispeculiar theory, He told of the dreadful visions of iades, with its hideous forms and unearthly sounds, he enlarged upon the spurious allegation that all atheists at their death bed would willingly give the whole world and forever surcnder their claims on the Solar system for just one hour in which to prepare for death, and he em. phasized his belief that the words of a dying person always indicated hisor her spiritual condition, When his assistant k mg or i would never ! camp meeting their foeal point, cars with the terrible result, He leaves a wife and several children, Our correspondent “took in” the Bay. tist campmeeting on last Sunday, the weather being delightful, the trip was an enjoyable one, Four trains were run over the road all making the Baptist Th { train from Tyrone over the Penns of the | : | Fre in & Marshall co at itso - 1 fuel, an important item in a large estab | Franklin & Marsha legeat its on | teacher W The funeral of Miss Alice Robison, a | He also paid a visit to Pref. ouches attached The Pew Philipsbmre had flowing nye zzam thres packed ilk tis + ’ ina ruil "ne Yipog Fey d rT pressed INLO BErvice y clock the enclosure it five acres, was filial : : He nears ie. T AS nny he services were or = isl Were WMDE elegant mas McKee eioanent ses ey vy Lhe choir. BR i preached an th Ponte 443 PANRI 0 Y Le it Was | YY body ses fe bless them, were Td ro LEA bah | halt, decrepid age and Vinge ‘Birds of a festher, On a common level Traveling together.” iin the throng Spring Mills Prof. (x. PP. Bible. of Lock Haven tarvied a day and a night with his old A. Krise, a few days ago. D. M, Wolf. . Miss Susy Homer and her bro. ther Will, who have been on the sick list for some time, are able to be out | again. in fact, is consumed. This fact alone is | Greenwood Furnace nine and our home | On Tuesday of this week Dr. Sten move 1 part of hisstore from Millheim to Spring Mills. He will occupy a room in the Bibby House, On Monday Samuel Herring, Chief Justice of Gregg twp., sold part of the property of Dan’l Bartges for whom he was Assignee. Messrs Huyett & Co. purchased the timber on about 20 acres of the old homestead for &2.525, Chas. Bartges, purchased four acres a house thereon, of the tract formerly owned by Sam’ Leitzell for 8270, and G. D. Armbruster bought about four acres of meadow land at Farmers Mills at £110.40 per acre. Several other prop - erties were offered but bidders were want. ing. A great deal of land is in the market in Pennsvaliey and prices are ruling'vers low, The very best of land scarcely commands more than #80 per acre. Farmers cannot understand why land is so low, and men who paid 8100 per acre twenty years ago woader why they cannot get more than from 80 to &% per acre now, but they must reme mber that other things are low in proper. tion, and also that there is too much good cheap land in the West for such high prices ever to rule here again. A number of strangers some of them from Bellefonte and some from other places, filled themselves with “Blue Vitriol” and undertook to paint the townrod last Saturday, Some rafans attacked a man named Wolf from Mad. isonburg and had uot bystanders enter.
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