The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-03-23

Hon. Henry d. MOORE, Collector
Of tho port of Philadelphia, has resign
ed bis position.
GENERAL FREMoST is reported 10
have recently made 100000 10 min
ing speculation.
THE prospects Of large crop Of
peaches during tho coming season
throughout New Jersey are said to be
good.
A LADY of Mattoon, H.. was re
Gently married to her eighth husband.
Nos. five six, and seyeu are reported
alive and well, but divorced.
A DEMocRAT in Quincy Illinois,
who heard the tumultuors rejoicincs
Of his brethren over their uncxected
victory, at last turned appealiugly to
one of them and asked. Where is new
Hampshire, anyhow p
TUE hotel in Chetopa, Kansas. is
temporarily closed on account ofa lit
tie difficulty between the cook and
the proprietor, which was sot;lcd with
a pistol, The proprietor is in the
grave, and the cook is is Jail
DAN RICE missed train by one
minute, at Columbus, Ohio, n few days
since, and offered the railroad mana.
ger 800 to get him on board.
The offer was accepted, an engine
procured, and the train over taken in
short time.
The Ledger says that Philadelphia
contains the largest locomotive factory;
the largest book-distributing house
the largest wallpaper mandatory /;
and tho largest dental instrument and
artificial teeth manufactury of the
world.
FEELING patients pulse by tele-
graph is the latest achievement. The
sick man in Washington aud the ply
sician in New York. The beats Of the
pulse were transmitted by doctor
with one hand on the patients wrist
and the other on the telegraph key
A YOUNG lady at indianapolis was
endeavoring to impress upon the minds
OF her Sunday school scholars the sin
and terrible punishment Of Nebuchad
nezzar, and when she said that for
seven years he ate grass Just like Il
COW, she was astonished by little
girl who asked, "Did he give milk 2"
A GRAyE-sToNE cutter 10 Maine,
hoard that an acquaintance had lost
his wife, FASTENED to condolc with him
and TO obtain If possible, au order.
The brevet widower, however, repeled
him with scorD and indignation. saying
that the fellow who ruu off with his
wife nigh, buy grave-stone when it
was needed lie certainly should not .
A BOY, passenger on one Of the
boats Of a Louisville and Cincinnati
company. got into "a fight with one
of the clerks. and lost an eye.
The clerk was discharged from his
place, but the boy brought suit
through his father, for the loss Of his
eye, and jury, 10 Louisville last week
returned verdict in his favor, asses
sing the damages at 81, 400.
In Galcua, H., the other day, q
judge found before him young girl
arrested for creating disturbance IN
the street. Judge and prisoner gazed
al each other for moment. ard then
the latter said, "You know that you
caused my ruin" The man bowed
his head, and when he lifted it again
tears were in his his eyes, and he said
in a broken voice " Let her 90 for
my lips can never condemn her.
One McGee, a prominent politician
Of Kansas. was once the presiding
officer OF Democratic county conven-
tion. A resolution was under con.
sideration to which MeGee was oppos-
ed, but which was finally passed by u
decided majority. The chairman,
however, was a man Tor an emergen.
cy. In announcing the rcsult, he de-
livcred himself thus: " According to
the Jetfcrsonan rule, resolution of
THIS KIND requires TWO third vote,
and don't think there's that many
here. The resolution is LOST
| OLIVE LOGAN was riding on the
Fort Wayne railroad when four men,
sitting opposite, kept splitting on tho
floor. She looked cross-eyed at them
for awhile, but they didn't seem to dry
up much, when she got up, struck an
attitude, and ordered the conductor,
in thunder tones, to bring o mop or
shovel and clean out the pen. The
Ispittcrs were so frightened they jumped
out of the windows and doors, and
seemed pleased to have escaped with
their lives. Olive sal down and turned
her bright Side' toward the retreat.
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