The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-01-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

taOlished at Beaver rails.
....A Vienna firm is now manu-
factu,ing glass slippers.
go. 1t takes 12,O00,000 clocks to
tick off the hours OF this country.
... Hon. Schuyler Colfax is on
lecturing tour through thc State.
... The Mississippi river is clos.
ed by ice from st. Paul to Carlo.
THE average price for good
milk cows in Montgomery county Is
80.
-. The legislature cannot meet
next year unless called by the Gov
ernor.
-. The public schools Of Wash
ingtou, ID. Q, were closed by the cold
weather.
-. The finest -four in Germany
is now said to DO made of glass mill
stones.
Ono hundred horses have
been stolen in Lancaster county in
three years.
The Ameer has Withdrawn
from Cabul aud has sought Russian
protection.
....A citizen Of Somerset has an
apple tree that has borne its third
crop this year.
49,. Judge Hunt of the L. S. Su.
preme Court had q stroke of paraly-
sis last week.
IA man of uinety-two years
has Just married woman Of twenty
four at Greeuville, Ga.
go. Morton McMichael the veter-
an editor of ,he North american
died on the 9th inst.
$50. A large number Of Miners
in the Schuylkill and Northumber-
land regions are out on strike.
... .All the men who left Milton
for Brazil have returned home. dis
gusted with their experience in that
country.
IA colored Judge in Virginia
has sentenced n wealthy white mau
to be publicly whipped for petty
larceny.
John Waliron. q New York
bag,ar. died last week from expos
ure and want of iood He had
$1,000 in bank.
y IA solid vein Of coal thirty
feet thick has been struck bv the
diamond drill near Girardville,
Schuylkill county.
/ .... Beaver has yonng LADY who
has been curiously attacked. She
sleeps twenty-five hours and remains
awake fye hours.
/ -. Resumption does not create
even a ripple iu monetary circles,
Il deranges no business, injures
none, and benefits all
.... Leonard Immel aud Sallic
Keller, both eighty-seven years oI
ace, we're recently married at Mt
E.na, Berks county.
Il 80. Hon. George Shareswooi ot
Philadelphia succeeds Judge AgneS
as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court OF this state
-. Henry Ward Beecher. Srnda,
in his sermon denounced the UniteC
States government for its out rage
against the gentle Indian.
-. Major Atvooi, oi the regu
lars. got $4,000 head Of cattle for q
weiiin. present lie married the
daughter OF Cattle King. Dick King
The L s. Supreme court has
decided that Congress can prohibit
polygAmoGs marriages. in Utah Nov
l., i, bA done for tie sake Of morality
ard decency.
The pretty mail milking her
twer,y-;hEss cows 10 en- hour sni
ioriy minutes Was sight recently
to BE- seeu at Els, Zorra. On. She
carried TIE mi.k upou the stands as
well.
... Stats Treasurer Soyes pre-
scE;s = sorry exhibit Of tue state
Finances The treasury empty and
the estimates u Expenditures for the
snss.ng year greater t4an the esii-
r@&ied resO0Eesz.
go. .Ckiesg0's barking girl Is pu.
10 the shsds By ths ca.-oAJy 81 Ia
enc, Wis, 1kich news ike a cat 10
distress, has eiISs ins,Azd of nails. q
c10gih Ike that u : bat, aud sa arm
rsse@b.iDg cate paN.
....A man was rseer,lv l;tersll,
eo0iesd u 8 steam bath IN San PrAn
q, sa0. into which be ven; pi,hoa.
Tie 1DSwS4a5s ~ ihs ssiesdsnis. lis
isr.ss tss s.esEs m iZs0rsnily. KstI
MA @r<. srs'ccsse9 ssi thee boiled
..,.A dssai,Hs@ Old nan. Jesirin,
10 de. bas resolved Eos 10 Kill bjfs
] s@gt. psks tsso lonely poGd Esa
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