Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-06-24

second flood will come next Novem-
ber to cover the whole face of the earth
is building an ark at Helera, Texas.
The craft will hold fifty persons, with
food for FORTY days and forty nights,
and he will take passengers Mt $500
each. All other vessels, he explains,
will be wrecked.
Jacob Brownawell, AN eccentric
character, came near Killing himself
near Meyerstown the other day. He
had stabbed his legs and face with a
knife until, when found on the road
side, he was very weak from loss of
blood. He explained that great num-
Der of devils had attacked him, and in
fighting the devils away he had inflic--
ted the wounds.
Col. CHARLES KLECKNER, The
Snowman that passed through here
with circus, several years ago, but
recently q clerk in the Philadelphia
post office was lately convicted of alb
stracting money from letters. He was
sentenced the other day by Judge But
ler of the u. 5. Court. to n fine of $3.50
and imprisonment for one year.
The Huntingdon Ne,cS says q
small worm is destroying much of the
growing wheat in Oneida township,
that county. The insect is foun1 in
the joint just below the head, and be-
fore being discovered kills the grain
while it is ripening. A farmer informs
us that one out of every eight stalks in
his field has been destroyed by the in
sect. The worm, which bears resem-
blance to the wire worm, was never
known to attack the grain before, and
where it comes from is mystery.
Last Sunday terrific storm came
up between . ard o'clock in the after
noon, which did considerable damage.
There was not much rain but the wind
was q hurricane. A large number of
trees were blown down or limbs broken
from them. A large portion of the
northeast corner of the. roof of the
Presbyter ian church in this place was
blown off and the top part of the
church spire was bent. Throughout
the northern and northwestern part of
our county there was much damage
done. We learn also that Il number of
buildings in process of erection at Mil
ton were blown down aud much injury
done in other parts of Northumber-
land county.-Le,Cisb,rg Chronicle.
Ye ancient borough OF Northumber-
land promises to be q live tc IN after
all, and perhaps ut no very distant day,
for the ladies are taking hand at fur
ther pGbllc enterprises. Four OF them
have succeeded in raisiiff money
enough to buy II hook and Ladder APP
paratus. When this much was done
the gentlemen gallantly stepped in and
relieved them from further RESPONSE
bllity and perhaps embarrassment, by
organizing y company to run the ma
chine.-Democrot.
There now, that's it. Let the ladies
of Millheim do likewise. Let them
take the projected Hook s. Ladder CON-
pany in hand and something may come
out of it. At least we fear that moth
ing practical will result from the effort
here made as long as men have charge
of it.
SENSIBLE ORD1NANCE.-Recently
the town council OF Lewisburg passed
the following seasonable ordinance.
All boroughs should take similar ac-
ton. No good reason can be assigned
why an entire town should be endang-
cred to indulge careless of q few per-
sons:
"On motion. unanimously resolved
by the Burgess ard Town Council of
the borough of Lewisburg, that the
Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart
ment be authorized and empowered to
examine all 1ues and stove pipes in the
borough and to compel the correction
where in his opinion dangerous; and
that he be authorized to order the dis
continuance of all open fires that in his
estimation are dangerous; and that
said Chief Engineer be empowered to
have all the landings of said borough
opened and cleared of all distractions
and kept in good repair"