THE POST Is nin tiv Uip Pdlior. It In not nti drT '" ' It IH'l "". . I.VtllO, Ami ih'mt Hold nut. (iuumiili't'il i-livtilnt'u 10 0 L MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., PA., JUNE 8, 1893. NO. 23. ) of LOCAL INTEREST f oh, why nhotild the uplrlt I of mortal brprotM In ft contry Hk our. Where It Isn't allnwetl For ft tniin who onetime Id ofllre liiut been To nt'vir wfiln hitve nctmnco To get In r J. I Murks of Svint foril is relatives iu Lewistown. Bibighauso c.f Philadelphia Sunday in Middleburgh. choch, w ho spent tho winter Jlilo, N. Y. in homo on ti visit i Mitchell ninl wife of Now 1 visited with Joe Cldau and ,-ovcr Sunday Mint Walter m raising, 1111 Z and building im iiddition to so in tho emit end of town. i received a car of No. 1 -1 inch )s at .1.25 per in. I A. II. Ui.sii A; Son. fcleland and l'hilip Spaid left tulay morning for Lewistown, let iu laying brick for the new Jiks. en Fesslor of Ceiitervillo a piko in Penns Creek on lay that measured 22 inches iu j and weighed 2 pounds. 3. W. Orwig nnd tho editor of )8T fished Swift Bun on Thurs t last week and retimed with sthe speckled beauties every which was caught ut the lly. 31. Bower assistant general er of tho West Virginia Cen- ilroad, with head-quarters at ferland, Md., visited his parents ikliu last week. eiKuiiUo. ami wue of near Hall, accompanied by-their icr, Mrs. Dr. Allison of Spring ;nro visiting friends in Middle- -the guests of merchant John t closing exercises of tho spring lof tho Freeburg Musical Col till take place i nduy eveum;. V. A largo ami enteresting pro i.has been prepared for tho oc- T vi T. Bohner of Mahonoy, Pa., "Enclosed iind l..r0 for tho for another year. I am a dem- - 1 41. !.. : . l l: l ... i niui iuu x I'll in I cpuoncau out don't matter. It is tho bust I can get for tho money aud I -'Vlo without it." m Barter, of tho Middleburgh 3 is visiting tho World's Fair iu Igo, and his paper last week Juito a readable letter iu it from If he keens on he'll soon size fith Aleck McCluro. Juniata H kt is when we die, aud then we I'sizo up" with Aleck iu the hit of "dust"' we make. tions of Lancaster county are .ed with lice. So numerous ioy that tho people aro moving f the infested districts. There lindreds of millions of tho pests lio lives of tho inhabitants are miserable. When they go Id they are shunned by cvory. jhey meet and wheu they stay ijiie they can do uothiug but Ch.-Ax. I necotiatioiiR lmrof in ess for the purchaso of Mr n-'u nnmnvKn 41, - 1?:....4 v..l 1 - k, have resulted iu an ugree s tipon a piico certain matters f t.' at ail remain to bo arranged, i-l they aro satisfactorily adjust rtuo doubt they will be, tho so will bo completed, and tho willtrecta business block on Id coruer-tho finest location isinoss purposes iu tho county. f ph Walter, residing one mile f town, was given a pleasant ho party on Monday evening jlghis will birthday. It was 1 form of a family ro-uuiou and Jie relatives wero invited, s the recipient of a number niblo present among them bo luster baud tea set, and a ii gold watch. Ti.o n.: hy managed and the occa- as pleasant to Mr. Walter us uuexpectod. List of letters uncalled for in tho Middleburgh post office, June 1, '03: Henry Burger, Qeorgo Henry, Mrs. Martha I'ollard, Miss Blanch Brooks Miss Wackio Trovinger. J. W. Swartz, 1. M. "Mistaken SorLs Who Diieam or Buss." Tho following marriage li censes havo been granted since our last publication : (Wm, M. Fisher, Port Trevorton, I Izora Meiscr, Memervule, Milton T. Miller, Kantz, ) Annie C. Shallcr, l'allas. Tho wild deer captured by ex-sher ill" Nor B. Middlcsworth and a party near McClure on Saturday last is quite an attraction at tho Sheriff's barn at present. Hundreds of per sons have been there to see thelittlo pet. It is supposed to havo been formerly tamed by some person, yet lie showed quite a spirit of light when captured. The Sheriff and party talk of starting a Zoological garden. Governor Battison vetoed tho eel weir nnd fish basket bill. Tho gov ernor says that tho placing of fish baskets and weirs in tho streams of the state are destructive of tho works of tho stato fish commission, as these devices catch and destroy all kinds of fish and particularly jeopardize tho future shud produc tion. If you owe anybody pay it as soon as you can. The man to whom you aro indebted may bo indebted to his neighbor and is unable to pay on your account. A dollar may pay a good many debts iu a day's time if kept moving. Dou't carry money around in yout pockets wheu it be longs to someono else. By keep- iug money nice up, times can bo made easier by far than they are at tho present time. There are reports on tho way tell ing of a man who stops at a hotel claiming that ho has a car load of horses coming, gets sale bill printed, engages an auctioneer, stabling f.r his horses, & etc.. and then pretend ing ho is short a httlo of cash, tries to borrow. ' He is aged about 55 years, nearly six feet tall, wears glasses, ono eyo defective, short dark beard, a good talker, German accent, lio worked Towauda early iu April, Bloomsburg about April l.'th, aud Lewistown April IJOth. Chas. F. Orvis of Manchester, Vt.. is rapidly becoming known as ono of the most substantial dealers in fish ing tackle in tho United States, and thoso porsous who havo thus far failed to find a dealer who can sup ply their every want will find it to their interest to address him and get his catalogue Thoso who have tried Mr. Orvis in this section of tho stato speak very highly of tho treat ment they havo received from him, claiming that his goods are all of tho highest grade and his prices but little above jobbing ratoB. A successful festival was held in New Berlin, May 27, 2, and 2Uth for tho benefit of tho U. B. church of that place. Tho trustees of tho church have decided to hold another festival during tho comiuencment week, and engaged tho Towu hall for that season, to raise tho funds for carpet and matting for their church. All tho friends and tho pub lic, in general are cordially invited to patronize them iu this enterprise aud tasto their most excollont Ice cream and other refreshments. Largo plates will bo served for little money. Tho Oriental Labyrinth and Panopticon, ut 2D2 Wabash ave, tho latest addition to Chicago's amuse ment resorts a spoctaclo of oriental grandeur. Tho labyrinth is an im portation aud exact reproduction of tho famous labyrinth in Stockholm, Sweden. Tho statuos in tho panop ticon aro modeled from well-knowu paintings and opera scenes, as "Bien Klosterbicr," "l'arolo d'Amour, "Bathers in Normandio," "Dolce far Nieute," "The French Masquo Ball," Faust," etc, ; iu short, a coutrally 0 located palace of amusement for visitors to tho World's Fair. Chi etiuo Timet. The Fool Killer. Take a walk through any of tho cemeteries throughout the country find you will believe with us that the fools aro slowly but surely passing away. You pass tho last resting of a man who blew into nn empty gun. Tho tombstone of him who lighted tho fire with kerosene. Tho grass carpeted mound covrs the remains of the man who took the mule by the tail. The tall monument of the man who didn't know it was loaded over-shadows tho man who jumped from the cit s to savo a ten rod walk Side by sivlo lio the ethereal creature who kept her corset laced up to the last hole, and theintclligent idiot who lode a bicycle nino miles in ten. min utes. Here reposes the doctor who took a dose of his own medicine, and the old fool w ho married a young wife. Bight over yonder in tho northwest corner, tho breezes sigh through tho weeping willows that bends over t lio lowly bed where lies the fellow who told his mother-in-law sho lied. Down there in tho potter's field, with his feet sticking out to tho cold blast of winter and. tho blistering rays of tlm summer sun, is streched the earthly remains of the misguided regulator, who tried to lick the editor, while tho broken bones of the man w ho wrould not pay for his paper aro piled up in the corner of n fence. Over by the gate reposes tho boy who went swimming tin Sunday, and tho old woman who kept bakiug powder sido by side with strychnine iu tho cupboard. The old fool-killer gathers them in ono by ono, and by and by we will havo n pretty decent world to live in. 'Thcbifore Erdly is building a new barn on his lot immediately back of tho Reformed church. Tho Ghu Union Lumber Co., Glou Union, Clinton county, Pa. want twenty-fivo good, practical teamsters and wood choppers. Wages paid according to tho man's ability aud usefulness. !?1 to t.2." per day and board. Men who drink rum and get drunk need not apply. C. K. Soukii, (ieii. Supt. Tho editor of a weekly journal late ly lost two of his subscribers thro' netuueiuaur departing irom uie beaten track in his answers to cor respondents. Two of his subscrib ers wrote to ask him his remedy for their respective troubles. No. 1, a happy father of twins, wrote to in quire tho best way to got them safe ly over their teething, and No. 2 wated to know how to protect his orchard from tho myriads of grass 1 . ml , i uuppuiB. iuo euuor irumou ins answers upon tho orthodox lines, but unfortunately transposed their twonanios, with tho result than No. 1, who was blessed with tho twins, road in reply to his query : "Cover them carefully with straw and set fire to them, aud tho little pests, of- ter jumping around iu tho flames n few minutes, will speedily bo set tlod." No. 2, plagued with grass hoppers, was told to "give a little castor oil and rub their gums gently with a bono ring." A letter was recently received at the pension department from a wid ow in a little town in Ohio, who said sho had lived a widow for thirty years and found it too lonely. There fore, sho asked that a plank bo put in her pension that would enable hor or any other who lived single since 18'.'2 to marry, aud at the same time keep hor pension. Sho added that sho was row too old to get much of a husband, ono who was ablo to support her us well as her pension had, and consequently she must take what sho could get, but did not feel liko again venturing ou tho matrimonial sea unless sho could do so and still continue to re eoive her quarterly remittance from the pension department. A widow who can state hor caso so cleverly, aud whoso utterances bear every evidence of candor aud sincerity, ought to have lit r wishes complied with, if this be at all possiblo under tho law, or eveu by stretching the law a mero trifle I A Snyder County Convict Commits Suicide. if mmmm .V,'.V, APAM IdMl'OK P. Adam Comfort, wlm was convict ed of shoot iug John Snyder with in tent tokill at Slnmokiii D.iin, on the night of January 1.1, 1KH, and sen tenced to three years imprisonment hi tho Eastern Penitentiary ut tin February court following, commit ted suicide on Saturday night, Jun M, by throwing himself under a coal wagou in the Penitentiary yard, r ceiving injuries from which he died iu the hospital a few hours after. Immediately upon Mr. Comfort's arrival in the Penitentiary in March IS'Jl, he was put to work at shoe- making, at which he remained until December 2D of last year. On tho date meutioned Comfort's mind be came affected, and ho intimated to several of his associates that lie was going to kill himself. Tho keep ers, ou lrninff this, placed him iu iuo kiOpp'.ttu ana aettiueu two oiIW convicts to watch him, so that he could not injure himself. His con dition was improved, and on Jan uary l'l, 18M, ho was assigned the duty of keeping a part of tho yard of the fifth block clean. After his release from the hospital he again threatened to do himself harm, and it was decided to continue watching him. Ho acted very strangely lately and never spoke to anyone. For a time ho refused to eat anything and once went without food for a week Ou Saturday afternoon about 2.:io o'clock two wagons belonging loC. H. Binns, coal dealer, brought loads of coal to the institution. Tho vc hides entered the entrance to tin yard where Comfort worked. After tho coal in tho first wagon had been weighed by Keeper Joseph M. Mor gan, tho vehicle started up tho drive way to the coal house. The other wagou started iu the same direction shortly afterwards. When the first wagon had gono about thirty yards the driver noticed the horses take a sudden spurt, as if they had been frightened, and on looking back the driver saw Comfort lying on tho ground over which the wagon had just passed. He went back and learned that he had been run over aud hurt. Comfort was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was attended to bv the prison phvsicain, Dr. M. V. Bull. The driver saw the dead convict gathering debris on the side of the path. Ho did not see him run to wards his wagon. The driver of tho other vehicle, which was following, said that he saw the man stop work and, running to the first wagon, de liberately place his head under one of the hind wheels, which passed over his neck. Another convict known as "A Slim," who witnessed the accident, corroborated the dri ver's story. Other witnesses say that tho man attempted to cross the driveway and was knocked down by the whvt'I. Miss Daisy, J. . Keed' sbeautiful aud accomplished daughter of Sun bury, will please accept our thanks for mui invitation to attend the eleventh annual commencement of tho Suubury High School in the Lyon's Opera House on the 25th ult. Although too late for tho ex ercises it is never too lato to return our thanks foe the kind remem 5rJ - f ' T brance. A Visit to Chicago Slaughter Houses. "Every human mouth is a slaugh ter pen !" Whether we dreamt this or heard somebody say it wo do not know, but the idea never before so forcibly impressed itself upon our mind as it did on Thursday morn ing, May 2.1, wlieu tho firm of Nel son, Morris . Co., chartered a spec ial train ou tho Michigan Southern and conveyed the National Editorial Association to their packinghouses iu Chicago to witness the "slaughter of theinnocents" to feci hungry man. This company owns and controls part of the MJ'l acres in South Chi cago justly railed the "City of Blood. Thirty-two packing houses have hero been erected in dose proximity for 11. e sake of eonveience to tho Mock yards, which occupy :V-'i acres more. Armour. Swift. Morris and Hammond, generally known as "the Big Four"' are the largest. Armour's buildings alone cover 40 acres w ith a total lloor an a of 1:1.1 acres, haing a storage capac ity of Iii.ikk) tons of meat. Upon our arrival at the slaughter house our ears were greeted by the bawling of calves ami the bleatingof sheep, ami as wo ascended to the fourth lloor our own voice almost became inaudible from the squeal ing of pigs. Hero wo were ushered into a kind of a balcony. Under neath iu a pen were probably live hundred pigs. At one end was a gangway and here stood a mau with a pair of nippers which ho fastened to tho hind legs of tho animals, aud before they knew what had happen ed they were hoisted to an ti rial railway and hans suspended before see Hog-sticking, but the scientific manner in which this man perform ed his part so interested us that wo could hardly get near enough. Ho stood in blood up to his shoe laces. His right arm wss bare to tho shoul der and ho was blood all over. Tluco hogs per minute passed through his hands, although he could have easily stuck a dozen per minute, for it re quired but one single movement of that terrible right arm, aud the blood would shoot si feet away aud the hog would slide down the rail against tho other dozen or fifteen that hung there still kicking. At the terminus of this railway each successive hog is automatically dropped lifeless, Voiceless, and bloodless into a vat of boiling wa ter, which soon put his hide into a condition so that tho bristles can be easily removed. The carcass continues its exciting progress down a long inclined table between two rows of men, each with a long, keen knife; it is rapidly deprived of its ititerior organs, and assumes tho ap pearance familiar to every visitor in a butcher shop. It is then hoisted to a perpendicular position upon an other serial railway, and disappears within the cool aud vast interior of tho "chilling room." Think of the old-stylo country butchering where it required a whole neighborhood from three o'clock iu tho moruing till ten at night to kill half a dozen hogs. Their capacity iu this one house is 4,5i0 per day, and the skill with which some of tho meu perform their part is almost inci editable. For instance the man who cuts oil' the heads is an artist in his line. By a single pass with an ordinary butch er knife he severs the head from tho earcasas though he were cutting cheese. He never misses the joint aud never dulls his knife by letting it come in contact with tho spinal column. Then the man w ho cuts up the hogs is an artist, and it requires only live seconds of his precious time to cut up half a hog. SUudiug with an uplifted clever the sido is brought before him. One cut severs the hind foot, oue tho front, ono iu front of tho ham and ono back of shoulder. There you havo it live cuts in live seconds. Everything goes by machinery eveu tho men appear to bo but machiuos so per fect iu every Action, so correct iu every movement. From the pig killingostablishinont wo passed on to tho slaughter house for cattle. Here a scene greeted us that is apt to make tho faint-hearted tremble at first, but you gradually become assimilated to the surround ings an 1 before you leave you bo como fascinated to tho spot Here are one hundred head of steers tho second consignment to the slaughter room for tho day. They aro driven into narrow gangways -probably a docii at a time. Above them walk three men armed with common stone. hammers. You see the hammer descend, hear a dull thii 1 and a heavy fall. Tho side of I ho gangway ri.M-s up and Hit! animal rolls out where a man stands ready with a pair of damps which are f i-teiie I to the hind legs and in a moment the beef hangs suspended before I he sticker. After him comes the In a Icr. who eomiiii net s nt the lelt eye, runs hi , kuifn upand around the horns walks to the other side and before you know how it happi ti ed the head U skinned, cut off an 1 drops to the lloor. We timed the header and it required ju-t seven teen seconds to pel form his part. The beeve slides down an ;erial rail way where it i.s automatically drop ped into the hands of tho skinners under whose dexterous strokes of the knifo tho hide falls off as though it were a wet blanket. One thous and beeves and nearly five times as many hogs, calves and sheep are killed in this way every day. The company employs nearly h,nh per sons whose wages run from one t four dollars per day. Some of our butchers do not un dorstand how these packing houses can pay per hundred ou foot, lull and. deliver tJift -beef ,re jr irjt u" v cau .., i- , our farmers. The reason is this ' tho packer finds his profit in dis posing of those parts of tho animal which are absolutely useless to small slaughterers. Tho hide, lion,,, hoofs, tongue, liver, heart, tallow . olt.'o fat, intestines and blood pay tho cost of killing and refrigerating, fuel, salt, labor, buying, driving, etc., which is about 1.75 on a steer weighing originally l,2t',u pounds, which costs the packer U. About fifty-live per cent of tho live weight of this animal is delivered to the retail butcher as dressed beef at a price which is less than tho cost of tho live animal. The value of the hide an I thuwa.sto products already enumerated may be fairly stated at Sll ; out of which must, be paid the cost of killing, salaries, rent, fuel, refrigeration, and whatever profit i made. For sale cheap -A Piano box tup buggy, also a few cushion and Pneumatic tire safety bicycles. A. H.Ulsii & Son. Miss Laura Kieller, after spending several weeks with her undo Bono villo Smith, returned to her homo at Adanisburg on Tuesd'y accompanied by her ncicc Miss Bessie Smith, who will visit her uncle J. G. Moyer for several weeks. The Bepublieans of I'nioti county held their primary election ou the 27th ult., and tho following ticket was nominated : Treasurer, D. 1'. Higgius ; Uegister and recorder. W. Shields ; Commissioners, A. A. Geiubcrhng ami H. It. Hart man ; lifprtseiitative Delegate, 11. A. Taylor. Justices of tho Peace throughout the country will hail with pleasure tho new fee bill which went into ef fect last week. According to the new bill justices can now charge for oath and information 50 cents, dock et entry 'J.1 cents, warrants 50 cents, transcript 51 cents, filtering dis continuance of assault and battery casses 50 cents, entering action 'J5 cnts, summons or subpcou.i 25 cents with 1" for cadi additional name, re turn of summons 25 cents, entering satisfaction 15 cents, execu tion 5U cents, return of proceedings ou certiorari or appeal 1, receiving or paying over where tho amount is over 100, l per Uuudied.
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