The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-04-27
STATE NEWS.

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Huntingdon has nine churches
one to every 3ss people.
~. II. Bronson, OF Titusyillc is
going to build o stable to cost 5000.
Mercer county supported 200
paupers during 1870.
York had q general Prus.ian
birthday entertainment.
Tho Elmira Gdsetie says that
ripe tomatoes have appeared in that
city.
The Republican County Ccnyen-
lion of Mercer county will be held on
the 9th Of June.
Tho Republicans Of Indiana will
hold their County convention on the
9th day OF juno.
There 70 n sassafras tree in Ly.
coming county measuring six feet
seven inches in circur,fcrencc
The expenses Of York county
last year amounted to 81 for every
man, woman and child in the county.
Capt. Breckenridge, of Center
vile, has the honor Of having shipped
the first car OF horses from the Butler
depot.
-Pennsylvania has the largest as
ses.cd valuation Of real and personal
estate Of any State in tho Union
Sl,G34 ,3l9,93G.
Miss Annie L. BromalI. daugh-
ter of cx-CoDgrsssman Bromall,
of West Chester, has graduated an
NJ. ID. at the head of her class.
The Swedes have 3 largo and
growing colony in Titusville and arc
said to be among the most thrifty citi-
zcns Of iha, young city.
Don't LET your cattle stray they
often wander to the most mysterious
places We once taw cow-hide in Q
.hoemaksr's shop.
A movement 10 on. foot in Fayette
county to organizS1t 1ts6fpanv of one
hundred or moro soldiers Of the late
civil war to cmigrate to the west for
the purpose OF locating on tho land re
Gently granted by Congress.
A convention of Iron manufsc-
turers at Pittsburg recently, repre-
seutirg all the rolling mills and nail
factories of Western Pennsylvania
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky, advanced the price of iron
onc-half cent per pound, and nails
twenty-five cents per keg
DR.. j. Newton Evans, of Uatbor.
ough Montgomery county, has COW
which he purchased a year ago fol
sl26. Since the first Of May, 1870
she made 252 pounds OF butter, be
sides supplying the owners family
with milk and cream.
The wheat crop though the coun'
try is said to be quite promising. Gu,
farmers have their oats sowed and are
preparing corn ground as fast the late
cold spell will permit. Serious ap'
prchcnsions are entertained that the
fruit crop may be partially damaged
The Petroleum Centre Record
gives the amount Of oil held iu tank
on the first inst, by s. McCray, al
i35,772 barrels. The total yield of
tho Mcray farm from July l6, 1870
to April l, 1871, has been SAG l20
barrels, which at the present price oi
oil would net tho owner about sl3,-
10000.
A frightened steer made his ap-
pearanco iu lager beer saloon at
lancaster tho other day, and tho gen.
ilemen present suddenly ceased their
quaflings and left, their couutenances
dcnoting great indignation at the ap.
pearance OF so unwelcome an intruder.
MIR. John ~. Wallace, o farmer
residing near Mendon. Westmorelaud
county, was waylaid near bis home,
recently, by three men masked, and
armed with revolvers, who demanded
his money or his life. Ho chose the
former, and was relieved Of his pock +.
ct book, containing about 5000. There
seems to be no clue by which tho vii
lains can be beapprehended.
FAsHIoNADLE WEDDINos.-It is
said that the fastest fashion in engage.
incnts is to giveno ring or presents Of
any kind to the lady and the wedding
to bo quiet aud plain, only tho rels-
tivcs being present, and the brides
dress very plain and simple. II is
quito time that reaction should take
place from the prevailing extravaganza