The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-07-04
L II E POST
Miscellaneous News.


ties within her borders than any 9th
or nation.
An Iowa minister preached ser
mon composed entirely Of words Of
one syllable.
a woman in Iowa has been indict-
cd for murder in the first degree for
whipping her step daughter to death.
Springborough, Crawford county.
Pa, with population Of 800, has 30
residents whose ages average 20
years.
A Swedo in Iowa. being in love, in
debt and in drink, has got out of his
complicated difficulties by shooting
himself;
Texas has o lawyer, aged forty
three, who never drank drop of
liquor, never swore an oath, and be
longs to no church.
In the United States during q pc
ROD of twelve years, 2G2 persons were
killed by lightning, and 430 moro or
less injured.
A cincinnati man is searching
through the West for q runaway wife
and $4,000 in bonds which she took
especially the bonds.
The gross products ofmanufactures
throughout the United States last
year amounted to four thousand mil
Inns Of dollars.
Farmers on the James river, below
Richmond, Va, have already begun
to cut their wheat, which is said to
be very good in quality and in amount
Of yield.
Tho university of Oxford, England
will celebrate it thousandth anniver-
this year. Popular tradition assigns
King Alfred the Great as its founder
about the middle Of the ninth cen
tury.
A South Carolina editor offers his
paper free, ono year, to the man who
brings him the largest watermelon
OF the season. In the meantime he
intends to live on the melons that
don't take the prize.
The silver production OF Nevada
for 1871 foots up S22,000000, oI
which the Comstock mine furnishes
-Sl1 ,OOO,000 the Phoebe, S4,0O0,00C
and the Eureka S2,000,00O.
Miss Stevens, beautiful blodc
preacher, is creating profound re
hgious sensation in Georgia She is
said to make all the masculines fee
like embracing her--doctries.
One who wishes the world to know
what he knows about farming say,
the best way to raise strawberries il
with spoon.
A Yankee doctor has contrived e
extract from sausages powerful
tonic, which he says contains tn,
whole strength of the original bark
He calls it the sulphate of canine.
In 1850 Mrs. Franklin Bennett low
cred pail of butter into her well a
Union City, Michigan, and the string
breaking, it remained there until tn,
well was cleaned last week, when j
came out fresh and sweet, twenty-tw,
years old A good story, well told.
Somebody who evidently know,
Show it is himself sagely remarks
that when you see young lady max
ing fuss over n widowers children
make up your mind that if she don
have the right to spank EN- it won
be her fault.
Italy has suffered most severe loss
cs in consequence of tho inundatioi
of the river Po. Twenty-Five thou
sand persons have been made house
less in single province, and the dis
trcss of their more immediate neigh
bors is pressing in the extreme.
Congress adjourned sine die n
o O'Clock on Monday evening, aftel
an exciting day in both houses. Tn,
Sundry civil appropriation bill wai
finally passed, with the enforcement
amendment modified so as to provid,
that the election supervisors in eacl
voting precinct shall not have power
to make arrests, but shall act merel,
as witnesses of all the proceedings o.
the election officers, including tn,
counting and return of votes. On,
OF the last measures passed by botl
houses was bill removing the polit
ical disabilities of Ex- Governor Vanc,
OF North Carolina, and George S