The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-03-05
MIDDIkBURGH, SNYDER CO., Pa, MARCH s. 1896.

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the court house for the rendering of
the Can.ata, "Jephthah and his
Daughter"
The following letters remain un.
called for in the Middleburgh Post
Office: Miss Ellen Wagner, Miss
Annie Keiser, Mrs. J. L Neville, Mr..
jeff. Long, Mr. Tobias Marks, Mr..
Cyrus Kratzer, Mr.. Prinston Buckley
and Row. A. II. Southland.
j. W. RUSKLE. z. VI.
Mrs. Helen Johnson OF 81. give
an interesting lecture on MN iay
evening i'll the court house under
the auspices of the Farmers Ali
ance. The house was crowded and
the listeners showed mark of high
appreciation.
On the 23rd of this month Mrs
Hettie Carpenter, who has been SER
wing n sentence of two years in the
western penitentiary as an accessory
after the fact of the killing of her
husband, James 5. Carpenter, on
the evening of Sunday, Dec. 10, 1893,
will be released from the poniten.
tiary and return to Port Royal. She
will become a charge on this borough
for the balance Of her natural life
Port Royak Times.
During the past week there was
issued from this office The Middle
burg Business Directory" which will
be placed in overy important bust
ness place in Snyder County. 1t
was prepared by our neighbor, Prof
Paul Billhardt, and we are safe in
saying that it is the neatest direc.
tory issued in this section of the
state. The only late map of Snyder
County is printed in the center of
the directory, which makes the dir
ectory valuable anpendage to every
credit to the
enterprise o. ID business men OF
our town.
The United States geological sur
vey has received samples Of the
phosphate rock recently found near
Reeds Gap, Juniata county. An
alysis shows from twelve to fifty per
cent. phosphoric acid. The highest
is found in nodules somewhat re-
sembling the coprolotic forms found
in South Carolina. Professor Ihl-
seng, of the State College, Pennsyl-
vania, has visited the locality and
made over $50 analyses, with varying
results. Much more prospecting will
be done in the spring, and it is said
that if the beds prove large it will
be matter of great importance to
the fertilizer factories in New York,
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore.
Some one in Perry county who
wants nomination in Congress is
promising that if elected he will offer
bill to reduce the salary of Con
gresham one-half. There is no vi
tality in such proposition, says the
Philadelphia Press. There are some
r-and unfortunately there are
many in Congress-for whose service
one half the present salary would be
exaggerated over pay while there are
others whose service to the country
would be cheap at four or five
times the present compensation.
The aggregate present pay is not too
large, but the people in every dis
trict ought to feel an obligation to
elect men ut least rs large as the
salary. 1t is not a reduction of pay
that is wanted, but an increase of
intelligence and fitness.
Our court holds under consider
alton the question as to whether the
constables who were elected under
tho Act of 1899 and whose terms had
not expired at the last election are
still the proper officers. Notwith-
standing the Act of June 20, 1895, the
contest is between the constables of
Spring Township. II. II. Grimm
and j. G. Bucher are retained by the
old constable and j. M. Baker by the
newly elected one. There is also
another contention between the reg
ular constable of Middleburgh and
the High Constable as to who is en-
titled to the fees for posting the
election notices. Both officers had
put up notices. In this case Fl. II.
Grimm is for the High Constable
and Jacob Gilbert for the other.
Both cases will be decided on the
23rd instant.