Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-10
STATE ITEMS.

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Crawford c"snts has eighty one ap-
plicauts for lioaor licenses.
Altoona ranks sixteenth 10 bopuls-
tion among the cities Of the State.
Eggs are 5 cents dozen at George
town, Northumberland county.
A spittoon in the Recorders Office
at Reading has been in use since 1870.
A Hollidaysbutg boy had an ear Bit
ten of during PRISE fght With q COM
panion.
Dr.. Schlemm, of Reading, possesses
an egg dyed BY bis mother fifty-two
years ago.
For the twelve county officers in
Lancaster sixty two candidates have
announced themselves.
The Warren Ledger says that lum-
bering on the upper Allegheny is be-
coming thing of the past.
In Beaver county there are six Re-
publican candidates for Sheriff. SIX for
Treasurer and five for Register.
Tuesday night a week 5000 Califor.
MIA salmon aud 5000 lake rrout we're
put into the river at Lock Haven.
Mr.. William Miller, of rurtin town.
ship, Centre county, was one hundred
years old on the first day of Asril.
The Penn township colony, number
ing 5l2 persons, passed through Car
Isle on Tn.sisy in a special train, en-
route for Kansas.
Franklin county comes to the front
early, to announce her county fair, the
fair will be held at ChambersburR DUR
ing the second week in October.
The Knights of Labor is the name of
a new workingman's association, which
has membership in the anthracite
coal region of over fifteen thousand.
Citizens of the Wyoming Valley are
making preparations for the celebra,
ton OF the centennial of the Wyoming
massacre on .he Sd and ith of July.
A couple of .wiudlers gathered the
false hair of about hundred Pottstown
ladies recently upon pretence of reno
vatIng it. Then they skipped, leaving
an unpaid hotel bill aud numerous iu-
dignant females.
A Pit.sbure woman, who keeps a
waiter-girl saloon, has begun to evade
the law just passed to prohibit tho EN-
ployment Of females to sell liquor. She
has taken all her girls into partnership
and has no employees.
On the $500 acres of territory Of
Bsbcock & Hulings in the McKean, oil
district. $50 wells have been sunk.
and mt dry hole has been found
Such showing as this was never known
outside the Bradock field 7ausu,lie
Herald.
Az excursion party to Paris exposi-
tion and other parts of Europe Is pro-
jected a, Altoona, among which Revs
I'll. A. Baker and w. w. Evans, H..
Pitcairn, Esq Of the Tribune and sew
eral others are named. The trip will
be mads in seven weeks at very low
figure.
Governor Hartranft and a number Of
prominent PhilaGelphians have invited
Hon. Daniel j. Morrell, ex member Of
Congress and chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Centennial Com
mission. to accept of public dinner in
Nay, previous to his departure for
Paris a. an Assistant United States
Commissioner to the French Exhibi-
ton
A child of Alonzo Estep, of Bell
wood Pa, died on Tuesday evening a
week at that place from the effects of a
scaldipg received on Monday previous
The mother was engaged in washing
the little one was playisg near her, and
in some wav pulled a bucket of scald-
ing water over en- itself. 1t suffered
great agony until death came to lis re-
lief
James II. Norton, Superintendent Of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Express, while alighting from a slowly
moving passenger train at Reading, on
Saturday afternoon week tripped aud
} was struck BY the steps of a car and
thrown under the wheels. His left
foot was crushed, necessitatine ampu-
tation above the ankle. He has been
in the express service twenty years.
On Tuesday March 26, Michael Al
derfer, young farmer of Frederick
township, Montgomery county, left
home TO 60 TO market and has not since
returned. He wrote to his wife after
wards from Allentown, telling her to
settle bis affairs to the best of her abil
ity, as be intended never to return
l: is reported that money matters are
the cause of his disappearance. Hi.
debts are said to amount to II 1000 anG
HE assets to $4,000 or 1900.
The barn Of David W. Null, situated
about mile and half north of Dun
cansville was burned to the ground be
tween one and two o'clock on Thurs.
day morning. A considerable amount
of hay, straw and corn fodder were con
sumed with the barn. Mr.. Null wa,
awakened by the roaring of the fame.
and upon running to the barn discov.
cred that the doors we're open and hi,
horses gone. He supposed they were
stolen, but they were afterwards dis
covered N an adjoining field. The
barn was insured for 81 200 in the Et.
na, Of Hartford Messrs. [. f. Beamer
4 Co., agents. aud the loss is fully Gov
cred by the insurance.