The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-05-26

one day last week John Dolap. the
groom weighed 2G0 pounds aud the
weight Of the fair bride. Miss Mary
O'Drion, was 235 pounds.
A sonthcrn paper report, th,t W.
II. Pillow. OF Jacksonville, Florida.
has sent 30 900 quarts OF s,rawbsr,
rics north this season. aud that thoy
have netted him $4,000.
Cambria comfy ia becoming a
eeneral sum- boarding house.
tarmors there make their winter
clothing aul pay their tsxes ont
OF thor profits ON summer b,arl.
era.
Twenty-ono cannon balls, weiy h.
ing soventy-fve pounds each. were
recently nnearthcd on the peninsula
%! Eria harbor. There wasa block
honso at this point inriny tho war
oi 1912.
A commercial traveller threw hi,
arms around one OF .lohnstowns
most respectable young ladies', on
the atrs.t, carly MJld,y evening.
and forcibly kissed her. He was
seen by several gsptlsnon. VIII,
chased and csugh ht him and bro ught
him before the Burgess He was
promptly fincd twenty ve dollars
and costs.
Professor Proctor assorted that
this world was "once o fluid haze of
light, nn1 that our globe i, yet 10
shno. with fiery heat" II the mem
ory Of last winters cold lid not still
l'nger in our memory, we might
hnvo some serious thoughts Of be,
coming a convert to Proctor's theory.
a Crisfeli, Md, special says the
people Of Princess Anne, Cri.field
and other parts Of Somerset county
are greatly excited over she reported .
confession of Mrs. Patty Ward, who
is now ol her delthbei, OF having /
murdered Azariah D3lsherty, who /
vas found dead in his store eighteen
years ago. Two negroes were exc
cntcd for the crime in 1853. She
said her son, now dead, was an ac.
coinp!ice in the murder.
The death of n boy at Dnckcr, In.
diana, who was suffering from rheu-
matism, was not caused by the intel
Iigent drug clerk. HIS parents had
no faith 10 the doctors prescriptions,
aud gave the patient homemade
sulphur bath. They seated him in
chuir, plls feather beds over him,
aud burned lot Of brimstouo uu-
doi meath. When they thought the
''sS"9c was e'poAe' 'bt tuc coNoIlHS L
was removed, bat il was too late
the poor fellow hal been smotherei
to death.
Fifteen chill lren in sixteen years,
uli Of whom are living aud well, is
tue rcclsl of 4 narriaI couple re.
siding in Barr twp. Cambria county.
Brush had u bard time to borrow
five dollars when be was working at
his electric light, nov his income is
$1,000 rer day.
James Gordon Bonnet, IL is an,
bounced by tho WstehaH Rscieao
is engaged to marry the daughter of
tue Prince do Furstenburs.
4 little daughter Of T, Soften, OF
Shelby, Ohio, lately diel. ani the
afflicted paroRts are having con-
strsclea over her grave u building IN
which will be stored her psythiugs,
A miscrcsnt gave a little girl in.
DonnisOn, o., Two railroad torpsdoes,
telling her they contaiuel can lie.
aud that abe must open them with o
stone The child triel one ot them,
aul the torpedo burst aud destroyed
her sight
Tue Elwira Adcsrtiser assert. that
a boy, carrying = basket OF eggs,
jumped from freight train Que day
last week, that was runuing vt least
twenty miles an hour, aud that while
tho boy was considerably sha. on up.
not ono Of the eggs was broken.
There is q tsamstar 10 Phils lsl-
phia who during tho last fifteen
years has taken ten drinks at the
same store ddly. This makes low
average OF three Thousand a year
and the proprietor OF the store
vouches for the truth OF the state
mont. At five cents drink. whole-
sale. he bss consumed S2,259 worth