Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-29
STATE ITEMS.
Hay is $40 per ton in Wilkesbarr


Reading sparrows devour the potato
bug.
Thirteen lawyers belong to one fire
company in Clarion.
Pennsylvania furnished 32T ,2S4
men during the Rebellion.
Large numbers of alligator hides are
tanned in the vicinity of Kutestown.
A Lancaster man possesses two easter
eggs that are thirty-five years of age.
A Lancaster county farmer netted
$1,000 from five acres of tobacco last
year.
The Pittsburg division of the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers ceased
to exist few days since.
The residence of ex Senator Ander
son, at Titusville, considered one of the
handsomest places In the western por-
ton Of the State has been sold for half
the original cost.
Chester was in an excited state fe Y
days last week in consequence of the
work Of mad dog in that town, q
number of persons were bitten.
Charles W. Allen and Sarah L. Allen,
of Manor township, Armstrong county,
have been committed to Jail at kittan-
ming for trial, on q charge of causing
the death Of their own child by ill.,
treatment, neglect or exposure.
The Valley Forge Centennial Asso-
citation publishes national address, ex-
tending cordial invitation to all the
people to JOIN in celebrating the one
bundreth anniversary of the occupation
Of Valley Forge by the Continental
army, on the 18th day of June next,
the centenary of the evacuation.
About half the wheat crop around
Trexlertown, Lehigh county, has been
destroyed BY lice. Several farmers
have turned their wheat fields into corn
fields. The late frost did much dam
age.
Richard Smith of West Chester,
broke into the residence of bis brother
in-law, j ohm Spence, on Saturday night
week. He was eJected twice, and In
his third attempt drew q knife, with
which he made a murderous assault
upon Spence, cutting him on the chest
ard face. Smith was arrested.
Colonel Scott, president of the Penn
sylvauia Railroad, has had telethone
erected between bis summer residence,
at Landsdsle, on the West Chester
Railroad, and Mr. Pug's office West
Philadelphia. The distance is between
six and seven miles. The instrument
is of the latest pattern, and the slight
es, whisper can be distinctly heard.
Tioga was the first county in the
State to elect female superintendent
of the public schools. Three years
ago, when this selection was made, the
success Of Miss Lewis was seriously
questioned by Tiogs and her sister
counties throughout the State. But
the recen. re election of Miss Lewis BY
the directors of Tiogs county is an em-
platte endorsement Of her capacity and
successful administration.
An attempt to wreck the fast line on
the Pennsylvania Railroad on Sunday
night of last week at eight O'Clock, was
made about a mile esst of Latrobe,
Westmoreland county. A pile of ties
were placed on the track at that point
and closely wedged between the rails.
The place selected was sho:t distance
east of curve, and on high embank
ment, point we'll calculated to cause
q great destruction of life. Fortunate
ly the engineer, Robert Kerr, saw the
obstruction, applied the air. brakes, re-
versed the engine and succeeded in pre-
venting . fearful wreck. The Com.
pany has offered . reward of $4,000
for the arrest of the villains who placed
the ties on the track.