The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1875-07-29
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All Sorts Of Items.

years Of age was arrested IN PhIladol'
phia last week. 2yNrsr -e
-. Tho .Philadslpbia house Of cor
reetion has 9i2 inmatos--G27 males
aud 3l5 fcu,ales. rt5. -.,-
-. The man who courtcd an in
vestipatiou says it isn't 90 good ss au
atiectiouate girl. p -l az &
%. AT Allentown fourteen chick.
ems were batched from thirteen eggs
aud the people are puzzled.
-. China has appropriated s60,-
600 Tor representation at the Phi;a-
dclphia Centennial Exposition.
... The State Camp OF tho Patri.
otic Sons OF America meets in Sha-
ron, Mercer county, August 10Th.
You can cure the appetite for
Intoxicating drinks by eating an or
augc every morniog before break fast.
-. Mics Beatrice Lytle, living
ucsr New. Brighton, mistook arsenic
for epson salts, took dose of it and
died.
....Spain is still the theatre Of ci>
vi var. The Carlists sppear to be
gaining ground, and Alfonso seems
70 bs losiag rapidly. u ,r1r.,rr
a. Hail stones eleven and aquar-
ger isches in ciroum ference are said
TO have recently fAilen In Davis
county, N. q, .,.-ss. a. . - r.. sJe,
-. love is sod tn be blind, but
know lots of phellows in lovo who
seo twice as much in their gall, os |
kan.-josh Bikiings.
-. An Illinois grocer says he
would rather have tho power to toll q
good egg from bad one than TO be
President Of the Uni,od States.
-. The Sunbury Daily says +. b.
Gowan and Asa Packer pay more
than one half Of all the county tax as
sessed 10 Zerby township, Norlhum
berland county. -4
Young cattlc-vcarliugs-arc
suifei ing from singaIarly ts,ai dis
ease in parts Of Potter county. They
are saddcnly seized with stiffness, and
die in q short timo.
%. The Prince OF Wales intends
10 visit Aria. He wants Parliament
to give him 800, ,000to pay cxpen-
ses Of the trip. That's the way the
money goes in England.
"A book agent took refuge un>
der hay-stack during thunder-
storm, and the lightning struck him
on the check, glanced off, and killed
mute 200 yards away.
-Alexnnder II. Stevens sticks to
il. lie said in n recent speech at
Sparta, Ga, General Grant is the
best man toward the South that ever
drew sword against u.s.
Mrs. Grace Bells, OF Solcbury,
Bucks county, will complete her one
hundred,h year on the 2Sth Of Octo.
Der. She is still active und erect in
figure, never having been seriously
sick.
We are glad to learn that q goner.
al resumption of work 10 all the
shops Of the Reading Railroad Com.
pany AT Reading, is to take place at
once, giving employment to about
1900 hands.
-. The United States has become
the greatest silver producing country
Of the world, tskiug precedence even
of Mexico, which has hitherto been
supposed to yield nearly. stwo-thirds Of
'he worlds supply.
1t is now said that il was the
exposure Of the Katy King fraud
which drove Robert Dale Owen crazy
Blu, if ho had not been partially in-
sane before he never would have be-
lieved 10 Katy King,
.... "A statute of Christopher Co.
lumbus is to be erected 10 Paramount
Park, Philadelphia, by Italian work.
men, und the money furnished by
italian Subscriptions. IL will be un-
veiled July 4, 1876. s yri-e
=. The juvenile murderer Of Bos
ton, Pomer1y, will have to suffer tho
extreme penalty for his crimes. The
Governor aud Council OF Massachu-
selts have refused to commute his
sentence to life imprisonment.
:. The occupants Of six hundred
shauties along the lines Of New York
railroads make a living by planting
troro.snd- -pototoes' between the rails
aud the fences II is said that nine
hundred acres are cultivated in this
way. ~ ~
-. Tho Rcadiug Times says !:
Mr.. Isaac G. Pfoutz, Of LnLiz, owns
perhaps tho heaviest horse IN the
United States. He is Normsh
stallion, weighs 1880 pounds, Is over
seventeen hands high aud il valued
at $4,000. e2st
-. The torn Of tho governor cleo
ted this year in Pennsylvslis will be
three years after that fut urs i0oaa-
bcnts will expire simultaneously. with
that Of the Lioutenant u 'vsvnor,
General Latta having last fall been
elected four years,
,s.;9 George Ken. Szpf Mhprs,,
Mass (, . deaf and dSpb mas. b 10 is
almost helplessly Iamo. has caugh,
with q hook eight HUNDRED and eighty
trout for tho Boston markcts, This
season. besides seventeen hundred
aud sixty fish Of other varieties,