Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-22
STATE ITEMS.

road, near copshocken, had his lead
severed from his body last week.
Diphtberia is prevalent in Somerse
county. One farmer recently lost fv,
children from the disease, three o
;hem lying dead in the house at th
same time.
Oil City is affected with the archery
fever Itis especially prevalent amon!
the fair sex.
BarDum's net profit during bis las
visit to Philadelphia was $4,000
The State fish hsrching house at Cor
ry is distributing large number o
salmon in the creeks of that region.
A Carbondale pedestrian has beer
walking against a iorse. The hors,
caved in before the man did.
Twenty ght engineers have recent
iy been discharged from the Plttsbure
Division of the Pennsy lvania Railroad.
Brazil is receiving axes FROM Miffiir
county.
There are 500 inmates in the western
penlteniiary.
The new county o. Lackawanna will
contain S5, 900 inhabitants.
Five men in Clarion county recently
caught 2i60 trout in Forest county
streams in six days.
Patrick Collins, q Commissioner oi
Schuylkill county, was found guilty OF
forgery on Saturday. He was appoint
ed tax collector in 1875, and being re
quired to give a bord, it was charged
that he forged the names of his FIVE
bonismen in connection thereSith.
Pennsylvania petroleum is now worth
more annually, as commercial pro-
duet thar the silver Of Nevada or the
gold of California.
j. 7. Burdite cooked his rife to
shoot muskrst in Crawford county .
few days ago. The game disappeared,
and while he was unlocking the piece
the load was accidentally is,harged
into the body of VIM. Donahue, who
was passing in front Of the muzzle.
The wound proved fatal.
The hody of Mary Howard, aged FIVE
years, was found dead in Shamokin
Creek, along the Reading railroad in
Northumberland county. The little
girl had wandered away from home
several-days previous, and no tidings Of
her Whereabouts had been recsived uu
til the announcement of the finding Of
her body was made
William Lewis alias Thomas, : not
ed iLcendiary of Somerset county, was
arrested few days ago, and lodged in
the Westmoreland county Jail. He
belongs to a notorious gang which has
been operating in Somerset and West
moreland counties during las, winter
The Columbia National Bank has
presented a claim to Congress for
$4,000 for the destruction of the
Columbia bridge in 1868, By order of
General Couch, as a military necessity
to prevent the rebels from crossing the
Susquehanna and marching to Harris
burg or Philadelphia.
Some nights ago the Trindle Springs
Church, near Mechanicsburg, was en-
tered by persons unknown The wine
on haud for communion purposes, coat
belonging to the sexton, together with
some collection money was carried
away. No clue to the depredators.
4 brute named Edward Cain beat
woman in Franklin, Venango county,
last week, shutting up both her eyes,
one of which it is feared she will lose,
knocking out four front teeth, splitting
her upper lip, cutting her left ear near
ly of, and bruising other portions Of
head and face in the most terrible man
ner. The woman had called him liar
in trivial dispute, which be never
"alloweG any one to call him.
The Lebanon .Neus of Saturday tells
the story of an sold woman living in
Heideiburg township, who confessed
before she died, few days since, to
having aided her husband In numbering
a peddler on the mountain road near
their house years ago. 1t is also
stated that the husband before be died
attempted to confess, but wa, frustrat-
ed BY bis wife. No names are given,
and therefore the narrative is worthless
Abraham Eckman, of Rush town
ship, was kicked By horse on Satur
day morning, which resulted in his
death Sunday afternoon, at 4o'clock.
The horse is about twenty years of age
and was being put in the stable when
be commenced kicking and hit Mr.. Eek
man on the throat, severing the carti-
lage and causing rupture, which caused
bis death. Mr.. Eckman was a well-to
do farmer and highly esteemed. He
was about 10 years of ags.-Sunbuy
.7merlcrn
The Clearfeld Republican of last
week says: 'Un last Friday, the
large "splash" dam, on the headwaters
Of Sandy Lick creek, near the Summit
tunnel, this county, erected by Mr.
j Ohm Dubois gave way and flooded the
country generally. A family residing
a short distance below the dam had
their dwelling house and barn swept
away, and their COW, hogs and chickens
we're all drowned, while the family
succeeded in escaping with their lives,
as it may seem, BY being
washed ashore, clinging to floating tim
bers."
Clinton breeds strong minded and
rm-sinewed women. Here's . spec
linen: Last Friday Mrs j. Q Deise
gave her husband and his men a surprise
at their cabin, some five miles from
Wayne Station. She killed some
chickens-provided other essentials for
, uaod diupor-uaikaa to tho eahIn-