Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-29
News MiSceIIaney.

1t is the opinion Of physicians in the
northern part of the state that eaung
snow has much to do with the spread
of diphtheria.
The Selinsgrove Tribune says that
George Werlich, after serving five years
and several months In the eastern pen
itentiary for the murder of DR.. Z. R.
Wagonseller, in September, 1873, re
turned to his homo in that place, last
Tuesday evening.
DON'T Dun on POSTAL CARDs.-To
dun a debtor on postal card makes the
creditor sending it liable to criminal
prosecution. 1t has been decided by
the supreme court of Ohio to be unlaw-
full. The court wisely held that any
thing so written that it Is liable to in
jure the credit or reputation of any one
is crime that the writer should be
held strictly accountable for damages.
The decision was made in the case Of a
man whodunnedfor an old account on a
postal card, ana in that manner made
the matter public to the detriment of
the latter's credit elsewhere.-Er.
Erastus J. Burkert, who is said to be
a native of Centre county, Pa, and who
at present must live in the vicinity Of
Chicago, is reported in the Ch cago
Tribune to have performed the wonder
full feat Of writing 7 ,606 words, on an
ordinary postal card. The words writ
ten include the fifth, sixth and seventh
chapters of St. Matthew and the first
second, third, fou teenth and fifteenth
chapters of Ecclesiastes. This is the
greatest feat of It's kind on record
LetoiSburg Journal.
Guess that chap is our Own Lieut..
Rast Burkert, formerly Of Rebersburg,
and It's the first word we heard of him
this long time.
Clay Rice, an old hunter of Lyon
county, KY, went over into the Mis-
souri, swamps, back of the town Of New
Madrid a few weeks ago, and there
met with an extraordinary run Of luck
in deer shooting. lie, with his son and
a companion of the latter, killed SO deer
in as many hours. Rice ascribes his
success to a sheet of water under which
the whole county, by reason of recent
storms, rested. At various points in
| the swamp lands, small islands or ridg-
es stuck up just above the overflow, and
upon these islands the deer congrega-
| ted. Shortly after the arrival of Rice
and his fellows, cold snap covered the
water with thick sheeting of ice, and
as the deer were unable to run over the
slippery surface the hunters found ev-
cry advantage in their favor. Rice on
one occasion killed eight royal bucks
without moving from his tracks, and
on another two Of the party having
hemmed in a herd of fifty, killed eigh-
teen of them. Six of the eighteen were
caught without a shot, as they fell on
the ice and remained there, though re-
sisting frantically, until their throats
had been slit with bowie, Many of
the incidents of the hunt were exciting
in the extreme, and no painting could
do justice to the pieturesqueness of
some OF the scenes.
A MURDERER'S REMORsE.--Mil.
waukee, Jan. %. This afternoon W
W. Nottingham, who was employed in
fisherman & Co.'S cigar mandatory
under the name of Parker, appeares.at
the Central Police Station and asked t,
be taken into custody FOR murder. He
stated that six years ago he shot an(
J killed one John Gaylor in a street 6ght
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