The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-03-16
Milton continues to improve

....ln ne bfie odr WOrks cOneuDeu
nine million feet Of lum Der last year.
..John Lippard, Of Chester, bas
become insane since the fire in that
locality.
-. Ladies in Ashland chew and
smoke, and the boys there use more
tobacco than do men.
"A witness who failed to ap.
pear 10 the Erie county court last
week was fined $40 and costs.
The Cambria iron worke com.
pany has decided to erect q hospital
for the use Of it's employees.
ia proposition for n new conn
ty TO be formed out Of Cambria,
Clearfield andIndiaua counties is be.
lug agitated.
....John Thompson, n drover
was net by highwaymeu on the road
leading to Smetbport, last Thursday,
aud robbed OF S700.
....Au eve belonging to James
Cochran, OF Salem township, West-
moreland county. recently dropped
four we'll developed lambs.
... The mauglsd body of Law.
renee Gillespie, who disappeared
from Erie in November last, was
found in the lake at that place ON
Monday,
80. Peter Hoffman, OF Centre
county, killed for other people, dur
lug the past winter, seven hundred
hogs, slaughteriug as many as TWEEN
ty in one day.
go. The West Chester Local
Ne'cs says that in 1851 Henry
Scott purchased tract of land along
the Pennsylvania railroad for Sl,'
$50. He disposed Of it on Thurs.
day last to Charles Paist for Sl5,.-
600.
80. Ephrsim Harding, a stone-cut-
ter, married four wives in sevon
years. one Of whom he buried in
Ohio, O second one died in Pitts
burg, u third became insane IN
Philadelphia and died, and the four.
th died Of fright produced by the re-
cent fite at Chester.
.... An unknown mau WAS found
deal lying on tho track Of the Read.
ing Railroad, a short distance below
Valley Forge, on Saturday last. II
is supposed he WAS strnck bys
freight train. His body was terribly
mangled,
80. .Guiteau is receiving some
very curious presents in the shape Of
ropes, miniature coffins, small med
els Of gallows, and other things Of
a similar character, by which people
all over the country are grimly ev.
pressing their sentim snts to the as
sassin.
.... The smallest steam fire en-
gine in the world has Just been COM
pleted iu Reading, Its weight when
fully equipped for duty is 2,7O0
pounds. 4 preliminary trial show
ed that in At minutes 20 pounds of
steam were raised, aud 2lS feet of
solid stream and 241 feet of spray
were thrown through an inch and an
eighth nozzle.
-. The will Of Charles Albert
Reed, lately deceased, OF Newtown,
Mass, gives $50, 900 to the Treasurer
of the United States, to be applied
to the reduction OF the war debt.
To the attending physician of the
testator $4,000 is given on condition
expressed as follows: THAT my
head is severed from my body, as
have o great horror Of being buried
alive"
-. The great walking match In
New York came to an end on Satur-
day last, the score being: Hazael
800 miles and I lap; Fitzgerald SIT
10, and l l.; Noremac 555 m.; Hart
542 IN. and 2 l.; Hughes 535 M;
Sullivan 525 m. Total receipts $40,
900, $4,000 OF which to be divided
among the walkers, the rate of divi-
sion being SO, 20, IL, 8, 6, and 4 per
cent, respectively according to
score,
Accounts from Berlin state
that emigration to this country is
certain to be larger than ever be-
fore. The people are not getting to
like Bismarck better as he grows
older.
.,.. The President on Monday
nominated Charles Ewers, OF Michi'