Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-07-16
STATE ITEMS.

-. ~. piosOoits w 4hSICtE COuHtN 4,
sbeared sixty eight large sheep in nine
hours.
The Greensburg Tribune says toad
was caught up in that region recently
that weighed Ten pounds.
Up in Pike county, near the Della
ware river, Thomas Kane drowned him
self the other day rather than die of
consumption.
School Boards are literally overruu
with applications for teachers positions
There is happy couple in East Ii
tusville who are the parents of seven
pairs of twins, all alive. aud the oldest
only about fourteen years.
A Plttsburg woman named Pfe;ffer
cowbideG a store-keeper of that city a:
his place Of business on Tuesday even
ing because he sent her a threatening
and insulting letter, IN which be called
her "beer singer"
Baby shows will be an adjunct at
many of the agricultural fairs this year.
At distance o. five yards John
Graham, of Ere, with rife gun, bir
forty three out of fifty buuer-nuis
tossed into the AR.
Mrs. Thomas Culver, Ct Pine town
ship, Mercer county, hot long ago,
walked from her (, mer hOme, near
Sheakley vile, to her present residence,
distance of twenty miles, 10 tour beurs
and forty five minutes. Part of the
way she carried baby.
A great big loatter by the name Of
George Permar Was arrested tor va
graucy IN New Castle few days since
and sent to the work house for ninety
days. He has wife aud two children,
aud it was brought out in evidence that
Permar had worked but two days and a
half In sixteen years, though perfectly
we'll all that time.
There were twelve c1ck fights 10 the
vicinity of Pittsburg on the Fourth of
July, and the Humane Society thinks
that it will catch all the ringlesders.
Shenandoah is troubled about the
ghost of a man murdered II years ago.
James IL. Brown, of Lock Haven,
was fined the other day Sl5 and cos,s
for killing brood of young robins.
The Washington, Pa, Scbooi Board
have become dlsgustei with exoneratiDg
able bodied young men from the pay-
ment of school tax aud have resolved
to enforce the law against such. Here
after they are to take their choice, either
pay their tax or 90 to Jail.
ln the spring farmer, at Holden,
Pa, was much annoyed by crows pull
ing up his corn, and be put up large
umbrella 10 the middle of the field to
trlghten them away. Some one had
told him that it was sure way Of doing
it. Imagine his surprise, then, at iud
ing one vet day good flock under the
seeking shelter from the rain.
The umbrella was taken home and used
for another purpose.
Late IN the afternoon Of the Fourth
of July one of the small boys of Reat
ing threw-just tor tuu-a lighted fire.
cracker under the dress of a young girl
named Catharine Baker. A bysrander
was reprimanding the youngster when
he saw that the girls dress had taken
fire. She dashed wildly across the
street, screaming at the top of her
voice for assistance, but before any one
reached her she was enveloped from
head to foot. The fire was finally
with a piece Of caIpeting,
and the unfortunate girl taken to a
neighboring house, where the little
clothing that remained on her was re-
moved. In many places the skin was
burned to cinder, and in others, par
tIcuIariy ner back and breast, it came
of in great fakes. The poor girl suf-
fered terribly until two o'clock the
next morning. when she died. At New
Castle, Lawrence, Lawrence county, a
loung lady named Kentz, eighteen
J ears Of age. had her clothing set fire
10 in the same way, and wa. so badly
burned that she is not expected to live
A young man named Skilly, living 10
Pittsburg, and very much addicted to
drink, while standing near the river, on
Friday week. bade his friends good-by,
md then announced bis determination
10 end his life. AT the waters edge he
backed ont, but his friends, who we're
much under the influence of liquor, de-
'ern ined be should not back out. and
hrew him headiong into the water.
But FOR ths pre'ence Of sober man,
'e would have been drowned, as bis
friends laughed at his struggles.