December 9, 1857 The Connellsville (Pa.) Enterprise gives us the following.  A blind family, consisting of four persons, John, Catharine, Bartholomew, and Samuel Hostetler, were born in German township in this county – the whole of them being at the time of their birth, and are at the present time destitute of eye-balls, but have … Read more

December 2, 1857 Shocking Railroad Accident – On the 18th ult., a shocking accident occurred on the R. R. at Pottsville.  A married woman, named McGlency, while walking on the track, saw a train approaching, and to avoid it stopped on to the adjoining track.  As she did so a train came upon her from … Read more

November 25, 1857 FAST WORK – A Mr. Miller, one day last week, for a wager, undertook to husk 35 barrels of corn, from sun-rise to sun-set, which he more than accomplished, having husked 37 ½ barrels in less than nine hours, besides typing up the fodder.  The feat was performed on the farm of … Read more

November 18, 1857 WOMAN STARVED TO DEATH IN PROVIDENCE.  – Among the deaths in this city last week, was that of a female in the Sixth Ward, about forty years of age, whose physician’s certificate states that the cause of her death was ‘want of nourishment.’  What a record for a city where the friends … Read more

November 11, 1857 We learn from the Carbondale Advance that Mr. Quackenbush, and the widow of the late J. Aitken, have each brought a suit against the township of Providence, Luzerne county, for damages, in consequence for the accident which resulted in the instant death of Mr. A. and the serious injury of Mr. Q.  … Read more

November 4, 1857 Man Drowned. – Suspicious. – A man named Hugh McCune, the keeper of a boarding house on the line of the Lebanon Valley Railroad, was drowned in the lock of the Union Canal, near  Hummelstown, on Monday evening of last week, under circumstances warranting the belief that he met with foul play.  … Read more

October 28, 1857 Mr. Christian Lapp, of Lancaster Co., lost a stallion valued at $1,200 on Friday night.  His death was the result of overfeeding.  He was on exhibition at the time, at the Lancaster Agricultural Fair. President Buchanan has directed one of the new sloops of war, ordered by Congress, to be built at … Read more

October 21, 1857 The murder of Miss Bavor, at Morhsville, while on her way to the Reading Agricultural Fair, creates considerable excitement in that section of the country.  No clue has as yet been discovered which might lead to the detection of the perpetrator of the horrid deed. A son of Mr. Philip Stetler, of … Read more

October 14, 1857 Married on the 8th inst., by Rev. H. S. Miller, Mr. Anthony Gerhard to Miss Sarah Ellenberger, both of this Borough. Married on the 24th ult., at Reading, by Rev. L. Leinbach, Mr. Isaac Hain, of North Lebanon borough, to Miss Mary Ann Billman, of this borough. Married on the 6th inst., … Read more

October 7, 1857 Mr. John Klinger, from Juniata county, while attending court in Middlesburg, Pa., was politely informed, on Thursday last, that a neighbor of his had taken advantage of his absence and eloped with his wife, leaving her husband and five children.  Amos Shadle, who succeeded in alienating her affection from her former husband … Read more