The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-08-11

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John Gyumber, the Hungarian
who lay In a trance in the Lehigh
almsbouse for several months, is now
able 10 talk.
The colored people in the western
part Of the state are already begin.
ming the preparation for q grand
celebration Of emsncipa tion day.
The total coinage Of the United
States Mints during July, including
2,350.0o0 standard dollars, was val-
ued at 90, 1896, 200.
For the sixteen schools 10
Bloomsbury there were fifty.seven
applicants.
II is estimated that about quar-.
tor Of million Of peopel will leave
Germany during the present year,
most OF th ,m for the purpose Of
obtaining homes in the I'm tied
States.
The baby elephant, born in Phila.
delphia March l3, 1880, weighed 213
pounds at birth, and wit hin the year
gained 700 pounds on au exclusively
milk diet. 1t now weighs not far
from 1000 pounds.
Aunie Powers died on Monday,
in New Brunswick, N, j.. "from the
effects Of tartaric acid poisoning
from Lemonade" She drank fifteen
glasses Of the beverage at an ex.
cursion, a few days ago.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is en-.
forcing the act relative to stealing
rides on railroads. There we're fined
s7,72 at Harrisburg and four COM
mitted to Jail for want OF money to
pay the fnes.
Tornadoes and floods in the West.
destruc tive fires in various States.
earthquakes in Switzerland.
drought and torrid heat in Europe
and America have characterized the
month of July this year.
Ex' President Hayes is expected
in London next October, to be pre-
sent at the ceremony OF unveilipg
the memorial of tho late Sir Francis
Lysight, which is to be placed in the
City Road Chapel.
The persent harve ct prospects
throughout southern Russia are 30
brilliant that, if they should be
realized, the farmers think they will
be able to dispense with any har.
vest during the next four years.
Two cases OF yellow fever-tbe
first OF the season tbere-were re.
ported at the New York quarantine.
Thursday OF last week One of the
patients is the captain of tho steam-
er British Empire, form Vera Cruz.
Mand :. did not e1rsl her bost
time ut Belmont Park on TLursda,
of last week, but trotted three OF the
fastest consecutive heats ou record
I'll, Abb and 2.l2l. There were
over $4,000 persons on the gr ,und.
A tramp in Alabama is reported to
have fallen dead while in tho act OF
saving wood, for the purpose of
earning a square meal. The nomad
fraternity attribute his taking off as
u punishment for eawing wood, and
no more OF them will do that kind OF
work hereafter.
According to the London Gaget,e
the receipts OF apples in the Unite d
Kingdom from American ports
to l.34s, SOC barrels dur
ing the period from August 4, 1880,
to May ii, 1881. The receipts from
Boston were 5l0,S00 barrels, and
from New York 6s9, 200 barrels.
The Girard C,llego in Philaielph.
ia is a great success. It is a noble
monument to Stephen Girard. The
college now contains one thousand
orphan children aud thus far 81
100000 has been spent on it. For
1880 it's revenue from MIR. Girard's
provisions was ss86,752.
The number OF idiots and imbecile
persons in this country is estimated
at ono in every 1000 OF the general
population. There are about $500
pupils at present in the schools for
idiot aud feeble.minded children,
aud class training is found very
much superior to individual train