Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-08-07

A member of the Altoons council
has been arrested for arson.
1t costs 81 20 to seod each trsmp
from Chester to the Media Jail.
The women Of Pittsburg are prepsr-
ing for . vigorous winter campaign
against the liquor traffic.
The peach crop Of York county will
be more than an average yield.
A woman weighing four hundred
pounds died in York county recently.
An effort is being made to organize
a military company in Carlisle.
The "Kuights of Labor" claim to
have . membership of nearly million.
Of this number, it is said, $4,000 are
located in Pennsylvania.
James NAMELY, an old man, while
sitting under . tree in Lancaster coun-
ty on Wednesday . week Was attacked
BY a tramp, terribly beaten and robbed
of $50.
The weather set hard on an Erie
county farmer. When grading grain
he wore nothing but his shirt, hat and
boots, and then wasn't cool.
The Altoona Sun says it has been at
last settled to have county far, to be
held at Altoona for four days from Oc-
tober /.
A large number of children and
grown persons are reported this season
from the interior as being bitten by
copperhead snakes.
The School Directors Of Lewistown
have reduced tue salaries of teachers
twenty per cent.
The hot wave bore Of the jewel Of
many household in Pennsylvania, aud
sad are the hesrts of mourning mothers.
The deaths among children this month
has been uuprecedentsdly large.
The carcass of a two-yesr old goril-
Ia arrived in Philadelphis q few days
ago and will he dissected with . view
to ascertain how far Darwin's theories
are justified by internal facts.
Two desperate thieves escaped from
the. Lancaster county Jail, on Thursday
a week. They cut through the floor
of their cell, got into the cellar. reach
ed the outer yard and scaled the wall.
Under the new militia Law the State
furnishes the uniform. and each COM
pany rs entitled to $500 a year, which
is divided among the men at the end of
the year in proportion to attendance
a, drill. The paw fo- privatcs when in
actual service is 81 so . day.
Two tramps assaulted Wm. Sharp,
of Strasbura, while walking home from
Lancaster, Friday night. They Knocked
him senseless, robbed him Of six del
lars, and stripped him Of q new suit of
clothing.
Nearly all the greenbsck candidates
for Offices in Lycouing county are
frank enough to say that they we're
nominated by Democratic Influences,
and Of course expect their support from
this party.
Augustus Hench, of Blair county,
while picking huckleberries in a patch
near bis house, was robbed o! $500 in
greentacks by burglar who entered
unobserved.
Iu Ellisburg, Potter county, the
on Saturday night struck the
residence Of Mr.. Pye, killing two of bis
boys Three brothers we're sleeping
in one bed, aud the lightning killed the
two on tie outside, while tho one in
the middle escaped unhurt.
Twin sons of Mrs. Wells, of Lock
Haven, met with q horrible accident
last week. They were but two years
old, aud while playing on the track of
the Bald Eagle railroad, passing
train severed the head of one complete
ly from its body, aud cut of both feet
of the other.
Thomas NJ. Jackson, smitten with
paralysis, was hauled all the way from
Texas to Montgomery county, this State,
i'll one horse wagon; his wife aud on
ly child accompanying hIm. He reach
ed his destination on Tuesday after
noon, after having been on the road
since last February.
Rev. Daniel Baker, who has been
preaching for some eighteen months at
Browns Mills, says the Greencastle
Press, suddenly left for parts unknown
The reverend scoundrel ruined a young
girl of the neighborhood, and her broth.
er got one shot at him, and bad bis
shotgun loaded and was looking around
for him. The knowledge Of this prob
ably influenced him to seek other
pastures.
The Scranton Republican says that
the parties concerned in the robbery
of Daniel Atkinson of Archibald some
SIX months ago have been captured.
One j. j. Gallagher, alias Wilson,
at Buffalo, and the other Daniel Atkin-
son, Jr., a nephew of the man who was
robbed. The guilty party was found
the tracing of one of the stolen
bonds back after it had arrived at the
Treasury department at Washington.
Uusophisticated country people who
come to town either for pleasure or
profit are continually the victims OF
sharpers, who are always on the alert
for prey. James Luft, Bucks coun.
ty man had his eyes opened in not
agreeable way yesterday. Early in the
be drove to town with q load
of hay, which be took to the market
al Seventh and Oxford streets for sale.
A purchaser was there in shape OF a
young man who professed intimate
knowledge of the market price, and
who, after some baggling, agreed to
take the hay if the farmer would de-
liver it at Twelfth and Cherry streets.
Mr.. Luft, Of course, was willing and
started for the place designated. When
he arrived at Tenth and Filbert streets
he met the young man who said that be