The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-05-26

au extensive tour through EUROPE.
We now have m authoritative statement
from Tennessee paper. that his Ac.
cidency, Instead Of going to foreign
parts, is making his arrangements to
resume his old trade. 1t seems that
he hos purchased large and commo-
dious brick building in Grecovillc,
proposing to engaged again n, M early
DAY in tho tailoring business, under
he old sign of" A. johnson. Tailor
lie intends to employ quite number
Of tailors, and will conduct = whole
sale and retail business Bully! We
wish him abundeot success at his Old
trade. He made great mistake. rs
the people II the United States know
to their sorrow, when BE- gave it up
and undertook to be statesman. Now
that he proposes to go back TO the tail.
oriog business. he NAV yet. in some
measure regain the res pcct of the ma
ton and die regretted by his custo-
mefs.
Two buildings connected with the
Watcrtown Mass Arsenal were blown
into atoms on Sunday afternoon, hy
the accidental explosion of a large
quantity of sholls and other war mu-
ni,ions. The explosion occurred about
= o'clock, iu the shell house, caused by
the intense heat drawn from the sun
through a circular sky-light, which
operated similar to sun glass. IL
being Sabbath day, there were no work
men present, otherwise the loss Of lite
would have been fearful. The cxplo-
sion was distinctly heard dozen miles
in all directions. The shock was
very severe, aud caused great havoc
amoug the windows tor miles around,
and services 10 the various churches
suddenly closed.
According to the Paper Trade
Report the paper collar Accumulation
~ to be followed by the production
of pctticoats, which arc either printed
in imitation Of tho fashionable skirts
oi the day, or stamped out with open
work oi such beauty snd dehcacy that
no amoun, Of labor with needle aud
scissors could immllatc.' Aud that
too, at the trifling expense Of fifteen
cents apiece 80 that the uen with
doll wives, eau get their sawju.t au-
gels sprng outfit Tor one dollar
These prices will doubtless have u
beneficial effect upon the present de-
pressed matrimonial market.
We have n story from Peru that
tho United States Cuusul at Tumbez
has got nimSelf into jail by slappiug
the face vi Postmaster, Oi course
consuls are not TO DO handcuiIed and
iettered for little iDdiscreti0n. Of that
sort, aud we are glad that Rear Admir-
al Turner has taxed tn matter up /;
still poslma-ters have lights which
even counsclS arc bound To respect.
As soon ss the Peruvian authorities
have discharged Mr.. Weir from dur,
ancc ami appologzcd tor the arrest.
wr suggest that Mr.. Weir should apol-
ogize for the slap and then be- dis
charged from his cousulship.
REV, Dr. Chaplin Of New York,
before proceeding with his regular
services last Sabbath morning, remark
cd to his congregation that he always
preferred being wet down by q
thunder shower than by a drizzling
leak, and rs their was u small debt re-
mainiug upon his church of $lU 900,
VII ieh caused leak OF seven hundred
dollars per auDuui, he desired to have
it stopped The box went round, aud
when the contents were counted il
was found that tho desired SUN had
been obtained. The leak was stop
ped.
1.-THE anticipated reduction of TIE
duties on Iron by tho United States
causes great activity 10 the iron re-
gious Of Wales Such is the despatch
sent by the cable from London The
ouly effect of the persistent efforts of
the free traders in Congress is to give
work TO the paupers of Wales at star
walton wages, and to turn out of en-
ployment the well-paid artisans Of the
United States; SO that the effort To
get what is called cheap iron really
helps nobody but those who produce
IL abroad.
Our intelligence from the Dominion
this morning is Of somewhat startling
character The mysterious movements
OF the Fenians are ut last assuming
tangible shape, The reported burning
Of five hundred houses in Quebec, which
comes 20 Us in the same despatch an.
uouociug the Dassing Of Fenians on
the bJrdcr, indicates resort on the
part of that organization to gunpowder
plots, iuierusl machines, aud The other
resources OF enthusiastic but impracti-
cable revolutionIsts. Press Of yester-
day.
The result of the Mcfarland
Richardson trial conveys two or three
lessons on liberty. The first is. that
liza man takes the liberty Of violating
another mans household arrangements
the other chap is at liberty to shoot
him. Secondly, women are not at
liberty to take liberties OF that sort
Thirdly, juries are 1t liberty TO 6nd
verdict OF not guilty on tho ground OF
insanity, whenever it is necessary to
restore liberty to sn outraged hus
band.
The 81 Louis Tribune gives
list Of .Jorty-aine Missouri journals
(seven Of them issued dally) which are