1 L 7 THE POST THE POST iVVmptiMlriUly NEWS p AI'KK, tor Uii People and br lh rll. mnns m ilwy "pen for the dtwimslnn of topics of Interest to IU pntroun. VOL. 27. ITEMS of LOCAL INTEREST Read Chestnut's Bicycles. Another largo invoice of suits a'l wool, from 5.'M up at Gutclins'. II. Oppenheimer, Selinsgrovp, will take wool in exchange for clothing. Minn May Wittenmyer of Mifilin Imrjr N visiting relatives in this place. Miss Erma MoGee of Union coun ty is tho guest of her undo J. Orwig. Miss Meriam Orwig has returned from a several weeks' visit among relative iu Union county. J. M. Burlier of Milllinburg was the guest of his brother Dr. I. drier Burlier on Monthly. Mr. Miller of Baltimore, accom panied hy his wife (nee Laura Horn) spent Sunday in Middleburgh. You can now yet thirteen 2-et-nt postage stainpH of Post-mast or Nwartz for a cent ami a quarter. Geo. 'Wilt, of KhiitiHikiit Dam, Hpeured a Russian Leather Cai p in the river on Saturday-a-wcck that weighed HJ pounds. As you like it. Gray ami faded whiskers may ho changed to their nntural and even color brown or black by using Buckingham's Dye. Try it. The "White Loaf Hour. Ask your dealer for it. Manufactured by the Franklin Mills, Middlebrgh, Pa. tf. Deibert, our Photographer has gone away, ho do not call for pic hires until notified of his return in this paper. (July 30.) tf. J. C. Oldt, of Beaver SpringH, a graduate of Central Pennsylvania CoUWe. has cone to Put-in-Bav to teuch school. W. W. Trout, the wide-awake ed itor of the Lowistown Free J'renn paid our town a pop visit on Wed nesday. Mrs Louisa Cronamiller and her sister Miss Ellio Shindel of Milllin burg were the guests of relatives and friends in Middleburgh over Sunday. W. II. Ripka of Globe Mills left on Wednesday morning for Derry, Westmorland county to erect a 300 ton capacity sand mill for a Pitts burg company. The undersigned will open a se lect school in Middleburgh on Mon day, August 4. Tor further partic ulars address F. C. Boweksox, Middleburgh, Pa. Fob Sale. A No. 1 top buggy, (,'. liatincr make. McAlesterville. Guar anteed for two years. For particu lars call on or address B. II. ClSTKH, Swineford, Pa T.. .... INSTALLATION. UOU Willing, Oil the evening of Sunday, August 3, at the Lutheran church, Beaver town, lluv. I. N. Wetzler will bo in ttullud as pastor of the Beavci tow n elmrgp, by Rev. M. B. Lenker of Ly keiistown, Pa., who will also preach Hie installation sonnou. Samuel K. Elburt of McCi re, lied on Thursday, July 17, of drop- ", aged CI years, 7 mouths and 18 lay. Ho leaves three children, one of whom in G. W. Erhart, Station KMit at this place. He was a high ly esteemed gentleman. Ho was Juried at Altoonaon Saturday, Nov. Monroe of tho M. K. Church, ollici ating. Tim free Normal Hchool in Mid '"eburgh under the professorship " Superintendent Herniau, assis- '"i by Prof. J. C. Houser of Milrov. "Dcilo.l nn l ti . i tuiiuaj mui iiiuu nun lit, "nulnnce far exceeds the expectu- NuiiofalL Upwards of fifty stu nts responded to tho first mil-mil "1 tho attendance has been increas- 'Sovery day. Free tuition, easy ruin for boarding and the skill and tyerieuce of the instructors is no Mall inducement to Beakers after owlodge and we hope all will take vantage of it. MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., PA, JULY 24, We haven't had a good rain in this section for a month and vego tation is drying up. The weather is cool and autum-likp. Siunoles. I have just received 2 car-loads of 18 and 21 inch shingles which I will nell at from .3.0( per thousand up. tf. J. P. Kkakns, Beavertown. Brn.iuMi Lots ron Sale. The un dersigned has twelve building lots for sale, situate in Beavertown, im mediately Houth of the steam tanne ry. For particulars apply to tf J. P. Keahns, Beavertown. Tho Franklin District Sunday School will hold a pic nic in Gilbert's Grove, ono mile north of Middle burgh on Saturday, August '2-. XV invited. A. K. Gift has been appointed bv County Surveyor Edwards as his deputy. Mr. (Jift was county sur veyor of Snyder county, Pa., for nine years, and is said to under stand his business thoroughly. Li xhittnn, (Xif.) J'ionttr. Don't 1 discouraged about that oezeiua till you have given Ayer's Sarsaparilla a persistent trial. Six bottles of this medicine cured the complaint for George S. Thomas, o Ada, Ohio, when other remedies failed to atl'ord any relief. A force of men are still searcl.im for the dead at Johnstown, and will continue work nil Summer. One day last Week three bodies were found, one of whom was easily rec ognized and identified. Scarcely a day passes that hoiuo portion of a human body is not brought to light The evils resulting from habitual contiveness are many and serious ; but the use of harsh, drastic purga tives is quite as dangerous. In Ayer's Pills, however, the patient has a mild but effective aperient, superior to all others, especially for family use. As this is tho Hcason for ivy poison let us give you a cheap and sure cure As soon as you discover the poison on your body rub tho parts with wet table milt until tho blisters open Leave tho salt dry on tho poison and repent the operation until irrita tion ceases. Ono or two good rub bings will do tho work. rsoTK E to i ax-paveus. i no un dersigned collector of taxes of Franklin township will bo in atten dance at the Commissioners' office to receive mid receipt for taxes on Thursday, Friday and Saturday July 21, 25 and 2ii. Austin Gift, Collector. OurTroxi lville correspondent says that Mrs. Robert Hassiuger has not yet been found. Shortlv before h aving she expressed a fear of be ing sent to tho Asylum of theinsane at Danville, and it is thought this caused her to llec. It is possible that she could Hubsist on berries. but suspicion is growing that she is assisted in her concealment by some person for Homo obscure purpose Tho Htago routo between McKeos 1 alls und Middloburuh is irrowini into wonderful popularity which is all due to tho gallantry of Mr. Ker Htetter who holds the ribbons behind the learn of bays. His courtesy and etiquette to tho ladies would distance tho attentions of a Chester field and is so acceptable that fish ing excursions via the U. S. mail route are becoming very popular. Peoplo should not mistake his snowy locks for ago they are tho fruits of experience, for in grace and gayety he is but a lad of sixteen. A Louisville man has succeeded in beating a drop-nickel-in-the slot box. Ho first bored a holo in tho coin and then fastened to it a small black silk thread. Ho then dropped tho nickel in the slot as directed by tho sigu and drew out tho cigar. Seeing that nothing was stated in tho directions as to how manv times one nickel could bo dropped in, he drew his uicklo out and dropped it iu again. Succeeding the hocoikI time, he continued to draw until li emptied the box. Ho was cheered by the crowd until he waB arrested. Matiumonial Maiiket. J John S. Reicho, Freeburg. ) Agnes Lenig, " ) James B. Snangler. Adamsburg. JAlvilda M. Wagner, J Newton A. Bowes, Milllinburg. Jenet te B. Gembci ling.Selinsgrovc l.TohnM. Yortey, Selinagrovo. ) M. A. Amig, Middleburgh. Jacob Schnieltz, Oriental. ) Mary I. Swineford, " James Bingaiiiau, Penns ( 'reek. I Alice J. Kuhns, Mussel 's Valley. Tho fishing party to Mohantongo spoken of in last week's Post, re turned Friday evening with quite n nice lot of bass, but the ladies in the party knocked the boots oil' their husbands iu catching the big ones some of the "finny monsters'' weigh ing over two pounds. The Post man ami his better two-thirds also joined the party later in the week, and tho editor was enabled to per form the extraordinary feat of hook ing, handling, and lauding two 1 pound bass atone cast with hisnino ounco fly-rod. Bahn BriiNKit. The barn of Jacob Snyder, situate about four miles west of Middleburgh caught fire from the sparks of a locomotive on tin- railroad on Saturday evening about six o'clock and was burned to the ground with all its contents, in cluding about Tint bushels of un thicshe 1 wheat, 1 1 0 bushels of oats, 4t loads of hay mid nearly all his farming implements, including a harvester, threshing lunching &c. All the live stock was gotten out but about 10. chickens. Tho loss is estimated at $5,(HX). It was in Hurod for 2,30 $2,100 in the Bea vertown Mutual and 530 ,iu Bal timora onmpiuiy. ' "Should every dog of ever.' breed ill America be killed to-moiTOW," says a St, Louis statistician, "the real loss to tho country would not be 100. On the contrary, tho gain would be at least $30,INN),(NN) per year. Nations famed for their thrift and economy do not take to dogs." We wonder if it has ever oc furred to this St. Louis gentleman that the dog is the best and truest friend man has, and that one good dog is worth half a dozen worthless men. 'Were all things removed from us that are not profitable in a monetary senee the world would be inhabited by hogs ami misers, and the St. Louis gentleman would no doubt be happy in the society of hin chosen associates. The Freeburg Courn r says that B.I'.lhomas. a native of Pax ton villi- but for some years a resident of Da vis, Illinois, has been adilldireil in. sane by the authorities of thatnlao Mv. lhomas ha I been suH'erin-' from melancholia for iiboul twenty years, and his friends will hear of fiiml un seating of his intellect with regret. His patient wife has cared for 1 Mill faithfully nil these . years alwavs Imv. ing faith in his ultimate recovery to health and this is a sad blow to her yes, a calamity. Poor Frank, many of las former companions ami friends will remember him as a generous, whole-souled fellow, ever leiulv to do a kindly act when occasion called out his best energies. This calam ity, worsi) than death, calls forth our deepest sympathy. Farming has its drawlmks. im.l tho calling is not of tho feather lied variety. Profits are small and work lasts a good many hours, and is hard whilo it last, but it is tho lot of tho groat majority of tho human race to work for a living ; with most the struggle for existiuico is sever. nnd with some it is pitiful. That this struggle is made desperate sometimes by unequal conditions unjust laws and dishonest practices of tho rich and the strong, is also true ; but all those combined can ii nr. in this country of opportunities, prevent an industrious and frugal man from gaining a livelihood and something more. Ho may not get tho full reward of his industry, but hecau mako a living for his ,,,;! und give thorn an education and a start in the world, in spite of all the drawbacks, unequal couditiong and legal or illegal wrongs. t THE SPIRIT OP SEVENTY-SIX. 0 Slum hi iiiliioii:ilnt.iiiir N M-..M Ami lietrr tiniivrtr lo inlinl " For three w eeks wo have maintain ed a dignified silence toward the Selinsgrove Ti'ih and in spite of this it keeps picking away at us. which makes us think that Hungry Joe is considerable of a hog and doesn't know when he has got enough. Ho is endeaveiing to represent himself ns strangling at that Mc Clui "e resolution gnat, when, iu fact, he is able to swallow a good sized cammcl every morning before break fast or he would not take down with a smile the charge that he promised nl! the county offices for the next twenty years and gave five dollar band-shakes to school directors in tho recent supei inteiulency contest to havo tin 'in vote ft r liis man for County Superintendent. That G A. II. resolution xindicating von may havo been as ill inhised as tin one condemning oil Boonastiel anil we don t care a continental whether it was or wasn't, your act 4t.l: il. ... , i "i uwwuui.'i me wesi emi i i ne county with Trimmn on that oar ticular week to injure us and get subscribers through the actions taken by the McCluro Post was an uct 1U Vcoiuilig u Chlifliau crutl liipnanl brother in the craft, and , makes your blubbering about newspaper courtesy" sound like tho devil preaching redemption through faith. We have been somewhat amused and at the same time greatly alarm ed at a recent remark made by you to the effect that you desired no communication with us further than through the columns of your paper. From this we infer that you have again taken to the pecu liar notion of picking your com pany like you did in ls7ii at New Bloontlield, when you picked out and insulted the landlord's daugh ter ami got kicked out of the hotel for it. Selah ! Lowell. The late rain was a ben flit to corn and potatoes. Lowell ami vicinity was visited by a severe hail storm on last Ihursday evening. Plenty of hail stones four inches iu circumfer ence. Our oldest citizens say they never saw any thing like it before. After it was over there was a big demand for window glass as there were hundreds of them broken. John Romig and Co., gathered a bushel basket full of hail iu their yard and made hail cream for all hands. There has been only one doath reported and that was a chicken for Squire Romig. W. G. Wagner was called to Hun tingdon county, last week to at tend tho funeral of his brother Abraham. Smith &. Erb havo been putting their old thresher in first class or der und Smith says they are going to show Snyder county how to do threshing this season, as they had only been playing before. John Erb reports huckleberries plenty. Ho says lie got about 32 quarts that is, ho thought so, but when they were measured they fell short something like 21 quarts. I he ravenous animal that was seen in Snook's dam by a parly of bath ers could havo boon nothing more then tho ghost of E. Peter's dog that was drowned there. They Hay it looked like a dog and they believe it was a dog. Ono of tho party says it caught lam by tho leg. We can booh see the country tlooded with money as all the deserv ing soldiers have tiled their claims under the now act for pension which they have ho well earned. I should like to see the government pay tho soldier the money they lent them with interest up to date. 1890. Beaveutown. At about 0 o'clock Saturday evening our otherwise quiet village was thoroughly arous ed and turned into a terrible ex citement by the cry of lire. The air was cool and dry with a slight I draught of wind from the northeast. A double-headed freight train that had just passed over the S. .V L. K. R. threw sparks from an engine up on the roof of Mr. J. G. Snyder's large (38x115 feet with 18x30 feet wing) frame bank barn about one and a half miles east of town (and 70 fot south from center of R. R. truck to nearest point of barn). In a very short time the entire building seemed to be one mass of lire. Mr. S. and son who had just hitched a horse to drive to tow n succeeded in getting the live stock and two sets of buggy harness out. Every thing else was burned, the unthleshed wheat from thirty-six acres, upwards of forty loads of h:iy, about four hundred bushels of oats, between six and seven hundred bushels shell ed corn, lot of smoked pork, u "Wood" binder, harvester, grass mower, separator, drill, two buggies, wagons, all of his harness, lot of chickens iVe. The loss is about 5,(100, insured for 2,71 hi. It is supposed that the R. R. Co. will sus tain all the damage. Mr. Snydu intends building about seventy-live foot south of the old site as kudu as possible, Joseph Middleswarth bought four und a half acres of land near town frnm Peti-r liono i ahortly befoio Mr. Roung's death) for J2J3. A valuable cow belonging to Ed ward Freed was killed by lightning about two weeks ago. Tho animal had been iu a field near tow n, and was fouud dead iu tho morning. Lightning struck tho fence near bv John Wetzel, Sr., brightened up the appearance of his house bv a coat of paint. Thomas V (Jo. shipped a car load of cows and calves from this place last week. This was the first carload of stock overloaded at this station. Archie Middleswarth bought a live month's old calf that weighed 55(1 pounds for a beef. John Hot- rich thought it to valuable for beef and bought the heifer for !?25 ami put it on his farm west of town. I he iron ore mines near tow n are again being worked to some extent. Huckleberries are said tube very scarce on Shade mouu'uiii. Blackberries scd at Scents a quart, ami are not very plenty at that. A shower of rain passed over our town last Thursday evening that was accompanied by quite a lot of hail of every imaginable shape ami si.e from a buck-shot to a hull ed walnut. Many window panes were wrecked. tuite a number of our citizens as sisted in hunting for Mrs. Hassiug er at Jacks mountain last week. The necessary officers for the Farmer's Alliance were elected in tho Hall on Monday evening a week. Messrs. Fees, Freed ami Man beck have received the machinery for their stave mill near Middlohugh and are expecting the engine this week. The weather has been unusually cool since tho hail storm. Old Mrs. Polly Wiand had a para- let in stroke last Tuesday, since which time she has been very se riously sick, with very little hope for her recovery. Some rather cheeky character went into A. B. Spocht's store on Friday afternoon, and iu the ab sence of Mr. and Mrs. Spoeht took a adies gold watch out of the show case. Tho party hud better return it. us Mr. S. thinks he knows who has it. -Mrs. Ben Smith .of Elkhart, Iml.. is visiting friends in town. John A. Roarieh has purchased a new hydraulic cider press, ami is now prepared to accommodate per sons having apples which aro n very scarce article. Franklin. N not n "r(fnn." It wimr tin 'i iillnr." It llt'VIT (lixttfl'lt H Rill!'. Ami iii vi r wil.l mil. Uimrxntii) rln nlHl n I.IM Huiwcrlpiliii) $ mi n j,.r. NO. 21) Smamokin Dam. Colored camp tueeting in Clement's Park is in full blast and crowds of curiosity-seekers throng the grounds every Sunday who are greeted with admoni tions that would make the Prophets of Baal take to their heels. Let tile illustrate : "Dis am de place an opportunity to hub your souls washed iu de hi ml ob de Lam. Conic a runnin' or you may missile washer double-jointed California pea nuts only live cents hack for the ferry belobed, dis may be de hist opportunity ; tie Lawd in his mighty anger -come ami I off under a mountain of ice cream only ten cents-do Good Rook says do wicket shall be cast into a buriiin'--right lure, right hen's where you get your ice col.l lemonade made 'Jo degrees below the north pole and only live ecu - deakens. pass de hat and admonish (h lookers-on to chin k in dair dimes an qiiartas for In.- salvation while de brcd'icn si in.- "Roll on de Gospel Cluiariot :" (,uil.- a number are taking iu the ' i. I : i ip excursion to Atlau ti.'CitV and Cap.. May. viathe Read in ; rti ho i-l ( 'Ii 'lien! .s mill hands are having n picnic at llunmnls Wharf, Nadir- lav. !!NNi:i..ii.i i -As our village has ii ! Iiein lepn sented thnuight the columns of the Post for sometiini here ym: are again. The c.ike :,lk was Well fit ( . n.'e.l by nil. young, old, lame, Mm, I ,-,,,,1 halt-will, in fact, it was a general turnout Had there been church announced in place of tho cake-walk tho hulf would have had tho snine l .vils.-, .tfv., Jt.uil WliL'U la, i i,..iu sent for them for tho groat supper. Cakowalks, festivals, ami th like for tho benefit of building up Christ's Kingdom ! It is just this in a nut shell: Build churches to the honor of God and get the I s il to pay for them. Miss Clara Wonder was bitten by a copper head snake hist Thursday while turning grass. She had been very sick from its effects, but she is on a fair way again. Our Sunday School is prospering under tho supervision of Win. Hooter and (J. A. Smith Superinten dents. J. O. (loss is going to work to-day again at the saw mill iu Big Valley. Miss Tudy (loss left to-day for Middleburgh to attend schi 1. Reuben Baker lost a valuable black horse last Week. He had brain feaver. Ed. I tot h rock has c.inie home, nnd I understand he intends working at his trade which is gun smithing. I'd. is a good mechanic ami moder ate in his charges. Gichi:iiii -all. Howard Pel or ami Win. Hector have rigL'ed up a threshinir machine and engine ami intend doing thresh ing in this section. Amos Snook is building a new- house. H. J. Peter built a new summer house- all but the door. We had a heavy hail storm here last Friday breaking a good many window lights as well as demolish ing garden veirotables and corn. Il is reported at some places the hail lay thick ami as large as three inch es iu circiimferance. J. O. Gosse's peach orchard is iu a fine condition at present Out no peaches yet for two years. Have patience. XiNur. Miss Fannie Bowersox has re turned from Lewistowii. Al. Dobsou, residing two miles west of Middleburgh has been grant ed a pension of H per month and an arrearage of $lou. Mr. Dobson has been confined to his bed for thirteen years, ami this tartly assis tance from thegovcrnmeut comes in time of great need, but isonlya drop in tho bucket of what ho should havo. A number of brother soldiers have been working hard for years to secure justice for this gentleman, among whom is our townsman, Capt. D. T. Rhoads, who deserves special mention iu this connection.
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