Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-13
STATE ITEMS,

Diphtheria is prevalent in Clarion
county.
Bethlehem had ffty-four tramps q
work op her streets last week.
About one-fourth of the Indebtedness
Of Chester county is held by one fam
lily.
Eighty Shcriff's sales are advertised
to take place in Pottsville between the
10th inst. and March 2. One hal: oil
Sctuy kill county is said to be mort.
gagged.
One hundred persons in Reading
who neglected to clean the snow of
their Pavements according to the city
ordinances, have been fined four dollars
and costs each.
The soldiers orphan asylum at Get
tysburg has been sold out BY the Sher
if.
A State Commsudery of the "Univer.
sal Brotherhood" has been organ zed.
Chester cnuutians are petit;oning the
Legislature for a woman suffrage law.
Mrs Julia Roberts. Of PhenixvIlle,
recently celebrated her l02 birthday.
Last year forty-two prisoners we're
pardoned out Of the Western Peniten-
tiary-seven by the Executive of the
United States.
There is sensation in Upland Del
aware county. The wife of an oper-
ator in the Crczier Mills named Cow en-,
recently cioped with young mill hand
named Watson, about eighteen years OF
age. The woman is about twenty -four
years Ofage'
lu consequence Of the low prices OF
lumber, which will not pay the expense
Of manufacturing it on the Delaware
river, the Iumbermen in that section
are turning their attention to farming.
A local option petition from Law
renee county more than one hundred
feet in length aud containing 1000
names was seLt to Harrisburg last
week. Other petitions are still oircu
lating in the county.
Judge " estbrook, in charging a
Grand Jury in Utica the other day re-
marked: No matter whether lotteries
are at church iair OF festival, they are
forbidden by law aud are misdemean-
ors."
1t has been decided to hold the Val
ley Forge centennial on the 18th of
june next.
There are 700 tramps in the ALE
gheny workhouse, with work for only
800.
Thomas Shaner has been a Tax Col
iector iu Berks county for forty years
The widow Of Jacob Z. Boyer, a
policeman, obtained a verdict last week
against the Phlla. & Reading r. Il.
Co. OF $4,000 in one Of the Phila.
courts. Boyer and four other police
men were crossing the X. X. track in a
street car when the traiD dashed into
the car and killed Boyer. This is the
heaviest verdict ever given iu the city
under such circumstances.
Last fall A. II Sinner of Wilkes
barre was inferred in Pike county.
With him were buried a very valuable
pin, set Of studs and ring heavily
set with diamonds. The plate upon
the coffin was unusually large aud of
gold. 1t has nov been discovered that
the grave has been opened and the val
usbles removed.
On Monday morning about ! o'clock
one of the arches of the bridge over
the Schuylklil river at South street
Philadelphia, fell in, carrying with it
in rapid succession nine other arches
and completely wrecking 800 feet of
the bridge. The portion which gave
way rested upon piles IN marsh on the
western bank of the river, and this
piling has been gradually sinking in
the mud. A large number OF workmen
were engaged in snoring the defective
arch at the time o! the accident, but
they we're warned in time, aud all cs-
capped uninjured. The bridge was
bull, of iron and grant, and cost orig
inslly $4,000. The loss by the &C
cident wall be about $1,000, 900.