The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-07-28

Hay sells for IS per ton in Craw-
'orl county.
Griscom, the faster, has ontdone
Tanner, having tasted i5 days.
49,. Swedish farm bands are be-
coming very popular in Blair county.
The sexton Of church at Glovers'
Vile, N. Y, paid $50 for pushing a
man back from the door who ut.
tempted to leave church before the
services were closed.
A fifteen year old son Of Mr.. Ea-
ders, Of Wayne township, Dauphiu
county, was struck by lightning aud
killed on Monday afternoon while
cows from.a field,
Two ruflians vent to the camp Of
tho Mile Lac Indians, near Atk en-,
Minnesota before daylight on Mju-
day morning, and murdered the
chief and fonr other fndians. The
murderers were arrested.
John !Nongan, whose deal body
was recently fonni us,r Pittston, is
now known by the authorities TO
bave been murdered, and several i'm.
portant arrests will be made in a
few days,
Tins far this year two hundred
people have been killed by parties
pistols Just for fan, and
to DO unloaded. The
.'iust for fun" business is an old
dodge. and it is about time it was
played out.
John W. Bookwalter, Democratic
nominee for Governor OF Ohio, il q
who has been for many
Y ears a contributor TO mechanical
journals aud o collector OF works OF
art. lie is a childless widower and
is about forty-fve years old.
Desperadoes took possession Of a
Rock Islaud passenger train the
other day, shot the conductor aud q
passenger, robbed the safe in the
express car Of a large amount Of
money and then decamped on horses
they bad stationed near by.
At Sodous, N. Y, tw, rope walk,
ere gave q grand exhibition last Sat-
nrday, anl one Of the performers
fell from the rope, narrowly escap-
ing death. The appreciative audi
ence raised q purse OF twenty five
cents aud presented it with compli-
ments.
A flock OF sheep belonging to jos
nah Randolph and Norval Lindley
II Cumberland township, Greene
was attacked by dogs recent
". Twenty Of the flock were killed
outright and fifteen wounded, some
Of the latter hive since die,.
To prove that it takes all kinds OF
people to make world we note tho
fact, that few days ago Washing
ton woman took some broilel chick
en-, jellies and other delicacies TO tho
jail with the request that they DO
given to the assassin, Guitean. Her
request was not granted much to
her disgust.
The murder mania in New York
il spreading to horses, Judging from
accounts from that city Of horse
that deliberately beat the brains ont
Of one man and attempted to kill
another. This horse was very valu-
able and always had been very good
tempered, until he suddenly showed
motives. lie wa, deem-
cd so dangerous that it was nece's-
ary to kill him.
The pension list now absorbs two.
ffths Of the whole amonnt expended
for the support OF the Government.
Yet still more than q hundred mil
lion dollars Of the public debt has
been paid off during the fiscal year
just closed, aud the payments for
several months past have been at the
rate of one hundred and fifty mill
lions q year, aud are still increasing
in volume.
There is no place in the world un-
Ter any government where 30 i'm.
mense revenue is paid as at the
custom bouse in New York. A
million Of dollars in gold coin ia not
unfrequently received in q single
day, and the average for two-thirds
Of the secular days of the year ex-
ceeds s5OO,0O0. These enormous
duties are paid on imported articles