The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-02-24

county Jail was presented by the
county commissioners with o suit OF
clothes to enable him to appear in o
respectable manner in court during
the trial. The criminal tore the
clothes and burned them after his
conviction. Judge Orvis sentenced
him TO term OF two years and four
months one year OF which he owes
10 his destruction Of the suit.
@A singular case has Just been
brought before the Board Of Par
dons in Harrisburg. A boy, 16 years
Of age, is serving q term OF impris-
onment in the Schuylkill county Jail
for having shot another boy, but
without fatal effects. ctrons efforts
are making 10 proln.ss ti,,s release,
these are opposed by the youthful
prisoner. himself, who likes the Jail
40 we'll that he desires TO stay there.
He is employed by the prison Off
cials 90 . messenger.
~A commercial travelsr,of Al.
Gibson, has just come in from Solo
mon valley. He says that six horse
thieves were hanged there q few
days ago by vigilance committee
Among those lynched were Hutchin-
son, Cox and Connaughty, three des-
peradoes Of the frontier. The thieves
were surrounded in their cabin at
night, Just after returning from a
trip to Nebraska, where they had
been to dispose Of stolen stock.
They we're tried by lynchers court,
found guilty and executed at once.
D%On the fine stock farm Of Mr..
Reuben Shelby, on the road from
Slatington TO Allentown in MOI
whitehall township, Lehigh ooun
~ years old, wheighing, though
fattened, about 800 pounds, and
the largest hog in America. ,
Shelby expects the hog will req
1000 pounds by the time OF the G.
tennisl, and considers il the larg
one in the whole country. Ma
persons como from . distance toe
the hog and the other very ane ste
upon the farm.
~Two boys named respectiv
" Willie G. and Lewis Fl. Temp
the former IL and the latter 10 ye1
old, were recently sent BY the Adsr
Express Company. at Wilmingto
Del. to Ferdinanda, FlOsida. Th
we're regularly labeled With at.
tied to their clothing, and sent
live freight, though allowed the p,
vilege Of riding in the passeng
car next to the express. Their fat
or, Samuel Temple. 10 engaged
the lumber trade at Ferdinan,la, ar
has been suddenly attacked with
severe illness, from which he 10 n,
Expected TO recover. Bei0g snxio,
to see his two little boys before
died, he tslsgrsphed to have the
sent by express. The distance
1900 miles, and cost for e,2ressa
$l0s.
"a rather singular instance oi
fate or Providence 70 relaisd BY the
Johpstown Tri6nne. A Nw days
ago Q tramp WAS trudging along the
railroad in the vicinity OF Jobnstown
whom he saw . small scrap Of paper
lying on the track. Curiosity in.
duced him to pick it up and glance
at it's contents. IL WAS q piece oi
tho Philadelphia Ledger, and what
was his grief and surprise to discov'
or the death notice Of his mother
The funeral had occurred two dsyi
before. lie went to East Cone
maugh, informed the operator Of the
facts, induced o kindheartsd by
standsr to pay for . message asking
an immediate remittance by tele'
graph order. received an answer
which secured him the money, and
left for homo on the next train, tot
late, however, TO see the mortal re
mains OF tho best earthly friend ht
ever had. His grief 10 said 10 hav
been intense. aud we'll it might be.
SrA prisoner in the Alleghen,
: county Jail received = nice mince pi'
from his wife. With iberAlity borr
either OF innate generosity or q lurk
: ing suspicion Of danger in the pie
and desire for oompanionship il
I misery il his suspicious should b.
! realized, the recipient shared il will
, four OF his fellow prisoners. SooI
! after the feast the whole party be
cams deathly sick, and exhibited
signs Of poisoning. There lives wer
+ saved and the fragments Of the pi
: subjected to an analysis, whiel
demo moustrated the fact that it wa
full OF arsenic. The woman, in he
3 ignorance, defeated the object sh
! sought to accomplish, by overdosinI
0 her victims, so that the poison acte
as an emetic and prevented thei
stomachs from retaining it. Poo
! prisoner (Ridgley is his nancy Wit
3 such a disposition, which prevent
him from keeping out OF Jail, an
such Q wife, who prevents him fror
enjoying in security the solitude {
Q his cell, he 10 indeed an object c