The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-03-26
General rews.

The Pacific railroad is blocked
up with snow, which in some places
on the line in the Sierra Nevada
mountains is twenty-five feet deep.
Two hur 1red and seventeen
pilgrims returning from Mecca we're
swept ~ huge wave from the deck
OF TIE steamship Laconia, on her
voyage from Alexandra to Algiers,
and all drowned.
A female graduate Of the Medical
Department of Iowa University has
taken the first prize for the best per
formed dissection in surgical anato-
my, in a class consisting of twenty
four young men and one other
young woman.
The Secretary Of the Interior
has asked that troops be sent to the
Ute reservation, in Colorado, with in.
structions to notify all unauthorized
white persons that no one will be
permitted to go upon the reservation,
and that those who are now tres
passing must abandon it Immediately
or be forcibly removed.
1t is remarkable fact that Mt
the recent general election not q
single Roman Catholic was returned
Ivy any constituency in England,
Wales or Scotland. The solitary
Catholic candidate was Mr.. Kerr,
at Glasgow, and he was defeated
Ireland is the only part of the United
Kingdom represented in Parliament
by members of the Roman faith.
Some of the folks in Martin
county, MIMI, have been experiment
ing on Matching out grasshoppers.
The other day six quarts Of earth
were placed under stove, and sew
eral thousand grasshoppers were
hatched out. After being subjected
to twenty degrees of freezing, they
were thawed out as lively as ever.
Another big crop of these insect
pests for next season is feared.
IA boy was put into boiler in
Dubuque, Iowa, to hold a hammer
against the rivets that were being
driven from the outside. When the
boiler was done the hole was found
too small to let the boy out. They
took off his clothes and creased him,
but still he wouldn't go through.
Three hours cutting with cold chisels
10y six men finally released him
nearly spelling q good boiler.
Some time ago JEFF Davis was
suggested as q candidate for United
States Senator. A little later it was
announced that Mr. B. II. Hill would
be a candidate for Congress from
Alabama. And now Herschel V.
Johnson is spoken of for Governor
of Georgia. We had almost forgot
ten these gentlemen, but we find that
after ten years absence from The
public service, they are ready to come
back.
The members of the late law
firm of Fillmore, Hall & Haven, Buf
alo, are now all dead. Haven died
some time ago. Hall died about
a week before the ex. President, being
Circuit Judge of the United States
Supreme Court at the time of his
death. OF the three, when they were
still partners in many things, one
was President Of the United States.
the Sec nd Postmaster General, and
the Third leader in the House of Re
representatives. in the stormy time OF
the Compromises.
The election in New Hampshire
last week resulted in failure of an
election by the people, and the legis.
lature will have to choose a Governor.
As far rs heard from the vote stands
for Weston, (dem.) 34,l72, McGut
chins (rep) 32,S95, Blackmer and
: scattering 2,077. Four Republican
and four democratic senators arc
p elected and no choice in four Other
districts In the house the demo
; Gratis have 172 members and the re
! publicans l67. The towns to bC
heard from elected democrats las
, year. The Harrisburg Patriot say
5 that the legislature just elected favor
license and repeal of the prohibition
liquor law.
AN exchange says: 'Tle fate o
; the late Senator Summers immediat
family has been most tragic. IL
had three brothers. OF these, fou
men, all may be said to have die.
!, violent deaths. Two were lost a
4 sea, one( (George) died in consequenc
= of beating he received, and tn
Senator's own death was probabl
; fastened by the same cause. OF th
c sisters but one survives-Mrs. Hast
o ings, of California. Unless this lad
k has children, there are, we think, n
nephews or nieces of the Senator
J From his wife, as is well known, h
n had been diovrced, and children h
i had none At the obsequies 9
4 Washington only Congressman an