Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-09-18
HTATE ITEMS.

Ons thousand men by actual oount
were drunk at COnnellsville last Friday
night week.
The celebration at Erie on the 10th
inst in honor Commodore Perry's vic
tory was a lively affair, snd very large
ly attended.
The cheese factories of Crawford
county are reduced to half time The
drought has destroyed the feed and
dried up the milk.
Protests against the number Of books
used in the public schools and their ex-
orbitant cost, are being made by the
people IN all parts of the state.
A mule and two horses were stolen
on Sunday night week, from . field
between Boiling Springs and Church
town, Cumberland county. They were
the property of David Deitch.
A very shocking accident occurred
on Saturday a week at Buskill Falls.
A young lady, daughter of Mr. Comp
ton, fell some ninety feet from the
bank of the falls tc the rocks below.
She was terribly bruised and mangledj
several bones we're broken, but hopes
are entertained for her recovery.
A little son of Jacob Bruner Of
Gwynedd, Montgomery county, was
playing "cook supper" iD the barn.
The building and $4,000 worth of grain
and hay paid for the supper.
In a recent suit it cost Crawford
county Sl04,30 to convict a man for
stealing an old pair of boots not worth
2 so.
David DIETRICH, of Greencastle,
Franklin county, has been an undertak-
er for fifty years in which time be as
sisted in the burial of $500 people
ln 1863 he furnished l63 cofhns.
Richard Jones, a darkey fell off q
scow in Tuckahoe creek, near Hills
borough, the other day and was drown
ed.
Clearfeld county is destined to be-
come q petroleum Ell Dorado. With
In the last month number of oil strikes
have been made, aud boring is now
proposed on extensive plans.
A citizen of Indiana county hss
brought SUIT against his neighbor who
INDUCES in the game of croquet, set
ting forth that it is a great annoyance
to his family aud nuisance which be
desires abated.
A bald eagle, measuring five feet
from tip to tip Of wing, was shot in
Westmoreland county while at the
edge Of a stream watching for fish
There should be law to prevent this
kind of outrage. The eagle is harm
less, noble bird, and the emblem of
our country, and should be permitte !
to live in peace.
John Deane and Anthony Carey
were arrested and taken to Pottsyille
on 10Th inst on the charge of being
implicated IN the Stanton murder at
DanesriIle in 1860. This is the fourth
arrest made since Saturday for the
same murder, and other two being
Munley and Noon,
While steer vas being driven into
Gettysburg few days ago for slaugh-
ter, BY James Hake and bis son Henry
the animal became unmanageble and
turned on young Hake, who being be-
tween the steer and the fence and 6nd-
ing hIuseif IN danger, picked up
stone and buried 1t at the steer. 1t
struck the animal square in tie fore
head between the eyes and with sufh
cient force to kill it. Mr.. Hake then
cut its throat With pen knife.
Charles Highly was acquitted at Bea-
yer of numbering Benjamin Sheridan,
on the ground that the killing took
place while Sheridan was trying to
force an entrance into Higby's house.
Hon Kirk Haines died at his home
in Millerstown, Perry county, on Tues
day evening, after an illness of several
weeks. Mr. Haines represented the
Perry district In the State several years
ago, and for number of years was a
prominent Republican politician.
Two farm hands, Henry Schultz and
John kleinmaster, were last week
crossing the Mississippi in a skif,
about sixty miles below ST. Louis when
they saw a seven year old boy floating
on the trunk of huge cottonwood tyee.
The boy was in comatose state.
Near his mouth the bark of the tree
had been gnawed' He bad been
voyager on the strange craft for six
days. Good medical treatment reviy-
the little fellow and he was at last ac-
counts doing we'll.
Joseph Brewer, an adventuresome
Californian went down to Chilli seyersl
years ago and rented from the govern
nent of that republic the rich island
La Mocha. Out Of this Island Brewer
made a plantation, hiring natives from
the mainland to work as laborers iu
bis hacienda. All went we'll until
about two months ago, when the natives
demanded to be served with potatoes
instead of beans at their dinner. Bow
er refused and was at once attacked by
B hundred natives. In the Wild fight
that followed thirteen of the laborers
we're killed, but they finally triumphed,
and Brewer with his whole family we're
slain, the assassins sailing for parts un-
known in one of his vessels.