The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-03-05
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Rev. DR. Moffeet, the celebrated
English missionary TO South Africa,
is still in donbt as to the death of
DR. Livingstone.
IA dispatch from Berne, Switzer.
land, says that Miss Brevoort, an
American lady, has performed the
perilous feat Of attaining the summit
Of the Jung Frau.
IA man named N. M. Wood, al
Rutledge, Ga, shot himself anil
poisoned three of his children on
Saturday night. The desertion OF
his wife was the cause
The Grant Locomotive Works nj
Patterson, N. j., resumed operations
last Thursday. Four or five hundred
men will be taken OH before the end
of the week.
DR. Chickering reported. at a
recent meeting of the Congressional
Temperance society, Washington.
that about one fourth of the mem
bers Of Congress stand on the socie-
tys abstinence platform.
The Massachusetts, Supreme
Court has decided that women have
right TO hold and serve in school
Offices. The Constitution is silent
on the subject, and they possess the
right under the English common
law.
"A Missouri farmer drew all his
money out of the bank during the
late panic and put it nobody knows
where. Then he died suddenly, and
now his heirs are wildly prospecting
in all sorts of probable and improba-
ble places.
MANY Of the Connecticut farm
ers will abandon the cultivation of
tobacco. Last summers crop did
not properly mature, and still re
mains on the hands of the producers,
although in some cases offered mt
half the usual price.
There are in the Forty. third
Congress fifteen members Of foreign
nativity. Of these two are Senator'S,
Carl Scburz, from Missouri, native
Of Cologne, Germany, and John p.
Jones, from Nevada, q Welshman.
In the House, of the foreign born
members, five are Irishmen, four
Scotchmen, two Englishmen, one
Canadian and one Mexican.
Within the past three years il is
estimated that there has been an en-
igration of 100000 negroes from the
Eastern Gulf States to Texas. Dur
ing the same period the white emi-
grafton from other States is estimat-
ed at 100000, thus adding 400, 1000
to the population of the Lone Star
in that short period. There has been
also considerable foreign emigration
in the same direction.
The petition of the steel consu
mers to Congress contains the names
OF over $50 prominent manufacturers
in all parts Of the country, who re.
present over 800, ,OOd DO of capital,
employing more than 10000 hands.
The west, New York State, Pennsyl
vania and the New England States
are largely represented in the docn-
ment. Their object is reduced and
specific duty on steel.
The Chicago Tribune says there
is case in the Minnesota courts in
which the title to 100000 acres of
swamp lands depends on the deiini-
tion of TIE single word "each.' A
land grant was made to the Milwau.
kee and st. Paul Railroad Company,
and the question is whether seven
sections per mile ION each side of
said line means on both sides in the
aggregate, or seven sections on one
side and seven on the other,
"A Chicago paper says that a
physician Of that city has nine pa
tients under treatment suffering from
the effects of trichina superinduced
by eating diseased pork Specimen
chunks of the pork used by some of
the patients killed eight dogs in
thirty six hours. One of the hogs
from which the diseased pork was
taken was round and plump and
weighed 400 pounds, and was, to all
appearances sound and healthy
"A new and alarming horse disease
is reported among the stages and
street car lines of New York. A
number of animals have been pros.
trated, but the mortality is small,
aud in most instances the disease
yields rapidly to medical treatment
he symptoms are loss of appetite,
swollen eyes, which discharge yell
lowish matter copiously, and swol-
len legs. Stupor follows with great
weakness. Rapid recovery follows
the return of appetite.
Senator Chandler's views upon
the financial question were expressed
the other day. "Sir," said he, ''you
may legislate for the class who have
overspeculated, who have built fac
tories and steamboats,, who have
bought mills, bought mines, bought
everything for sale, and given their
paper, knowing they could not meet
it unless they borrowed the money
over again; you may give them
S100,00O,0O0 or $1,000, 600, 900, but
you will not help them in the slight.
est degree
The amendment of Mr.. Merli.
mon to the finance bill, which was
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