The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-01-27

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one thousand hands.
... The FIRST paper published in
Pennsylvania, was commenced b,
Andrew Bradford, in 1910.
80. There are grave fears thai
the smallpox will become epid emf,
in Delaware county.
-. Rev. Jedediah Andrews was
the first Presbyterian minister in
Pennsy ylvania, 1870 years ago.
IA firm in Chester county have
received an order from England .oi
500 sets OF carriage wheels.
ia colored woman named
Coyue, was burned to death in bed
at ID oylestown few days ago.
IA man and woman have been
arrested at Altoona charged with be-.
ing engaged in pension fraud.
IA large quantity OF oak tim.
ber has been exported from this
state into Europe during the past
year.
1.-The crop oil hoop poles for
which Perry county has been fam
Gus. is said to be about exhausted.
IA wild turkey was recently
shot in the marshes Of Lake Erie.
which weighed thirty.three pounds.
-. The Girard estate Of Phila.
delphia, recently paid into the city
treasury S74, l5l ,G8 for taxes of 49,
so.
-. The bootblacks and newsboys
OF Bradford we're recently given
supper by the Woman's temperance
union.
go. The Western association for
assisting tho poor, of Philadelphia,
expended $5,57G,8i, last year in
benevolent purposes.
80. TWENTY-FIVE persons lost
their lives in the Scranton coal re.
gions during 1880, and many more
sustain ID serious injuries
80. The Pennsylvania steel works
at Harrisburg, which have been idle
since June, 1879, were started up
onTuesday last.
Two woll known coal dealers
OF Pittsburg have been sent to the
workhouse for five mouths for sell.
ing short weight coal.
....The seven year old son Of
Peter Jobes, living near Way nes-
burg, was crushed to death on Fri
day by a log rolling over him.
IA girl employed in II fic,ory
at Lancaster had her hair caught in
the machinery on Monday, and u
bunch as thick as an arm was torn
ont.
John Babo, an industrious
mechanic Of Erie, and his wife have
lost their reason through the loss Of
their home in realesLate transac,
ton.
ia three year old son of Ben.
jamin Sweasny, Of eaiipg. in his
play got bold Of bottle of medicine,
drank the contents aud died from
the effects.
THE residence Of Wellington
Moser, OF Reading, was set on fire
by the explosion of a lamo on Tues
day, and two OF his children were
burned to death and a third fatally.
IA gang Of tramps held soci'
al reunion in school house in Leb-
anon county few nights since, din
ing on poultry, vegetables and
whisky which they had stolen from
farmers.
John Gilstod ran away from
bis home in Delaware county whom
a young man. Last week he re.
turnsd, after an absence OF forty
yaars, " ,and Of all his relatives on
ly oIe brot6S Mve.
...Ex- Sheriff Funk. OF Altoona,
is building the largest lime kiln in
the state, il not in the world 1t
will be fortyssix feet in diameter. 1t
will take 81, 200 worth of fire brick
10 line the inside Of the kiln.
....A farmer residing near
churcbtown. Chester county, upon
hearing that there would be a ten
feet snow fall, was afraid he could
no. find bis pig pen, so be got a
pole thirteen feet high and stuck it
10 tho side OF the pen. 50 that he
would have Landmark.
....Ten pounds Of buttor per
week from bsiies 2 years and 8