The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-02-19
Pennsylvania items.

hhrrihDurB mas only elght gold
watches, according 10 tho official tax
levy. That city will get behind time,
In Mecnnicsburg u few days
age, powders intended for the mother
were given TO n child, causing the
child's death in a short time.
The Pennsylvania railroad com
pany has issped n general order to its
employees increasing their working
time frcm eight to nine hours.
"A few days ago the wife OF a
'lckeesport man presented the
wretched fellow with eighteen pounds
of assorted babies, two girls and n
boy. At last accounts the father was
still alive and hasn't shielded.
The barn Of Henry Sherman. at
Overton. Bedford county, together
with six horses, four cows, four calves
twenty-five sheep and all the hay,
grain and farming utensils, was
burned on the 18th ult.
ASA Packer il said TO be worth
100000. He began life as the
driver OF n canal boat on the Lebigb
canal and is said TO owe his fortune
mainly to the purchase OF low rates
OF coal lands, which soon became val.
liable and have steadily increased in
value from year to year.
The Department OF Agriculture
is more particular than heretofore in
sending ont seeds, cuttings, and
bulbs. They are forwarded only in
cases where there is n plausible as
surance that they will be carefully
cultivated and some report made as
to the result. Such supplies are sent
postpaid. The department distributes
more freely by express when the ex-
pense is paid by tho receiver.
"A few days ago Mr. Bovard,
proprietor OF the hotel OF that name
in Greensburg, retired to his room at
u late hour and went to sleep on
lounge without undressing. When he
awoke he found that he had been rob
bed of nealy Sl400 which he had in
his pants pocket. His wife, who oc-
cupied the same room. hal her pock
ct book, containing about $50, taken
from under her pillow at the same
time.
Mr.. David Rupert, Of Henderson
Huntingdon co., has been
suffering for some time past with the
rheumatism, and on one night re.
Gently was sitting at the stove rubbing
his limbs with hniment, when it took
fire, and he was soon enveloped in
in flames. Had it not been for the
timely arrival OF his wife, who had
the rresence OF mind to throw blank
ct around him and smothered the
fire, he would have burned to death.
The State Agricultural Society
is pressing the Legislature to pass a
general dog law for the protection OF
farmers against having their sheep
killed by vagabond ours. 1t is pro
posed not only to give farmers DANA
ges for sheep killed by dogs, but OK
emplary damages to the Mock, and TO
reduce The number Of dogs il will be
made obligatory to collar all with the
name Of the owner and to destroy
others. The owner of the dog is to
be taxed 80 annually for males and
50 for females. This is stringent and
may do some good.
The Huntingdon journal says
Several weeks ago, a son Of Benjamin
Isenberg, Esq, OF Porter township.
hitched up in spring wagon in the
evening, and drove over to Alexan-
dria, a distance OF five miles over
rough road, and at II rapid rate, to
church. About the time church was
out some one discovered five Cochin
China chickens, roosting on the
strctchers Of his wagon. apparently
unconcerned. They were found to
be MIR. Isenberg's chickens beyond q
doubt There is some stick in those
fellows. We have never heard of
anything to surpass them except
Harrisburg boosters.
"A burglar in Grcepburg, Pa,
was recently caught in remarkable
manner. Breaking into n closed and
unoccupiel oifi,e of n physician of
that town, the burglar opened closet
while his companion with dark
lantern was in the other part of the
room and feeling for clothing at
about the height OF closet hooks
generally, got bic hands between the
jaws Of q skeleton, which being I'D.
justed with coil spring and kept
open with thread, closed suddenly
on the intruding hand by the break
ing of the thread, A sudden thought
striking the burglar of being caught
by skeleton in tho doctors closet
so terrified him that he uttered a
faint shrek, and when his companion
turned tho lantern toward him and
he beheld himself in the grim and
ghastly jaws of death himself he be-
came so overpowered by fear that he
tainted, fell insensible to the floor,
pulling the skeleton down upon him,
and making 30 much noise that his
companion fed Immediately, and the
doctor, alarmed at the noise and con-
fusion, fastened into the office and
secured the terror-stricken burglar
still held by the skeleton.
George w. Filson, residing ON
the Elliot place across the river, was