The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-09-23
Court next week.


A warm stove was not dospised sew
eral days last week.
The Indians at tho Carlisle School
drill every evening.
There are forty.ive fairs to be held
in Pennsylvania this fall.
The nights and mornings are get.
ting very chilly, suggesting stoves and
overcoats.
Ifyou move from one ward or town
ship into another, you will lose your
vote in November.
Several persons of this place took
advantage of the cheap excursion to
Philadelphia last week.
Republican Grand Mass Meeting, at
Middleburg, on Tuesday 2Sth Court
week-see Posters,
A car load of Ohio Stone crooks al
wholesale and retail at J. W. Dreesc :
prices moderate.
Farmers are busy seeding. for which
The soil is in excellent condition since
the recent rains.
The leaves are beginning to leave
the trees, which are sure harbingers oI
ulsters and buckwhcat cakes.
We call the attention of our readers
to the advertisement Of ;. Oppenhein-
er in another column.
The Northumberland county fair
will he held at Sunbury on the 2Sth,
Goth and Both Of September,
Running your business is very much
like courting girl. No one else can
boss thcjob but yourself.
General King, of Baltimore, Nd,
will address the Republicans of Selins
grove, on Friday evening next.
The State Fair now being held a,
Philadelphia is said to he the larges,
and finest ever held by the society.
Two Cambria county sportsmen
went ginning last Saturday aweek ago
and bagged one hundred and four
squirrels.
A number OF our farmers have been
agreeably surprised since threshing
their crops, TO find the yield larger
than they expected.
The Smith Grove Sunday School will
have pic mic next Saturday, 18th inst.
All are invited to attend. Music will
be furnished by the Middleburg Band.
They say that the old style wide
hoops for ladies are coming into FASH
ion again. Who will shed tear for
the much abused pin6ack ?
October 2nd will be the last day on
which persons can pay their State aud
county taxes in order to vote ut the
coming election. Attend to this i'm
portant matter in due time.
Some of the farmers in this county are
rejoicing over second crop of hay.
1t has seldom been equalled in quality
and is being stored away with con,
seriousness that it will command a
higher price during the winter.
Oppenheimer has just returned from
the east with an immense stock and
the people are rushing in from every
direction in crowds and yet there is
room for more, and all are promptly
attended to and go away rejoicing,
Following in the footsteps of the
once hungry but now over-gorged
Tanner, Brooklyn man named Liv.
ingston has undertaken to go without
other nourishment than water for for
ty two days.
An exchange says /: "Never allow a
mud hole to remain at a well. Ifyour
water is muddy or impure throw in
peck oflime to purify it. If animalcule
appear in the water throw in half gall
lon of salt to make them settle to the
bottom.
AossSi, sho Whccl-odTTuW man, on
his way from San Francisco to AL.
bany, was in Bedford last week. He
has rare collection of animals, rep.
tiles, minerals &C., which he gathered
on his travels, and all of which he
trundles along on his zone wheeled
shay"
The greatest wonder of the age is,
how Oppenheimer can sell goods SO
low.
The next greatest wonder of the 10Th
century is, how Oppenheimer disposes
OF such immense quantities of clothing,
Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods, Gloves,
DC. &c.
Our John got a pair of new brown
breeches, on Saturday, and went to see
his Mollie Ann NOW such splash as
John did cut Hooking down at his
brand new breeches, ran against a
hitching-post and pealed all the skin
OF his proboscis, noW such figure as
John did present V his Mollie Ana,