Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
STATE ITEMS.

Foot ball clubs are popular in War
rem county.
Washington anG Jefferson College is
out of debt.
In Pittsburg l4l9 persons have died
In the past six months.
Washington county wool clip will
aggregate a million pounds.
Farmers in Chester county offer 25
cents for ground hog scalps.
Joe Paul, of Lock Haven, has killed
seventeen rattle snakes this season.
Daily arrests are made along the
line of the Reading railroad of persons
stealing rides.
The death rate among children dur
ing the'' heated term" is said to be
greater than was ever known, except
In time of epidemics.
David Policy and Matt Burch6eld.
employees of the Athens Mills COM
pany, Meadvllle, went away on the Sd
of July aud have not been seen or
heard from by their relatives since.
About three o clock on the morn
ing of July 23rd, the baru of Freder-
lex Diugs, near Millersville Lancaster
county wss destroyed by fire, with its
contents. Tue loss is not known; in
surarce, 81 GOO John Bechtel was
suspected OF firing the barn, and was ar
Rested last evening.
There is no one in the Jail III Indiana
county, and times are 50 "hard' that
the Sheriff has discharged all his dep
uties.
Mrs. Hettie Trump, young married
woman, Is the person who last kindled
FIRE with kerosene at Pittsburg
She survived the experiment about
four hours in horrible agony. -
Pittsburg people are putting up a
thirteen pot furnace at SteubenvIlle,
Ohio.
Two thousand miles Of oil-pipe lines
are said to be in operation in the State.
Boarding houses along the Pennsyl-
vania railroad are favorite summer re-
sorts for city folks There are hun
dreds of these as far up as Lancaster
county.
A beet stalk is growing in the gar
den of Amos Hartranft, In Douglass
township, Bucks county that measures
ten feet IN length
Col. James Duffy of Marietta, has
already cut and hung up to dry five
acres of fine tobacco.
Reports from different parts of the
country indicate failure of the barley
crop for 1878. Experienced brewers
believe that beer will be increased to
$40 per barrel.
At Reading boys of fifteen and six
teen years old bathe in the pond of wa
ter used for drinking purposes.
Two large eagles flew over Will
Transport on Saturday, bearing in their
talons large chickens.
The lamp chimney factory at Raven
ma, Ohio operated by Pittsburgers on
the cooperative principal, has been
shut down for repairs, but will be
started again on the first of August.
Pittsburg has seventy-three glass
factories thirty-three iron rolling
mills eight steel rolling mills seven
white lead factories twenty nine oil
refineries, and the coal mines contrib
uting to that market number one hun.
dred and ffty-eIght.
A number of employees in the Penn
sylvania Railroad shops at Huntingdon
have been discharged for want of work.
King, Son & Co, OF Pittsburg, are
filling large order o: glass for South
America.
The Erie Car Works are building
one hundred cars for the Chicago and
Rock Island Railroad.
Thomas Waldrou, on examination at
Pot.svile, was held under 800 bail on
the charge Of assisting Gibbons, the
Mollie Mcguire, to escape
Morris Brown, living near West
Chester, has been plowing up coins and
relics on his farm on several OCCASIONS
of late. A few days since he unearth.
ed bonanza in the form of box oi
gold, and silver and copper coins, az
gregating S400 iu value.
The farmers of Crawford county are
paying great attention TO the improve
ment of their herds of milk cows.
At Pittsburg roan cut loose from
his wife because she called him BY
such pet names as ground hog ant
skunk.
James Hunter, of Greensburg, aget
ninety-one years, was buried in tha
town on the 23rd, with Masonic hon
ors. He had been a member of th'
order in good standing for sc years.
T. 1. Bonar ran a long distance tt
catch a train at Benersville Intersec
tion, Pennsylvania railroad, last week
and fell and expired instantly from th
effects of his exhaustion.
Rioting tramps caused much excite
ment st Earlville, near Pottstown
One of them was shot BY Constable
Belcramp.