The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-06-09
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.sho 'heaiiopu'6 sucy Oob tho
ague the "Susquebauna Shakes"
,...It costs Bloomfield, Perry
county, $35 year to light its
street lamps.
80. There is more smallpox in,
Schuylkill than 10 any county in the
state.
....The fish pirates at Columbia
ale bolder than ever this season in
violating the law.
ia reform movement in favor
Of selling eggs by weight has been
begun in Reading.
There is considerable excite
ment at Littlestown, York county,
about discovery of gold mines.
Seventeen and BALI pounds
Of wool were clipped from one Cots
void sheep 10 Juniata c 'unty.
There are o number OF suits
pending throughout the state against
preachers for marrying minors.
80. Daniel Heiser, OF Lewistown, has
been appointed mail agent on the
Lewisburg and Tyrone railroad.
80. Mr.. James Zern, of Carrollton,
Cambria county, shot o blacksnake
on Wednesday last that was sixteen
feet long.
80. Eight tbousdand dollars were
subscribed on Sunday in Hul-
lidaysburg by the Methodists to
erect u new house Of worship.
IA thirteen year old son OF q
butcher named Whiteside, in Lam
caster, had his left hand torn off by
a choppiDg machine on Wednesday.
80. Edward Bell. sold New
York finn 10000 pounds Of blotters
last week manufactured by the
Chemical pulp company at Expert
ment Mills, in Monroe county.
... Attacks by dogs on children
are among the commen affairs in ru-
raj towns, the increase Of useless
CANNES being such as to render
them Il nuisance aud u danger to
human life.
80. Gen, Cameron Informs cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press
that all the talk about Gen. Grant
being a candidate for the Presidency
in 1854, is mere clap trap. He
says that Graut is out Of pul lie life
AID will stay out, and attend strict.
ly to bushes hereafter.
ia dispatch from Copenhagen
says: The Swedish Government is
becoming alarmed, aud contemplates
legislation in view Of the emigration
which is assuming the. proportions
OF an exodus. Several counties are
practically denud,d Of able bodied
inhabitants.
80. Mrs. Garfield, whose serious
illness has for some weeks been
matter Of anxious solcitude through.
out the country, ID now pronounced
by her physicians out Of danger, and
her progress towards recovery is con.
sidered satisfactory,
.... "A son of the lato Secretary uf
War Stanton has lately married the
daughter of Mrs. Phillips, the wom-
an whom Gen. Butler sent to Ship
Island for insulting Union soldiers
in New Orleans.
Small is raging in Lon
don, England. There are 1000 cas-
es in the hospital, as high as 100
cases having been admitted in q sin
gle day.
80. Twenty thousand emigrauts
arrived at New York last week.
80. General Fitzpatrick will sail
for Chill in about one month to re-
lieve Mr.. Osborn as United States
Minister there.
General Grant receives $10,-
900 year salary as President of the
United States National Bank, New
York. He is also partner in his
sons business house OF Grant &
Ward, aud has interest there Of $780,.
900.
-. The Americans have now bea.
ten the British on tie water, the ball
field, aud the turf, and it is prob
able that John Bulls opinion OF his
Transatlantic cousin has risen con-
siderably of late.
.Vennor's wet June came to
hand on time.
.... During the last fifteen years
of slavery the South raised 46 675,-