Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-08
STATE FTERS.

STATE FTERS.
Carlisle sert out q unlnber Of May
day parties.
Tho Huntingdon comfy Nationais
claim to have the names Of 100
persons enrolled in their clubs.
A new Catholic church. to be the
largest in Northern Pennsylvania, has
beer commenced at Meadville, Crsw-
ford county.
Delaware county farmers talk Of
com bir'ng to prosecute parties who
paint advertisements on their fences
and gate posts without leave.
Rev. Levi l.. Barley, a Methodist
preacher in charge of the Lnyslsoek
circuit, fe dead a, Wi.liGn:.port on
Monday. He was fifty three. years
old.
A large number OF horses and cattle
in tine lower end of Berks and north
ern part Of Chester crunty are afflicted
with caiarrh and typhoid pueuuonis.
Urist K,llian, aged thirty-seren
wears fell down stairs and was fatally
injured at his home in Lancaster OF
SUNDAY.
Sunbury bas refused to continue the
illumnticn Of her streets with gas
because she can't afford to pay for it.
The over production Of tobacco in
Lancaster and other counties has
greatly reduced ITS price, and the prof
it of its culture.
There is Srats law imposing fine
of $40 for burn ng brush during the
night.
There is excellent black bass fishing
iu the Delaware and Schuylki!i rivers
il is SAID.
A guard made of rubber, has been
placed on the o1e-horss cars Of the
Sixth Avenue line, to prevent them
from running over people.
Three new cheese factories, the lar
gest in .le State, have been put in
operation in Somerset county. Penn
syivsnia cheese has high standard in
the market.
A hound in West Chester, seeing a
numbcr Of children following a hand
organ, heated q lot of pennies and then
threw them in the way Of the urctins,
who attempting TO pick them up we're
severely burned.
j In CARRIER, carried man, aged
! forty five years, who leaves VITA and
one child, committed suicide at Read
few days ago by shooting himself
through the head with pistol A TOO
free use OF rum WAS the cause
During the severe storm OF Saturday
week the lightning struck tbs dwell
ing house of man named Smith III
Limerick ownship' Montgomery county
Pa. , stunning Mrs Smith ani child
At Mecbanicsburg, Pa, Sunday
night VIC <, Mrs. Moore, a widos,
committed suicide b. hsnging herself
to tree In the yard of her residence
Financial trouble is supposed to have
been the cause Of the suicide.
During the storm on Wednesday two
weeks, the Methodist church at Patton
vile, Bedford county, was blown 1ovp
and completely wrecked. A new one
will be built.
Tie Catholic church at Cburcbvi;le,
Berks county. near the terminus OF the
Colebrookdals railroad, was entered BY
burglars several evenings Ago, and the
silver communion service aud tee
gclo cruci. .es we're stolen.
! A man named Hill. Of Washington
county, walks FROM Hill Station to
church, distance of ave miles, every
Sunday. and has Lot missed two copse
cuti-e Sundays in twenty years.
Cambria county boasts OF female
butcher G VIC who not only slaugh-.
ters s'.eep, calves and even bullocks
with her own hands, bat cuts the meat
and sells 1t from a wagon to all.
A number OF three card monte gam
blers swindlsd a passenge: on the Bald
Eagle V icy railroad Of 5000 in mon
ey. What was the passenger endesv-
oring to do with the monte men
Tie respective wives of two brstber,,
Eamed John and James Houck, the tor
mer living at Lairohe, and the latter at
Altoona. presented tbei. husbands with
/ twins the other day.
At Dunmore, Pa, on the night of
April Goth John Paul. while defending
on old man against the assaults OF a
rough named Costello, was attacked BY
the latter and two companions and beat
en- to death The murderers escaped.
While Hewitt Van Duger, cf Lcih
field township, Bradford county, was
milching bis COWS last week a beam
gave way in the stable, falling upor
him, breaking bis legs and fracturing
bis skull, so that he died before he
could be rescued
BY law of the State ahv person who
maintains public water trough twep-
ty feet long and supplied with pure
rupning water at all times, except in
freezing weather, in any borough or
road, shall re,eive five dollars per an
NUN out of ;be road taxes.
A colony of Swedes have purchased
a large tract Of land on the Blue Noun
tain, e-tcndiDg from the Delaware Wa
ter Gap down to Wind Gap, on uhion
they propose to settle and devote their
attention to raising and grazing goats,
and FROM goats milk they intend to
manufacture sweitzer ksse. The coun
try is particularly favorable for this
purpose.