The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1875-02-11


OF the forty two million OF pas
sengers carried over the railroads il.
Massachusetts during the last twelve
months but one man WAS killed and
seven injured.
Vim. W. rwcod is now snbiect-
el in the New York prison TO the
same prison rigors visited upon his
fellow prisoners. To add To his
troubles, Mrs Tweed mot with al
accident few days since by the ex-
plosipn Of u percussion cnp With an
OH pistol, in tn, hanlI of her son.
b. which she lost one Of her eyes.
Tho Paris Ky) PIp,r of last
week SAYS On Saturday las. the
Fourth Duchess OF Oneida died at
the Hon +. J. M"gibben's. She was
purchased by Megibben x Bedford.
October, 1873, ut Campbells Now
York Mills sale. for $4,000 She
leaves a bull calf three months old,
by the Fourteen h Duke of Thora-
lalo, said to he one of the finest
Dukes in the country Thus the
:25. 0op hotter has met tho sane Fate
gs the SlO,5JO COW Nc t. &, Rcd
ford has boon particularly unfortu
nato, having herot,iore los. two cost
ly bulls.
On Sln lay woak, in New
YORK, thc larIe-. telegraph pole in
the ,rll wa. raised in Fulton street,
near 81. paul'- church. The pole is
ninrty-three fra' lDu% aul twb fect in
diameter, reaching high above the
nri 5lboriug buildings. Il is for the
suppors of the distributing wires that
will extend from the new building of
tho Western l'iiou Telegraph Com
pany, Broadway aud boy street 1t
was California tree, and required
for It's raising two horses aud u large
npmhe- OF men, aud of course the
orlaiing # tho busiest portion of
/ Bro ,d way III sl,lt n'''5'Ty - tIie
san lny fIr the purpose.
- ope Plus n is in the 81 ycat
Of his nga. lie was elected Pope in
1886. when he VIA 55 wears OF ago.
land consequently has hal the l1ug
reign of - yrn"s. HiS health IL nov
stntel e. be bal |, AMI the quest m Of
the succession is agitlting those il
tcrestcl Bi4mrrck proposes to have
Il hand in the election, ani the pres
ent Pope's partyare determined that
he shall not 1t il thought that the
peace of Europe il in danger, and
the different countries are arniing,
to be ready for war, should 1t come
The religious questions embrace the
chief disturbing element Prussia
is leading the auti"infallible Pope
side, while France is, perhaps, the
strongest representatives of the ul-
tramontane Catholics In England,
even. there is Il grent deal of undevel-
oped feeling on the subject, and it is
stated that there il really a deeper
feeling of nnisgonism to Catholicism
. in England Mt the present time than
; there has been for years before. The
millennium does not soom to be com
ing very fapluly.
: The wedding gift from tho Kha'
dive of Egypt to the daughter oI
Gen. Sherman, reached New York
by steamer, on Tuesday week.
The present is parure of din
monds, necklace and ear drops, sale
: to be the most magnificent and val
10 liable in this country. Tho necklace
: is composed OF four strands of dia
: monis, each OF which is u brilliant
Not onr of th"m ~ worth las' tnon
l.ODD he chtin j. s6nil.I y tl
n tie inms mi tAey nge s.ts. '..
together as tp hi le the 20, l. ..
aIe 40 many OF them that D,p rs
+ Collector Lydec ker tiredin the count
He counted 80, which is only about
half of the whole nnmbei. The
strands are joined by ten immens,
, stones. each one of which is eucir
4. cIcd by smaller gems. The one il
=. front is the size of n hickory nut, ant
!, ia worth 100000. Pendant from th,
front is fe stoon of brilliants Will
five big pear shaped stones of tn
e finest water lustre hanging from it
u The ornaments for the ear are singl
e stones, equally as large as the rest
c Tho entire set is appraised at iron
$500, 900 to 100000,
y As soon as the Secretary OF th
= Treasury orders n free permit 70
o them, uuder the special act of Con
II gress, they are to be delived to th'
= Turkish Minister and by him pre-
4 sentcd to the fair bride on behalf O
the Egyptian poHntate