The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-09-29
The tanners OF Cameron CO

adroit safe robbers in the United
States.
AT points the Juniats is 10,
enough for people to walk from
shore to shore.
LESS butter is produced now
10 the state than was ever churnet
at this season.
....ltis fou nd th at thousands O
trees Of every variety are dying in
Chester county.
.... Forest fires con ntinue to rage
in Wayne. Pike, Clesr6eld, Monroe
aud Elk counties.
.... The four prisoners who es.
capped from tho Northumberland
county Jail are still at large.
Woods fires are raging in
Erie county on a larger scale than
ever they burnt there before.
....A number Of people living at
Hyde Park were recently poisoned
by eating canned salmon.
The tanners in Pike and
Wayne counties have been COMPEL
ol to stop work for want Of wator.
.... Pennsylvania cheese over-
shadows all tho exhibits 10 tho same
class at tho state fair.
go. There 10 not corn enough in
this years crop iu Forest stcoanty to
supply seed for next year.
The Lohigh Valley railroad
company has repainted all the do
pots along tue line of that road.
THE butchers OF Erie had
barbacue Wednesday. at which a
largo OK was roasted whole.
John Moss. of East IL npe.er
township, Lancaster county, owns
a stallion that kills anl eats caicl.
ems.
The M oadows n the Lebanon
valley look US yello as corn fodder
after it has been stacked iu Octo-
Der.
80. There is n cat in North Coven.
Try township. Chester county, which !
ias adopted anl is ,isiny a rabbit.
-. Over q thousand head OF ca.- |
.lc have been passing through Pitts.
ourg daily for six weeks !or the
eastern nuikot.
80. Fully hundred sheep were
,illed in Washington county by
logs, during August. some of which
we're valuable.
... The PittshurS Telegraph
dmits that Il man cannot we'll help
liz name. but it docs look very COM
C n to see Bumm at tho head Of
Philadelphia select counci! !
Ex-President Hayes is still an Of
ice holder. lie was recently elected
commissioner oi highways for his
native tuwn
... The festive Greonbackors OF !
Blair county have put Il ticket in the
ield aud they are quietly waiting for
bids.
-. Iroquois has won in stakes
Iloue this year &c. English
-. The sales OF public land for
he fiscal year 1881 are reported to
lave exceeded tue sales OF any oth-
,r yesr in the history of the govern
neut. This is due. doubtless, in
some measure, to the largely in-
creased immigration during the
same period.
.... 4 man in Pike county built
himself house last winter in a
near tho forest, and this
that his dwelling was 10
he midst Of a rattlesnake den. He.
with others in the employ, has killed
over a thousand Of the venomous
reptiles since May.
....A company of English cap
italists, headed by the Duke OF Snth'
orland, have purchased sixty square
miles OF land in Iowa. on the ST.
Paul and Omaha Railroad, sixty
miles east Of Sioux City, for the
OF founding colony. They
have a capital of sl2, 100000.
The Star Parlor Organ Com
pany and Beatty's immense Organ
at Washington, New Jer-
sey. we're totally destroyed by fire
on Sunday afternoon. The loss is
at $200,000 partially COW
cred by insurance. Four hundred
men are thrown ont Of employment.