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

ho cttuf'lon nOp OF the State
is claimed for Lancaster county. II
was slaughtered by q Mr.. Meyer, and
dressed 300 pounds.
Out OF one hundred jurors drawn
for the last term Of the Mayors
Court in Scranton but twenty one
were capable of writing their names
-Juniata county in turn has the
coal fever, some believing that the
article has been found near Perry
vile. They might as well hunt
whales in the Juniata.
About two weeks ago fire
broke out in the Empire mine, sit
uttct on the outskirts Of Wilksbarre
and belonging to the Wilksbarre
Coal Company, and has been raging
With great Jury since.
Over four hundred hands EN-
ployed inthe different shops of the
Reading Railroad company. in
Reading, have been either discharge 4
or snspendod-one hundred at the
car shops, and three hundred at the
lower or machine shops.
Lawrence Schilp, a German
about 50 years of age, committed
suicide on Saturday evening a week
IN Harrisburg. He placed the muz
aie OF heavily loaded muskot in his
mouth, and operated the trigger with
n lath. Nearly the whole Of his
head was blown of. That Schilp
was TO have been tried at the next
court for theft is the supposed cause
for the act.
Justices OF the Peace should ro.
member that they are required to
take the oath, to support the New
Constitution, within 80 days after
the proclamation Of the governor de
claring it law This proclamation
WAS dated the Tth Of Jsntfary, conse-
qucntly the oath must be taken be-
fore the Recorder, previous to the 7th
of February.
"A family residing in Beaver ave.
nue., Allegheny, were thrown into
intense excitement on Thursday
night, by the noise made by q skill
mi burglar A strong force OF 20
liccmen were hastily summoned, and
thorough investigation instituted,
which resulted in the discovery of a
huge black cat, masculine gender
frolicking around the garret. No
arrest.
"A man was in Allentown the 9th.
er day who told the story that n man
living on Sugar creek. Monroe coun-
ty, killed duck last week and found
in the fowls crop sixteen grains Of
gold Of about the average size of Il
buckwheat kernel. A search dis
covered quantity of gold on the
banks Of the creek, and quite an ex
citemont has been created over the
matter
On last Sabbath day week. a
child Of the Rev. Mr.. Whitney, of
Perrysville, about one year old, swal-
lowed pin, point downward. DR.
Graham was Immediately called
His first effort TO remove the pin
with an instrument was crowned
with success. In his skillful hands
the instrument caught the pin, and
drew it out, thereby snatching the
life Of the child from distressing
and painful death
Mr.. Samuel Stimeling who runs
a stationary engine at Patterson.
used to pump water from the river
to the reservoirs owned by the rail
road company, was gagged and
robbed in the engine room on Sun
day evening week, by two mon.
The noise of the struggle attracted
the attention OF man named Craw-
ford, and when he appeared one OF
the scoundrels rushed at him. He
ran for assistance but on returning
few minutes afterward the villains
had fed.
"A poor man in Scranton lost a
child by smallpox. During the sick
ness he was obliged to beg bread,
but SO feariul were the people OF
coming in contact with him. that the
morsel he received was barely suf
ficient to keep his family from star
yation. When the child died he ap
piled to the authorities for coffin
but could not obtain one. Council
men sent him to the poor directors
and the poor directors referred hin
to the Councilmen, so that between
the official benevolence of public men
the man returned homo and made
ont of rough boards box in which
he placed his dead child. lie wa,
then obliged to carry the rude cof
! fin TO a grave which he dug with hi
own hands.
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