Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-03-27

Scrsotou has military socials.

Bsrks county
Carlisle clergyman refuse 10 sssend
Sunday funerals.
Allegheny is overrun with sharpers
and snesh thieves.
Pittston reports the arrivsl Of steer
10,O0s pounds.
Psnnsylvsnis College Gettysburg,
has received bequest Of 20, 600.
The Democratic State Convention
will be held at Plttsburg May 22.
A shoe factory in Orwigsburg,
Schuylkill county is receiving orders
from Ohio, Indiana Illinois and other
western States.
Benjamin Beers, Of White township,
Cambria county, killed an otter two or
three days ago which measured four
feet four inches in length.
The body of Charles j. Rakistraw,
Of Lancaster county, who disappeared
on February %, was found In Peques
creek on Wednesday. He had com
mffted suicide.
Stacy Brown, Esq has been POST
master of Brownsburg, Bucks county,
for nearly hfty years. He was sp-
pointed by Postmaster General Barry,
in President Jackson's administrat,o,n
in 1929.
The Harrisburg and Potomac Rail.
road Company have secured . supple
ment TO their bridge charter, allowing
them to build . wagon bridge in con.
nection ~ith the railroad bridge ove1
SusIuehsnns.
Four hundred safts have reached
Lock HaveS this spring. Buyers are
| present u ss1scient numbers to give
spirit to the business. Prices range
from 10 to Is cents, sscording to kind
and quality.
An undertaker's establishmeat sl
ScLcelkil! Haven was broken into 9
few night. age and oil the oofius car
ried away ant deposited on the door
steps Of the doctors Offices and drug
stores of the town.
James Ross Snowden died on 5. tur-
day afternoon at HuImville, Bucks
county, Pa, aged 68. He Was prom
inently connected With the affairs Of
this State, having repeatedly been
elected to the Legislature.
The Touring mill of Maj D. d. Mel.
lott, Of Licking creek, Fulton county,
WAS burned on the 5th inst, ss va.
the barn Of Robert Eyerts in Belfast
township. Children playing with
matches got up the last FIRE.
The smallest post Office in the coun.
try Is located at Texas, Lyeoming coun.
ty. The entire salaries, fees and em
olumeuts derived BY the postmaster las,
year amounted to forty-6ve cents. The
Office has been discontinued.
The Board of Pardous at Harrisburg
decided not to interfere with the decis,
ion Of the Court in the cases of tn,
Columbia county Mollie Msguires, Hes
ter, Tully and McHugh. Their e1ecu'
tion took place on Monday March 25.
The grasshoppers have made their sp
pearance in Susquehsnns county al
ready, and the local papers say th,
is good for an abundant harvest. The
meadows and highways wherever th,
snow has vanished are completely GOV
cred.
Fifty families Of colored people vii
leave Pennsylvania for Liberia sbou
the first OF May. They will settle a
Brewervi!le, named 10 honor of the lat,
Charles Brewer, of Pittsburg, By
whose generosity many emigrants hsv'
been enabled to reach Liberia.
"The extreme dullness of business i,
reflected By the bank totals. the clear
ings for the last week in Pbiledelphi,
being twenty millions below the sggre
gate for season of full activity and
enterprise. Nothing could go striking
ly illustrate the complete failure of tn
spring trade.
Ii appears that Joseph Walker
whose suicide in Allegheny county wa,
attributed to the loss Of money deposit
ed with an absconding lawyer of Pitts
burg, took his life to avoid suit for
breach Of promise of marriage, which
had just been instituted against bin
by niece of his former wife.
The residence of Thomas Logan
near Campbellstown, Pa, was entered
BY four persons, supposed to have beel
tramps who gagged Mr.. Logan and car
ried away between four hundred an,
FIVE hundred dollars in specie. The
also burned papers representing a mon
ey value Of about four thousand dollar
due by other parties to Logan.
The Hon. J. Clancy Jones died q
Reading on Saturday night, aged g.
years. He served in congress, wit
only brief interruption, from 1850 t
1858, and was FOR two years chairma
of the Ways and Means Committee
He was also Minister to Austria durin
President Buchanan's administration
/ On Friday evening two weeks ago
Nr. George S;uckey, in Maple
township, Bedford county, with seve
horses, thirteen head Of cattle, tw'
calves, twenty-five tons of hay, 80
bushels of oats, and . large lot Q
farming utensils, were destroyed ,,
FIRE. A cclored boy in Mr.. Stuckeys'
employ confessed that he set the bar
on ere for fun. He now reposes j
Jail.
Jos. Lacey, of Birdsboro, Berk
county, aged twenty nine years, Will
Iaboring under temporary dersngxmeu
caused BY fever, jumped from the win
dow of his bedroom upon . shed rooi
thence ten feet to the ground, an
thence into . sink hole in the garden
eight feet deep, where his dead bod
Was found or Saturday morning. . week
Squire Brussiar, Of Birdsboro, held .
inquest, and . verdict Was rendered i