The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-09-04
General News.

IA rlVeT OOU Ieeb uuuer RfOuuu
was lately struck by a mining shaft
at Phoebe, New.
IAN old minister OF ninety. who
lives near Spencer, Owen county,
has eleven sons who are ministers.
.."Did your wife have any income
last year1" inquired a revenue as
SCISSOR in Ohio. "Yes, SIR" replied
the assessed "both girls"
The Christians observe Sunday.
the Greeks Monday, the Persians
Tuesday, the Assyrians Wednesday,
the Turks Saturday, Catholics Friday
and Sunday.
Judge Thomas A. r. Nelson,
late judge of the United States Su-
preme Court, died at his residence
1T Knoxville, at six o'clock of the
oath ultimo, of cholera, after an ill
ness Of two days.
Charles Nordhoff. who has been
looking into the question of Chinese
labor on the Pacific cost, says he
doesn't belive there are hundred
decent men, who work for a living"
engaged in the present crusade
against the Chinese.
In Tennessee, recently, white
outlaw went to colored man 8 house
in his absence, aud after compelling
the little children TO take out and
pile up the scanty furniture Of their
home in the yard, he set fire to il and
consumed it, The family Bible sur
mounted the other articles.
The New York Financial Chron-
icle expresses the opinion that mon
ey will be easy, and that the fall
trade of the metropolis will be good
This anticipation, it says, is giving
an active impulse to various new en-
terprises, especially those of rail
roads, which are reviving after long
depression.
Six German beer.sellers of Wor-
coster, Mass, have been fined Sl0)
each and sentenced to six months
imprisonment to the House of Cor
rection for violating the very strn-
gent law of the State. They have
been required. in addition, to give
bonds of $1,000 each not to violate
1T again for q year.
1t is said that Cornelius Van
derbilt offered Horace f. Clark, few
weeks before the latters death, ST.
00O, 900. cash down il he would lead
healthful life. go to bed and get up
early, and eat simply and regularly.
lie told his son-in-law he could not
last unless he mcnded his habits
anderbilt's prediction was verified
much sooner than he had expected.
IA family festival of rare occur
renee recently took place in Fischen-
thai, Canton Zurich, when NJ. Knecht
District Judge, and his wife celebrat
ed their diamond wedding a sin.
lgular circumstance connected with
the affair was that the pastor who
joined the young couple sixty years
before was present on the occasion
All three are still robust, aud enjoy
the best Of health.
Professor Wise, it is stated, vii
I start on his balloon voyage across tn,
r Atlantic on the 10th of September
g As we heartily wish the experiment
to bc successful we shall prophesy nc
evil, albeit we confess tn, entertaining
! grave doubts of n happy issue to
: what strikes MS as the widest pro
l ect that could enter the brain OF
, men supposed to be sane.
Judge Emerson, of SaltrLake
City, has sustained the defendant :
demurrer in the case of Anne T.
Young vs.. Brigham Young, for di
vorce, against the jurisdiction Of tho
District Court. The judge held that
the Probate Court and not the Dis
trict Court had jurisdiction in tn,
case. This is the direct opposition
to the opinions of Judges McKear
and Howley, and virtually of tho Su
} preme Court of the Territory. Tn,
, case again comes up before Judge
Mexican at the October term Of tn,
District Court.
The Oranges of Minnesota, sew
q eral of which have already appointed
delegations to attend independent
: political conventions, are ordered b,
their Grand Master to annual thi.
action. lie instructs them that th,
= rules of the Grange forbid any po
a litical movements by its members
+ acting as such. AS individuals, how
r ever, they are free to act rs the,
S think proper, This order will no
!. interfere with the success Of the Con
q ventions, as the farmers will send
l. delegations appointed by publ,
n meetings instead of the Oranges.
The London Bmlder gives tn,
u following dimensions Of bridge l,
. be constructed over the Firth O
: Ferth: THE structure will be b,
, far the largest bridge in the world
V II will be $50 feet in height, and vii
" contain nearly 100 spans The great
!. est span in the centre will be I55,
h feet in width, or nearly third of
mile in extent, dimensions which mr.,
II without u parallel for any similaI
i piece of architectural construction
G and the smaller openings or span
II will be $50 feet in width, being con
siderably beyond the average dimen
u sions of the largest spans in ordina
ry bridges. 1t will cost at least tel
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