HI Wi'UW THE POST A i Co. Commissioners. It III'M I lliull 'I .1 i-T,,, , A lut iifvrr Buhl "ill. Uuiiianlri'il I'ln iil.il n UK l) OL. 30. SMS of LOO AL INTEREST tins LiiU Smith U tisititiff ri'U-...m- . lit .Minimum. bos at Aurauda Milliner Store. .r;wor and Recorder G. M. Shin- jand wife spent Sunday fit rnlliiH. jt. Oitntzborgor has moved into his f" lioino at the North etui of town, n ini.U of fish are. reported un- :vlly Hcarco in Middlecrcekhia yi r (liecnouirh of Beavcrtown, jho guest of Mrs. M. A. Bolender IlitH place. . Lay tansy leaves upon your cab fco plants and, it is until, no worms touch it. German Hassinger of Sunbury, fut Sunday with his parents at b place. Tiss Sarah Walter spent several ys last week in Montouravillo anil Bliainsport. lira. John Stahluockcr returneil jyTuosday from ft visit to rclativt-H Akron Ohio. f the Lutheran Sumlay school hehl Veresting Chililren's Day Ber vices jSumlay evening, iranil-mother Breou of near New rlin, spent several days last week jh 'Squire Gilbert and family. ilrs. David Beichley of Fonns ek, spent last week with her hiy friouda in Middleburgh. JVasted. Two hundred pigeons. particulars address at once M. L. Ereeoer, Middleburgh. Pu., Rev. 1. r. JNeu and ms ueicgaic, Z. Steiningcr, aro attending therau Conference at McKees lis this week. Irs. Oliver Meusch. of Miffhn- ;h, accompauitd by her daugh- Currio and son George, are visit- relatives in Middleburgh. rauk Bowersox, of Rock Springs, iutro county, spent ft few days ong his many friends in this eoun- S last week. N. Brosius. of Mt. Pleasant Ills, an expert on tho bb cornet, is listing the Middleburgh Hand at jW Berlin this week. Svery bottle of Arnica & Oil Liu ent sold is warranted by tho pro tors to give satisfaction or money 1 be refunded. June. L Sunday school picnic will be d at Smith Grove, on Saturday, no 17th. A festival in the eve tg. All invited. . G. Gutelius aud C. H. Steiuiug left ou Tuesday for Anglosoa to :e a day's sea-fishing with Mr. tweiler of Philadelphia. )r. P. F. Ilayatt of Lewisburg, been appointed consul to San o, Cuba. It is one of tho most fcortant posts in the West Indies. wharley Walter's Ice-Cream parlor s I having a big run, and he is ac jdited with manufacturing tho it Cream ever dished out in Mid iburgh. "loro people, adults aud children troubled with costivenoss than J any othor ailment. Dr. Henry iter's Mandrake Bitters will cure liveness and prevent the diseases i:h result from it. June. bio Juniata Valley editors who in Altoona on Saturday and wLo r sumptuously fed by Editor u, decided to make Bedford nga tho objectivo point of the prston this yoar. o grain and grass in this county " auu a lair crop may bo - - I'umLut n uiu h km 1 i fu noon nead-way aud favor weather from this ou will in a largo crop of both. Apples, K ylamn, poars, peaches, Jites aud all other fruits will bo Abundance. All 1 - iuvni.iitiuu9 am wa will have another year of ity. Owen Goss has been appointed post-master at Troxelville, aud E. U. Hotteustein fit Shamokin Dam both first class selections. A. l' Gilbert, son of Jacob Gilbert, Esq., and C. F. Mensch of tho Tost, who have been attending tho Frauk lin & Marshall Academy at Lancas ter, returned home last Saturday to spend their vacation. F. E. Bower Esq., is taking les sons ou the bicydo. lie does quite well for an amateur, and although he raises quite as much dust as law yer Weiscr, lie is not so destructive to the public highway. "Mistaken Souls Who Diieam or Buss." Tho following marriage li censes have been granted siuco our last publication : f James J. Kahley, McChtre, If Ma.io Lins, " S.T. I. Stonooypher, Selinsgrove, ifHatlio Ulrich, The Evangelical Sunday school of Port Trevortou will hold Children's Day exercises on Sunday, Juno H, at ..:) A. M. and 7 P. M. Music will be furnished by the choir, and declamations by the juuiors. Ad dresses will bo delivered by Prof. Bowersox and Eev. Davis. Com. Eight years ago a Harrisburg man saved a wealthy Luzerne coun ty man, who was hard of hearing, from being run down by a train. Tho rescuer got $200 on the spot and n few days ago the news came to him that the wealthy man had died and had willed him $25,000. t Johnny Bolender, son of ex-treaa urer Charles Bolender, whilo playiu with a revolver 6n ' Friday of last week, caused one of tho cartridges to explode and the ball, after lacer ating a finger, entered his thigh to such ft depth that tho physician has been thus far unable to recover it. Our old friend Adam Bubb of New Berlin, has been awarded tho contract for carrying the mails be tween New Berlin and Middles warth, and is having a wagon built expressly for carrying passengers. With tho improved facilities over this lino first class transportation is now afforded from Middleburgh to New Berlin by way of Centreville. Bellefonte has evidently its quoto of inebriates, as it is rumored a gold cure establishment will bo started there soon. For some of them we would advise a dose of lead instead of gold ; it would bo choaper and tho town would bo benefitted. With n gold cure and a prohibition paper to bo started there, tho town is up to date. Centre Hall Jleportrr. It has been shown that a stream of water from a uozzlo with ft diameter any place between six and uiue inches, with the surface of tho sourso of supply lo0 feet high, will furnish power euough to lift a bowlder of 1,000 pounds into the air and hold it thoro. A stream of this character cannot bo cut with uu ax, as it is mado as impervious as a bar of tem pered steel by tho enormous pres sure resting upon it. The officers of tho society of tho Army of tho Cumberland at Wash ington, D. C, havo been engaged for six months, and with great suecoss, upon a work of much interest to veterans. They havo undertaken to obtain tho names, postollico ad dresses and occupations of the sur vivors of that urmy. Tho object is to print a roll of honor. Tho histor ian, Col. G. C. Kuiifen, has already secured tho addresses of 112,(XM), Governor Pattison has vetoed tho bill to ro-imburso the counties in tho State for the money expended in ro-buildiug tho bridges swept away by the June flood of '8!. Tho funny thing about it is tho blarney ing in his veto message regarding the groat expeuso this would bo to tho State, aud thou sits down and signs nearly all tho other appropri ation bills passed bv tho Pennsyl vania Legislature during its last session, lie reminds us very much of the man who stopped u-p a rat hole with a piece of stove-pipo. MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER A Visit to Libby Prison. At a point ou Wabash Avenue, between Fourteenth aud Sixteenth streets, in the City of Chicago, stands Libby Prison, thau which no other building in the Western Hemisphere has a sadder or more remarkable history. One may seriously question, indeed, if else where on the face of the globe thero stands ft structure representative f so much tragedy, about and within whose walls cluster so dark and in numberablo ft brood of dreadful memories. Tho twelve great rooms and four dungeons of this huge building have doubtless echoed mure sighs of an guish, heard more whispered agony, and witnessed the pitiful death of a larger measure of human hope, than ever fill to tho lot of inclosing walls of a similar size and character. Here in these great gloomy spaces to, 000 men, robbed of liberty, watch ed tho inexpressibly hIow passage of time, the days going like scarcely moving tears, the nights like black blots dying out of a dream of horror, seemingly eternal in its duration. Hero in a single room tho angel of death kissed the starved lips of hun dreds of men, and they censed for ever to whisper of sweetheart aud mother, ceased to murmur of food and ruuuing water, ceased to pray for a sight of tho blue sky and a breath of fresh air blowing over well remembcred fields. Iu this place broods the very soul of tyranny, and tragedy, a sense of tho cruelty of war for which tho human uiiud can shape no Adequate metaphor, of which human ppoeeh can present no imagery. To the thinker, to the man of imagination, and to him, who lay within its historic walls or took part in the herculean struggle of which it is tho greatest memento at present in the north, tho building is replete with indescribable fascina tion. Considered iu the line of as sociation, and with that which it at present contains, it is a marvelous relic ; iu many respects tho most im pressive object tho World's Fair City presents. The removal of this great war feature from Richmond to Chicago is unequaled iu the history of mu seum enterprise. The project had birth in tho mind of W. H. (hay, a well-known Chicago business man, who in time associated with himself several citizens of the metropolis, aud in 1838 the work of moving the famous prison was begun. As the building was takon apart, each board, beam, timber and block of stone was numbered and lettered, 112 carloads of matoiial, aud when it had arrived in Chicago, was put together again, leaving the structure precisely as it stood on tho banks of tho James. About it iu its now homo was erected a magnificent battlomented wall of artesian stone, from tho towers of which tho stars aud stripes now float, upon tho ramparts of which brouzo figures of soldiers stand guard, and cannon open black lips only to emit the silenco of unbroken pence. Passing through tho arch iu tho battlement wall, tho massive old houso of horrors comes at onco iu to view. There it stands exactly na it stood in the capital of Confeder acy. hat pictures and what mem ories it engenders ! How it sweeps tho past forward ! Sad time of blood and tears, throes of a sunder ed nation, wreck of human brother hood, you aro here 1 Behind these walls thousands of poor fellows, the yeomanry of liberty, hungry and ragged, lie upon the floors, sufloriiiff. Bull'ering, Buffering ! About this ed- lhco of death and pain stand tho armed guards, grim and merciless, Btoelod to murder in tho Ktrenctli of their fatal faith. Look 1 look there at a window iu tho third story ! i lace appears at tho iron bars : lins gasping for breath, eves turue il n.n- poalingly to the blue sky. A flash of fire from a musket iu tho hands of a guard, aud the white face sinks back, a groan, and eternal silenco lias settled in a human bosom. Alas, inexpressible barbarism evolv ed of differing human opinion I CO., PA., JUNE But look again. There is tho stars aud stripes blossoming against tho tender blue of our Northern sky, waving gently over this one time dwelling place of death and terror ! Peaco and sunshiun lie upon the building like a benedict ion. Hatred, rancor, and the tumult of passion aro gone; wo are standing in tho greatest and freest of undent cities, where the world is gathering to its Hupremcst festival of brotherhood ! Before us stands a great, mill stone in the progress of liumnn liberty, a monument to tint birth of peace. About us lie tho fragments, as it were, of the buttered gate through which wo entered the present era'; they aro instinct with instructive in terest. Here lies a Mali of steel front the rebel war-ship Merriutac ; here a mass of iron plates from a water battery on the Potomac, with great holes tore through it by cannon l.:i!l and a 2."0 pound solid shot imbedded in its centre ; here lies u huge tor pedo, picked up in Mobile Bay by Farragut, and here is nn enormous chain, which was streched across the Hudson River at West Point in 177H, by Gen. Putnian, to prevent the British ships from ascending the river. Tho links of it are two feet long and weigh I " pounds each. It is n remarkable relic of that early epoch, a strange chip from the storm buffeted bridge humanity was then building toward a larger liberty. Wo lift the hitch of the battered door of Libby and enter. It is a repository of strango and historic things. Here upon lie) right is a full length portrait of Major Thomas on from 'Ct to '('5 : before us stands tho famous tablo upon which Gon erals Graut and Leo drew up tho papers for tho surrender of tho Con federate army at Appomattox. Upon tho table lies the original manu script of Gen. Lee's farewell address to his army, and an orgintnl battle field order written by Gen. Grant. Near by is a great rick of project iles, illustrating tho progress of in vention in death-dealing missiles : canister, chain-shot, shell and solid shot, Bomo of the latter of enor mous size and weight. The largo room is crowded with cases of his toric documents aud war relics, the walls aro covered with portraits of eminent generals aud statesmen. ( Suidcs,thf uiselvcs once prisoners in this modern Bastile, shows tho vis itor about and explain the innumer able interesting features. Tho twelvo great rooms are tilled with notable and priceless memen toes of tho past. Over :ioo portraits of famous men adorn the walls, to gether with more than l.ooo other pictures of war scenes and events which were factors in the making of history. Here tho visitor may stand by tho fire place through which 10D Uuion officers made their escape from tho prison in Isiil, ono of tho boldest and most in genious escape's in tho whole history of war. Hero is tho bod upon which tho im mortal Lincoln breathed his last, the chair in which John Hancock sat, when he signed tho Declaration of Independence, a chair from tho homo of Thomas Jefferson, and one from tho residence of Jefferson Davis. Hero is tho original portrait of Columbus, painted by Sir An tonio Moro, at court of Spain, iu '1:1, aud purchased by Mr. Guuthcr, in Loudon, for $10,000. Hero aro tho stove, gooso and shears used by President Johuson whilo working us a tailor on tho bench, a life mask of Lincoln and a death mask of Grant, tho original will of John Brown, and tho suit of clothes worn by Wash ington at his second inauguration. One might fill page after page with names of tho raro and historic ob jects which mako this tho greatest of all museums. Its valuo and ex tent may perhaps bo butter illustra ted by tho statement that is quite impossible to view it all in ono day, and that several visits are necessary to grasp its detail and magnitude. The removal of Libby Prison to Chicago at first excited censure from certain sentimentalists. But this 15, -1833. has merged iu general praise for the entei prise aud foresight which snatched' this great historic monu ment from the ruin which time and inattention would inevitably have brought upon it. The walls of this old prison have been made holy by tho suffering of 40,000 men, who sickened and starved and died in the cause of human liberty. Like the shrines of the martyrs the building is sacred. Each beam is a cross upon which humanity win crucified for the benefit of the future ages, each brick is a sharp stone over which lutnan feet pressed a painful path to emancipation. All nraise to lm men who have preserved this i'i- gantic object lesson for the study of posterity, and who have crowded its wall. willi so much that is won derful, valuable and instructive. MMH-mM Fruit on trees standing at a line and overhanging a neighbor's land belong lo the owner of the laud on which the tree stands ; if he injures his neighbor's crop iu gathering the fruit he is liable for damages and in extreme cases he may be liable for the injury which the tree does, after due notice to remove it. The safer and more honorable way, is to let tho neighbor have the fruit which drops on his side of the line, after lines and trees have been established. "Rattlesnake 1W of (Jil City, Pa., him completed his wonderful suit. It comprises a double-breasted sack coat and trousers made of rattlesnake skins, the yellow and black stripes of which form a pe culiar bud not altogether unpleasin- gather enough skins of the right tex ture, over 400 feet of tho skins com prising 125 snakes, not ono of them less thau four feet long, being re quired. The t ilit coat buttons are rattlesnake heads mounted in gold. Two years ago the Iowa district synod asked the General synod of the Luther an church to pass ou the question of marriage and divorce. The memorial win referred to a committee at tho sessions of the general syncd held in Canton. Ohio, last week, which reported that the marriage service by ministry can be properly given only under tho con ditions set forth in Divine law; that the Divine law allows no disso lution of tho marriage bonds except for adultry and consequently remar riage of persons divorced on other grounds is not permitted. It afford us great pleasure to an nounce to our readers and tho pub lic that tho insurance business of the firm of Win. H. Snyder Ai and Son, has been wholy entrusted to tho efficient aud reliable junior member.Mr. E. W. Suyder.sinco the death of tho head of tho firm. Tho young man besides having line scholarly attainments and excellent qualifications which greatly fit him for his responsibilities, has also a vast store of knowledge and an al ready largo experience, altogether making him "tho right man iu tho right placo." Mr. Snyder requires no public recommendation, having a well established business reputation and a namo which has beconio a household word, not alone in this section but throughout tho Stato. Ho is representing nine of tho most reliable companies iu tho world in lire, uccidont and life insurance. Tho general agency being tendered Mr. Snyder just upon his attaining to his majority iu years, evinces the trust reposed in him by those whom ho represents and certainly speaks well for tho young man. Tho busi ness will bo continued at tho old of tico on Market Street, Selinsgrove, Pu., where tho friends and patrons will bo most cordially greeted by Mr. Snyder or his trustworthy offi. cial. Through increaso of business Mr. Suydor husjilreudv been oblii?. ed to enlarge his office force and will now bo the better enabled to i.t tond to his work throughout t'.io district. Our heartiest congratula tions and best wishes for linlinim.K ed success to the General Insurance Agont, E. W. Snyder. NO. !4 Hawking and Peddling. As many of our readers are under a misapprehension regarding the provisions of the bill which compels hawkers and peddlers to pay n license. we copy below the measure in full which is very clear and comprehen sive : "Sec. 1. Be it (naeted bv tli Sen ate aud House of Representatives of (lie Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the Name that no nerson or nei-Mim hall be employed or engaged or concerned iu the business or employ ment of hawking, peddling orselling merchandise, wares or other goods, or either or any of them within this Commonwealth, without having pre viously taken out a license, which said licence shall be issued by the court of iiiarter sessions of th.t re spective counties or any judge of the same iu vacation upon the applicant giving b nd to Hi,. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, uith sureties to be approved bv the said court or bv the said judge during vacation, iu the sum of S:MO, conditioned (h.q the applicant, shall ho of good behavior luring the continuance of ,;id li cense, nii.l which said license nhull be for one year from the date of the same, provided, that llicenso shall only be granted to citizens of the L'nited States and of this Common wealth. Sec. 2. That before said license shall be issued to any applicant he pay to the treasurer of tho proper county, for use of the Coiumon wealth of penn,'"',-: ''"o " travel on foot, tho sum of fifty dol lars ; for a license to travel with ono horse cart or wagon, the sum of one hundred and fifty dallars : to travel with two horses ainl wagon or other vehicle, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. :t. If un.v person or persons shall violate the provisions of this act he sliali be guilty of a misde meanor and shall forfeit ami pay for each and every oU'eiise the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered summarily before any justice of the peace of the county wherein the offense shall have been committed, and iu default of such pa.vnu nt shall lie sentenced to undergo an impris onment in the jail of the proper county for a period of not more than thirty days, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to prohibit farmers, gardncrs or dairymen from selling tho product of their own farms, gardens or dairies, nor tiny person from hulling goods or merchandise of his or her own manufacture, nor any person from buying or selling country produce, or articles of food, coal-oil, fruit of all kinds, fish, in cluding clams an. 1 oysters, trees, or the sale of bread, cakes, and meat of all kinds, or apply to persons who solicit orders from samples, catal ogue, card price list, of tho descrip tion known as commercial travelers. and further provided, that nothing iu this act shall abridge tho right of honorably discharged soldiers or sailors to peddle goods and wares under existing laws. Sec. 1. All acts or parts of acts in consistent w ith this act be and the same are hereby repealed. BMn Mrs. Gross, of New Berlin, visited her sister, Miss Sue Mensch, at this place, on Sunday. About ten o'clock on Tuesday night, a douulo-uoailer freight tram was coming east over tho S. ,V. L. road, and just after crossing Smith's trestle, two miles east of Beaver town, tho draw-head at one of the curs near the middle of the train gavo way and pieces of tho break dropped on the truck wrecking ten cars loaded with coal, coke and lumber. J. R. Foreman, a brake man, residing at Lewistown, was badly bruised but his injuries are not considered fatal. . Tho company soou had 120 men at work on the wreck and by day-light Wednesday morning tho road was clear for tho passage of trains.
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