The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-08-14


shows decrease during be month
Of July Of S370,5lS.
"A Troy man is spending $4,000
in q lawsuit about five sbd one
eighth inches Of land.
The government bof re-
house No. 119 Greenw Deet
New York, was burned on Aday
night. Loss about $500, ,000
| "A Missouri woman wadD0 0house
and lot, at raille, and then she had
to buy q shotgun to keep her ador-
ers from wearing out the steps.
From Nebraska, usually suppos
ed to be destitute Of trees, comes
the news that an extensive tract o'
pine forest has been discovered some
where in the interior.
Chicago pays out good deal Of
money for educational purposes, and
is vexed TO see some of her promin.
ent business men hang out signs ol
two wreDt.'
The movement to create a new
State, with Jackson, Tennessee, as
its capital, meets with no favor in
Memphis. The entire press Of the
city are opposed to it.
The Prince Of Wales keeps foi
his children at Marlborough House
what was never kept for him, mark
book in which is noted their progress
in study and good behavior.
AT n picnic near Muscatine, on
Wednesday. a black snake, six feet in
length, fell from n tree into little
girls lap. She demonstrated won
derful agility in rising to her feet.
Within six months MacN1ahon
will retire from the presidency, and
return to the command Of the army
the Republic will fall, and mon
archy be established. Such is the
common report in Paris.
The first car load Of new Ill
inoise spring wheat was received in
in Chicago on Saturday. Last year
the first car load of illinois spring
wheat was received at the same point
on July 22-only four days earlier.
The decline in the price of iron
does not seem to have greatly affect
ed the manufacturers of the article
rs the trade seems to be secure, and
no failures of any account have been
reported in any part of the country.
The health of Vice President
Wilson is much better than it has
has been at any time since his illness,
and is steadily improving. No opera
ton whatever is or has been contem.
plated, as reported in special from
Washington.
Only go Chinese came by the
last steamer to San Francisco. The
falling off in the number is signifi
cant, as showing the effects of the
dispatches sent by the six compnn-
les to China, warning their country
men not to come.
..Aspirants for Chief Justiceship
have suddenly developed a great pre-.
ference for Long Branch as n water
ing place, where, it is reported, there
are more great jurists' this season
than were ever known to have IVA
tered there before
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee hal mar.
row escape from drowning, in Virgin
in, the other day, by the capsizing OF
n small boat Though loaded down
with heavy working boots, he mana
ged to keep ahoat for considerable
time. anduntil rescued.
Sixteen years ago North Car
rolina father, who knew the virtues
of the rod, thrashed his big boy and
sent him out to hoe corn. The first
seen of him since was last week.
when he returned from California
with S50.000 as the result OF his
westward no ing
On Sunday an engineer lost con-
troll of his locomotive on the Balti-
more aud Ohio Railroad, near Alta
mouet, and it ran away on down
grade. Whilst going 40 miles an hour
it struck the rear of a freight train
: demolishing twenty cars. Three
persons were killed and several bad
ly injured by the collision
..Fifty-Six Millions of Dollars,
aggregate the amount of Southern
claims on the government, for dam
ages, alleged to have been perpetra-
ted by the federal armies, on loyal
men, while operating against trait,
ors. 1t is safe to say that two-thirds
of these claims are trumped up af
fairs which thorough investigation
will prove to be worthless.
There appears to bea general
failure-at least prospective failure
of the tobacco crop in sections
In this State, Maryland aud Virginia
the season has been an unusu lily
backward one, and there is but little
better promise farther south. The
Danville TINES says From all quar-.
teis we learn that the prospect foi
tobacco in all this region of country
is very unpromising, In the first
place the counties of David, Rowan
and Iredell, in N. c., have cur tailed
their tobacco crops and gone into
raising cotton, and the crops certain.
ly look badly Mt present in oil the
Virginia and North Carolina counties
, in the vicinity Of Danville. 1t is
thought by some that in Caswell