Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-11

Of Allegheny county, While binding
grain, vas bitten on the 6aser by . rat. |
tlesnake. He imuedistsiy opened the
wound With knife and proceeded to
suck it vigorously. The wound has
healed, and he has experienced no trou-
BILE from the bite.
On Wednesday morning: July 14sh,
Daniel Spangle, of Aileuassviile, Clear
field county, was found in his barn,
shot dead. There was every evidence
that the unfortunate man had oone the
deed himself, as be had been partially
insane for some months, but nothing
serious bad been apprehended.
According to NJ. d. Conway, Spirit
ualism abroad is suffering = rapid de-
cadence.
The cattle disease known as the
"black tongue" has appeared in Madi-
son county, n. Y.
In Louisiana oranges arc sold on trees
at $40 thousand.
A number of Harrisburg fishermen
we're ined 500 each for fishing with
seine.
A daush.er-in-law Of the ex-Enper-
or Iturbide, of Mexico. is summering
at bethlehem, Pa, but Bethlehem peo-
pie havn't mortPaged their houses to
buy clothes with nor put on any more
airs than usual. Your Pennsylvania
Dutch blood flows evenly.-N Louis
Republican.
The house Of Mrs. Nellie Welch, In
the heart of the village Of Lacouia, n.
H., was entered by two burglars on the
night of the 9th inst. They gathered
two packages of valusbles in the lower
story and then assembled TO the sleep
ing room of Mrs. Welch. The light
from their lantern awakened her, and
they. extinguished it and fed, she fol-
lowing and firing upon them with a re-
volyer, but without effect. She pur-
sued them into the street, when they
.urned and knocked her down, leaving
her in an insensible condition. They
dropped their plunder in the front yard.
The school directors of Mexican
county, assembled at Smetbport, July
81, and By a vote of 5S 20 10, reduced
the salary of the County Superinter-
dent from $4,000 to 81 900 per year,
in compliance with the suggestion of
the Superintendent of Public Instruc.
ton.
A drunken man named Vim: Albert,
who resides in Canton, visited Carbon
Run on Tuesday, and after getting
drunk started for home Shortly after
leaving the mountain he found several
girls picking black berries in a field,
whom he chased, and caught one of
them-Jane Murray, aged Is years
and outraged her person. Mrs. Chapel
discovered the vile wretch, and at
tempted to rescue the girl, but was
driven into the house by the brute
Albert was pursued BY the constable
of Barclay and other citizens, and cap
tured at his bome in Canton about nine
o'clock the sane evening. On We'd
nesday morning he had hearing before
Esquire N'Crauy, and was committed
to Jail in this place in default of bail.
Bradford Reporter, July Goth.
Among the latest 'abor-saving ihven-
tions is patent painting machine,
which is said 20 paint SIX hundred laths
of ordinary size for Venetian blinds in
an hour.
No less than eight hundred clerks
are out Of employment through recent
English failures.
A boy of five years was "playing
railroad" with his sister of two and a
half. Drawing her upon footstool, he
imagined himself both the engine and
the conductor. After Initiating the
putting noise OF the steam, he stopped
and called out "New York." and in a
moment after 4" Paterson" and then
"Philadelphia." His knowledge of
towns was now exhausted, and at the
next place be cried /" Heaven" His
little sister said eagerly, Top, l des
I'll dot out here"
George Conner, aged Sc years, was
instantly killed on the morning of the
9th inst, at Baltimore shot tower.
While engaged at work his foot slipped
and he fell into the machinery.
They have rabbit nuisance in Kern
county, Cal nearly as annoying as the
grasshopper plague Of Kansas. One
man planted sixteen acres 10 sweet po-
tatoes and the rabbits eat up all there
was In six acres. The same plague
has visited the ranches on Fish Greek,
Nevada, totally destroying the crops,
5aving destroyed more than one hun
dred acres of barley. The rancbers
made an attack on them and destroyed
two hundred in single night; but it
seems to make no difference in their
number, and they swarmed into the
fields the next day.
California papers mention the fact
that MIR. Vivian is preparing a large
piece of one of the Tu.are county big
trees to exhibit at the Centennial next
year. The piece of timber selected is
sixteen feet long and twenty-one feet IN
diameter at one end and nineteen at the
other. The heart of this will be taken
out, leaving only about one foot of the
body of the tree attached to the she'll
or bark. 1t is necessary to divide the
log into eight parts in order to allow it
to pass through the numerous tunnels
between California and Philadelphia
The eight parts will weigh between 30,-
900 and 40,000 pounds, and will re-
quire two cars for transportation. One
solid foot of this tree weighs seventy
two pounds, being ten pounds heavier
than so much water. This timber was