The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1875-07-01
Tho hill, fields and valleys arc nov

The hills fields and valleys are now
clothed in their richest beauties.
The adjourned Court to be held on the
30fh IL adjourned TO Tuesday July 20
Snakes are unusually scarce this
season. Perhaps the long, cold winter
destroyed thon.
1T is ;asant now to valk or drive
into the country to see the growing
crops, beautiful trees and wild flowers
There will be no paper issued from
this Office next week. We will, how
ever, attend promptly 10 job work. P
"A letting 10 build new School
h ,hse in Middecreek township. will he
held at Sewers School house in said
twp, June TO- Sec Bills.
If Seth Green is right, your wife
may go fishing with you. lie SAYS that
fishes are not frightened 10y talking I;
they have no sense of hearing.
Some people will never learn 10
give up the practice of stopping their
teams on the street crossings. They of
course think it is pleasant for pcdcstri-
ans to walk around in the dust or mud.
Beware of inquisitive persons. A
wonderful curiosity to know all il gen
orally accompanied with great desire
To tell II again and very often much
more is added to the narrtive.
A favoritc place for the Gipsics to
camp seems to be across the creek south
of town. Here from early spring till
late in fall almost every week they
may bo seen, and always ready for Il
trade.
LEATHER SroRE.--Danicl c. Berg
stresser, has opened Leather Store
and Finishing Shop Mt Selnsgrove, and
keeps all kinds of leather, which he
sells at very low figures. Sc advertise
mcnt.
"A simple mode ofkecping butter in
warm weather is to set over the dish
containing it large flower pot or un-
glazed eartlenware crock. inverted. -
Wrap wet cloth around the covering
vessel. aud place the whole where there
Is II draft of air.
five are 10 judge by the number
of young men and women engaged in
playing croquct every evening in this
place there must he something very
entertaining about it. We are glad to
SEQ the good order and harmony
amongst the players, but where the fun
comes in we arc in entire ignorance.
CHICKEN CHEEsr.-Did you reader,
ever cat any? Boil chicken, till tender:
take outall the bones and chop the meat
fine; season 10 taste with salt, pepper
and butter; pour in enough liquor they
are boiled in to make moist. Mould in
any shape you choose, and, when cold.
turn ont and cut into slices. 1t is an
excellent travelling lunch.
Go to the Drug Store and get sill
yer Gloss Starch. Best starch in the
world. This is the place also TO &c,
kidgford' Oswego Corn Starch. Moth
ing like it for puddings ice cream &c,
Don't fail to get some. American Wash
Blue ut 10 cents package. Try one
package and he convinced that it has
no superior. Read the advertisements
of above mentioned articles.
MrpsrMMER NIGuT's DRENu.-Thc
warniish evening time has come, the
buCgicst of the year. Little bugs and
big bugs moth flies and beetles queer
looking worms with wings, and fclrrtll
black swapping beasts with horns
hugs that fly over the iuminary and
then lie down and play circus with half
their legs burned oil, these are the visi-
tors we must nightly entertain.
EARAcrIE.-There is scarcely any ache
towhich children are subject so bad
10 bear and difficult to c,ro as the car
ache. But there is remedy never
known to fail Take q bit of cotton
batting, put upon IT pinch Of h'rri,
pepper, gather It up and tic il, dip it in
sweet oil and insert into the ear. Put
a flannel bandagc over the head to
keep it warm. IL will give immediate
relief
READ.-Thirty years ago, the people
read more of hooks than newspapers.
Now. however, they read newspapers
more than books. And 40 long a. news
papers keep up NTH the times, books
will not DO rGadns much as newspapers.
What the people want is brief state
ment Of what is happening around them
and they look 10 the newspapers for this
information.r-T Therefore, it il that nd
vertising for ANYTHING you want To buy
or have 10 sell is becoming 80 advan-
tageous to all concerned.
A REMEDY TO AII.AY PAIy. For n
wound caused by q nail running in the
loot, mashed finger, or any other bad
,ly bruised wounds, put burning Goals
an n pot or pan and sprinkle upon them
, common brown sugar and hold the
wound over the fumes fifteen or twenty
minutes. This is very simple RENE
dy TO assuage pain, and the trouble
and cost is only trihing to give il tri-
al. II will soothe the most violent ear
ache If \ funnel is placed over the hot
Goals and sugar, and let the smoke go
IN the car at short intervals.
A HUMANE LAw-PRovIDING FOR
WATERING TRoUGHs. of SUI
pervisors and road commissioners is |
called to an act passed by the last Leg |
islature in regard To the rection and
Keeping in repair of watering troughs |
for the Use of cattle and horses. The |
first section provides that any person
who having the facilities shall erect
and maintain In repair a suitable
trou IN, not less than four feet in
length, IL inches in width and nine
inches in depth in tho clear, of either
wood, stone or iron, and have pure,
clear water continually running into
the same by pipe or Otherwise, or the
waiter supplied by hand-pump, upon
the side ola public highway, shall be
entitled 10 receive from the road fund
thesum OF three dollars per annum on
the payment of road tax. Section sec.
ond provides that where there are the
proper facilities for such trough to he
erected, and the owner Oi the property
neglects to avail himself Of the privi-
lcges of section first then the suncrvi.