The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-05-20

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The snake sssssn is now fully in.
augurated.
Iron ore has been discovered near
fremont
Lycoming county is headquarters
for horse thieves.
White settlers have invaded In
dian Territory.
Lin Bartholomew is gradually
convalosceing at the seashore.
Needle orc has been discovered in
Hoidelburg, Berks county.
A cat that had reached her cad
year died recently at Bradford.
Russian crops are endangered by
the presence Of o destructive beetle.
Titusville is going TO try the cleo
trio light for street illumination.
Hannah Kitchen, Of Easton.
thrashes her father soundly once
week.
A new engine on the Reading rail-
road recently made ono mile in forty.
three seconds. Pretty fast travelling.
At last tho Census Supervisor 8
have all been appointed and con-
firmed.
Mrs. Susan Getz OF Lancaster,
aged ninety one, has 1876 descend
ants.
A new Jail and sheriff's residence
is to be erected in Green county.
There is more smallpox in
Chester than in any other county
in the State.
The wages OF all employers OF the
Reading iron works have been in.
creased ten per cent.
The Treasury now holds S362-
495,650 in y. s. bonds to secure
bank circulation.
A young married woman WAS rap-
ed and murdered near Thompson
vile, Ky, by . negro.
James Tobin, of Chicago, jumped
on his daughter, aged II, and
pounded her to death.
| White River Utes, under the
brother OF Chief Douglas, are trying
to obtain power.
Lewistown is famous for game
chickens. IL had reputation once
for it's legislative roesters.
Frederick Lauer the beer brewer
OF Reading, uses 500 worth of reve-
nue. stamps every day.
County taxes are lower in Potter
and Washington than in any other
county in the state.
Sentence OF doath has been pass.
ed on the assassin Of Colonel Com
mcran at Constantiuople.
John McDermott VI New Yor K,
was arrested for hurting his wife
from three story window.
A German woman committed sui
eide by throwing herself from the
fourth story Of Brooklyn Jail.
There is some talk Of having only
two mints at Philadelphia
aud the other at San Francisco.
unessiness exists in tho North
and West that tho iron industry
may suffer on account OF the pros
posed tariff bill.
Cath arine Miller an d her para. /.
mour were convicted. at William
sport, OF the murder Of the former q
husband near Jersey Shore.
The President may be compelled
to call M extra session OF Cong ress
il the Democrats continue to make
no appropriation for marshals.
Senator Hoar found 9 good deal
to say in favor of Senator Kellogg
as Governor of Louisiana, more
than can be said truthfully Of bis
Democratic successors.
Blair county is full of desperate
characters, who arc sources of great
annoyance to the people where they
live.
| An Investigation has been ordered
of the charges by MIR Henry Palmer
that the Christian Home of tittsburg
was no longer fit for decent people
to attend.
Samuel Saul cut his name on the
back of turtle thirty-two years
ago. and the animal has just been
found again on the same farm.
A number OF furnaces and rolling
mills projected in the northern part
Of the State have been abandoned,
owing to the recent decline in iron.
The iron workers OF Pittsburg &C.
cept the reduction made in their wa
ges by the fall in the card rate to
iron in good humor, and assert that
they are satisfied.
George Kennedy, head breakman
on coal train on the Lehigh aud
Susquehanna, is hero. He jun d.
ed from a train and snatched a
child almost from under the wheels.