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

The Lewisburg shoe factory.
which has been standing idle for
some months, was destroyed by FIRE
on Thursday Aug. 81 Loss about
s7000-insured.
DR.. Hurlbnrt, of Lewistown,
was attacked week before last by four
bighwaymen in the river bridge at
that place, who demanded his money.
He knocked one down when they all
fed.
"A horrible case OF cruelty hns
come TO light in PHILADELPHIA. A
young girl was confined in a filthy
den by her stepmothcr for six
months, kept in starving condition
all that time amidst filth almost en-.
durable. The police have arrested
the stcpmothor.
The contract for the erection oi
n new court house, in Mifllintown
Juniata county, has been awarded tc
Messrs. Hetrick e. Fleisher, oi
Newport, for tho sum of s42,300, the
County Commissioners to furnish
the brick. The bids ranged from
that figure up to $4,000.
John Beck and Jesse Robinson
Of Marysville, while hunting in the
woods near that place, discovered q
skeleton of child lying upon the
ground. IL was afterwards recog
nized bya piece Of dress covering
the object, as the daughter of Mrs
Crounce, who was lost about two
years since.
George Lycon, OF Susquehanna
tp., Juniata county, has in his pos.
session n pig four weeks old, which
was born with but one fore leg
There is no shoulder on the left side
and nothing visible excepting piece
of flesh upon which there is n nail
like that upon the finger of a human
being.
The veterans of the Pennsylva
MIA Volunteers are preparing for 9
grand time at their reunion on the
18th of September at Philadelphia
IL will lie the eleventh anniversary oi
the battle of Antietam. The 2Sth
and 147th Regiments of the Penn
sylvania Volunteers are at the hea<
of the movement, and call upon Their
old comrades throughout the Stat,
to take part in the proceedings.
If the new constitution is adopt
ed, all county officers will thereafte,
be paid salaries instead of fees Thi
will, we presume. be satisfactor,
; arrangement to al commemorative,
officers will draw fixed and certain
compensation which will not be af
fccted by the mutations of business
and the State Treasury, instead o
the officer, will receive the lage sum,
paid in the city and many of tn,
populous country districts.
BY an act of Assembly, apply.
ing to all portions Of the State. crn
city to animals is made punishable
by law. The act provides for tn,
punishment of any person who shal
wantonly or cruelty ill-treat, over
load, beat, or otherwise abuse an
:. animal, whether belonging to himse
: or another. We hope the prope
;, officers OF our town will see that I'll
law is rigidly enforced
d Harry May, the man charge
e with the murder of n child of hi
II wife by another man. has been foun
s not guilty by the Huntingdon conn
It ty court. 1t was proven on the trii
G that May Is weak.minded person
IS and subject to epileptic fits, and tina
on the 3D. ult, as he was retnrnin
to his home on the line of the Broa,
= Top railroad, carrying the child +
:, his arms lie was visited by n I'll
;; and fell upon the child and Killed il
$ An affair arising out of a dis
e pute about some land, occurred a
n Julian Furnace, Centre county, O
n Friday. the ] 9Th ult, between tw
= men, Hard Richards and John vii
n Jams. which will no doubt prove fat,
c to the latter Richards struck vii
l. iams IN the head with an axe, caus
n ing n wound from which the brai
1t oozes, and it is thought he will III
'e from the effects, Richards immedi,
3 ately delivered himself up and VIZ
y lodged in jail at Bellefonte.
70 70 In Moynmensing prison, Phil
~ delphia, are two men, one Of who,
n has not seen the light of the sum f.
ar twenty-three years, and the other {,
~ ~ ten years, and over both during u,
- = time have hung sentences of deaf
'" When these men were convict,
there were. circumstances surroun
~ y, ing their cases that mitigated the
y crimes and restrained the humane
- just Governors of the period fro
4, ~ signing their death warrants. III
" VI Press says "If ever there were c
y ses that deserved Executive clemon,
! these are Of that character. III the
~ men have not atoned their crime
" then human suffering is no alton
:, = ment for human errors" We thir
~ so too.
re
s- Judge Dean, at the recent tor
es OF the Blair county Court, in sentel
to cling the Tyrone druggists for sellir
liquor without license, took occasi,
"a to remark substantially as follows
rh druggists are authorised to sc
ms liquor for medical purposes, subjec
10, however. TO tho risk of indicmen