Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-05
STATE ITEMS.

tnis Ctate
bay making began in Berks county
last week.
Lewisburg claims to have q snow
white robin.
Twenty thousand bsrsels of oil
we're lost BY the bursting Of an iron
tank at Bradford.
Sixty persons lost their pocket Books
at Pittsburg during the Democrat State
Convention.
Margaret Cah,ll died at Altoona on
the 25tt, aged one hundred aud i've
years.
A colored citizen of Downington is q
candidate for the Office of clerk of courts
Of Chester county.
Union County, Pa, is free from
debt and there is not q criminal corfu
ed within the Jail.
Westmoreland county has the hon.
or of sending more criminals to the
Western Peuitentiary than any county
in the district, Allegheny excepted.
While constructing barn on Wed
nesday in Heidelberg township, Leban-
on county, the axe Of one of the men
few of the handle, and injured two of
the workmen so badly that both will
probably die.
A correspondent of Meadvills Re
publican at Sugar Lake, Crawford
county, sIys that an insect very like q
small spider, of reddish cast, with red
legs, is work. .ng great obstruction to
the wheat in that section. 1t works on
the stalks and blades, causing their af-
fected stalks to turn yellow.
Fishermen have discovered that eels
will attack shad, and 3 co;emporary
thus describes the mode of assault /:
Eels often attack the shad in the nets,
after the shad have been caught in the
river, They enter the shad at the gill
openings, and suck out the spawn and
eDtrals, leaving the fish perfectly clean.
Fishermen say that the shad thus at
tackled are the best, for the esls will
not enter any but the fines, and fattest
fish. Eels also follow up the shid. all
the way up the river, and devour the
spawn. Were 1t not for these natural
destroyers, the ,hsd would increase to
an amazing extent.
Last Wednesday the Philadelphia
Record said: Some Of the most desper-
ate thieves in the country are parading
the streets of this Gig seeking for
something for idle hands to do. Six
weeks ago the Penitentiary contained
population of over 100 persons now
it is less than 1000. Among those
who have gained their liberty is a no.
torious robber of country seats who, six
years ago, caused considerable trouble
to the residents of Germantown and the
first class suburbs. He has just finish
ed q seven years sentence, barring the
Communication allowed for good behavior
Another man is q terror to farmers
As horse thief he has been q success
His liberty was obtained by a pardon
secured through the conniyance Of an
ex- sheriff in one of the counties adjoin-
ing this city. The horse thief made
Sl09 by overxork and gave S75 of it
to the ex sheriff, who secured the sig
natures Of the jurymen in the case, aud
also carried the matter before the Par
don Board.
In conversation with Levi thinner
man, Esq, of Derry, whose store was
robbed, and the parties traced to near
Cornwall, Mr.. mentioned that be
had received word from some person
unknown to him, that there was a rem
devious of thieves in the Cornwall
and that be could conduct
a party within few hundred feet of it
but 1t would be as much as life was
worth to approach it. He represents
the place not only as we'll guarded, but
almost inaccessible, while the
bandits who occupy it have numerous
winding and intricate passages out of it.
If this story is true, and circum-
stances Transporting daily Tor nightly
verify it, the nest should receive the
of the officers of the law; but
1t Is not safe for one or two of them to
attempt it. They should be dislodged,
so that people living IN that vicinity
can retire without fear Of robbery or
worse.-Lebanon Times.
Mr.. Thomas Martin, an old gentle
man living in Valley township, about
seveuty-six years of age, was terribly
gored BY bull on Monday. the 10Th
instant. He went out to the barn and
turned the bull out into the barnyard,
when the animal Suddenly lowered his
head and made a furious charge upon
him. Nr Martin tried to escape, but
was not quick enough, for the enraged
beast reached him IN few bounds and
with one toss of its horns threw him to
the ground, one of the horns penetra-
ting his thigh, making fearful cash |
about FIVE inches long. The animal
then stood over the unfortunate man
trying 20 run him through, but did not
succeed further than to make a wound |
IN his shoulder, where a small piece of
he bone was Clipped off, though num-
Der of severe bruises were inflicted BY |
is head and hoofs. Mr.. Martin scream
I'd loudly for aid and one of the wom-
IN at the house, hearing his cries, ran
10 see what was the matter, but by the
lime she reached the barn the bull had |
moved away' and the wounded man |
,ad regained his feet and staggered |
outside the barnyard He was helped |
to the house and physician summoned |
to dress his injuries, Although the
wounds were serious, and especially so
'or man of his age, Mr.. Martin rap
dly recovered aud is likely to soou be
Is we'll as ever again. The ordeal be
passed through, however, must have
been trying one upon his nerves.
The animal was subsequently sold to .