Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-03-26

izing trial by jury of six, impaneled by
any Justice, when demanded by the defend
ant, after few unimportant amendments,
has passed to second reading in the House.
MIR. NJ. Bryson Crawford has moved into
the house at Reeds Gap, that was vacated
by Mr.. James Irwin when he moved to this
place to fill the Office Of Clerk to the Com
missioners. Mr.. Crawford will accommo-
date people with board and lodging. 1t will
be convenient place for people to stop at,
on their way up and down the valley.
Two little sons of Mr.. Wey land, of Gen.
trail City (Milesburg), Centre county, played
soldier with an old musket on Friday a week
The younger boy, who .'didn't know it was
loaded" pointed the gun at his brother and
pulled the trigger. A heavy charge of shot
entered the boys abdomen, breast and
hands, and he died the next day.
An exchange writer writes of oats sowing
in Kansas as follows: I" have friend out
here, who loads his oats on the wagon, ties
three harrows abreast TO the rear end of the
wagon, :hen he takes a position on the sad
die horse with bag of oats in front of him.
When all is ready he starts the team and
begins to sow, the wagon following with the
balance of the oats and the harrows on be-
hind.''
This fish story from the Perry county
Freemau: We we're shown recently by
Charles II. Smiley, of this town, a perch
nearly nine inches in length, and of good
width, that had been taken from the ston-
ach Of a salmon presented TO the gentleman
by one of his Duncarnon friends. The
perch was still in good condition, excepting
a small portion of the tail which had been
digested.
This, from the Altoona Tribune of last
Wednesday: A most remarkable mirage
happened to Hollidaysburg man the other
day. He says he was invited by a friend to
take drink, when. raising the glass to his
lips, he discovered in the glass a miniature
hearse, standing beside an open grave, into
which was being lowered a coffin. 1t is
needless to say he did not drink that liquor,
and has had no relish for liquor since.
1t is said that there are two Mrs. Mary
divers in Washington-the one has ex
Senator Cameron in court in a suit for
breach of promise, and the other is clerk
in the Office of the Comptroller of the cur
I ,Vh vi, rha Sa.uraA On tho
ommendation of the ex-senator. The name
of one or the other of the women should
have been changed.
Mrs. Nancy Weidmau, residing near Van
Vert, died Unexpectedly at O'Clock on
Friday morning. On Thursday evening she
enjoyed her usual health, and listened TO
the reading of two newspapers by County
| Superintendent Smith, who has been max
ing his home at her place. AT the hour
mentioned above, waiting maid in the en-
ploy of Mrs. Weidman aroused Mr.. Smith.
He hastened TO Mrs. Weidman's room and
found her dying. She breathed but few
times, after he reached her bedside.
The suit of Mrs. Oliver against ex-Sena-
tor Cameron for breach Of promise and tho
recovery of fifty thousand dollars damage
has been in progress since last week. The
city papers contain lengthy reports of the
evidence as given in the case in court. The
reports are about as full of obscenity, as re-
ports that could be gotten at any regular
term of county court, where cases for un-
lawful intimacy between the sexes come up
for settlement. Country newspapers at
every regular court could ill their columns
with just such obscene articles, but they
SIMPLY make \ brief statement of such cases.
On Sunday morning a brakeman named
John Kennedy, while in the act of coupling
cars at Manayunk station, Miffiin county,
had his lett hand caught by the bumpers.
The hand was SO crushed that dispatch
was sent to this place requesting that sur
gecns be summoned to render service 10
the laccrated and broken hand on the arri-
val of the train. When the train came in,
Drs. Crawford, Banks, and SIndoe were in
waiting to attend to the surgical aud medi-
cal requirements of the case. Two fingers
and the thumb were amputated. Mr.. Ken
nedy LETT on the 1910 A. NJ. train for Har-
risburg, where his wife and children live.
AL that is necessary to get forcible ex-
preston from Father Frysinger, of the Lew
istown Ga-effe, is to mention that some one
has been taking advantage of the fish, and
it is expressed immediately, as per ex-
ample, as follows, from his paper last week /:
Captain Dunn, we hear, played a good joke
on a canal seiLing party below the dam
locks by opening the gates and flooding
them out The idea entertained by some
people that the canal can be seinod with
In.punity Will some day be knocked out OF
their heads by prosecution. The canal is
as much part of the river as is Kishico-
quillas, Jacks, or any other creek, and be-
sides is inhabited by bass, to take which or
have in possession is subject to fine of
ten dollars.
I Politicians in town have been en-
gagged in crookedness. as is evidenced by
the statement of the borough election
board. The board states that when the
borough election box was opened last 6 at
urday morning the box was minus ht
tickets and tally list of the votes polled
at the election in February. This is the
second time, according to the statement
Of election boards. that ballot-bOxes in
The custody of officers in the borough have
been tampered with, Such outrages merit
severe punishment
A number of citizens have brought an
action against the election board in the bor'
ough s'on plea of debt for penalty