The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-23

ing the registration ofall practition~
ers Of medicine aud surgery. iu the
Protbonotary's Office OF the count y
in which they reside.
Cut worms have made their
appearance in the tobacco patches
Of Chester county.
80. An unknown disease il killing
thousands of chickens in Blair and
Huntingdon counties.
-. ln recent storm in WASH
ing.on county, sixty nine sheep in
one flock were killed by lightning.
80. AT no timo within the past
ten years have mechanics bad as
much work as they now have in this
state.
.... Old fishermen at Milton say
the river has not within their mem
ory swarmed with as many fish as
now.
Ia Welsh choir Of 1900 vol,
ces is suggested as one Of the feat
ures OF the bicentennal celebration.
... Boss bricklayers OF West
Chester have advanced tho wages of
journeymen fifty cents day,
making it $3.50.
.... The Asa Packer estate has
been sued for S2OOO,OOO by the No.
bic and Hamett estates, of Philadel-
phih, for a settlement.
1.-Two Bradford anglers in less
than two days caught 1000 trout
along the banks OF the streams at
Cross Forks, Potter county.
Seven years in tho peniten-
tiary is the sentence John Brown re
ceived at Smetbport for chaining
ties on railroad track near Brad,
ford.
ia little girl Mt Ardmore,
Montgomery county, died au agoniz.
ing death on Friday from the effects
of eating sonr grass and other plants
growing in the yard.
Henry Nagle, agod fifty, re-
siding at York Haven, York county
while walking on the railroad track
near Bainbridge on Friday, was
struck by the locomotive of IA freight
train aud very seriously injured.
III Brady keeps on Topping OF
Star route ex'ravagances tho post.
Office department will soon be self
sustaining, which will be q great
event in tue history Of the govern.
mcnt.
Toy pistols are very danger.
onr and should be suppressed on tue
Fourth Of July. Compared with
them the fire cracker is Innocent.
Since the existence OF West
Point it las turned ont ] .S7S grad
yates, Of which 1889 are sill alive.
and 90l are in tue armY.
Smallpox is no respec'er OF
person. II MS tuck o tn T. npe or
Of China and the Celestial monarch
is reported very i'll.
Up to the 18th inst. 1920 .
had been landed at Cas-.
tie Garden, New York.
-. The anthracite conl trade is
exceedingly dull at present.
The grain crops are reported
to be promising in many sections OF
the State.
-. Rev. Talmage is fierce on the
revised New Testament. lie pro.
nounces it mutIlation, profana-
tion, a religious outrage. etc.
80. Three thousand acres of land
have been purchased in Huntingdon
county by Washington county
man, on which ho Intends raising
md herding sheep.
80. Slight shocks of earthquake
vt Mount Vesuvius have been follow-
od by an eruption. On the 2nd
broad and active streams OF lava
we're flowing down the northeast
side.
....A German ragpicker named
J. Pranch, aged GO years was elected
10 Buffalo, N. Y, from the attic of
4 tenement house, where he had
been living in abject squalor, and
Two bags, containing over $4,000 in
gold and silver coins. were found in
bis possession.
....There is now building in the
Baldwin works, Philadelphia, a To-
designed to be the fastest
in the world, ard intended to do
aiuhtY miles nm hnnr withnnt iakinn