The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-02-26
PennsyI,aoia items.

"A heIOrm0d cnurch costing $50 .
600 has just been completed in
Reading.
The oil wells Of Western Penn
sylvania produce a daily average Of
10000 barrels.
DR. Joseph Schenck, the well
known medicine man of Philadelphia
died ON the llth inst.
The Republicans of Easton cleo
ted a. B. Howell Mayor, aud carry
five ont Of seven wards for Council.
Martin Powell. banker, of Will
iamsport, was elected Mayor on the
Democratic ticket, by about $50
majority.
M. A. Kearney, Democrat, was
elected Mayor Of Wilkesharre, over
four Democratic and two Republican
competitor.
The Lebanon county commits
sioners offer n reward of $1,000 for
the arrest and conviction of the in
ccndiaries in that section.
The Democratic candidate for
Auditor in Reading is elected, and
the Democrats have a majority of
three in the Council.
-Theo. T. Doringor, inventor Of
the pistol Of that name, died at his
residence, Philadelphia, on Saturday
last, aged G3 years.
The aggregate wealth OF Penn
sylvania in real and personal proper
ty, banking. minerals, etc, is es-
timated at S7,000,0OO,000.
The Pennsylvania Senate has
passed unanimously q resolution that
all Legislation shall bo in accordance
with the new constitution.
Allegheny county, as appears
from the tabulated returns Of the as
SCISSORS, has an aggregate valuation
of more than s3G0,O00,000 on a cash
basis.
The Supreme Court of Pennsyl.
vania has decided that a,distiller in n
county where the issuing of license
is prohibited by the local option law,
has no right to sell the Liquor manu-
factured by him.
The earnings Of the Pennsyl
vania railroad company and the
United companies of New Jersey for
1873, foot up S3i, 992, 2,SiS95; ex-I
renses for the same period, s23, ,115,-
Sli G7 net earnings 81 ,S77 03i IS.
In Logantown, Blair county, II
boy named Baker hit young man by
the name OF Walker with piece o!
coal, when the latter drew pistol
and shot Baker through the leg
Walker was arrested and gave bail
FOR court.
James Wilson. an aged citizen
II Cleariield county, was found nj
the roadside ON the 3lst, frozen to
death. Abraham II. Peoples, Of the
same county, was caught between a
swinging spar and Il hemlock tree
and had his head crushed.
Michael McNantSra, Scranton
constable, who had been carrying
out the letter of the law in reporting
illegal liquor selling, was wayloid 10y
n party of men ON the night of the
9th inst, al Il brutally beaten, Me
Namra is quite an old man, and will
probably die from the effects of the
beating.
A mother. in Columbia, Ian
caster county. destroyed the sight of
one % her child eyes, n few days
ago, in n singular manner-the lady
spinning Il top for the little ones
amusement, using shoe string. The
metal tip on the latter struck the
child in the eye, damaging it ire
rarab,y.
A terrible calamity, with hardly
a parallel in the annpls of Philadcl.
phia, occurred on Friday morning, at
halfpast nine o'clock, in the Twenty
ninth Ward, Mt Thirty first and
Jefferson streets. AT that hour n
large ice house connected with the
extensive larger beer brewery of Hen
~ Mueller, tel bmyiug in the ruins
some twenty men who were i'll the
occupation of packing ice.
-Udlerz Dok still asserts his in
nocence, and says that he can show
where he was on the night of the
murder On Saturday he sent for
Mr.. Hayes, one of he jury that con
yicted him, and asked him, to use
his in 1uence IA his follow jwymen
to p sutton for his pardon, 4 case
the :, lpreme Court ia'led to grant
him a new tiial. Mr. Ilaves sayes
Uddelzook seems to be in good
spirits, and told his story in plausi'
bic way.
"A curious incident occurred at
Alsips new f.w Mill n Bedford Co.,
a short time ago. As n large cucum
Der log was being saved through the
centre the saw struck small chain
that was II tho heart o. tie log. The
chain WAS four OF five inches long
and had staple attached to it. Tn"
log was about eighteen feet long and
twenty-five or thirty inches in diam
eter. 1t was cut or the farm of Mr.
Nathan Lee, OF Bedford township.
The saw was considerable damaged
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In ,i,e Interest or rnFniers.
The attention OF Farmers is invit.