Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-16

Elster Sunday win be the 18th dav or
April. Easter always falls On the hr:t sun-
day that follows the first fln-moos after the
Spring Equinox. "Erey6edy" knows that
the Spring Equinox comes on the 2lst or
sarch, and the nearness Or distance OF
Easter to it is governed by the neasness OF
distance of the irst fulI-moon after it.
A Warren county paper tells how the
young ladies in that section of the State
take advantage of leap year, by saying, One
day last week tive ssbeautiful and accom-.
plished young ladies' proposed to two .ssmart
handsome" young gentlemen, s.for better
or for worse" One accepted, the other
preferred 10 buy a silk dress. The wedding
is to co,.se off July A, 1876, In the Ceuten
nisl buildings.
When people profess to be honest and by
their acts. however trifiiug they be, pro-
claim their dishonesty, the influence 10
great. For example, the widest bandit on
the Mexican border is Guy Lopez, of whom
| 1t is related that he was once pensive pea
nut vender in San Francisco, and went u
the bad because every policeman or mill
lionaire who passed his stand stole q nut
with an air OF abstraction.
Michael Jacobs, of Tuscsrora township,
Perry county, came near his death few
days ago at Clemsor's crossing. He was
in one horse wagon, and did not notice an
approaching freight train until the locoma-
tive wa. close upon him. The engine
struck the wagon and broke the wheel and
axletree. Mr.. Jacobs jumped from the wa
gon before it was struck by the engine, and
escaped with few bruises by falling on the
frozen ground. The hose was not injured.
Some months ago the eye-sight Of I. L.
Allen, Jr., OF this place, became so impaired
! by cataract that he could not see to 90 about
withHut the help o. friend. His brother,
Dr.. d. L. Allen, rapidly rising physician,
told him that he possessed the requisite
knowledge and skill to remove the disease.
The patients parents and the patient HIM
self had confidence in the son and brother.
A dav was Set to operate on the eyes. At
the appointed time DR.. Allen executed the
operation, removed the cataract entirely
from the left eye, and so scarifed it on the
right eve that the disease is disappearing
from il. The sight of the LEFT eye is en-
such as people are wont TO travel far, to
cities. to celebrated physicians 10 have ex-
ecuted.
On last Sunday about neon this COM
munity was startled by the announce
ment ;sat Miss Mary A. Burris had been
found in her room dead, all of which was
true. The facts are these: Miss Burris was
a maiden woman, having a room IN Mrs Re-
/ becca Pannebaker's house on Cherry street.
They two we're the only occupants of the
house. hast Friday Mrs. Pannebakcr saw
Miss Burris the last time alive. 1t was ne
unusual Occ 1rrence for the latter TO be away
for day or two at a neighbours, and when
| the former did not see Miss Burris on Satur-
! day the conclusion naturally and immediate
ly reached was that she was staying at some
neighbor's place. On Sunday forenoon
NJ. John Bstesholtz called to inquire for
the health of Miss Buris, he being a broth
er-in-law. His knocking at her room door
brought no response. He tried the door
knob, but a lock bolt kept the door closed.
Making inquiry aud learning that she had
-, ~
was sufficient to cause her friends to call
on the neighbors with whom it was known
she bad recently spent portion of her
time. The families called on had not seer
her within a number of days Being it,
formed of these facts about noon, her
nephew, Mr.. S. d. Batesholtz, went to her
room door and tried the knob, but the door
was locked as when his father had been
there some hours before. A look into the
key-hole revealed the Key in the lock; this
awakened the belief that Miss Burris, in all
probability, then lay In the room. A ladder
was obtained and put up TO window of her
room, through which s. ID. Batesholtz en-
tered. He Was shocked To ind his aunt
| lying on tile floor, on her back, dead. The
The owner evidently did not use it on the
day or night in which she died. On a stand
not far from where she lay, stood a coal oil
lamp with no oil in it, all having been burned
out through the wick. The old lady's spec
tacles lay by her side; a stocking partly
knit, with a needle with few stitches on il,
and bsil Of yarn was on the floor close by,
all of which gave rise to the conjecture
that death overlook her while she sat by
her lamp knitting. Her nephew did not
disturb her, but informed the friends and
Justice Krieder, who summoned the follow
ing jurors j. IL. Simons, H. p. Seeds, W.
B. Hawk, J. L. North, Caleb Parker, and
John Wagner, all near neighbors, TO hold
an inquest on the body, which was done,
and verdict rendered as follows: s'That
Miss Mary A. Burris had no mark of vio-
lence appearing about her body, and died
by the visitation OF God in a natural way
and not otherwise" She was in the 72nd
year of her age.
| PHYSICIANS of Blair, Huntingdon,
Mlfilln aud Juniata counties some days
ago met in huntington aud organized
the +" Juniata Valley Medical Associa-
tion.." The following doctors we're
elected officers for the ensuing year:
PresIdent-Rowan Clark, Blair.
| Vice Presidents-J. D. Ross, Blair /;
d. p. Miller, Huntingdon j. Irwin
Marks, Mifflin ID NJ. Crawford, Juni-
a:a; IL. o. Orris, Perry.
Recording Secretary-A. b. Brum'
baugh, Huntingdon.