The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-09-25
Pennsylvania Items.

foil into vat and was drowned.
Tho twenty-frst annual exhibi,
ton of the Pennsylvania State Agri-
cultural Society, will be held at Erie
on the both of September aud the
LIST, I'd and 3D. days of October.
On Sunday evening week
Joseph White and Joseph Ebert OF
Hollidaysburg, had difficulty which
terminated by Ebert shooting White
in the neck, inflicting wounds not
serious.
Colonel Tom Scott has succeed
ed in negotiating in Europe the loan
Of $50, 100000 that he needed to
build the Texas and Pacific railroad,
and he will be back in Philadelphia
in October.
"A Cambria county girl named
Mcintyre, while gathering whortle-
berries the other day, was struck
twice in the breast by n rattlesnake,
but owing TO her patent breast works
she escaped unharmed.
Albert w. Stang, aged thirty
two while intoxicated, committed
suicide in Pittsburg on Tuesday
evening, the 9th instant, by placing
his head under the wheels Of a mail
train west, on the Pennsylvania rail
road, Mt the Chestnut street crossing,
Allegheny city.
Two horses belonging to Moses
Myers, three miles east of Shippens-
burg, were killed by the night ex
press on the Cumberland Valley
railroad, on last Wednesday night q
week. The horses had broken out
of the pasture, and were ON the rail
road track.
The Shippensburg Ne,cs says
that ono day last week, on the farm
of Michael Long, in Penn township,
there were plowed up 10S snakes,
II of them being blowing vipers and
the balance copperheads The ave
rage length of these snakes was
about Ii inches.
In the vicinity Of Lewistown,
last Monday morning, an unknown
man, while asleep, jumped out of one
of the windows of car attached to
the Cincinnati express train west
ward bound while it was travelling at
the rate of about thirty miles per
hour. The only injuries he sustain
ed was deep cash on one of his
knees, and several cuts on his head
So far as the De mocratic Jour
nails which have come to hand show
there is not very enthusiastic ap-
probation among them of the work
of their State Convention. The plat
form, being of the second hand or
der, cannot be expected to be much
admired. But what is the matter
with the candidatesl They are not
particularly strong, but they deserve
something better than snubbing.
Ease up on the poor fellows |!
In Huston township, Clearfeld
county, on Saturday evening a week,
an attempt was made to blow up a
school house in which temperance
meeting was in progress, about twen.
ty-five persons being in ut the time
A keg Of powder was put under it
and ignited, the explosion tearing up
; a doublehoor, upsetting tables
: lamps, &c, but fortunately did moi
,, throw down the building, or injur,
any one seriously.
State Supreme Courts are reaf
firming the decision that when ,
railroad sells ticket for passage tC
n certain point it is with the under
standing that the holder shall bt
furnished with seat. When failur.
to do this is made, the holder of the
ticket can legally claim damages. Ii
i all cases the company is bound by
! the plain terms of contract made il
the sale of q ticket to furnish th,
holder with q seat.
Even in what are known to b,
e Democratic counties in the State
the organization of that party is So
demoralized that many Republican
candidates for county offices ther
will be elected The signs of tn
}, times all indicate that this will b.
y the last campaign in which we vii
have to oppose Democratic State o
county candidates. Decay has reach
ed the heart of the corrupt old com
q bination, and it trembles on th
= verge Of the grave, bowed down wit
: a heavy load of guilt and shame.
: The Lancaster Examiner, lot
a inst, says: We hear of new dis
r ease which has made its appearance
# among the cows, the symptoms @
which correspond with those exhib
Il ted by the horses last winter, Will
n they were suffering from epizootiC
. Mr.. Rhine, a millman, residing O
I the Harrisburg pike, ON MGovern'
n farm, lost four of his best mixer
q yesterday, so that to day he wa
n afraid to furnish customers in thi
q city. After this day he will not fun
Y nish milk until the disease has sui
I sided. A dairyman living near Lit
q lost every COW he owned, by til
4 same disease, few days since.
J. The total value of real and per
It sonal estate in Pennsylvania is esti
n mated by Mr.. Bigham COMMISSIONS
it of Statistics, ut $3,475, 5,S34,S5l
0 These are large figures, but probabl
d do not exceed the truth. It I'm
been found very difficult to obtai,