Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-19
STATE ITEMS

prices nos Offering tor the tobacco CROP
are the fsircst of the season.
The charitable societies Of Reading
are furnishing one hundred and thirty,
eight families, daily with fair article
of soap and whole some white bread.
Ida House, aged sixteen years, and
the wife Of very old man, died in the
ai,nshouse at Harrisburg on Saturday
afternoon from the effects of a severe
cold.
The rifemen of Chester county shot
for membership of the team which is to
shoot against the Pennsylvania team
at Philadelphia some tine in March.
Six men were pronounced members Of
the Chester county team.
Mrs. Col. j. G. Parr, of KittanDing
has contributed to the Loan Exhibition
at Pittsburg, an almanac for the year
l136, which was printed aud sold by
Benjamin franklin, when he was net
quite thirty years Of age, and more
than forty years before he put his name
to the Declaration Of Independence.
Joseph Ward purchased a Delaware
county bond 10 1864. Last week it
was returned to the commissioners
without single coupon detached.
The bond was for $500 and the inter-
est amounted to $3.50.
A bald eagle measuring seven feet
four inches from tip to tip Of its wings
was shot near Greenville last week
All the churches Of meadviile have
added largely to their membership this
winter.
A fair was held at st. Michael's
Church, Chester, at which over thirty
dollars in spurious coin was taken. 1t
has recently been shown that counter
feiting has been rage in that county
counterfeit money was
printed at house on the Chester road
near Darby, and at another near Oak
Lane
Between twelve and one o'clock on
the llth inst, six prisoners escaped
from the county prison, at Lebanon, by
cutting hole in the ceiling of their
cell. There are at present between
fifty and sixty prisoners confined there,
including seven charged with murder
-ons of whom has already been con-
victed-and the building is so insecure
that the sheriff is powerless to hold
prisoners In his custody.
Samuel Miller, a farmer. aged about
forty-five years, who has recently been
married left his home, near Bunker
Hill Station, Lebanon county, at FIVE
o clock on Monday afternoon a week
and was found hanging from a cherry
tree near that place. 1t is believed
that he was laboring under an aberratio
of the mind
On Monday a week Madame Ander
son was fined in Allegheny City for her
Sunday walk, and the amount was made
up by citizens of that place.
A young unmarried man named Stack
attempted to jump on a moving freight
train, in Pittsburg, yesterday, and fall
ing under the wheels was almost inst
antly killed.
y dispatch from kittann,ng says
Sheriff G. A. Williams, who was con-
vic;ed at the December term for per-
jury ard using money for election pur-
poses, was sentenced to twenty five
months Imprisonment in the peniten
tiary and to pay fine of $500. Will
liams has been in Office since January,
1877.
A late atiache of Philadelphia
theatre bequeathed his head to the
house to be used as the skull in "Ham-
let," and yet there are people who deny
that the American stage is getting
ahead.
A farmer was recently attacked near
Williamsport by a panther, and escap-
ed with considerable difficulty.
Anthony Sedelmyre, who rose from
the driver Of mule in the ore mines
of the Cambria iron company to be chief
clerk of the First National Bank Of
J Johnstown, died IN that place of con-
sumption last week.
Joe Williams, a colOred man drOpp-
ed dead Friday as be was about to
leave the Delaware county jail, his
term having expired.
The farmers of Chester county are
becoming very tired Of the prauks of
fox hunters.
Peter Meeks wealthy farmer at Sny-
dersville, Pa, aged II, committed sui
eide on Saturday.
Mrs. Christiana Vanfossen, of Cen
tire Point, Montgomery county, remem-
bers when her father took food to
Washington's army at Valley Forge.
\ four weeks old child died in the
arms of its mother Mrs. John Reed, IN
Centre county, while she was being
driven home in buggy BY her husband
last week.
John Bowers, a Huntingdon lawyer
has become preacher of religious lib
erty, "abandoning the law of man for
the advocacy of the law o! God"
q. w. w. Waddell, the Waynes-
burg lawyer whose attempt at suicide
when a clerk in the Auditor Generals
Office will not have been forgotten,
died on Wednesday, after protracted
illness.
The miners disturbance at Califor-
mia, Washington county, has been
wholly quieted.
A dispatch from Pottsville, on the
18th inst, says: Yesterday some sig
teen houses owned By miners in Shen-
andoah commenced sinking into the
ground, and some of them have already
sunk two or three feet and are still
moving. The inmates have all removed
to places of safety, taking with them
their furniture. The sinking is caused
BY the "robbing" of coal pillars in the
Kohinoor mines, directly under that
section of the town.
In the Blair county court, on Tues