The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-03-12
pennsylvania Items,

contribution boxes OF tho Luthorn
Church, in Bedford.
Jacob Ort, died in Bellefonte on
Tuesday evening q week, aged 1O2
years. He was native OF Switzer.
lind.
-lttakes over four acres Of ground
Mt Germantown. Pa, and costs over
s5oO,Oo0 to winter Forepaughs cir.
Gus and menagerie.
Lately there were several cases
OF small pox at Lykens, Dauphin
county. No new cases have occur
red for the last week.
The attempt by our Legislature
to repeal the usury law, and legalize
q higher rate OF interest than 9 per
cent. has again been defeated.
Nine women were chosen ma
school directors at the township cleo.
tions recently held in Chester county.
and several were elected in Delaware
county.
George Hull, who was arrested
in Harrisburg last week, charged
with cruelly beating his dog. had a
hearing before the Mayor and was
discharged on the payment Of $40
fine and costs.
Tho wonderful clock, made by a
miner in Luzerne county, is now on
exhibition at Harrisburg. The man
was three years in making IL, and his
only implement used in its construc-
tion was a poke. knife.
The. House passed second read
ing the bill 10 require township and
Borough auditors 10 publish annual
statements of the receipts and ex.
penditures Of supervisors, school
directors, overseers. of the poor, &c.
-The'' Lebanon manufacturing
company has just received contract
far the building Of $50 cars-1OO for
the New Jersey Central railroad and
$50 for Nova Scotia. These con
tracts will necessitate the emplov-
ment of about $50 additional men.
The city Of Cory, Pa, has paid
90 100 interest on its counterfeited
bonds. The counterfeit was 40 good
That the Cory Savings Bank bought
$50, 900 of them, and the Mayor at
first pronounced his own forged sig
nature genuine.
Three young lads were arrested
by Constable Lytle, in Carlisle, re-
Gently, for jumping on the cars while
IN motion. They were taken before
! justice and promptly fined. This
VAS done in accordance with the
Borough Ordinance, which we think
g IN excellent law.
In his will the late U. s. Dis
trict Attorney, H. Bucher Swoope.
among other things, that
his wife should not marry again, he
having always entertained strong
against second marriages.
He bequeathed all his property to
his wife, and appointed her execu-
Lrix.
William II. Howard committed
suicide in disreputable house in
Pa, by taking cyanide
If potassium. Letters to the public
md his friends Mt Bellville, Richland
county. Ohio, set forth that his wife
,ad left him and was leading life
II shame, which drove him to the act.
he was twenty eight years of age.
--On Monday morning a week
while several persons were engaged
catching drift wood on the river at
they found the bodies
of two women embedded in u mass
of ice. The discovery OF the bodies
treated great sensation in the
Nothing has devel-
Dped to show who the females were
Or under what circumstances they
met their death.
1T is suggested that the Centen-
NAL celebration be spread out all
over the country like an ordinary
Fourth of July, and not confined to
Philadelphia There is no reason
why it should not be So The country
is wide and great, and Oregon has as
good right to celebrate as Penn
sylvania or New England, for the
hardy pioneers of the West include
many descendants of the men of '76.
Let the rejoicings and the fun be
and not cramped up.
The girls from one of the schools
in Pittsburg were out for a walk on
Tuesday, going two by two, when
turning into street on which ga
looms do much abound, all at once
there was Il clatter as of one universal
feu-dc -joie of small arms, caused by
the sudden clapping to Of the window
shutters of all the saloons. The
supposition was that the woman s
temperance movement was inaugur-
ated, and in five minutes not sa-
loon but was closed and ready for
prayer and praise.
AT the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Northern Central
railroad, held in Baltimore March Sd,
the following report was submitted
Earnings for 1873, $5,031, 1855. SO ;
Expenses, S3,447,5l4.09 net earn
ings, sl.5S3,s6l.50 This shows an
increase of earnings over 1872 OF
SAL, lSl.40. Concerning the pro
posed lease OF the road to the Penn
sylvania Company, Mr.. Cameron, in
his report. SAYS: "Yonr board. still in.