The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-10-19
NEWS ITEMS.


three cents . busheI.
The value Of petrolsnm exported
from the United States In 1875
smoaoeed to $4,000, 900.
Mr.. Pardee. Of Flsseltoo, made q do
os,icu 81 $500 900 To Iafsette College
Eas,on, the other day. for the erection
Of building for the Scientific Depart
ment.
The Danvillo md Hazelton rail.
road, running from Sunbury to Hazel
ton. has been completed Itconncc'
with the LcLigh Valley road and wil
be 40 important coal throughfare.
A farmer residing near Weaver.
town on the Potomac. die from hav.
ing been poisoned in consequence o.
getting ,ha virus Of n elandcred hors,
into O small sore on his finger II,
survived orly six or seven days.
A woman who killed her husband
in Cincinnati was recently tried and
acquitted. The newspapers there sa,
the acqui,tal resulted from q belief IN
the part ofthe jury in q womsu's r'gh'
to shoot" if she believes her busbabd d
unisithful.
Jerry Dixcy. q colorcd man who
has been in prison in Philadelphia
during a period Of years for mur
der committed 10 1857, died in prison
on The 3rd. He has been all this
time uodcr sentence of death. with
the warrant for his execution un-
sigoed.
A man recently came to his death
10 n cnIious manner at Venice. J,aly
IIc was Standing near bronze autom
atom. which told the time Of day. with
his heal between tho bell aud the
hammer. The hour came round with
out bis notice; the autamnton struck
Que, aud Knocked bis brains out.
Brainbridge, Ga, mus, have very
salubrious climate for babies. They
have about l.500 inhabitants, and the
city records show an average of five
new babies per week when the per.
centage falls Of. q woman will catch
up by having twins. and often tripleis
One woman is doiug well BY nursing II
quartet of babies.
The story Of u recent land sink il
Orange couty, Fla, IL n hoax. Their,
has been no such phenomenon in tina,
section This contradiction woull
seem TO be unnecessary but for the
fac, that some respectable and widel,
circulated papers at the Moth bav,
rcpublished the ridiculous story with
serious editorial comment
SO far as salary j. concerned, Pres
ident Thiers, of France. is little bet
ter cared for than our President The
Assembly has recently increased hi
salary to Sl20, 900 year, with s32.'
500 for contingent expenses lie II
lodged. washed, warmed. and lightec
free. The total amount Of his pay M
chict executive is eaid to be abou
100000.
An enormous woman, one Caroline
Heenan, is on exhibition 10 loudon
Her age is said to be twenty-five year
and weighs 500 pounds. She meas
ures seven feet around the body, q
inches across tho shoulders. IL is add
ed that, unlike most fat people thi
large body is ablo to sustain grea
physical cxcrtion, is handsome, pleas
ins and highly intelligent.
Four or five men were killed anc
twenty-five were wounded on Tues
day at Philadelphia during the riot'
which broke out IN the southern par
of the city. The militia were order
ed out. and lieutenant o! police, nam
ed Haggcrtv, was arrested on the
charge; Of obstructing the polls, The
riot is attributed to tho i'll trcatmcn
Of negro voters at several of the polls
4 thief was arrested in the town o
Braidwood, Illinois, the other day
and, for want of prison, was locked ~
in an empty freight car standing or
the Chicago and Alton Railroad track
That night n freight train came along
sttached the prison car, and whirle'
it away. Next morning ths Braid
wood people found that their prisone'
had not only escaped. but had takeI
his Jail along with him.
A large hawk apparently in quest o
chickens met with singular fate IL
jefferson county, Pa. few days ago
1t sailed around the barn of Mr.
John Colfman. Gaskill township, ant
finally lit on the point Of one of tn
lightning rods, descending with sucl
velocity as to force the sharp poin
entirely through his body While !
was struggling to free itself II numbe
of other hawks few around IL, evi
dcutly sympathizing and Offering thei
services.
An interest case was tried befor
an Evansville, (lni.) Justice q few
days ago A nan named Dugan ha'
been killed by a runaway horse. 4
subscription was taken up tor the bcnc
6t of the widow and children. Joh'
Dugan, brother Of the diseased, col
lected the subscriptions, and kept tn
money, claiming that his brother wa
indebted to him at the timo OF th
death On tho trial the widow oh
taioed judgement. auc the charitable
Johu had to disgorge.