The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15

UeSuhy.
Miss Bessie Musser of Hartletoh
is visiting the editor and family
HH. Grimm, Esq, of this place is
candidate for Assistant U. s. Attor-
ney of the Western District of Penn.
sylvania, and we are pleased to state
that he has fair prospects of secur-
ing the appointment.
Chairman Snyder requests us to
remind our Democratic readers of
the Delegate Election to be held in
Middleburgh on Saturday of this
week, August 17--full mention of
which was made in our issue of Au-
gust 1.
No boy need despair of good for
tune who has honesty, courage and
industry for his capital stock. He
has but to act well his part to find
many helpful hands extended to
him at the right time. There are so
many failures in life because there
is so great neglect of little things.
"Are water-melons deteriorating?"
asks an exchange. We answer, yes.
The large luscious Jersey m elon of
to-day is no patching to the little
half-ripe, white-seeded, chuck-full-
of -cholera-morbus melons that used
to follow us out of our neigbors'
patches on the moonlight nights of
our boy-hood days.
If any one desires to know how
keenly paper from the old home
is appreciated, let him sometime
note his own feelings when away
from home on seeing Il copy. What
is more, the sending ola occasional
copy to friends abroad in this way,
it benefits us, while at the same
time it is taken as IN act of kind re-
membrance on the part of the SEN
der.
One of those unreasonable men
who take newspaper for year or
two and then send it back refused
or mot wanted was sued by the
) publisher in Michigan short time
ago, and the Judge gave verdict
for the plaintiff of full amount and
costs. The court decided that no
tice to discontinue was not suffi
> cient if the subscriber was in an.
( rears. He must pay.
The Legislature passed a law last
session, approved April 25, 1889
= providing the first Monday of Sep.
tember as a Labor holiday. The
$ act provides for all paper due or
that day to be paid the day before
If the Legislature only knew it, the
laborer does not thank these gentle
men for their foolery. This makes
eight legal holidays, and it is about
time the demagoguery was wound
up.
d. A. Furman last Saturday killed
D the largest rattle snake , mile west
, of Port Ann that has been killed il
a this county for years. The reptile
lay close to the public road under {
little branch of oak stung off by the
o locusts, and attracted Mr.. Furman'I
attention by rafting as he passed il
the wagon. He killed it and fount
+ it to measure four feet in length
). three inches in diameter and shook
2 fourteen rattles and button.
The committee appointed by tn,
Centre County Grange, and Contra
Pennsylvania Patrons of Husband
: ry, has decided to hold their Six
teenth annual Picnic Exhibition il
g General Taylor's Fort Woods, OF
s the line of the Lewisburg and Ty
Q rome railroad at Centre Hall, tn,
!, same place where it was held las
!, year with such good success and re
t suits. This years exhibition vii
{ begin on Tuesday, September II
and continue four days.
a Charles Kearns. who for man.
p years resided with the family o
y Henry Meyer in Penn township, re
Z Gently became violently insane ant
O with a club and butcher-knife h
p drove the family out of the house
q He was brought to Middleburgh AM
' lodged in Jail where he raises Cali
! in general, breaking bedsteds int
J. smithereens and reducing his bed
, ding to the least common denomina
! tor. His brother John was an in
q mate of the Harrisburg ansane Asy
4 lum for several years but escape'
and was killed by train.