The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-08-15
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Items OF Interest.

"'neys pBuss
40 Arkansas wife ,arrcd and feath.
cred her husband. ="
An Iowsclereymsn bas four boys,
snd the youngest is named Doxology
because he was the last Of the hims.
A young man In Frapklin, Ohio,
calculates that during q period Of FIVE
ycnrs be has walked 1928 miles 10
visiting his sweetheart.
Beer is gradually supplau,ins cider
In th, southern counties Of Eogland,
and whisky in ireland and Scotland.
The freedom with which the south
ern dsrkies use the razor leads the
st. Louis Times to fear that it will
eventually become the eraser Of tie
race.
The Michigan Central railroad
company carried more than thirteen
hundred thousand passengers last
year and killed nobody H.
Lieutenant Gushing, whose exploit
10 the destruction Of the Albemarlt
during the war is well remembered,
fns been awarded $lS0,000 prize
money.
Hon. John Cessna ha. been nomi.
mated for Congress by tho Republi-
cans Of the sixteenth1s,rict Of Penn.
sylvsnia. .-
A Grant and Wilson club was
formed in Tidiouto last week, embra-
zing over three hundred names, thirty
Of whom are Democrats.
At Tamaqua, Pa, on the 2lst ult.
ayoung man named Kelley, assault
ed police officer named Robert L. Ca
sey, who, 10 self defence, shot aud
killed his assailaut.
Mrs. Lincoln. the widow Of our
martyred President, is confirmed in.
valid, and is at present trying the
efficacy OF tho Waukesha Springs, iu
Wisconsin.
A campaign song invites us tc
"Ripg Greeley In" Tammany has
done il.
a gentleman writing from Pari:
says there are so many Americans ira
velipg abroad that it destroys the 70
nance OF living 10 foreign country.
John II. Alexander, the Illinois cat.
lie king, has paid his debts, amount.
ing to 81 ,O27, 900
An ancient follower Of the Democ
racy is wrestling with tho question
"lf Greeley is Democrat, what am
II"
Neer five thousand palmetto bat,
bavo been manufactured at Fernau.
dina, Florida, and shipped north this
season.
The Buffalo Ecening Post, which
has been for twenty-five years Dem.
cratic paper, with George j. Bryan a.
editor, has hoisted the Grant and
Wilson ticket.
Morrfssey, who lost s25 900 on Bas
sett at Long Branch, lost another $25,
900 in trying to make things even BY
betting on Longiellow at Saratoga
Morrissy also bots on H07ace Greeley
The land Of tho Pharoahs will soon
be startled by the scream of the loco
motive. The survey of railroad ia
tho valley Of the Nile is completed
1t is about six hundred miles ia
length. for nearly tbree-four,hs o.
which distance the line will be on the
edge Of the valley, about three-fourths
ola mile from the river, and above the
. level of the periodical inuudation.
In Baden and othcr German States
and in several Swiss cantous, the law
obligcs person to plant u tree in
place Of every one cut for timber OF
Tor other purposes. 10 no other way
could those scores Of miles of charm,
ing shaded walks about Heidelberg
and other German Cities and towns,
with which SO many Americans are
acquainted, be preserved. Every ooe
agrees that such law is admirable in
its influence upon the country.
Mrs. Agnes Bullock, living near
Orangeburn...k has lately cut an
entire new set ofteeth. She was born
January 20, l77e, 10 Hanover county,
Va, landed in Msysville yhon IL
years Of age, aud removed to Lexing.
too, afterwards removed to Mason Co.,
10 1893, where she has resided ever
since. She has one child. only, and
seventy great-graud children living.
Benito Juarez, President of the
Republic Of Mexico, died, last week,
OF apoplexy. lie was of Indian ex-
traction, had college education, was
lawyer by profession, had held i'm
portant positions in Mexico for many
years, aud has made the best Presi
dent, perhaps, that Mexico has ever
had, He is succeeded by Lerdo de
Tejada. the President of tho Supreme
Court Of Justice.
a few days ago a woman 10 Colum.
bia was "jawing" ber children, the
neighbors, hired girl aud everybody
IN general, when her husband enter
Cd ard ioterposed mild word. She
opsped her mouth for an angry reply
b6 q spasm contracted her cheek. her
lower jaw fell, aud she could neither
speak nor shut her mouth, but remain.
ed 10 that condition her tung hung
out, and her Dyes nearly started out
OF their sockets. She had dislocated
her jaw-bone in her violent effort 20
make q stingiug reply to her n usban nd
surgeon was caIlad who ,a1,d