Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
News Items.

u NUttn Odrotlu2 C1du mas Oeou I'VE
tunes married, aud has Just obtained
his fourth divorce. One wife Consider
ately died.
A Kentuckian has been fined By a
court for inducing neighbours servant
to break his contract and leave him.
A Mary land peach grower is said to
have shipped 20 barrels of peach kerr
nels to Dayton, Ohio, a day or two ago,
to be used for "chemical purposes"
4 new cranberry company has been
formed by some gentleman of Seayille,
Cape May county, New Jersey. They
have secured about two hundred acres
in the neighborhood of Belle Plain, one
bunired acres of which is said to lie ex-
ceilent cranberry land.
Abou' three hundred RATS and twen-
ty- eight million dollars worth of saw
logs are on the gravel bars between
Clearfeld and Remove. As soon as the
streams rise they will be sent TO the
the mills at Williamsport and Lock Ha
ven
Two boys, George Dean and Aiexan-
der Inks, Of Warren township, Fayette
county, were smothered TO death in a
coal nine, near their home. few days
ago. The mouth of the pit caved in.
and before they could be rescued both
were dead.
During the reunion Of the soldiers Of
Perry county at Bloomfield considerable
tanglefoot was absorbed, which render
ed some of its victims pugilistic In
| tie midst Of row IN the evening Bur
CESS Potter read the riot act to the
crowd, one member of which paid the
Burgess for his trouble by punching him
in the eye, which had put on beauti
ful suit Of mourning by the next morn
ing .4drocatc.
The Brookville Jeffersonian indig-
nanrly denies that there are eighteen
prisoners in the Penitentiary hail
ing from punxsutawney, aud says
"there are eighteen prisoners from jeff
erson county in the Western Peniten-
tiary, but not one Of them is from
Punxsutawney,"
Some of the women voters Of Chey-
snne, Wy. 7 wanted the election post
poned n week or two, because they were
busy canning fruit and making jam, and
coudn't leave their work When it
comes to question of jam or politics,
lovely woman's voice is for jam, always.
In Texas, recently, Il Judge broke
down with emotion while sentencing one
Lonely, notorious desperado, to be
hanged for murder Lonely was sur
prised at this, and remarked on going
back to jail, IL feel sorry for the
Judge"
At Palestine, Darke county, Ohio,
on Wednesday night, Westley Guyer,
au old resident living III the outskirts
of the town, was aroused by calls at
his door. Upon opening it he found
himsel: surrounded by band of mask
ed men, who Iiddlei him wirh bullets
No traces of the murderers have been
found. Guyer was suspected of being
concerned in a number of unlawful acts
recently committed in that neighbor-
hood, and it is thought his Death was
caused by the Vigilance Committe.
Another story was that he was killed
by his own gang, who feared his be-
traying them.
hicago Tribune SO A sehocImis-
treSs IN a suburban town, who had long
been annoyed BY the perversIties of a
male pupil of nineteen, on one Of the
closing days of last term kept him in
and undertook 10 whale hun. Re how
ever disarmed her, and returned sever
al kisses for each blow. The school
mistress, unable 10 forgive this breach
of discipline, looked him sternly IN the
face and shaking ter forefnger at him
in menacing manner, said. solemnly
William, will give you precisely ff
teen minutes to stop bugsing me, and
if you disobey me shall punish you
severely"
DR.. Caldwell, Of Iowa, states that in
1862 be was present at the exhumation
of body which had been buried two
years before The coffin had sprung
open at the joints, aud the hair protru.
ded through the opening. Ga opening
the coffin the hair of the head was
found to measure eighteen inches, the
whiskers eight inches, and the hair on
the breast five or six inches. The man
had been shaved before being buried
In lSi7 a similar circumstance occurred
IN Mercer county, Pennsylvania. In
digging grave the uorkmen came
upon the skeleton Of a man that had
been buried 70. ten years. The hair as
firm as during life, and had grown to
length of eleven or twelve inches.
As usual, we expect to chronical the
annual killing of deer hunters this fall.
On Sunday lest squad Of eight men
lett Mr. John McDuwel's log camp near
Snow Shoe, Centre county, aud took to
the mountain for dear. Jas. A. e.
McQuArrie, l9 years of age, whose par
ents reside at Bigler Station, this coun-
ty, proves to be the first victim in the
line of disaster. 1t appears that be
was stationed at a crossing, and had
laid his gun on log. A dog started
deer, be reached for his gun, grabbed it
at the muzzIe, aSiDg it towards him,
discharging the contents into his arm
near the shoulder, causing death on
Monday morning. His comrades got
him to camp about s o'clock p. NJ,
and starded to bring him home, but he
died at Gillilanitown, from loss of
blood. His parents learning of the
accident, went to meet hun, but be ex-
pired before they reached his bedside.
.-Clearfeid Republican, l7h.
A case of vIllainy recently came to
light IN Plttsburg, which we mention
only because II may serve as a warning
to other foolish glrls. A handsom young