The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-01-29
General News,

sAiOSbiiita'b III Itsil tdTIlesb nave
commenced between Honduras and
San Salvador.
IA man has been arrested al
Potosi, Grand co., Wisconsin. who
coniesscs to having murdered forty
persons.
..Hogs slaughtered in Cincinnati
during the present season, to Sautur.
day, 5il. .7Gi. against 527,916 during
the same time last year.
Both houses of the O. Lepisla-
ture. in joint session, re elected Allen
@. Thurman to the United States
Senate.
The amount OF bonds Of tho loan
Of 1858 that have been thus far re
deemed is S5,2l1, 900, and tho amount
exchanged Sj,3S9,000.
In Jersey City, Joseph W. Free.
man shot and killed his mother, in
her own bed 70 )m because she de-
clined to give him $4,000. The
murderer was at once arrested.
"A Washington special says that
MIR. Gushing will not withdraw trom
the Spanish mission, IL being the
Presidents earnest desire that he
should accept the Office. He will
not sail for Spain until instructed By
the State Department.
President Grant has acted most
wisel, in refusing to interfere in the
political affairs of Texas lie evi-
dently does not regard with favor
the attempt OF State court to over
ride the clearly expressed will of the
people in purely political matter.
IA Miss Charlton of Chicago has
been elected third assistant clerk of
the Hsuse of Representatives, after
several very close ballots. Pay, six
dollars per day, without regard to
sex, color, or previous condition oi
servitude."
IA Kentucky legislator, who
couldn tread, sent up to the speakers
desk, the other day, his whisky bill,
thinking it petition from his en-
lightened constituency, The Speaker,
who happily, was q better scholar
than his colleague, discovered the
mistake in time to prevent its pas
sage.
..All the proprietors Of places os
amusement in New York were notiiied
last week by the police that hereafter
no sacred concerts would be permitted
on Sunday nights, aud that all viola
tons OF this rule would be followed
by immediate arrest. This order
creates intense excitement among the
Germans.
The House Committee on Civil
Service have agreed to report bill
reducing the number of Deputy
Commissioners Of Internal Revenue
to two, instead of three, thus saving
$4,000 annually, and providing that
the present vacancy of First Deputy
be filled by the appointment Of one
OF the two deputies now in Office.
Forty eight diamond rings,
worth seven thousand dollars, were
stolen from Duhme 4 Cos iewelry
store in Cincinnati on Saturday
evening by young man who seized
the tray containing them, and ran OFF
while the proprietor was getting q
box to put in ring the thief had
purchased. The robber escaped.
:. ..Benjemin i. Evans, Of Charles
ton, South Carolina, who died recently
had charge ofprinting the confederate
money during the war. His life,
while at work for the rebels, Was full
Of adventure. He was obliged to
import his machiney and skilled labor
from England, via Mexico and the
West.
The Providence Hress tells the
story that lady at Newport at
tempted suicide by taking poison Il
day or two since, in despair, because
hor husband had become SO far re
ducsd in circumstances as to be
unable to purchase for her n silk
dress she coveted 4 physician and
stomach-pump frustrated her design
and brought her back to life, wiser
woman.
OF the fifteen million inhabitants
Of Spain, twclve million can neither
read nor write. There are four
thousand villages, towns, and cities
presided over by mayors, two thou
sand of whom are unable to sign
their names TO any public document
That country is sadly in need of a
government which shall place high
er estimate upon the importance of
advocating the people,
During an interview:which Susan
D. Anthony had with the President
on Saturday tho latter wanted to
know if he could do anything for her
to which Miss Anthony replied: Yes
She wanted to name the Chief Justice
The President asked whom she would
name for the Office and Miss Anthony
said Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The
President, laughing, said this nam,
had not beeh suggested to him, but
no would submit it to the cabinet
for their consideration.
"A Youny woman was arrested
on the streets of San Francisco {
few days ago, in very hilarious
state Of into1ication. She was sup
posed to be of bad character. anG
was placed in a cell with about q
dozen of the most degraded female
prisoners. After while her drunken
frenzy subsidized, and she realized
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