The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-03-19
General News.

England at the public expense.
AN appropriation of $25,000 Is
asked from Congress in aid Of the
Orphans Homestead at Gettysburg
REV. John j. Stephens, M
American missionary at Guadalajarn
Mexico, was assassinated at Acapul.
co on the I'd instant, and bis body
horribly mutilated.
William A. Stone, q lawyer, o.
Canastota, n. Y, convicted of arson
in the third degree for setting fire tc
that village was sentenced to prison
for life.
! The municipal elections were
held in Maine on the 9th inst, Au
gusta and Bangor elected Republi
can Mayors, Belfast the citizens can
didate, and Biddleford the Demo
cratic ticket. = -. -.
-. A woman down east has an ac'
curate picture ola juniper tree print
ed on her leg by flash of lightning
And the editor who chronicled the
event has had n lively time explain
ing to his wife how he got the item.
"A San Francisco masked ball
was attended by young lady who
personated Nicotine. Her dress was
made of tobacco leaves, her necklace
was cigars, and she carried fan
and parasol constructed .of the
weed
During heavy storm encoun-
tered by the steamer Pennsylvania,
from Liverpool, on the 9th ult.,
Captain Bradburn, the first and sec-
ond officers and two seamen were
washed overheard and drowned, and
the fourth officer had one Of his legs
broken.
The Supreme Court Of the Uni
ted States holds that all savings
banks are bound to pay internal rev.
enue tax on their contingent funds,
and that an action for debt will lie
for the recovery Of the tax, even al
though il has never been assessed.
The Jacksonville Rcpubiican
tells a romantic story of Waldo Bios
som, of Boston, now in Florida, who
has fallen heir to over Sl,0O0,000
worth of property left him by man
named Larimer, whom he saved from
utter destruction some twenty years
ago.
1T is something for tho nation
to be proud of, that in scarcely one
Instance have the ladies who epgag-
ed in the temperance crusade been
offered violence or rudeness from
American saloon keepers. In no 9th
or country in the world, we venture
to say, under similar circumstances,
would such q proof of chivalrous and
manly feeling have been shown.
AT meeting of the Fruit Grow
ers' Association, held mt Dover, Del,
on Wednesday, the general tenor Of
all the reports made favored tho ex-
pectation of n very large yield, 30 far
as can be foreseen now. The germs
in the buds have not been killed by
the severe cold, but, upon dissection,
arc found healthy and promising
The expectation of all is thatthe
crop must be very heavy.
There are two Indian tribes in
Maine, the Passamoquoddies and the
Penobscots, and each are represent
cd in the Legislature by one of their
own number. These two represen.
tatives of the red men take no part
in legislation, but are allowed to
draw their pay just the same as the
representatives of the white men.
They spend most of the time during
the session in the rotunda engaged
in chatting with each other in the di-
alect of their fathers.
Kingston, n. Y, was startled re-
Gently by singular discovery made
by some workmen. They were re.
pairing building known as the
Woolsey House, situated in the low
er part of the town, and in taking
down the chimney skeleton was dis
covered wedged in the nue. 1t was
pronounced by the physicians who ex
amined it to be the skeleton of q
woman, apparently about eighteen
years of age, and it had probably
been in the place where it was dis
covered about II year.
"A singular coincidence is relat
ed by the Bowling Green Ky.) Pan
, fagrdph: a few hours before thu
death of Hon. Jacob Vanmeter, OF
Friday, the 9th inst, he requested
that his grave be dug large enough
for his wifes body in addition to hi
own. He said that his wife's deatl
would follow almost Immediately. NJ
alarm WAS excited by the singular re-
: quest of the old man, as Mrs. Van
meters health was as good as il hat
been for months. On Saturday
however, Mrs. Vanmeter was taker
; suddenly i'll, and died before Sunday
morning. On Monday the bodies o
} the aged couple were taken to theil
final resting place, and, in accord
ance with the old gentleman's re
: quest, now occupy one grave