Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-21

Manchester, Conn, on Sunday week,
the lightning struck the Congregational
Church, without, however, destroying it.
Three boys, about fourteen years old,
Paul Cheney, Ned Cheney and A. Wat
kIns, who were leaning against the wall
OF the church outside, were thrown to
the ground and had their boots stripped
of. Two of the boys received severe
blisters on their bodies They we're
resuscitated by the application of water.
MIR. John Clark and two children
were poisoned recently, in Altoona, by
eating cucumber pickles purchased in
market.
Two brothers named Rush, aged six
teen and eighteen years, were drowned
while bathing in the Lackawanna near
Scranton, recently. Tue younger one
was seized with cramp and the brother
went to his assistance, and while en-
deavoring to save him, both lost their
lives.
There was pic nic party of twenty
five or thirty persons at Clifty Falls,
Ind, and one of them, Miles Harbin,
lad of thirteen, slipped and fell over
the falls. He first fell perpendicular
distance of IL feet, then rolled 80 feet.
then fell 4S feet, and rolled TO the bot
tom Of the falls, So feet further. The
entire fall was 146 feet, down preci-
pices and over rocks and the rough hill
side. Harbin was unconscious when
picked up, but his senses speedily re-
turned to him. His skull and collar
bone we're broken.
Henry Smith, an inmate OF the North
ampton county pa prison, serving
term of eight years for arson, hung
himself in his cell on the 18th inst.
A Troy woman beat two lawyers in
case the other day. She did it with
a hoe handle.
Montgomery Queen, the circus owner,
is going into ostrich farming in Cali
fornIa.
AS boy in Aroostook county, Me-,
was leading a beifer home the other
evening, bear made dive for her as
they were entering the yard The
heifer ran, the boy held on to the rope,
the bear chased both until the neigh
bors, hearing the believing of the heif-
er aud the screams of the boy, came
and shot bruin.
New York city has 5000 tippling
houses, and it has been found by exam
ination that each one averages a daily
run of ia visitors. 1t is estimated
that 2O,O0O persons are employed in
this retail traffic.
A disconsolate girl stood up to her
neck in pond near Sacramento for an
hour, deciding whether to drown her
self. She concluded to live, and waded |
out.
One of Brigham Young's disciples is
In Pottsville, making converts to Nor
monism.
A most extraordinary snicide-among
the most singular and remarkable ever
known-occurred at Lafayette, Ind, |
the other day. A skil!ful mechanic and
inventor, tired of life, brought his
genius TO bear upon the contrivance of
species of automatic gulllotine, the
workings Of which were arranged and /
secured with patient dcliberation and /
absolute accuracy, So that when the /
proper time had arrived the horrid ma
chine did its work with inexorable pre-
cislon, and the head of the scientific /
suicide was severed from the body at a
single stroke.
The Springfield (lIl.) Journal of the
9th inst. says: A burglar entered the
residence of Hon. Thomas s. Ridge
way early yesterday morning, aud woke
Mr.. Ridgeway up. Mr.. X. went for
the INTRUDER with chair, and the bur-
glar didn't stand on the order of his
going. He got an unfavorable impress
sion of the place; it was on the head
he got it, and in making such lasting
impression the chair was broken-else
MIR. Ridgeway would have captured the
fellow. The fellow jumped seventeen
feet through a window to the ground.
He dropped his revolver and didn't de-
lay 20 pick it up. Sir. Ridgeway is in
ole revolver and out the price of mend
ing chair. The burglar went off
bootless.
Not far from the Cambria county
line in Clearfeld township. there is a
small hamlet known as Eutawville. On
Friday of last week two young men re-
siding there were experimenting with a
loaded gun, and concluded to try il the
from a match would ex-
plode the charge. The composition was
placed on the nipple, and the hammer
allowed to descend, but the attempt
was failure. One of them allowed
the barrel of the weapon to rest care
lessly across his arm, while he coui-
menced picking out the phosphorus from
the small vent in the nipple. Suddenly
there was loud report, and the feelings
OF the young man can be imagined when
upon looking around he found his COM
panion lying on the floor dead. The
muzzle had been pointed directly tow
ard the heart of the latter, and when
the charge exploded he was instantly
killed. The name Of the victim is Win
slow, and of the other Mcfarland. OF
course the tragedy was caused by care
lessness alone, and the relatives of both
parties are plunged in the deepest af-
fiction over the terrible fatality.-i'