Patiick Collins, a Commissioner ot
Schuylkill county, was found guilty ot
I'orgiry on Saturday. lie was appoint
ed a tax collector iu 1875, and being re
quired to give a bocd, it was charged
that he forged the names of bis five
bondsmen in connection therewith.
Pennsylvania petroleum ia now worth
more annually, as a commercial pro
duet thac the silver of Nevada or the
gold of C alifornia.
J. T. Burdite cockad bis rifle to
shoot a uiuskrat in Crawford county a
few days ago. The game disappeared,
aud while ha was uncocking the piece
the load was accidentally discharged
into the body of Win. Donahue, who
was passing in front of the muzzle.
1 The wound proved fatal
The body of Mary Howard, aged five
years, was found dead in Sbamokin
Creek, along the Reading railroad in
Northumberland county. The little
girl bad wandered away from borne
several-days previous, aud no tidings of
i Der whereabouts bad been recaived un
j arrested a few days ago, and lodged in
the Westmoreland couuty nil. lie
belongs to a notorious gang which has
been operating in Somerset and West
moreland counties during last winter
Tbe Columbia National Bank bas
presented a claim to Congress for
, J f
estruction of the
Co!umb;a bridge in 1803, by order of
General Couch, as a military necessity
to prevent the rebels from crossing the
Sasq'iehaiina and marching to llarris
burg or Philadelphia,
Soma n'gSts ago tbe Trindle Springs
Church, near Mcchanicsburg, was en
tered by persons unknown Tbe wiue
on hand for communion purposes, a coat
belonging to the sexton, together with
some collection money was carried
away. No clue to the depredators.
