The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-04-11


The buds are on bust.
Put onions in their little bed.
Spring fever has alredy set in,
Clean up the streets and alleys.
A dry, warm summer at hand, Is the
latest prediction.
The next legal holiday is Decoration
Day-30th Of May.
The public schools in this borough
closed last week.
The wheat Drop 10 this county promis-
Is to be exceedingly good.
The county roads are in a splendid
condition for this season Of the year.
Striped stockings don't COME rs high
this spring as they did-we mean in
price.
W. P. Ifilibish. has been appointed
Postmaster at Mixes Half Falls, in
this county.
Easter, last year, came on April let.
This year IL will be three weeks later,
falling on April 2lst.
Good advice is like brown breod II Is
very uourisbing, but not always the IN ost
welcome kind Of food.
The Lebanon Courier thinks that il
the ground hog cannot predict better
in the future he had better be shot.
s6y- A Large line OF Dress Goods.
White Goods, Calicos. Musiins. etc at
astouishi ng low prices at 8. weis, Selins.
grove.
After next Saturday coal mining in
the Schuylkill region will be suspend-
ed for two weeks, in order that the
over-production may be got rid Of.
A gentleman named Mcpherson from
tewisburg lost his purse containing
$50 while on his way over the 3, & l..
X. II. to Lewistown last week.
II won't be long now till the gentle
house wife will be screaming "where s
that white-wash brush md bring on that
there limo"
II Is said BY some that times are get
ting better. We hope 50. anl would like
to see them continue to get better still, as
the country needs better times badly just
now.
~ 8. weis Of the n Y. Fancy Store.
has received his Spring Stock, and Is now
offering great bargains in Dry Goods, No.
'ioHs "uu r"hOy Nooso' S"h "uu peo
for yourself.
Eight thousand druggists and general
stores in the United states sell Fout2s
Horse aud Cattle Powders. They sell
Fou,Z's because they know them to pos
sess Intrinsic merit.
These are the happy days Of spring
when man can work hard for ten or
twelve hours, then go home aud play
with wood saw in the back yard, or
frolic in the garden with spaid.
Consumptivss. do not 90 west or south
for relief, bat use Haas EXpectorant.
which you will dnd the surest cure known
for all lung complaints. II will cure,
unless the patient is beyond the reach Of
medical aid. 25 and 90 cents bottle.
The Attorney General has decided
that school directors in the choice Of
superintendents are not restricted to
citizens of their own county or city,
but can elect any citizen of the United
States who is eligible.
SUICIDE. On April 2nd at about
o'clock A. VI. Samuel Hummel. n son
of Andrew Hummel, of Middlccreek
township. this county committed sui
eide in Monroe township, 10y hanging
himself in the barn of isaac Hummel
in Monroe twp. No cause for the deed
is ascribable.
Now is the time for the supervisor
TO cast his eye over his domain and note
those bad places to ix up as s1on rs
the weather will permit. The frost is
out of the ground nov. in most places,
and therefore road mending is in pro.
per order. Fill up the mud holes with
well broken stones.
The duties and term OF Off 30 of the AS
SCISSORS elected in February last began on
the first day Of April. This Is tho docis
sion Of Attorney Gsnerl Lear, who was
written TO concerning the time for the as :
SCISSORS 10 commence their duties, there
being some doubt expressed as to when
the old assessors time expired.
A few lays ago at Wisconisco du-
ring a game OF base ball, q ball struck
by lad by the name of Shoemaker
accidentally hit a son Of Asa Black
well, about eight years of age, (who
was looking on. but was prev i.
ously told to stay away on tho right
temple and killed him on the spot
A meeting was held some days age
in Selinsgrove, and tho following nam
ed persons were elected directors o
the North Branch aud Selinsgrove
railroad +. s. Doty, Jacob Sulouh,
Banks Wilson, Jacob Smith, Peter
Brown, Jacob Schnee, William Meyer,
Augustus SpringmaD. III. II. Grimm,
J. W. Gaugler, and w. +. Eckbcrt.
No law permitting net fishing has
yet been passed, and all engaged in !,
are liable to prosecution. Should such
a bill pass, our readers will be prompt
ly informed of It, and in the meantime
we would advise all law-abiding per-
sons to place no reliance on the sto-
ries of interested parties.
FIRE On Friday night of last week
the Brick Steam Tannery, the property
of DR.. A. NJ. Smith, located at Adams
burg, in this county. was consumed by
fire. We have not learned all the par
ticulars of the fire, but conclude from
the information, we have, that it was
the work of an incendiary. There was
an insurance on the property destroy
ed. which does not half cover the loss.
1t is now admitted even by the pro-
prietors of saloons and drinking hous-
es, that the habit of treating is one of
the greatest evils connected with in-
temperance. The very hest move-
ment tile Temperance men could make
would be to have u law enacted which
would mako treating a misdemeanor,
to be punished by fines and imprison-
ment. Il Bx.
Cornerstone Laying. "A New Evan
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