The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-02-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

80. New ofk state VIII Spond
5000, 900 on her National Guards.
.Tramps have possession of
several. Long Branch hotels.
There arc 1ll,Ojo dogs in
North Carolina, or ouo dog TO every
three sheep.
go. During tho past two years,
II il said, Georgia farmers have in
vested S3,U00,O0O in mules.
....Rampagious small boys ston
ing the Telegraph wires cost England
$4,000 last year.
....At Dcadwool, Black Hills.
consisted Of fried liver ani ice
cream
ga Iilden club has just been
organized in Fttsburg to whoop
him up iJr 1880
Richard Henry Dana, poot
aud ossayist, dicl in Boston, on last
Sunday. aged % years.
....On Friday, three littlo girls
saw their mother dio from want, in
Philadelphia.
Accounts f,om Upper i ;ypt
give heart-rouding details of tho
famine hero
.... The Senate. confrmol tho
nomination Of Senator Christiancy
TO be Minister to Peru.
General Grant and family
sailed on Saturday last for India,
via The Suez canal.
Tho public debt statement for
the month of Janulry shows II no.
duction Of 81 ,1jl,9 $50.
.... David Purkcy, Of Morristown,
Pa, aged Twenty-Five, has married
his step grandmother, aged sixty.
49,. Manufacturing establishments
that have been illo for years are
starting mp along tho upper Hudson.
The fro ut Lee, Mass, last
week, burned ten stores, n printing
Office and an Episcopal church.
Loss over $4,000.
go. There arc mail routes in the
south where each letter carried costs
tho government from six 10 eight
dollars.
IA Congregational church in
Illinois has rejected candidate for
its pulpits on the solo ground that
he used tobacco.
....Tho average cost of tnition
per month for each attendant of the
public schools in Pennsylvania is
eighty four cents.
THE story from Fountain Co,
Ind, about Lconiias Glover being
killed while in bed by u motooric
stone is lie.
49,. Seven thousand miners are
iilo in tho county of Durham. Eng
land. The distress there has not
been equaled since the great strike
in 1874.
1t is stated that the steamer
Albion has been chartered to take
Henry VI. Stanley and party 10 Xan
zibar for another expedition to Az
rica.
80. Tho Chicago elevators are full
OF grain, and notice has been served
on shippers that no more can bo rec
ceived until some portion of the sup-
ply on hand is removed.
go. Mr., George +, Seward, minis
ter to China, who is now being in
vestigated by n congressional COM
mittoe, is II nephew of the late Hon.
William H. Seward.
.... The balance Of trade in favor
of the United States for the year
ending 1873, was S30i5i2,57l.
against balance tho previous year
OF only Sli0,O5G,ll2.
-. The Philadelphia Press under
the editorial management of Hon.
Edward Mcpherson, is one of the
ablest Republican journals in the
State and Nation.
-. Two years ago corn specu-
lator at Clarinda, Ia. refused &C
cents bushel for 10000 bushels of
corn lie had bought at 30 cents. lie
is now yGiuly trying to get 10 cents
Il bushel for it.
-, AT an expense of $50 to the
people. besides his own lawyers s
, fees, farmer of Jones county, Ia
has recovered l cent from man he
sued for fourteen fence rails, worth
10 cents each.
IA young man 1s years old
shool teacher in Glenn City, Colum-
bia county, was recently in tho aci
, ] of ohpAtinr, uyl,nn tLn h,n..I, 49,. -