The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-02-24
Wolves iofest Spring mouu
tain near Hazloton,

uht muue from tue nuir OF uOg.
-. Smallpox is becoming dan
gerously prominent in Columbia
county.
Large Numbers Of sheep have
been frozen to death in the north.
ern counties,
THE Baldwin locomotive
works have just increased the num-
ber Of employees to 2.700.
James d. Huston, OF WASH
ington county, has a full grown
chicken without wings.
49,. Hundreds of bushels Of corn
lies upbusked under tho snow in
Franklin county fields.
IA catamount weighing thirty
pounds was killed a few days ago in
Cambria county.
49,. Emma Gordon, OF Pittsburg,
took laudanum recently to relieve
pain and died from the effects.
IA man in Delaware county
owns dog twenty-four years old,
and horse ten years ol ler.
80. William Long, Of Dauphiu
county, slaughtered steer recent
y that weighed l,oj5 pounds.
... The nail works at Bril3sboro
last month manufactured 20,237
kegs of the "Anchor" brand Of
nails.
....Seven COWS we're killed by
train on the Perkiomen railroad
near Mckean's station q few days
ago.
80. Benjamin Seidel, Of Shoe
makersville, bursted au artery while
conghing aud died almost instantly,
Some OF the ronds in Elk aud
Potter counties have been impassi..
BILE from the snow for three months. /
....On "Wednesday last two dane
ing masters in Philadelphia, waltzed .
for sixteen consecutive hours on a
wager,
..Over 3 600 cars Of limestone
were shipped from Logansport.
Armstrong county, last year. the
freight on which was Sl9,s24.
Joseph Rerman fell dead in
Lancaster on Saturday OF excitement
by witnessing au encounter
in which pistols were drawn but not
used.
r. B. Coed OF Stouchsbnrp
has in his possession clock esti-
mated to he two bnndred wears ol I.
II keeps good time and seldom gets
ont OF repair.
-. One thonannd cars are being
made at the Harrisburg shops for
he New York Central railroad, anl !.
!. 800 more are to be built as soon a.
these are finished.
80. .Fnlly onefourth Of the pri-
soners in the Eastern peniten'iary
are suffering from pulmonary con-
sumption, caused by the dampness
and i'll ventilation of their cells.
Ion Friday last dnripg a qnar.
rel between two pages Of the legis.
lature at Harrisburg, the one stab.
bed the other with an awl in the
leg. The awl had to be removed by
a physician,
80. There is in Juniata county nm
orchard containing $1,000 peach
trees, Is, 000 ounce trees and 5000
Siberian crab trees, IL was plaut-
ell in 1875 by Mr.. Ii. Bradford, Of
Connecticut.
....A man employed on d mill in
Clearfield county fell from trestle
and broke his neck. but the spinal
cord was not broken, md the phys
sicians are using regular block
lnd tackle TO k-op his head in
position for Il purpose Of saving
bis life.
....Tt .ehigh car, wheel and
,xle works, at Fullerton, have secnr-
I'd contracts to build 1000 coal cars
for the Lebigh Valley railroad. 800
yondolas for the New York. Penn
sylvania and Ohio company, and 200
box cars for the Commercial Express
-. Thomas Loomis, living near
Coatesville, was ont sleighing on
night, whom the horss got
the better OF his driver aud ran
away. Loomis jumped out, aud the
horse, fins Hambletonian colt, ran