Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-24
STATE ITEMS.

Wilkesbarre has ceased to be light
ed by gas.
Sunbury has large number Of emp.
ty tenement houses.
BY acclamation the English sparrow
is voted nuisance.
Seventy -four colored people died in
Pittsburg the past six months.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers of Altoona have disbanded.
The wife of a preacher named Wolf,
of Indiana county, suicided last week
with Paris green.
Knitting is a very fashionable
amusement among Quakers of Chester
county.
According to the Mt. Pleasant Dapn
the skeletons of three of the British
General Braddock's men have been dug
up near Black Lick. In one of the
graves was an old fashioned flint lock
musket, bearing the stamp "l745,
Lon
j. W. Bosler, of Carlisle, has receiv-
ed the contract from the government
to supply the Sioux Indians with beef
for the next fiscal year.
Mrs. Israel Stringfeilow, of Carlisle,
attempted 20 commit suicide on the 9th
inst, by hanging herself.
Sir. L b. Leonard was bitten in
the finger by copserhead snake On
the 4th INST, while at his brothers
farm in Perry county.
Fred. Lauer, of Reading, declares
that pure barley made beer cannot be
sold at less than nine dollars per bar
rel, without loss to the brewer.
A tramp few days ago begged a
piece of bread at the house of a
prominent citizen of Erie. When the
proprietor came to the door be recog
nized former oil prince, whose bust
ness capital recently was 100000.
The Warren game protective club
have Just received an instalment of
Messiua quail from Sicily, in the Med
iterranean, which they propose to turn
loose in that neighborhood.
A "stagnant pool' on . street cor
ner in Pittsburg was recently explored.
1t yielded three goats and dozen dogs
and cats.
The new horseshoe factory of the
Cambria Iron Company will soon be
ready to 60 into operation, the neces-
sary machinery having arrived.
Thomas Lawson, in Cheltenham,
Montgomery county, fell from 3 now
ing machine on Monday a week and
had both legs SO horrible mangled that
amputation was necessary.
John Gibbons, Mollie Mcguire,
convicted of the attempted assassination
of William NJ. Thomas at Mahanoy
City, escaped from the Schuylklll coun-
ty Jail Wednesday evening.
The Reading Railway police arrested
twenty-four persons on Tuesday q week
along tie line for stealing rides. The
general manager says the evil has be-
come so serious as to call for deter
mined effort to break it up.
Joseph Mason, of Petrolia Pa, was
arrested in Pittsburg, on the 10th inst
by special agent Myers, on a charge of
forging postal money order on the
postmaster at that place. He was COM
mitted in default of $4,000 bail.
Some fiend chained horse belong
ing to Mr Lohr, of Morrellville, Gam
bria county, 70 the railroad track at
that place q few days ago, but the
cries of the poor beast attracted res
cuing party just in time to avert an &C
cident to tie Atlantic Express train,
which came laundering along a few
seconds later
A Chester county contemporary says
"This weather brings to my mind the
summer of'16, when for forty nine con
secutive days the thermometer ranged
80 to los degrees in the shade. 1t al
SO brings forcib.y to mind the summer
of 1871, when from the FIRST day of
May to the FIRST day of September not
drop Of rain fell, and the burning sun
blistered the earth from q cloudless
sky. Can you forget how fervently
We used to pray for rain in that unhsp-
py timeP
AS engineer John Call, with his en-
gine on the Lehigh Valley railroad, was
approaching Coalport, . station near
Mauch Chunk, he saw TWO boys in the
dam alongside the railroad. They
we're fully one hundred yards from the
rack, and as Mr.. Call watched them
he saw one of them sink, and at once
came to the conclusion that the boy
was drowning He called the atten-
;ion of his fireman and brakeman to
the drowning boy, and those two men,
having stopped the engine, divested
themselves of their clothing, swan
across the dam and brought the boy
from the bottom of the dam, an appa-
rent corpse. After some rubbing and
rolling on . barrel be was resusitated,
having been brought almost from death
10 life.