Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-28
News Items.

4 father and two sons have been SEN
fenced to the pen,tentiary in Massachu-
setts for stealing chickens.
William keef and Martin Wolf are
in jail a. Wilkesbarre for taking An
tbony Sweeney out of his bed at Ply
mouth and cutting one of his ears off.
A Boston lawyer has been convicted
of receiving stolen United States bonds
to the value o! twenty thousand dollars.
A gang Of traups recently burned
seven hundred panels of fence in Berks
county.
Mrs. Samuel Couts, Of West Hunt
lngdon, while dressing a chicken, found
FIVE large brass pins III its gIzzard, one
OF which was run through it. The
chicken was apparently in good health
before lis decapi,ation.
A Williamsburg woman looked un-
der the bed for a man 79S times, aud
was disappointed each time. When, up
on looking the 799rh time, her labors
were rewarded by fiuding just what she
was so badly frightened that she did't
enjoy her discovery at all.
A curious horse distempor is pre-
va,ling at Windsor, Vermont, and vi
cinity. the ANIMALS suddenly losing the
use Of their hind legs, winch is follow
ed BY inflammation and swelling upon
the back
Sunday morning a week the wife OF
Squire |. p. Beohtel, of fremont,
ScbuyIkill county, went TO the barn of
her husband and hung herself. The
fall she arranged was about two feet.
At ten o'clock her daughter, aged
about ten years, went to look for her,
and found her hanging dead, and gave
the alarm.
Long ago. in Marlborough, VT, a
youth of 10 msrried a maid OF 81 He
is now in his 55th year, while she has
founded her gay 1854.
A spelling tournament is about to
take place between the scholar, knights
Oi Clinton aud Centre Counties.
AT Scottdale Westmore..nG county,
II strikers are under bail for cOnspir-
acy charged with Iujuriug coke ovens.
Eli Green, OF Altoona, weighs 496
pounds, aud has not slept in bedstead
for Elk years.
Henry May Is about to start an es
tablishmen, IN Erie county for the man
uiacure of Hamburg cheese.
Frederick Srmon, of Scranton, during
the u ,nth Of January gave two hun
dred tons of coal to the poor OF the
Eleventh aud Twelfth wards Of that city.
An Easron vile, in court on Monday.
confessed that she '.stabbed her hus-
band and hurled hor stove his at his
head, also bis diuner pail and other
things that came handy to her."
Two years ago number of butchers
up in Snyder hollow we're arrested and
prosecuted for selling borsefesh for beef
In the same neighborhOod un FRIDAY,
lDea: inspector Drexlar found GottIieb
Eischman exposing .or sale the meat of
a siill born caIf.-Pitsburg Leader.
Aunle Lowering, OF Reading. arrested
for malicious mischief in breaking a
pane OF glass costing Sl20. on Satur-
Cay was committed to prison, in default
of bail
Miss Mary Ritchey, Of Everett, Bed
ford county. committed suicide on the
9th inst She was "a years of age. In
her farewell note to her parents she
assigned no reason for the act.
A party Of young men went sailing
on an ice boat on the bay on the 18th.
The wind carried them along at the
rate of sixty miles per hour while
bow ling at this rate the boat struck a
daw, and all hands we're shot as it we're
of rhe frsil structure, and sent sliding
and sprawlirg for fifty or sixty feet on
the ice Ere D,spofoh
On the morning of the 22nd inst.
David FOrtney, aged seVenfy-two years
and of the Oldest residents Of Middle
town, was run over and accidentally
killed at that place by the fast line
east, while standing on the crossing a,
Wood street ia that borough. 1t ap-
pears that the fast line was about an
hour and half too late, and Nlr. Fort
ney, thinking it had passed, was
standing on the track watching a west.
ward bound freight train passing, when
the fast line struck him. knocking him
down, dragging him about one hun
dred and twenty five yards, emitting of
both legs, tearing one arm from irs
socket, breaking the other, and crush
ing his head so that the brains were