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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-04-03

MoCLuRE.-Wm. Mcclellan, of
near Adamsburg, moved on the farm
of Isaac Middleswarth, II miles east
of Mcclure.
DIR. j. W Orwig and wife were
visiting ex-shcrifl Middlcswarths.
w. Ii. Hoffman has moved his
family to West Virginia His sister,
Hattie, accompanied them to their
new home.
Miss Ellie Smith has gone to Lew
istown to assist her sister in moving
Jacob Transue was to Milton last
week ON business.
Mrs. A. A. Howell was visiting
here recently.
Mrs. John Fclkcr and Mrs. II.
krebbs have gone to Lcwistown to
visit friends over Sunday.
Mrs. John III. Dreese has gone to
Philadelphia for medical treatment.
The measles and mumps have
made their appearance in this place.
Mr.. $. X. Erhart is seriously i'll Mt
this writing His recovery doubt
full.
The Evangclicals held their Quar-
terly Conference mt this place over
Sunday. l. NJ. Pines, the Presiding
Elder, was present
VIM. Bratton recently took busi.
ness trip to Harrisburgh aud Fair
view. Master George Middleswarth
accompanied him to the capitol city.
Rev. j. VI. Stovcr moved to Fish
crsyillc, Dauphin county, whore he
will begin his new field of labor
Joseph Drccsc moved to Troxcl-
vile, where he will begin the manu-
facture of slaves.
w. III. Ulsh is slowly recovering
at this writing.
Eaph. Stuck, living on A. J. Mid
dleswarth's farm / miles west of
this place, came near having fire
on the ?7th. He was pumping waite
for his stock when he discovered
smoke coming from the roof OF his
house, and in going up stairs he
found the ceiling around the stove
pipe all on fire, and the blaze almost
striking the roof, but by using and
ax to cut part of the floor SO water
could be applied ut once the fire was
gotten under control. \ few minutes
and the house would have burned to
the ground. 1t is supposed that il
caught fire from the pipe rs it fits
the collar very tight, and must have
set it on fire.
Mrs. DR.. Rothrock, of Fremont, il
visiting relatives ut this place.
NELLIE ROE
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PATRICK.

TRoXELvILLE.-Daniel Aurand will
sell all his personal property at pub
lie sale on the 81 of April, having
sold his farm to his son-in-law, VIM.
b. Woodling of Adamsburg, with
whom he will make his future home.
The stave-mill mentioned in for
mer communication is ready to com
mence work by the time this ap-
pears i'll print. The machines are
all III position and the other needful
tixings will require only n few days
time. "Trapper jim" has the con
tract for cutting the stave- wood, and
says that he will beat his own rec
ord, which was 10 two-horse loads in
one day.
Perry Getz of Adamsburg moved
on Howard Troxell's farm last week.
Perry was born and raised ut this
place and says there is no place on
this Terrestrial Ball" that he likes
better than the spot where Troxel-
vile stands.
Considerable moving has already
been done and many more have to
follow suit.
Joseph Dreese and George Wag-
ner are both putting up temporary
buildings to move into while saving
slaves on the Middleswarth tract.
Last week while J. G. Middles-
warth crossed the mountain from
Little Valley he met monster black
bear and it nearly scared the life out
of both of them.
The ticket nominated on the 18th
gives entire satisfaction, and with
Potter for Congress and Delamater
for Governor this district will give
her full quote of votes to make the
majority 1000. No stabbing this
fall
Wilson Bingaman of Salem is haul
ing the stave-wood for Ner. NJ. Mid
dleswarth. Wills is one of Penn
townships giants and is as strong as
an elephant.
Michael Ewig is spending month
at Chambersburg, Pa, as the guest
of his son-in-law, Rev. Haneycutt.
Last Sunday Rev. j. NJ. Stover
preached his farewell sermon to his
congregation at this place, and on
Tuesday left for his new field of Ia
Dor in Dauphin county. The rever-
end gentleman has many warm
friends here who all join in wishing
him an abundance of success. Miss
Reggie Swartz will accompany the
family as domestic.
CAL. JOE.
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GLoBF MIILs.-Easternext Sunda,

GLOBE MnLs.-Eastern Sunday
Buds are ready to burst.
April jokes are hatched and if the
unwary are not cautious they will
likely be victimized.
Mrs. Lydia Ulrich, who was hous-
ed up for some time, is able to be
about again.
1t is rumored that G. A. Meyer and
G. A. Meiser leased ground from
Mr.. Simon Bergic, on which they
intend to start peach orchard this
season.
Carrie, what were your attractions
that morning Mt your neighbors
A. II. Xeiber is rusticating among
friends at Northumberland this
week.
Mr.. McGinty was to Salem last
Tuesday and reports that he had a
magnificent time.
Miss Ella Zimmerman, of Lewis
town, is visiting her brother, $. o.
Dill.
Miss Anna Marks, of Kratzerville,
mingled among friondsat this place
over Sunday.
PATRICK.
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HNRRIsDuRd, Pa, APRIL .. 1890.

HAHmsDuRG, PA, APRIL >, 1890.
T. III. HARrER. SIR:
In reply to yours of yesterday
have to say that the Attorney Gen
cral is of the opinion that there is
no general State tax upon dogs, but
that only local tax laws affecting
dogs i'll certain counties, are in force
i'll the State of Pennsylvania. Under
these local statutes, he adds, there
is no provision concerning the age
of the dog, and literally an animal
known as II pup is not subject to
taxation. That cncumbranco visits
him after arriving to the full stature
of grown-up dogship. The tax is %
cents for every dog, 81 for every
second, and - for every third dog.
This applying TO certain counties
only and there is not, according to
the Attorney General, tax law for
Snyder county.
Yours very truly,
WM. X. MILLER.
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$1,000 Reward Withdrawn.

For reasons satisfactory 90 the undersigned
and approved by others, the reward offered for
the apprehension and conviction of the murder
cr or murlcrrrS ~ Charles Ilauc Is hereby
withdrawn
SAM H. -. WALTER,
DANIEL BIEBER.
SAM FL SrltAUB
commissioners of shy der GO.
Aprll :. 1870
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Kleckner n Finkcnbinder of Vel
low Creek, ILL.,, will have their 1lth
sale of Illinois horses ut Middle.
burgh, on Tuesday, April l5-it hav-
ing been post. .poned from the Sth.
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CESTREvILLE.--Itis is about time that
we have little snow for n change.
Moonlight nights are here. Boys,
save up your eggs. Easter will be
on hand next Sunday.
B. +. Arnold, Of Freeburg. was in
town on business, Monday.
The new two cent postage stamp
is for sale at the post Office. 1t is
red in color and smaller than the
green stamp.
Constable Napp and J. +. Benfer
took in the horse sale in Freeburg
on Thursday.
Esq. Shinkel did Laurelton bust
ness visit on Friday.
Robert Slotman, of Pleasant Gap,
is visiting relatives here.
Rev. Stover preached his first SER
mon in the Evangelical church OH
Sunday evening. 1t was an able
and appropriate sermon, and the
large congregation was delighted
with it.
W. n. Heimbach, OF Beavertown,
was here on business visit on Mon
day. II.
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NO. "A
Is There a Dog Tax For Sny-
der County?

TmE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS "No.'
To settle dispute we wrote to
VIM. X. Miller, of the State Library,
Harrisburg, on Tuesday, to inter
view the Attorney General of Penn
sylvania on the dog question for
the benefit of the readers of the
PosT. The following is his reply in
full
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IAN old woman should be an OBJ
jcct of reverence above and beyond
MI other phases OF humanity. Her
very age should be passport TO re-
spcctful and corteOus condsidcra-
tion. Thc'old woman, thoagcdmothcr
or grandmother, needs no certificate
of worth. She is monument of ex-
cellence, approved and warranted.
She has fought the good fight, and
come off victorious. Under her ven
erablc face she bears the marks of
conflict in all its furrowcd lines. The
most gricvious of all the ills of life
have been hers trials, untold, and
known only to God and herself she
has borne incessently, patiently, and
uncomplainingly, and now, her duty
done, calmly awaiting her appointed
time, she stands more beautiful than
ever in her Y outh more honorable
and deserving than he who has slain
his thousands or stood triumphant
upon the proudest field Of victory"
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EMS of LOCAL INTEREST

EMS Of LOCAL INTEREST
kuy the Snowfall four-the best
Fbe latest out, Deibert's new pho
he Snowfall four-none other
liz. For sale by g. G. Gutelius.
hey are the rage. Deibert's new
btos.
hrs. T.. G. Aurand has Just receiv-
ber spring stock of milliner goods.
ecure your fine Photos at Del
Is gallery.
bin Bowersox, of Shamokin, was
|own over Sunday.
|eorge Stahlnecker has accepted
erkship in Wittenmyer's store.
iss Fanny Bowersox, of Aarons-
Q. spent Sunday at home in Mid
burgh.
bhn Houtz of Swineford can fur.
our farmers with South Bend
lied Plows and all the repairs.
homas Arbogast, of Freeburg,
rented Rev. s. p. Orwig's prop
on West Main Street.
rs. Catherine Miller, of Lewis
b. was the guest Of her brother.
BIB Gilbert, ESQ, over Sunday.
X. Gifts sale commences at 10
bck on the 9Th, instead of / p. NJ.
lated in last weeks paper.
here will be Easter services in
Smithgrove church on Sunday
hing. All are cordially invited.
e have several hundred old
spapers in the printing Office
il we will sell at 8 cents per
n.
e First National Bank of Mid
nrgh viii be closed tomorrow,
Friday, April 4th, il being q
holiday.
Tuesday Z. A. Steininger NOV
ON his farm west of town into
and occupies the property re-
" purchased of VIM. Romig.
g. Smith, former proprietor of
Franklin House, has entered
his duties as manager of the
hington House.
g. Seebold is tearing down the
on his lot Immediately east of
Ftore-house and will erect a
did residence on the space this
per.
Monday the officers for the p.
of A. were installed. A mum
pf prominent members of the
from a distance superintended
FORK.
STED.-At once, a good cook,
chamber maid, and good wash
Good wages paid to good girl,
ess j. G. SwooPE,
City Hotel, Danville, Pa.
lies, did you see those w. l.,
las 80 dress shoes, and those
bin shoes for every day wear at
ans E! The best in the market
70 price. Call and see them be-
|uying elsewhere.
bert, our photographers has re.
q from his extended eastern
md Is now ready to accommo,
ii who wish to get photos
" squares north of the Court
P Amig made n good days
with his dog and gun on
lay. He trailed an old she-fox
lair, and dug her out. In the
nth the old nanny he found
hng foxes-making q total Of
scalps and hide.
emigrants with families, oi
parties, wishing to go West in
BRING should apply to Gift &
Real Estate agents, Middle
Pa, for information as tc
rates of fare, and the most di
d convenient routes TO take.
cE To SUBsoRIBERs.-Subscri
no desire to have the address
3 paper changed on the first
p should notify us at once
he post Office where you have
Ptting the paper, and name OF
Where you want it sent. At,
this promptly and avoid un
I delay. If
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observation-disclosures are busy
plowing.
Latest fashionin footwear color
mud dye.
Our little town has been fitting
here and there and everywhere. but
is settling down slowly.
Mrs. II. II. Attig spent II few days
among friend at Raubs Mills.
Mrs. Felmy sold her home to
Charles Boyer last week.
Jeckly Ramer visited week in
Union county. He had a good time
but was homesick. He says, PAX
tonville is mine doad und mine lava,
un ladwarrick- -brode mine gawanod." "
Schools close this week and l VEN
ture to say the teachers and most of
the scholars are glad for vacation.
Rev. Slower, of the Evangelical
church, preached his first sermon
for this Conference year on Sunday.
We welcome him in our midst and
wish him success.
Mr.. II. b. Custer bought and moved
on to the farm formerly owned by A.
X. Gift. Hope he will find IL pleas
ant home here.
Y. p. Mite Society had election of
officers on Saturday evening as fol
lows: Pres. w. ID. Harner, V. Pres.
George Dobson, Sec. VIM. Brunncr,
Treas. Dolce VI. Attig. How to
work for the next three months:
"DO all the good you can.
10 all the people you can.
In as many ways you can.
just rs often as you can"
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SIIERlFFS SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.

Whereas by virtue ~ Sundrl Wrts NJ H. Fa.
issued ont ~ the court NJ Common Pleas Or Sny-
der county, and To me directed VIII expose 10
county. Pa, uu
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Aprll2 1870
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"DO all the good you can.
10 all the people you can.
Inasm many ways you can.
just as often as you can"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-20
FROM WASHINGTON.

1T was decided by Secretary Window
on the 18th that Chinese merchants
coming to this country for the first time
can not be permitted to land in the
United States.
THE fire losses in the United States
and Canada during the month of Feb
ruary were 81, So, O25, a decrease of
about 81. 900. 600 compared with the same
month of 1889.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN w. PRESTON TAUL-
BEE, of Kentucky. died in Washington
on the 18th from the effects of the wounds
inflicted by Charles L. Kincaid, news
paper man, on February 2s.
The Treasury Department issued a
statement on the 18th showing that the
exports of breadstuffs from the United
States in the month of February
amounted to SIS. 9OS. T26.
IN the United States there were 2O9
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 14th. against els the
previous seven days. The total of fail
ures in the United States January l TO
date is ., 967, against g. l43 in 1889.
THE President issued a proclamation
on the 18th ordering all settlers off the
Cherokee strip.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
81. 1S2, CAS-, 733, against 81, las, 139, 100 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1889 the increase
amounted to 81.
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HE EAST.

THE Rhode Island Republicans in
State convention on the 18th at Proyi-
dence renOminated the present State
officers. with Herbert w. Ladd for Gov
ernor The platform indorses President
Harrison's Administration and Speaker
Reeds course in Congress
AT Philadelphia on the 18th forty
women graduated as doctors from the
Women's Medical College of Pennsyl-
vania.
On the 18th two laborers were blown
to pieces and two others fatally injured
by an explosion of dynamite at the
water works at Rockville Center, n. Y.
THE Wholesale dry-goods firm of Har-
rison & Loder, of New York, failed on
the 18th for $780,
THE cracker bakeries of New York
and New Jersey were consolidated on
the 18th. with a capital of $4,000. 600.
LEMUEL EAsTBURN, aged 65 years,
and his wife were driving across the
track at Bridgeport Pa, on the 18th
when they were struck by a train and
instantly killed
OK warren's hill at Troy. n. Y, a
landslide occurred on the 18th which
demolished two reside es, killing two
women and an 1l-yea. old girl.
Is New York Major Thomas Harvard
celebrated his IO1st birthday on the
18th.
MRS. JONI CLINE, of Greensburg, Pa,
lost two children. aged respectively 10
and ~ years, on the 18th from eating
wild parsnip which they found in the
garden.
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DEGRADED SAVAGES.
Things Told by DIR. Carl Lumholtz About
Queensland CsnnibaIs.


Queensland CannibaIs.
Beauty exists rarely among cannibals;
in fact, their features are distorted and
contracted as if the ligatures of their
faces had been cut when they were chill
dren like those of the horrible Nero in
Hugo's 'L'Homme qui Rit."
1t is on account of their unhealthy
food that children are weaned late, and
it even happens that a child is nursed
atits mothers breast with the next older
brother or sister.
The advent of baby is not regarded
with favor and infanticide is therefore
very common. Horrible as it may sound
to civilized ears, mothers during a
scarcity of food will often eat their own
children.
They tattoo their children in the
crudest way, cutting parallel lines
across the breast and stomach with
sharp stones and clam-shells, and keep
ing the wounds from healing by filling
them up with ashes or charcoal. The
shoulders are cut in the same manner
until they look like epaulets.
Cultivation of the soil is unknown
among the ahorigines; they subsist on
wild honey, snakes roots, lizards and
edible beetles, with an occasional wild
animal. These beetles are broiled in
hot ashes until they are brown and Mr..
Lumholtz says they taste better than
European omelette when cracked open.
The position of women among these
savages is a very subordinate one.
They are expected to provide the daily
food and sally forth on long expeditions
for this purpose. II the husband gath
ers game or lizardsor such delicacies he
keeps them for himself, while his wife
and child must submit on vegetable
and berries.
They frequently fog their wives bru-
tally, and if she runs away to some one
more kind, the husband is privileged to
MAIN her when he sees her. This is
what they call marking a woman.
Two wives is the usual matrimonial
equipment of a warrior, and some have
five or six. A girl is delivered over to
her husband when she is nine or ten
years old, and as long as they remain
young they are sure of good treatment.
N V journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ADvIcEs of the 18th state that in the
campaign against King Dahomey, which
had Just ended, 1000 Dahomians, in
Guiding one female General, were
killed.
EIGHTY-EIGHr miners lost their lives
by the recent explosion at the Morsa
cOlliery in Glanmorganshire, Wales.
AT Ottawa the international chess
tourney which was conducted by CORE
spondence between the United States
and Canada, sixty players on a side. was
concluded on the 18th, the Americans
winning by thirteen points.
On the 18th the National Bank and
the Bank of Brazil, at Rio Janeiro, be-
gan TO issue paper money, redeemable
in gold.
PERU advices of the 18th say that in
political riots in the province OF Aya-
cucho over 100 persons we're killed.
AT Brisbane. Australia, floods had on
the 14th caused loss of 81, 500, 600.
On the 14th Virgins, the Canadian
weather prophet, predicted that vio-
lent storm would soon be felt all over
the world and would burst over the con-
tinent of America between the 2lst and
22d insts.
THE members of the French Cabinet
resigned on the 14th.
IL France a new Cabinet was formed
on the 18th with NJ. de Freycinct as
President.
THE house of Robert Livingston, q
farmer living at Bourg Louis, Can. was
burned on the 18th, and two of his
children persisted in the flames
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THE CONTAINERS SECRET.
Nerve Is the Sole Cause of His Authorit


Nerve Is the Sole Cause of His Authority
Over His Beasts.
The boldest individuals, who put their
heads two or three times day into the
lions mouth, have told me that the best
way to withdraw it from the gulf is, first
of all. not to open the acquaintanceship
with this experiment. and, secondly, TO
perform it with great nerve. Nerve,
that is the great secret Of the lion-tamer,
the sole cause of his authority over his
beasts. When he has studied a subject
for some time, endeavoring to master its
character-and among the higher ami
mails the character is very individual,
very accentuated-One morning the man
quietly walks into the cage. He must
astonish the beast and overawe him at
once As 10 the training, it consists
and here / quote the words of an expert
in such matters-in commanding the
lion to perform the exercises which
please him; that is to say, to make him
execute from fear of the whip those
leaps which he would naturally take in
his wild state.
There is one fact which no one would
suspect-that it is easier to train an
adult lion taken in snare than an ami
NAL born in a mena yerie. The lion of
the booth is in the same position as
sporting dogs which play much with
children; they are soon spoiled for
work. Pezon possesses five or six lions
which he has brought up by hand. As
rule they live with the staff of the
menagerie on terms of perfect famili-
arity, but this frequently leads to tragic
accidents. Lions, even lions in fair.
will devour man in fine style. Can
say that the fear of such an accident is
ever sufficiently strong to make me
pause on the threshold of menagerie?
No. | cherish, and like me, you also
cherish, the hope that some day per-
haps we may see lion-tamer eaten.
This contingency sometimes occurs, in
fact more often than is usually sup
posed For instance, without leaving
the Pezon menagerie, it is not year
since the proprie or narrowly escaped
being devoured by his bear Groom, at
Chalons-sur-Marne. He would have
persisted if his son Adrian Pezon had
not thrown himself. saber in hand, be-
tween the two combatants and killed
the bear on the spot.-Acrobats and
Mauntehanks
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WEST AND SOUTH.

The death of Judge McComus. who,
as acting Governor of Virginia, signed
the death-warrant of John Brown, oc-
CURED on the IIth at Fort Scott, Kan.
He was aged "a years.
AT a meeting of the G.. A. r encamp-
ment of Indiana at indianapolis on the
18th. g. r Stormant of Princeton,
was elected COmmander-in-Chief.
On the 12th the Louisiana lottery
scheme was again before the Legislature
of North Dakota, and was defeated by a
vote of Is to IL
AT Cleveland. O.. the Prospect Roll
ing-mill Company failed on the 18th for
slOO. 900.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS appointed Lon ".
Stevens, of BOOnville, State Treasurer of
Missouri in place of Mr.. holland. re-
moved for embezzling $50, Ills.
a CYCLONE destroyed every building
in the village of Excelsior. Tex, on the
18th. but no lives were lost
On the 12th the bodies of Misses
Adele and Hannah Power, sisters, who
lived on a farm near Concordia, Kan.
were found in Lake Dibley. No cause
except melancholia could be assigned
for their suicide.
A FIRE on the 18th in Pelzer's cotton
factory warehouse near Greenville, ).
C.. caused 500. 600 damage.
NEAR Lima, o., the 4-year-son of My
ron Naus was resuscitated on the 18th
after having lain long time in coffin.
and he would recover.
HENRY NURRE. a wealthy farmer
living near Brown, Ia, was murdered on
the 18th by unknown persons, who also
/ fatally wounded Mrs Nurre. Burglary
was the object
II the flooded Arkansas district the
situation was alarming on the 18th. At
/ Black Rock there was six feet of water
Z in hotels and other places of business
and the destruction of property would
be heavy. The lower part of Batesville
was flooded and the country round about
was entirely under water.
on the 18th freight train went
through trestle near birmingham,
Ala, and five men were killed
on the Denver & Rio Grande road in
the san Juan mountains snow sixty feet
deep was reported on the 18th.
The Supreme Court of Indiana rem
dered decision on the 18TH upholding
the school-book law enacted by the last
Legislature providing for uniform school
books for the entire State.
AT Lansing. Mich, the Capital In
vestment Building and Loan Associa-