Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-09-25
STATE ITEMS.

ormous.
Late potatoes are failure in most
parts of the State
The tobacco crop of Bucks county
sold for six to twelve cents.
In the western part of the State
thousands of workmen have contrlbuit
ed one days pay to the yellow fover
sufferers.
Six cases, arising out of a church
quarrel at ShenadOah, last July, which
have been on trial at PottSville for a
week past, were ended on Friday guilty
in each case and dividing the costs be-
tween the liiigaDts.
The house of ID. A. M'Allister, q
merchant at Mount Holly Springs,
cumberland county, was entered and
robbed on Tuesday night a week The
burglar entered Mr.. M'Allister's sleep
ing room, and therefrom his psptalo ons
ritied the pockets of about $3.50 in
money. The theft then went to Mr..
M'Allister's brothers room, and sue
ceeded in getting a silver watch val
usd at thirty dollars, and ten or twelve
dollars in money.
A little daughter of William Shug-
hart, living in North Middleton town
ship, Cumberland county, Pa, was &C.
cidentaIly shot dead while playing with
loaded muske..
1t is reported that thirteen children
were born in the THIRD ward, South
Bethlehem, during Sunday night week.
In eighteen years the Republican
party has actually paid $40, 900 900 of
total debt of S42,O00,0OO created
by Democrats, and has provided for
the gradual but certain extinction of
S9,000,000 in addition. The debt to-
day, less security in the sinking fund.
is only about thirteen millions. And
this reduction has not been felt BY the
productive interests of the State.
There is much sIcknesa in the town
Of Bradford M'Kean county, which has
been causing alarm for several days.
At first it was supposed to be typhoid
fever, but on Friday last a physician
of that place expressed the opinion that
it is yellow fever modified by climatic
influence. This opinion has prevailed
for some time, and an effort has been
made to keep it quiet
On Tuesday night some persons en-
tered the premises of Henry Shue, near
Mannheim, Lancaster county, and broke
every shaft, cut every top and cover,
ripped every chushion and disfgured
every one of bis carriages, three in
number: they cut off every grape vine
at the trunk, and skinned or blazed
every fruit tree, making circle about
foot wide around each tree, over one
hundred ir number. The property
was advertised for sale, but it is so
badly damaged that the loss will be
very great.
John Texter, Sr., of Milibach, Leb-
anon county, owner of the famous 1900
acre farm, died at his residence on
Tuesday week, after protrscled ILL
ness, in the eighty-fourth year of bis
age. Nlr. Texter was kind hearted,
old.fashioned Pennsylvania Dutchman,
and bis death has occasioned much re-
gret in the community where he was so
well and favorably known. The man
ner of conducting business on his vast
farm has frequently been commented
upon by many of the interior journals,
and has been food for gossip among
men who till the soil on scientific prin-
ciples, to which he was a stranger.
The facility of modern agricultural i'm
plements made no impression on this
octogenarian, who preferred at all times
to gather the abundant harvest with
which be was blessed, as did his father
before him, with implements long since
out of date. His son Joel, who sur
wives, and will inherit his great plan
tation, is as eccentric as the old gentle
man, and also belongs to the old school
of farmers