The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-02-27

Memphis is to go into the hands
Of o receiver.
Schuyler Colfax is seriously i'll at
home, South Bend, Ind.
In Europe steel and iron rails are
now nearly the same price.
One berder near Carson, Nevada,
has nearly 5000 Cashmere goats.
In bad weather 1000 sweepers are
employed in the streets OF Paris.
Sixteen magnificent looking wid-
ows' attended an Alabama quilting.
A circus baud played at funeral
in the town Of Fulton, III.
II is thought The next census will
give us sixty'six more Congress-
men.
Another amputation will have TO
be performed for Governor Wade
Hampton.
The late Princess Alice Of Hesse
was buried wrapped in the folds Of
an English flag.
In South Carolina there are 80.
S2S whites and 235, ,O64 blacks who
cannot read.
An old lady who recently died in
Maine, had stored away l02 pairs OF
stockings, knit by herself.
There are twenty-five counties in
Kansas, each Of which raises more
corn than New Hampshire.
Columbia has permanent wafflo
baker who makes daily rounds Of
the town.
New Orleans fred fifty guns in
honor Of tue repeal OF the charter Of
the Louisiana State lottery.
Eight hundred engineers have
struck and twelve hundred more will
strike at London in few days.
Eight hundred and twen.y-one
persons were served with free soup
one morning in Lancaster.
The Tenth regiment Pennsylvania
reserves will hold re union ut SOM
erset, on the Goth of June.
A clergyman named Lyttel was
lately before q London police court
for stealing two pairs Of kid gloves.
Hard times in England, smallpox
in Ireland, plague in Russia, rinder-
pest in Prussia aud prosperity in
France.
Tho Jacksonville (Fla } .Su. urges
that the street sprinkler be more ef-
fectually used. II is warm and dus-.
ty there.
Sixteen skunks we're caught near
Conneautville in five hours the other
day. The pelts were sold for over
$40.
Nine Of the twelve blast furnaces
In Pittsburgh and vicinity are now
in blast, producing about five thou
sand tons Of pig iron each week.
In round numbers We have now
st'i.t ttousauo pvsr umvus, nuu
they are increasing at tho rate Of
about two thousand a year.
Two small boys were lately sen.
fenced 10 u London Police Court to
three days imprisonment for steal.
ing an onion valued at one penny.
A train Of ls9 empty cars, making
a length Of more than n mile. was
drawn by single locomotive on tho
Northern Central Railroad.
The murderer who was sentenced
to 30 years Imprisonment in Ken- /
tucky lately, vows hs will never
serve out his time-he'll dio first.
The water in the flooded coal
mines at Plymouth, Schnylkill Co..
has reached height to be beyond
the control OF pumps.
Nothing has been heard from
Samuel Roop, the wealthy farmer of
Lancaster county who deserted his
wife and ran of with his hired girl.
Joe Williams. q colored man,
dropped dead Friday week as he
was about to leave the Delaware
county jail, his term having expired
A couple Of weeks ago IN invalid
woman named Bowman insisted on
being baptized by immersion, but
the shock to her nervous system
caused her death afterward.
A communion service was celebra-
ted in Bridgeport with brandy iu-
stead Of wine, the druggist having
made blunder in filling the order
for sherry.
Kansas papers report the farmers
in various parts Of that State as
busy plowing and sowing spring
wheat. They have been at it for
the last week or two.
A horrible accident occurred at the
coal shutes at Lewistown Junction
recently, by which Henry Hinneman.
a brakeman, was literally crushed to
death aud most terribly mapgled.
An ice. gorge in the Missouri river
at Glasgow has destroyed q span OF
a new bridge in course Of construc-
ton for the Chicago aud Alton rail.
road. The loas In oyar S30. 600