Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-27
STATE ITEMS.

| STATE ITEMS.
I. Schuylklll county his paid over I
Berks 80 1856 As for costs IN the Hum
z,nger trial.
The Baby Show at Chambersbur
melted sa00.
A revival is in progress among th
Lafayette College students at Easton.
Scarlet fever and diptheria prevail
to an alarming extent at Shoemakervill
Berks county.
Pitttsburg has sent Mrs. s. Collin
to Harrisburg in charge of a petitio
26O feet long, containing the names @
nearly 1000 ladies, asking for tn
passage of act abolishing waiter girl sa
looms.
Twenty thousand young Csliforni
salmon have been placed in the Slime
mahoniDg, in Clinton county. Tn
Superintendent of the State Hatchin
House, at Donegal Springs, has latel
received 81 800 land locked salmon
eggs from the Schooldic salmon breed
ing establishment at Lake Stream
Name.
The Pennsylvania Steel Work a
Harrisburg contemplate a general re
duction of wages about the lst o
March.
Doylestown is busily preparing 70
her Centennial celebration March /.
Hay is selling remarkably low in Ger
tam portions Of Chester county On
year ago it was in demand at from Sl'
to $50 per ton now it can be purchas
ed at $ll.50 per ton delivered. Th
falling off in the price is attributed t.
the large yield of last year.
In 1877 Pittsburg had 4,2l5 births
LILO marriages and 3,4S0 death. o
this last number l,l4l, more than one
third, died from infectious diseases.
A private masquerade party wa
given by Governor and Mrs. Hartranf
at the Executive Mansion on Tuesday
evening. The participants were prin
cipally friends and neighbors. The
costumes worn we're beautiful and o.
great variety.
In cauterizing the mouth of a chile
in East Mauch Chunk, a piece of caus
tic dropped into its throat and wa:
swallowed. The child died after en-
during thirty-six hours of great agony
On Friday last Mr.. M'Gowan, o
Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, receiv'
ed despatch from Robertsdale, stat.
ing that his son had been killed by the
cars and asking whether coffin should
be purchased and the remains for
warded. Mr.. r.M'Gowan had already or.
dered the coffin when he discovered the
telegram was a forgery.
Two sills were recently placed
across the track in a deep cut near
Greenback station on the Shamokir
railroad, near Pottsville, and a passen-
ger train was nearly wrecked by run
ming into one of them. Paymaster
Jonas, of the Reading railroad, with
thousands of dollars in bis money bags,
passed the place fifteen minutes be-
fore, and it is believed the intention
was to throw the pay car off and rob
Mr. Jones' wallet.
A Chicago man visiting in Pittsburg,
was crossing lonely bridge, when a
we'll dressed lady met him, Knocked
him down, and took from his pockets
every cent. He was frightened near
ly TO death, made complaint, and had
the woman arrested. 1t transpired
that she was bis wife. and knew that
he could not 60 to Pittsburg without
getting drunk, and wasting his sub
stance He smiled sad smile and
withdrew the complaint
A married man named Rose, OF
Franklin, eloped with a young girl
named Brigham on Tuesday night.
The pair went to Meadville and regis
tered at hotel to which they were
tracked about midnight by the girls
brother and friend named Ballard.
The young men went to Roses loom,
where melee ensued, during which he
escaped. In the morning search was
commenced for Rose, but the proceed
ing was complicated by the discovery
that the girl and Ballard had eloped
and had taken the early train for Oil
City. The girls father and brother
have sent detectives in search of the
runaways. Better let them alone; a
girl who can elope twice in one night
with different men won't be intimidat-
ed By detectives or any person else
The Bedford Gazette says that James
Rawlins and the Sheirer family, in
Juniata township, have been on bad
terms. On Tuesday morning Adam
Sheirer, aged about eighteen years,
passed the Rawlins mansion and was
about crossing the foot log, which is
reached by path through Rawlln, $
lot, when Ee was net by the latter,
who told him tnct if be came back that
way he would kill bin. The young
man protested, and said that be had
never in any way molested HIN. To
this RawliDs assented, but told him
bis brothers had. When young Sheir-
ee came back on his way home be saw
at the other end of the foot
log armed with scythe. He again
threatened to kill Sheirer if he attempt
ed to cress. He did cross, and just as
be stepped off the log Rawlins struch
him with the scythe, cutting him across
the right shoulder over the back and IN
the left side. The wound is said to be
a terrible one. Young Sheirer is very
corpulent for his age, weighing over
two hundred pounds. After the cut
ting he worked his way to the nearest
where his wounds we're at