The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-08-04
The PHYSICIANS of Wilkes.

| ''''i thub iNhuih tiHOer ueius
yield 500,0O0,000 feet annually.
....Tho Pennsylvania railroad
company has ordered 1000 freigh,
cars.
....Three persons were burned
to death in Pittsburg by kerosen,
on Tuesday.
....Orwigsburg, Schuylkill coun
ty, has four shoe factories in which
l6S men are employed,
....A pittsburg horse kicked at a
! fly the other day and killed q boy
named Walter Waring.
80. Hay is so plenty in Centr,
county that farmers are Offering i.
as low as four dollirs per ton.
.McVeytown is the most af
ficted borough in this state. Diph-
iberia has literally dopopulated it Of
children
Over four hundred saloon
keepers in Allegheny county have
been returned for violation Of the
license law.
....A man seventy-two years o.
age. named Treat, committed sui.
eide last week near Wellsboro by
shooting himself under the chin.
.... Deaths in Pittsburg and AL
legheny last week footed up two
hundred aud fifty, nearly oil child
dren, diphtberis beng the scourge.
....Seventy-three candidates
have announced themselves IA will
ing 10 accept nominations from the
Democratic convention of York
county.
Ben. Butler, of Nonongahela
City, caught two blue catfish on
Friday with line, one weighin G
twenty three aud the other eighteen
pounds.
IA German signing binsel
"Schrein, irdt' on a scrap of paper
committed suicide near Greensburg,
Westmorelaud county, on Saturday
night.
The Democratic State Committee
will meet ut Bottoms Hotel, Harris
burg, on Wednesday, August 10. tc
fix the date OF the State conven.
tion.
....It is estimated that The aver,
age annual admissions to tho bar of
Pennsy sylvania reaches one hundred -
ora thousand in a decade, leaving 4
sur plus for expectation.
Ella Stevenson, an insane girl
who was Kept at hone, in McCund
lass township. near pi,tsburg, killed
her IA tier. aged IS Years, by kicking
him in the stomach on Monday,
during lit OF maLiacal excite
meut
John Stewart. OF Wcstmore-
lard county, accidentally shot aud
killed Frank McFall, OF tbs sam,
place, ased | 1 years, on Friday last
McFall was ny tree, and Stewart,
seeing tue leaves move, thought il
was a squirrel.
....Since tie lucky blacksmith
discovered oil in his garden at Titus
vile, it is feared that the potato
crop Of that region will prove fail
ure. Nearly everybody in Titusville
can be seen in their back yards at
oil hours sinking wells, but tho dIn-
ger Of the city being h1oled with
oil is not very great.
Sitting Bull says he wants tn
be a good indian. Perhaps bo will
be when I've is dead.
There were 337 iron furnace'
in blast in the United States on the
18th inst. For tho Same date in Is
-, there were but 2jD.
IA deaf and dumb lunatic
started ont in Philadelphia with q
paper soliciting subscriptions for the
assassin Guitenu. lie was prompt.
jailed.
| 1t has been suggested, tha
owing to the refusal Of the Englisl
authorities to deliver up the bones
OF Penn to entrust the j 10 to part,
Of Ohio body snatch ,rs. Tue bones
would surely come.
49,. The smallpox scourge has be
come so bad in Pittsbnrg that tb
board Of health has designated 1
large number Of doctors to attent
to vaccinating the poor and to looh
after the patients. So far as known
no precaut ions have been taken il
Wiliiamsport to guard against tn