Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-05-31
Miscellaneous.
The Milton Nail Works turn out a
bout 600 kegs of nails daily.

Mrs. Pinllham, whose potrait adolns
nearly every newspaper in the land,
died recently at her home in Lynn,
Mass.
At recent sale in Leipzig George
Washingt0n's autograph brought S2S.
rs. Peter the Greats S27.75, Mary
Queen of Scots $SO.75 and Marie An
toinett's $ll5.3j.
r. D. Smith, of Meadyille, has been
arrested for violating the mail reg
Llaton. He offered 500 in counterfeit
money for 81 and was caught while TAX
the responses out of the post Office.
Ann Eliza Young, Brigham's wife
No 10, who lcctured in LeWiSburG
some years ago, was married at Lodi,
O., last Friday, to W. II, Denning, Il
prominent citizen % Manistee, Mich.
William Mosely was tried ut Sunbury
last week for murder of David Powell,
ut Mount Carmel, last winter. MaSe-
ley was found guilty in the second de-
gree and sentenced to twelve years I'M
pusonment.
by Il new order Of the Post-olEce De
partment poStmasterS are only required
to keep letters for seven days before
sending them to the dead-letter office.
Heretofore the law compelled them TO
keep such letters thnty.
THE SILVER MINE near Indiantown,
Lebanon county, was sold recently for
$1O The total cost Of the mine up to
the day of sale was $2a 600. 1t is to be
inferred from $his that silver mining in
Pennsylvania is not success.
The first consignment of the 100 ,0C0
California mountain trout fry, 10 be
placed ia the mountain streams of
Pennsylvania, has 0een sent from the
government Matching houses at Mari
eta to Hollidaysburg for distribution
in the upper waters of the Juniata riv-
er
Twenty-fUur hundred California
trout have recently b"ea placed in the
head-waters Of the Juniata River. They
are an exceedingly hardy fish and grow
rapidly-and wilt weigh one pound when
three years oid-twiee rs much as the
brook trout.
In Webster parish, Louisiana, a club
of fourteen -year-old boys has been form
Ell to compete with one another in the
cultivation of one acre of corn each.
The lad who produces the largest scrop
of corn on his acre is to receive five
bushels of corn from each of the other
members Of the club.
The other Thursday morning The saw
mill of Mr.. Daniel Bear,in West Buffa-
10 township, Union county, was totally
destroyed by fire. A valuable span of
horses, new buggy, harness and lot of
lumber, were consumed in the flames.
The total loss is about $1,000 ana no in
Surance.
The little villlec of Accord, Ulster
county, n. Y, is agitated because from
the spot where fiery meteor fell into
a creek some curious youth has un-
earthed a huge sword, buried hilt deep
in the mud, six feet long, and weighing
seventeen pounds. This weapon, the
inhabitants firmly believe, is the meteor
that fell so swiftly from the silent sky,
Its blade is covered with strange hier-
oglyphic inscriptions and The workman
ship is wonder to the region round a
bout.
1t is well known that paper car wneels |
are now made that last as long as those
made of metal. Bat recent invention
gives a process by which railroad ties
can be made of paper. Thus the use of !
metal and wood can be saved. As ex-
periments in these two cases have prov |
ed SO successful it can easily be seen |
that the consolidation OF paper pulp |
into hard and Serviceable substance |
promises to work wonders III replacing
metals and wood.
A most singular occurance took place |
in Union county, hear AllenwoOd, last |
week. There lived in one house, at the
END Of the Allenwood bridge, two sis
ters named Mrs. Antes and Mrs. Sci
fert, aged 70 and SO years. They lived
very affectionately together, and sever
ell times both spoke Of their desire TO
die at the same time, as they feared !
that if one would die first the other
would be left destitute and with no one
to care for her. Strange to say, the
one took sick and died on last Friday
evening about o'clock, and the next
morning at eight o'clock the other also
departed this life. They were both
members Of the Baptist Church and de-
vOut Christians. On Monday two cof-
Gns and large procession Of people
were seen moving off from their late
residence toward the Baptist cemetery |
in Gregg township, where they both
were inferred in the same grave. They |
W ere the last two Of a generation.-
WatsOntUwn Record.
Snow at Toledo.
TOLEDO, May 2l.-Snow began fall