Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-01
STATE ITEMS.

A boy III Mercer comfy kiiled
black snake the other day that mea-
sured seven feet in length.
The potato crop in the northern coun-
ties of the State is in part failure.
4 hardware merchant III Johnstown,
Cambria county, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart last
Wednesday.
An exchange says: Some Montgom-
cry county farmers have sowed Medi-
terranean and Fultz wheat mixed. A
farmer in Norriton township did this
last year and has yield Of forty BUSH
els to the acre.
DR.. ". J. Lang6tt, of Allegheny
City, while attending patient troubled
with dipbtheris, got some of the virus
in a sore On his hand, and his life is de-
SPARED Of.
Thieves broke into the Reading rail
road ticket Office a, Shamrock pear AL
entown, and stole lot of tickets for
points in Lancaster county.
There is scarcely day tha: the pol
iticians of Luzerne county do not have
a personal encounter In which blood
flows.
Colonel Thomas A Scott, while at.
tending wedding in Pittsburg, on
Thursday week was served with a
subpoena to attend Court at Clarion
as a witness in the well-known conspir-
acy case brought by President Camp
bell, of the Producers Union, against
certain railroads and members of the
U. 2. Line aud Standard Oil Company.
The trial is set down for October 25.
The Columbia Courant says the work
on this device for the "free and unob-
structed" passage of shad over the dam
at Columbia is progressing rapidly. and
will be completed about the 10th Of
October. we are informed. 1t is said
the contractor Mr.. Mitchell, is doing
his level best to make q good and sub
stantisl job, and in the minds of prac-
ticle men the new 6shwsy is considered
to be faultless and VIII answer the pur-
pose for which it is intended admirably
We hope. for the benefit of the tax
payers and our up river friends tina,
such may prove the case.
Josiah 2. Hetrick, an old and promi
nent citizen of Easton, died yesterday
morping from the effects of fall on
Wednesday. He was picking pears,
and fell from a shed, dslocating his
beck. He fingered in half conscious
condition until death. He was in
bis seventy-fonrth year, and had
held many offices of responsibility
and trust, the latest being that of Col
lector of Internal Revenue uuder Pres
ident johnson. He was a politician ol
some note in the Wing party, and sub
sequently was strong an infuentia
Democrat He was the father of O
large family. He was a man of uuus.
ually healthy constitution, never known
to have been sick a day.
The Clear6eld Journal of last Wed
nesday says: A panther killed foul
head of cattle Oh the "Big Prairle." in
Goshen township. on Saturday nigh
hast. The big Prairie" is a piece ot
mountain land covered With q growth o.
grass and makes foe pasturage. Fol
some years it has been the custom o.
Lawrence, Goshen, Bradford and Girarc
townships TO put cattle out there t.
Craze during the summer, and this sum
mer Alexander Wallace hss been herd
ing three hundred head for variou,
farmers sb,oagbaut these Townships
He left the cattie 70 themselves on Sat
arday and came in to his home. Upor
returning on Sunday be found chat foul
head had been killed and from the
tracks decided that the mischief had
been done BY panther. Three mer
started on the hunt of the animal bu,
failed to find him asd perLaps they
were GLAD Of It