The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-08-01
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aIDDLEBURa........"".AudUsTi, 1874

New wheat is being delivered TO
the mills in York county.
Sixty one stocks of rye were rails.
cd from enc grain, in the Cumberland
Wiley.
Land sharkcs is term quite mp
plicable to the majority Of the Long
Branch hotel keepers.
A Kentuckey farmer has sold
two short-horn heifers for $4,000
each.
The liberal Republican ratiGca-
tion meetings held in this State have
all been failures.
Lightning has been very destrnc-
tive of horses this season, in the Cum
berland valley.
A couple were married at Lafay-
cite, Ind, the other day, in balloon,
one mile above the earth q wedding
in high life.
"A heavy shock Of an earthquake
was felt on Long Island and in Con
necticut on the morning Of the 11th
inst.
"A rhinocerous escaped from n
menagerie in Vermont recently, and
gave the farmers free show by
wandering through their medows.
While hocing cotton on n planta.
ton 10 North Caroline, = negro wo.
mn foauda lump Of gold wsighicg
half pound.
A mulatto child was recently born
on the plantation Of Mr.. Sillan, near
Cypremort. La, with but one eye, set
in the middle of its forehead.
New Orleans street railroads offer
1000 reward for the arrest Of par.
ties who put counterfeit nickles in the
fare box.
A California lady purchased a
chicken for homo consumption, and
found piece Of placer gold worth $5
IN its craw.
The washer-women of Detroit are
said TO be organizing trade union to
protect themselves against "Chiucsc
cheap labor
Some OF the churches Of Reading
have resolved TO close during the hot
weather. Preachers, there, must be
dainty fellows, and ought to have re-.
frigerators connected with their pul.
pits to keep them cool.
Wisconsin is exciting itself about
little girl whose head is said to
weigh seventy y-eight pounds. How
they manage to weigh the head with
out the body is not stated.
An Illinois man lately started a
steam chicken mandatory with sew
erl thousand eggs. The forcing
process was carried on so vigorously
that only four were Matched, the 9th
ers being roasted,
In tearing up the roof Of the Court
House at Edwurdsville, Illinois, last
week, the work men discovered skele-
tons Of pigeons piled up by tho hun
dreds. A defect in tho corpice ena.
pied the pigeons TO get in, but they
we're unable to got out again.
1t is asserted that since the close of
the rebellion not less than, % 1000
persons, black aod white have been
scourged, bauished or murdered BY
tho Ku.klux Klsns of the South.
There were no Democrats among
them.
A fierce war between the Read
ing railroad and Adams Express
company is now raging. II is fight
as to who shall have the power to
pluck the people, and therefore it
does not matter which wins.
Men competent to make the es
innate say that the loss of wages by
the strike of the mill workmen Of
Williamsport does not fall short OF
four thousand five hundred dollars u
day--and over rather than under
that.
1t seems the Mormon mission
aries have not very happy time in
Denmark. The Government has Or
dered all teachers of that faith to he
tied up and hogged, and one of the
apostles has actually been 30 well
coined.
AS party of boys were bathing
in the river at Memphis on Friday,
one Of them named John Murphy,
was shot dead by a man named Stur-
geon, who said "the boys were bath
ing too near his house" The muir
derer escaped.
1t is stated that the receipts
from admission at the Boston musi-
cl jubilee amounted to about $43O,-
600, and the expenses to from $780,
900 to 100000. The loss is made up
by guarantee fund"
Hon. s. S. Cox was robbed of
his gold watch and chain and all his
money, while at Baltimore in atten-
dance on the Democratic convention.
Some Of the Greeley Democratic
horse thieves were evidently on hand
Some twenty-five persons were poi.
soned at New Wilmington, Lawrence
county, recently, by eating ice cream.
Some sort Of poisonous substance got
into the cream 10 favoripg il, and all
those who psrtook Of it suffered more
or less severely, and some, it was fear
ed, would be in danger Of death.
Iohn william oc NVo,t U;r..