The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-04-28
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They make three Yankee clocks
overy minute 10 Bristol, Come ecticut /;
and the smaller the clock the ferccr
the "tick.r
An English Collier kept n keg of
powder under his bed, aud the other
day went after some, smoking d pipe.
When he went out he took the roof
along with him.
Henry A. Wise turned up in the
Supreme Court in the Richmond May.
orally imbrogio. and 10 order to get a
hearing he had to take an oath to
support the United States Govern
ment.
"A Chinese cigar maker at San
Francisco has gone to the insane asys
lum trying to keep the run Of the in.
ternal revenue decisions regarding ci-
gar stamps.
Tho trial Of Mcfarland for killing
Richardson is iu progressin New York
city. Public sympathy hvors McFar-
land, and he will doubtless be ncqui,
cd, though certainly guilty of deliLer.
ate murder.
The meancst thief in the world
has asserted his title to that promi-
ncnco by breaking open the tomb Of
the late George Peabody at Salem,
Mass, and stealing the silver appur-
tcnanccs from the coffin. lie has been
arrested.
The prisoners in the Lock Haven
Jail made an attempt to break out last
week. They had got out into the yard,
aud were trying to perforate the wall,
when the .iailor, having arisou .t 4
o'clock, discovered what was going
on, and hived them.
The Present session Of the New
York Legislature j. the frs, time the
Democracy have had control of that
body for sevcra! years; and bad work
enough has been done by it to mnto
it pretty sure that il will be several
years before tho Democracy will be
10 power again.
"A Strange and contcmpt.bc rob-
berry has been perpetra'ed in Titusvillc.
Mrs. D.. Bailey, of that place, was
endowed with a rich and luxurant
growth Of hair, About eight O'Clock.
an evening or two since, she lay down
10 the room for nap, throwing her
hlir loose on the pillow. While she
slept some person came through the
office entered her room. cu, her hair
oh close to her head and fed with the
stolen treasure. The Doctor offers n
large toward for the detection aud con.
vic'ion of the porpctrator of this out
rage.
Work was resumed week before
'ast 10 the Avondalc mine, rendered
famous by the heart.rending calamity
of which IL was the scene last Sep
Icmbor A new brakcr has been
erected an opening driven through
he neighboriDg Union Nine" some
six hundred and sixty feet distant.
and an air shaft has been sunk from the
Tho mouth OF the shaft. Besides these
measures Of prcrau'ion. involving an
expenditure ofs $1,000, the company has
substituted fan ventilation, instead Of
tho former method, by furnace.
DE,ru OF LorEz. -IIsnry, April
lG.-Thc regular mail steamer from
Rio .Jcncirio arrived at this port to-day.
bringing details of the termination of
the war in Paraguay. On the first day
of March Brazilian General attacked
and carried the position of Lopez, who
was killed, together with his son, Col
L'pcz. i. Sauchaz, Vice presdcn, of
the Republic, General Concnos, and
several other high officials Of Paraguay
The mother, brothers, and four
children, and Mrs Lynch aud many
officers were made prisoners. A large
quantity of arms and ammunition were
also captured. At the latest advices q
treaty Of peace was being prepared
with the Provisional Government of
Paraguay which had convoScd the
Constitutional Assembly for that pur
pose.
A disaster occurred in miI.o
on the 18th inst. The ship Thomas
Freeman, Captain Charles o ven, which
had left New Orleans thirteen days
before, was struck by thunderbolt,
which made q holc about two feet
square on tho port side of the vessel.
Soon after the shock, which prostrat.
ed all on board, the vessel was found
to be on FIRE. but the flames were con-
trolled until the next morning, when
the brig Omega, of Sydney, G. ii.
Captain Kerr, from Cieufuegos, was
signalled, and, promptly responding,
took off the ships company. including
two ladics-the wife and daughter Of
the captain-all Of whom were brougt
in safety to Boston, arriving there on
Friday.
The Thomas Freeman when last
seen was enveloped in flames aud must
have burnt to the waters edge. The
terrors OF that night at sea, OH board OF
burning vessel, can be more readily
imaged than described.
The Lancaster Express of the 10Th
says:
A stroke of lightning performed
singular movement. on the farm OF a
Mr.. Scitz, near Mount JOY, 10 Ran