THE POST Co. (.'onimfcaioncu, 1 1 )l IL I UUI H emphatically ft NEWS I A I' K It , f r l lie reopk- nnrt t the I'onple. Its ml. umnsnrn always n'ti for the dlwawtWin ot topics of Interest to It patrons. VOL. 31. ITEMS of LOOAL INTEREST Editor Burns of the Williamstown Time spent Sunday in Middleburgh. Adam Spangler of Una town lias been quit neriouRly ill during the last week or ten days. Mrs. Caroline Miller, of Lewis town, spent Beveral days last week with Lor brother, 'Squire Gilbert, of this place. The editor of the Post is in Harris burg this week attending the an nual business meeting of the State Editorial Association. The little "diftcr" of snow on Tuesday morning brought out a few sleighs and the unfamiliar sound of sleigh bolls was heard for a few hours. Spocial bargains will bo oftered at the Cash Store between this and Spring. Come, Bee. and bo convinc ed. David Wetzfx, 4w. Swineford, Pa. Harry Swineford, formerly of Middlebureb. died at his homo in Mifllinburg on Sunday night, Jan 28, aged 1 years. His complaint was heart failure. Elmer Eisenhower of Franklin township, aged about 25 years, died .at Glen Union last week after only three days' illness of pneumonia. He was brought home f r burial on Thursday. For Rent on Sale. A good dwell ing house and bank barn, with two lotn, in the borough of Middleburgh, .For particulars call on or address J. M. or George Steininger, Middleburgh, Pa, i . . . I - 1. " 1CL till VJV www www 7 iy evet, ng, and made many Tvuggostions which, if observed, would accomplish a great deal of good. Charles Spitler, of Shamokin, a brother to Samuel Spitler, of Swinc iord, while painting a house at Klinosgrove, Pa., fell from a scaffold twelve feet high and broke both bones in tho nnkle of his right leg. Tho protracted meeting in tho U. JJ. Church closed ou Tuesday eve ning. Rev. Weugert has been very -successful in his services in this cir cuit, and his devotion and energy to the cause of Christ has won him many admirers. $50.00 Pen Week Easily Earned. AVe want a good man with reference to represent us and manage our busi ness in Snyder county. Apply at once for terms. Liberal induce ments. Best Company j Lowest Rates ; Prompt Payment. Aetna Live Stock Ins. Co., 3t. 100 South 10th St., Phila., Pa. "Mistaken Socls Who Dream ok Bliss." Tho following marriage li- enses have beou granted since our last publication : Andrew J. Weaver, Seliusgrove if Clyde E. Keller, j Clyde O. Smith, Ponn twp. ( Katie A. Wetzel, Umnion Klose, Reaver twp. )Salhe E. Roaricb, Franklin " District Attorney II. E. Miller re quests us to say for him that he is not in possession of a confession bearing ou the Hauo murder case, and knew nothing of tho dispatch Bent to tho dailies from Lowisburg last week. From this we judge that Lewisburg has uomo penny-a-liuer who is anxious to earn tho price of a pack of fitiuking cigarettes in spec uniting on Snyder county news, Choke him oil". Some scientific fellow has figured out that within six months from the time it is threshed wheat will shrink six por cent, or two quarts to the bushel If this bo tho case, 91 cents per bushel when it is threshed is ns good as 1 the next February or March. The shrinkage in corn is about ton per cent, so that 100 bushels in Novoiubor will not meas ure more than DO in February. Such being the case, 50 cents per bushel in November is as good as 45 in Feb ruary or March. The Bhrinkago in potatoes is about 20 per cont. MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER Musical Convention. The time sot for tho Middleburgh Musical Convention having drawn so near (rob. l'Jtu), I earnestly ap peal to all who love music to assist me in making it a perfect success, either by their preseuco in the clasB or in the audience. These musical gatherings, without exception, re sult in good in many ways i they in spire participants with enthusiasm for musical improvement and educate tho taste through the study of good music ; they familiarize tho public with grand choral effects and the works of the groat masters, and load to better voice culture, better choirs and heartier cougregational singing. Every convention brings to the sur faco and inspires the development of some superior talent, which other wine would remain dormant and un known. Tlio utility of those musical gatherings is bo well established and acknowledged by our greatest musicians that everybody should en courago and patronizo them, and by doing so add to tho intelligence of the people and assist to raise the standard of music teaching and music appreciation. P. BlLLIIARDT. The Juniuta JlentLl last week en tered upon its fourteenth vol u mo, and us editor, liro. Allison, upon his sixty-second. Tho Jlerahl stands at tho head of independent journal ism in Juniata county, and we wish our Scotch neighbor all the glory riches, and honor ho deserves. Halo he your heart, Imputable 11111: Lung may yourclliuclt Hhove tho quill, "To cheitr you thro, tlw weary wldoie O' warly cares. Till bairn's bulrni kindly cuddle Your i era? hMn' Any person who shall use" 6r at-' tempt to use in payment of postage, any cancelled postage si amp 8, whether tho same have been used or uot, &c, shall, on conviction thereof, bo punished by imprisonment for not loss than six mouths nor moro than one year, or by a fiuo of not loss than 100 nor more than $300 for each offense, or by both Buch fine and imprisonment, in the dis cretion of tho court. Persons who aro collecting can celled postage stamps with tho hope of receiving 100 after they have so cured onu million of tho stamps, should take their slato and pencil and sit down and figure a little. One million stamps means three hundred a day for ten years Sun day included with pay at the rate of ten dollars per year and to wait ten years for your pay. You can mako moro money peddling peanuts in a grave-yard. Fou Rent. A Couutry Store stand, comprising a 15 by 30 foot store room and a seven room dwell ingall at 50 per year. Tho Btock of merchandise will be sold to tho renter at almost .his own figures. Possession given any timo between now and tho first of April, 189-1. It is a first class country stand. For particulars call on or address C. A. Mover, Globo Mills, Pa. Shooting. Match. A shooting match will bo held at my shop in Swineford on Saturday, Feb. .3, at 1 o'clock. There will bo three prizes, viz : 1 lounge, 1 patent rocker and 1 boot-blacking chair, solid oak. No. 5 shot will bo used at a distance of 35 yards, and a solid block with a 2-inch paper will bo shot against. AH marlismon are invited. Should tho weather bo inclement the match will take placo on Monday following. S. B. Si'Itler, Swineford, Quito a Burpriso was created in tho Orphans' Court of Cumberland county ou Tuesday by tho action of Judge Sadler in suspending tho confirmation of tho accounts of ad ministrators, executors and of guar dians, until tho fees paid by the ac countants to tho Register of Wills aro examined and itemized. In this instauco tho court has departed from tho regular practice because of the serious charges lately made con cerning tho extortion practiced in those offices in that county. Brutally Treated. Last week's Centre county papers contained tho following account of the shameless treatment of a 10-year-old boy in that county : "Milton Harman, a blacksmith lived with his wife and four children, and his stepson, a lad aged about 10 years, just east of Axe Man. For n fear past or longer, people living in that locality noticed the cruel treat ment the stepiou was receiving from to entire llarman family; but no one had the courage and fortitude to take any action to stop tho cru elty until last week. Then, because of the disappearance of tho child, and the neighbors thinking that all was not right, Mr. Watsou Struble, a farmer living nearby, came to Bellefonto and, before the proper authorities, made information and complaint. A search warrant was issued by District Attorney Singer and on Friday a constable was sent to search for the boy. Tho search proved fruitloss however, as no boy was found, tho parents averring that ho had boou sent away to some relatives. ine authorities, However, were Lnot satiPhed, and ou Saturday tho i'..,.. ...... 4 i. .... and made a search and this timo success crowned his efforts. The U(V was found in a locked room, with bis hands tied behind his back ii) a cruelly painful position, and al nqat dead, from torture, neglect and 'lack of food. The childi'was tAd In charge ami tho whole fam Cy placed under arrest and brought tqEellefonto. They wero takeu beforo Jttsb-1 of the Peace John B Linn "Aiiijf 1 bearing although , this got a glimpse of the child." "His limbs, ears, lips and fingers had pieces of flesh torn out, and his emaciated body was almost com pletely covered, with bruises, abrasions and half-healed wounds. One leg was found to lo broken, the tho fracture having been made more than a year ago, and never , having boou reduced. This was all the cvi denco required to placo tho entire, family under arrest, send tluinJiTi jail, and there they now are await ing their trial, which will be given this week." The Lowistown Electric Light company has purchased tho Lewis town gas works, tho consideration being $10,000. "You love my daughter ?" said the old man. "Lovo her !'' ho ex claimed passionately ; "why.Jsir, I would dio for her. For one soft plauco from those sweet eyes I would hurl myself from yonder cliff and perish, a bleeding, bruised mass, upon tho rocks two hundred feet below." The old man shook his head. "I'm something of a liar myself," he said "and one is enough for a small family like mine. On Sunday evening a week, Rev. T. Dewitt Talmago anuounced that he intended to resign the) pastorate of tho Brooklyn tabernacle on tho first of April next, tho twenty-fifth anniversary of his taking charge of the church. He finds ;tho task of building the church for? the third timo too much for human endur ance. Thero is a largo debt ou tho present edifice, audi tho trustees, against tho wishes of Dr. Tulmage, chaige ten cents admission to hear him. It is intimated that'this has had something to do with his resig nation. Wesley E. Stroup, of Monroo Twp. committed ono of tho common blun ders of our day to replenish his Btock in trado on tho gotrich-quick plan by forging several notes ou his father-in law for over $1000, and ono for $10 on tho gcuoral agent of a machine company from which ho had brought a traction engine. Stroub now languishes in tho Snyder County jail awaiting his trial for forgery, at the next term of court which will be hold in February. From general re ports concerning tho affair Stroub may be required to chango his resi dence for several years. Times, CO., PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1894. Good Men For Township Offices, j Tho .'district nominations for the spring election have about all been uado with the usual trouble to get the consent of the desired men to go on tho tickot. This is tho case every spring. Some refuse to allow their names to go on the ticket becauso the offico to which they aro to be elected is without emolument, and all the pay is tho abuso they get for doing what they think is best hence they are not much to blame. More over, they must uot forgot that theso offices must bo filled, and that the littlo offices which nobody wants aro the very foundation stones upon which our civil government rests, and tho greatest care should bo exer cised that they bo properly filled. Another reason that gojd meu some times hesitate about allowing their names to go on the ticket is to avoid tho opportunity to their ene mies to "knife" them, for every man, no mattor how just aud honorable ho may be, has his enemies ; and the better the man, tho more vicious is often tho element that opposes him for tho good man's virtues aro most roadily recognized through the whis key-laden denunciations of tho duffer. This is often why men of good standing aro defeated, and the result of tho spring election is not a criterion by which to measure a man's good standing in his commun ity, because he coul 1 not maintain tho qualities of a gentleman and re tain tho good will of tho ward-heeler and pot-house politician. Every man who accepts a littlo m'unicipaloflico does so at n sacrifice to himself. Only t'vo classes oscapo serious loss The one 19 he whose uprightness is beyond the flight of tho arrows o tho duffer s and the other is ho who has no reputation to lose. - Wants $20,000 Damages. Isaac Raven, of York state, whose vocation is that of a lumber inspec tor, has uspd the Millheim mid Co burn turnpike company for jjiJO.nO') damages for a cru-ihed leg, from an accident on that pike over a year ago. Tho caso is down for trial at Rellcfonte, for week of January 2'.. Tho particulars in tho case, as re lated to us, aro as follows : While Mr. Raven and a friend were driv ing in a buguy from Coburn to Mill heim, they met a lumber team on tho roud opposite Reed Alexander's, and in their endeavor to turn out, tho buggy was upset by striking a large stone sticking up in the road, and Mr. Rnveu was thrown under tho passing lumber wagon, the wheels of which crushed one of his logs below the knee. Ho has re mained at Woodward since under surgical care. Our informant says tho pike company has offered Mr. Raven $10,iK)il ; as this pike is only two and u half miles in luiiglh, such damages would bo a serious lesson for not having it in safe condition. Centre Hall lit porter. . . Mrs. D. K. Haas diod of consump tion at her home in Shamokin on Saturday. Mrs. Haas was an esti mablolady and was wellkn jwu hero. Hon. Margin Bell, Blair county's new judge, mudo a ruling last week which commends itself to everyone conversant with much of the business transacted in courts of Quarter Ses sions, to the effect that hereafter at all courts of quarter sessions no minors under 10 years of age, cither boys or girls, would bo permitted except iib witnesses and ho directed tho officers of tho court to carry out that order. Tho wisdom of this rul ing is obvious, in view of the effect certain ovidonco at theso sessions would have on youthful minds. It would not bo amiss if a similar rul ing wero made in this county to hold good not only in our court of quarter sessions bit at all trials bo that tho disgraceful terms of shame less witnesses might not fall on tho ears of tho youths of our town as was the caso ia our court house last week. Mild Winters. Mr David Krapo, an old resident of Haines township, Centre county, writes the editor of tho Bellefoutc Jhiily yerc$ the following interest ing lot tor concerning past mild winters : "January 1819 was very mild and warm. On the 23d James Monks was executed in Bellefoutc, and when our poople crossed tho moun tains for their homos in Brush nnd Penus valleys, tho toads wero hop ping around quite lively. It was a model summer day. Tho loth. 17th and ISth days of November. 1H.17, wore very cold and tho following January was like a summer mouth. Sinco that timo I have taken par ticular notice and it always proves correct, that if wo get cold weather before the 2lst of November we will have a vory mild January. Every body will remember the cold spell wo had tho beginning of last Novem ber, while in tho fall of 1 s.2 we had no cold weather until December, and a cold winter followed. "In January 1810 there was mild weather. However, a six foot snow fell one day, but in three days and aud nights it was all goue and in February farmers began ploughing and making garden. I never saw a uicer January thau we had in.lxn. Iu April of that year tho maplo trees wore ready for sprouting. During tho Mexican war we had one Janu ary and February so warm that forest fires raged, and people thought tho sinok was from a big battle iu far off Mexico. . Hints To Correspondents. " " . iK J uiKAktiig esoteric cogita tions or articulating sporficiul senti ineutalies and philosophical or psy chological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your statements possess a clarified con ciseness, compacted romprchcusihle ness, coalesccnt consi-ttency and a concentrated cogency. Hschew all conglomerations of flatulent gar rulty, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extempora neous descantings and unpremed itated expatiatious hare intelligibil ity and veracious vivacity without rhodomontade or thrashonical bom bast j Hodulously avoid all polysyl labic profundity, ysittaceous vacuity, vcutriloquial verbosity and grandil oquent vapidity shun double en tendres, prurient jocosity and pos tiverous profanity, whether obscur eut or apparent. In other words, talk plainly, wen sibly and truthfully. TROXELVILLE. On Thursday night, some un known dogs killed four of Jeremiah Moyer's sheep and wounded three others Daniel Aurand, who is some Ml yours old. is down with dropsy. Thomas Swartz, another gentleman high up in the seventies, is very feeble at this writing.... i'rauk Herman's friends up here aro anxious to know what happened to him that ho had a rib broken. Some think that a black bass kicked him iu tho ribs and fractured his "screw top" only.... P. S. Ritter, of Sha mokin Dam, is a stranger to most of our people up here, but still there are a few warm friends here who re joice iu him being takeu iu out of the cold. Scott can shoot a deer as easy us anybody with equal chances, and never lies when he makes a miss shot. Such n man can be trusted everywhere nnd under all circum stances. .. ."Texas George" was re reported to the Peace-makers of Middleburgh to bo the toughest of all living toughs a man-eater and a regular dare-devil of a holy terror. This caused a warrant to bo issued for his arrest, and placed in the hands of tho proper officer of the borough, who camo m hero with fear aud trembling like an aspen in an August breeze aud inquired for G Go-Goo-George (1 Ge Gctz. Mr. R. was shown Mr. Getz's residence to which he repaired und found that George's character was greatly over drawn, and truly found him as do cile ns u lamb. George submitted, liko tho gentleman lie is, and gave bail to appear at court. I will now predict that at the end of tho suit Paul Ettiuger, who is tho complain ant, will go to jail for failure to buy the costs of tho suit. Cal. Joe. l run v Ihr i- IMnr. l i- inn uli "ntviih.' 1 1 h i';ir iit"i "itlltir,' And n'cr Holdout, .-r.i'M r 1 1 ' i' ti i a f r NOA BEAVERTOWN. Friday evening, Jan. 20, Mat y, wife of Jacob O. Smith, died of eiternal inflammation. She was aged about M years. Her husband uml live daughters, nil married, survive her. Funeral Tuesday. .. Mrs. Ella (Kern i Hackenberry is confined to her room with rhumat ism Mrs. Arson Specht is sull'ering from dropsy.... John Uearick has erected a feed mill a short distance south of his hydraul ic cider press..., A foot-bridgo has been pl jced acrosK Middlecreek near Isaac Wagners' about 'J miles north of town . . .Rev. (lember of Central Ponn'a College, preached in tho Ev angelical church on Sunday fore noon Mrs. J. (I. Snyder atid Mrs. A. J. Middleswarth visited Mrs. Al fred at the county-seat one day last week. Wn.n Roses. LOWELL? The primary election on last Sat urday was well attended and both parties formed a good ticket. It will be iiuposible for any one to be defeated ...Henry Kneni) and fam ily of Baimcrville, Sundayed at. T. F. Swineford The snow this Monday morning reduces the num ber down to twenty live still to come for this winter. No say the proph ets Harvey Smith of McClure, after a long spell of sickuess died ou last Saturday morning ..Our vet ern lime burner, Levi Treaster, can bo seen on our streets early and late going to and from his hard work. . . . The grip has left, our town and nil are in good health at this writing Our hunters are nil waiting lor u few inches of snow ho that thay can hunt the short tail 'posson. U. No. POUT TREVORTON. Couuty siiperinlendt Prof. F. C. Bowersox, was pit .mt with us for a few hours last week. His lib eral words of eueour igement in school and. exhoi tut'on iu church have been much appreciated ... .Av company, after lading to kcouio play house adapted to their require ments, departed, highly disgusted with school officials and with own ers of other public places, where they were relused admittance We have few adherents to the pro hibitiou party, yet at the elections of last Saturday, both Democrats lltld Republicans seemed quite will ing to put the lui'inr down.... One night last week 1'osl 107 (1. A. R. with its wives and widows laid siege to a banquet given at I'ust Com iiiander. Dr. John O. Nipple's res idence. It was an easy conquest and soon upwards of a hundred wert comfortably seated about a table, win re the sooty camp kettle was only figurative, and hard tack an entire stranger. Congeniality and general inclination toward fes tivity Was attested by Hie merry, mingled conversation, and ringing laughter that arose miun from the slightest provocation. St "lies of the war were in order, while each turk that was decapitated ill the onslaught, preliminary to the gen eral engagement, speedily became it soldier's bird. It is needles to add that all went home rejoicing. Jll in.lt Swhur, MONROH TOWNSHIP. Changeable weather and muddy roads make travel very unpleasant, and if true, as it undoubtedly is, that our supervisors have leasee) the road leading from the Reading It. It. bridge to Selilisgrove to the Street Car Company-and the mi. bile of tht! road at that,--travel will be more impeded yet, for then we can lug along ou both sides of the gut ters The people of Monroe are bound to have somo wrongs righted, and the candidates for legislature will have to promise to aid all iu their power to repeal such laws as tho dog tax bill aud the road bill be foro they can expect any votes. The above laws are a nuisance to the far mer and laborer aud should lie re pealed. .. .Tho Monroe district in stitute convened at Teals' school house last Thursday evening with a full house and a great deal more noise than at App's school. After the usual exercises, viz : reading, es says, declamations, c, the subject was discussed for aud against erect ing a graded school house iu the centre of the township for the bene fit of the whole township of Monroe . . . . Franklin Jarrett itud Howard Klingler, accompanied by their wives, were the guests of "Michael Herman's, last Sunday. . Jno. Sholler paid his daughters, Mrs. Fertig and .Mrs. Miller, of -Northumberland, u visit, last Friday Thomas Don ley, of Shamokin, was thegueht of his mother, Mrs. Franklin Jarrett, over Sunday. .. .Franklin Sholler, John AValter, Daniel Hauo and Irvin Woodling were tho champion marks men at Simon HuiumiTs, last Saturday.
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