Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-17

At Ashland a nineteen-year-old girl
kindled fire with coal oil. The can
exploded, the girls clothes took fire,
and she was literally roasted to death.
One hundred and fifty deaths from
lockjaw have rewarded the statistical
researches of u Chicago physician into
the Fourth of July toy pistol habit.
The Tebigh Valley is said to he over
run by nungarians, Poles, Russians
and Italians. Recently n number Of
Turks appeared IN that section.
The landlord of the hotel at Weavors
Vile Northampton county-David Hell
ler-has tract of land in cultivation
in which there are planted $4,000 heads
Of cabbage.
The contractors of the Sunbury, Sha-
mokin and L ewisbdrg railroad. have
been notified 10y President Gowen that
the road must be completed by the FIRST
of next January.
The school directors OF Monongahela
City require every lady teacher employ
ed to sign a contract not to marry dur
ing the school year. The "marms"
will contest.
James Miller residing on Little Pine
Creek, Lycoming county, killed black
bear on Saturday week ago that
weighed 400 pounds. This makes the
thirty-eighth bear that Mr.. Miller has
killed.
The people of Salona, Clinton county
held an indignation meeting and de-
nounced the action of the county COM
missioners in duplicating the money
valuations made by assessors upon prop
erty. y similar meeting was held at
Remove recently.
Two Indiana farmers went to law a.
bout wrench, worth, possibly, a dol
lar and half. The expenses, thus far,
have been nearly $l700, both litigants
have mortgaged their farms, and the
case is still in action. There is NOR
al to this case however it may be de-
cided.
Five years ago Sol. Smith, living near
Feliciana, La, without proVocation
wounded Levi Carr so that be became
partially paralysed. Yesterday Carr
! was placed on a horse, gun in hand,
and rode to field in which Smith was
at work. where he shot him through
the heart.
c. 5. Kaufman, Of Lancaster Co. re-
ports field of wheat Of over nine a.
cres, which he has threshed out, of an
average yield of 42 bushels per acre.
lie also says that one Of his Leighbors,
a few years ago, had a field of the same
variety Of wheat-the FoltZ-W which
yielded so bushels per acre.
On the bank of the Shamokin creek.
near Suubury, there is camp of cla-
vanians, with monkeys, performing
bears and begging women and children
The Stmbury Daily describes them as
"a dirty, diseased, thieving set, with
long uncombed hair, swarthy complex
ton and wicked eyes. " Pleasant neigh
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y brute named Hall who'mads an iu-
decent assault upon little fVe-year
old girl at Tarbot, Bradford county,
was taken from the lookup by forty
masked men who striped the scoundrel
rolled bin in a pool of tar, covered
him with feathers and ordered him
to leave. lie took to swamp and
has not since been seen.
George Alfred Townsend. a bitter
Republican partisan, in writing Of
Pattison, says:
"He obtained the very responsible
place Of comptroller, or watchdog, of
the city treasury, and there it was as
tonishing how one man, educated in
honor and the fear of God, could be
distinguished in specnlating and thiev
ing age. He positively did not Know
how to steal, though he had been al
ways poor. This made him eminent
in Philadelphia politics, and very IN
ia ;hionable, but it pleased the taxpay-
ers, who hardly knew what was theirs
unless they sat on it. And linally at
the age of thirty-two, this little boy,
born at the old town of Snow Hill,
which is older than Annapolis, verilies
tine text once heard his father preach
a sermon from Thou hast been
faithful oyer few things ; 10, will
make thee ruler over many.
Terrible Steamboat Accident
CAIRO, ILL.,, August THE steam
er Golddust blew up and burnt to the
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