Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-03
News Items,

performed.
Henry Lessig, Esq, Of Poststovs.
has worked at his occupation Of shoe.
making forty nine years-longer, per-
haps, than any other cordwainer in
this country. In his present shop, at
his residence on King street, he has
hammered away thirty-two years. and
in that time has worn out three floors
under his feet, and is now about having
the fourth floor put down.
While Michael Wilmer and wife, Of
Bowmansville, Lancaster county, were
attending market, some scamp rsnsack-
ed their house but failed to secure $500
which Mr.. w. had received . few days
before. The reason they didn't get the
money was that Mrs. W. put it in her
pocket aud took it along to market.
William Furman, Of Lebanon couu.
ty, discovered cartridge on the ground
minus the bullet, and while attempting
70 remove the dirt with which it was
covered with knife the cartridge ex-
ploded and blew of three fingers Of his
left hand and injured bis thumb se sere-
ly.
Judge Henderson, Of Lebanon coun-
ty, won't allow the Lebanonians to eat
peanuts in the Court House, and throw
the shells around the room while Court
is in session.
Solomon Keller, of Berklcy, Berks
county, while examining a revolver,
not thinking it loaded, accidentally
touched the trigger aud discharged it.
The ball lodged in his leg, passing al.
most entirely through it.
A Harrisburg sportsman killed three
wild ducks at one shot the other day.
On Tuesday night . week, as Con-
stable Bradley, of Allegheny township,
Blair county, was attempting to arrest
. boy named David Smith, of Duncans-
vile, he was assaulted By the father
and mother of the boy, and during the
melee the left hand of the constable
was broken BY blow from q skillet in
The hands of the mother. The boy es-
capped, and warrants for the arrest Of
the parents we're issued.
The Tanners Association of Penn
sylvania held their Annual Convention
in Harrisburg last Friday q week.
Stewart Marsh, young man of six.
teen, residing in Cambria county, fell
while running, on Saturday a week,
ank broke mis- neck, causing instan,
death.
John Suine, who was convicted Of
perjury at Huntingdon . few weeks
ago, made bis escape from Jail few
days after.
The great storm in Iowa . few weeks
ago destroyed forty county bridges In
Bremen county.
Charles Wilson, alias Christy Wis.,
tar, who was under arrest in PhiladeL
phia as one of the participants in the
abduction of Charlie Ross, was sen.
fenced to FIVE years imprisment for for
gerry at Brooklyn on Saturday q week.
A safe deposit vault, just completed
in London, 10 deemed invulnerable. 1t
is sunk 46 feet into the ground, with
walls of brick and concrete six feet
thick. Inside this structure is the
safe, three feet thick, made Of 6re-brick
and updrillable iron. The metal doors
weigh four tons each, and are swung BY
hydraulic power.
New York city has over four thou
sand lawyers.
A twenty-four pound baby was re-
Gently born in Pittsburg. Its mother
weighed but one hundred aud twenty.
At tConcord, N. H.. on Friday week,
Abbott, who killed his wife With an axe,
last fall, pleaded guilty to murder in
the second degree, and was sentenced
to thirty years. Imprisonment.
A mau named Schroeder was Instant
ly killed by land slide, covering about
an acre, at Rondout, n. Y. on the 9th
ult.
Henry D. Wallace, of PbiIlipsburg,
N. j., q brakeman on the Morris and
Essex railroad, was killed at Broadway,
N. j., when stepping from one car to
another. while the train was in motion,
the coupling happening at that moment
to break.
Henry Null, an old man living on the
outskirts of Pottsville, committed sui
eide on the morning of the 25th ult.,
BY hanging h,mself in the attic of his
house.
Women preachers of the country
number about one hundred.
The chintz bugs threaten to destroy
the Iowa wheat crop.
A correspondent writing from Col
lins Station to the Harrisburg 7ele-
graph, SAYS that young man named
Wood, who haG been absent from bis
home at Marietta for about two years,
living some distance above Williams
port, started from the latter place on
the 24th ult., in small boat, common
Iy called scow, roRed down the river
through the willIamsport, Muncy.
Sbanolin and Creams dam scbutes