The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-07-24

,John :. Reiche, Freeburg.
,Agnes Lenig,
lJames B. Spanglcr, Adamsburg.
tAlyilda NJ Wagner,
Newton A. Bowes, NIiflinburg.
lJenette B. Gemberling, Selinsgrove
lJohn NJ. Yortey, Selinsgrove.
M. A. Amig, Middleburgh.
,Jacob Schmeltz. Oriental.
MARY l. Swineford,
| lJames Bingaman, Penns Creek.
tAlice j. Kuhns, Musser's Valley.
The fishing party to Mohantongo
spoken of i'll last weeks PosT, re-
turned Friday evening with quite n
nice lot of bass, but the ladies' in
the party knocked the boots off their
husbands i'll catching the big ones
some of the ''iinny monsters weigh
ing over two pounds. The PosT
man and his better two-thirds also
Joined the party later in the week.
and the editor was enabled to per-
form the extraordinary feat of hook
ing, handling, and landing two u
pound bass Mt one cast with his nino-
ounce fy-rod.
BARN BURNED.-The barn of jacob
Snyder, situate about four miles
west of Middleburgh caught fire
from the sparks of locomotive on
the railroad on Saturday evening
about six o'clock and was burned to
the ground with all it's contents, in
Guiding about 700 bushels of un-
threshed wheat, 400 bushels of oats,
46 loads of hay and nearly all his
farming implements, including II
harvester, threshing maching &c.
All the live stock was gotten out
but about 100 chickens. The loss
is estimated at $4,000. 1t was in
sured for 81, ,63O-S2, 100 in the Bea-
vertown Mutual and $3.50 in Bal
timore company. "
Should every dog of ever. breed
in America be killed tomorrow.
says n st. Louis statistician, "the
real loss to the country would not
be 800. On the contrary, the gain
would be mt least 10000, 600 per
year. Nations famed for their
thrift and economy do not take to
dogs We wonder if it has ever oc.
CURED to this ST. Louis gentl, nan
that the dog is the best and truest
friend man has, and that one good
dog is worth half n dozen worthless
men. Were all things removed
from us that are not profitable in n
monetary sence the world would be
inhabited by hogs and miscrs, and
the st. Louis gentleman would no
doubt be happy in the society of his
chosen associates.
The freeburg courier says that
BIZ. Thomas, II native Of PaXtonville,
but for some years resident of Da-
Wis, Illinois, has been adiudged in
sane by the authorities of that place
Mr.. Thomas had been suffering from
melancholia for about twenty years,
and his friends will hear of final un-
seating of his intellect with regret.
His patient wife has cared for him
faithfully all these years-always hav-
ing faith in his ultimate recovery to
health-and this is n sad blow to her
yes, calamity. Poor Frank, many
ofhis former companions and friends
will remember him us generous,
whole-souled fellow, ever ready TO
do kindly act when occasion called
out his best energies. This calam-
ity, worse than death, calls forth
our deepest sympathy.
Farming has its drawbacks, and
the calling is not of the feather bed
variety. Profits are small and work
lasts u good many hours, and is
hard while it last, but it is the lot of
the great majority of the human
race to work for living with most
the struggle for existance is severe,
and with some it is pitiful. That
this struggle is made desperate
sometimes by unequal conditions,
unjust laws and dishonest practices
of the rich and the strong, is also
true but all these combined cannot
in this country of opportunities,
prevent an industrious and frugal
man from gaining n livelihood and
something more. He may not get
the full reward of his industry, but
he can make n living for his family
and give them an education and n
start in the world, in spite of all the
drawbacks, unequal conditions and
legal or illegal wrongs.