The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-03-05
Pennsylvania Items.

hIinmspofr uied recently oil hydro
phobia.
"A woman and two children near
ly starved TO death in Wellsville last
week. They had nothing to eat from
Monday until Thursday.
Mrs. Danaldson, the divorced
wife Of Prof Donaldson, the balloon.
attic, is now confined in the Berks
county Jail. on the charge of yagrancy
and disorderly conduct.
On Thursday week, the barn
belonging TO Henry Wagner, near
Liverpool. was destroyed by fine to-
gether with several horses and cows,
and farming implements and crops
which belonged to the tenant
Very few men like TO acknowl-
edge that they marry for money, but
n Centre county man unblushingly
owns up. Her name was Miss Lucia
Money, and she lived in Worth town
ship lie got his Moneys worth,
sure.
AS was expected, Mcclure has
issued brazen faced manifesto about
his defeat by over 10000 in Phila-
delphia, in which all manner of fraud
and corruption is charged on the re-
publicans IL ought to be n sufficient
answer to this political mountebank
that the fourth ward, the home of
Philadelphia rowdyism and political
corruption, gave Mcclure majority |!
The affairs of Jay Cooke & Co,
have undergone investigation, and
Nv. Lewis, the receiver, makes the
appraised value of the firm property
little over five millions and q half,
and the net unsecured debts of the
firm nearly eight and a half millions,
without computing interest or dana
ges. This is n rather rough showing
for the creditors.
w. II. Dimmick, representative
from the counties of Pike and Wayne,
has resigned. He states that he has
been induced to take the step by the
fact that he has been made a de-
fendant i'll the U. S. District Court
on charge of having violated the
postal laws. He denies the charge
and expresses his reliance upon fair
and impartial trial for complete
vindication.
The Centre Hall Reporter says !:
"A few days ago. whilst the daugh.
ter of Mr.. Jacob Wolfe, living on
Penn 3 Creek, in Penn township, aged
about fourteen, was walking along
the stream, she became frightened at
a dog which sprang towards her, and
ran into the creek the fright and
chill she sustained thereby caused
her to take sick, and she died from
the effects few days after.
Two men, MFadden and Clark,
were arrested on Friday at Titus.
vile, caught in the act of filling cans
with oil from barrels on a rack car at
the long switch. The Oil Creek rail
road has suffered for some time past
from the depredations of oil thieves,
and the arrest of these two will
probably lead to the arrest of others
and put a stop to the profitable but
illegal vocation.
Will our exchanges please to
contradict their reports that the late
lamented Mr. j. b. Ettele, of this
place committed suicide 7 There is
no foundation for such a supposition
On the contrary, circumstances go
to show that his death was purely
accidental. To say that he killed
himself, therefore, is an assumption
that does injustice not only to the
dead man, but to his living relatives
and friends.-BeiieTonte 1Vatchman
Mrs. Guyld, of Plum township,
Venango county, aged about eighty
years, died on New Years morning,
after an illness of two weeks Her.
self and husband, although living to,
gether up TO the time of her death,
had not spoken to each other for ten
years, except in an occasional quar-
rel, During her sickness Mr. Guyld
never spoke to her, although he
showed signs Of relenting after her
death. This peculiar and aged couple
raised n large family, all of whom are
respected and honered citizens.
BY the new Constitution the gov.
ernor for a term of four years will be
elected in 1878 and will be inaugural.
ed in January, 1879, when the legis
lature will be in regular session. 1t
was this consideration which caused
the convention to fix the next term at
three instead of four years, so that
the governor would go into Office
with the Legislature chosen the same
year. Otherwise the governor would
enter on his duties with no legisla-
ture in sessions. Therefore the
regular sessions are on the odd years
rs, n, 70, and so on.
A fearful accident recently oc
CURED at the Johnstown Steel W orks.
When the molten steel had been
emptied from one of the large con
, verters into the huge ladle from
which it empties into the moulds, the
ladle accidentally was overturned
and the liquid fire was thrown over
those workmen engaged in its i'm,
mediate vicinity,-About fifteen were
more or less burned, three of that
, number SO seriously that it is feared
they cannot recover. The clothing
of some Of tho men was liternliy