Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-04-16
STATE ITEMS.

Udch DubltI, IL IIeltuIcu luOfluOH
prophet, is causing the people in the
northern part of the State much
trouble
March, 1850, is the time, and Al
toona the place for the next meeting
OF the NJ E. Conference.
John Martin, wel!-to do farmer of
Rawlinsville, Lancaster county, tried TO
commit suicide on Monday night week
by cutting his throat. He wall recover.
Colonel Bob" 1ngersoli offers to
give $1,000 at once and half OF his IN
come for the next FIVE years, it neces-
ssry, in aid of the negro emigrants TO
the west.
Rev. John Miller, d. D of Prince
ton, \. j., late professor in the Theo-
logical Seminary at that place, was
formally deposed from the ministry for
beresy, at session Of the Presbytery
of New Brunswick held in Trenton on
the 6th inst.
Lizzie Dittman, young girl recent
ly from the country, employed as a do
mestic in the family of Gottlieb Finkb,
of Lancaster, was found dead in her
bed on the morning of the Sth inst,
suffocated by gas.
On the 9th inst. Gov. Hoyt issued
warrants for tie execution Of Nimrod
Spattenhower, for the murder of John
Nivergall, of Lebanon, and Peter
Swengler tcoloredl, for the murder Of
John Anderson, at Chambersburg.-
They will be executed June 5.
Ground has been broken at Beaver
Falls for the new cooperative glass
works. The company is composed of
the striking glass pressers Of South
Pittsburg. The works will employ
about 400 hands.
The Hol.idaysburg Lutheran church
has been thoroughly remodeled, hand
somely frescoed, reseated and upholster-
ed and elegantly carpeted.
Senator Don Cameron has leased
for term of years the handsome
Ohio stone marsion of Ex-Governor
Shepherd, on Farragut Square, in
Washington. 1t is probably the most
elegantly furnished private house in
Washington, and the the Senator
takes possession of the house and
furniture on the 18th inst. The rent
is said to be $4,000 year.
Complaint is made In the Gettysburg
Compiler, as well as in The Tunes,
about raising corn in the portions of the
Getty burg battle field that have been
Sc; aside as monumental of the great
combat. The Compiler states that on
Culp's Hill many of the old bullet
market trees have been converted into
firewood.
A deer bounded upon the track as a
Cstawisss trair was passing near Wat
sontown a few days ago. 1t kept
ahead of the engine for long distance
and then jumped to the side, running
with the train nearly TO Dewart. Sew
er.l revolver shots we're fired from the !
train. The deer darted into the woods
near Dewart and was found there with |
bullet-hole in Its neck the next morn I
ing.
The Philadelphia and Reading rail
road company are testing the utility of
iron cross ties iBstsad OF wood, near the
depot at Phenixvil!e. Frou, the ap-
pearsnce of them We think they must
he superior to wood and must even
tuslly supersede the latter. The ties
are placed at point iu the road where
the wear and tear would be unusually
great, and il they stand we'll there, the
company need have no hesitancy in
placing them anywhere on the line of
their road.
John J. Swinehart, Chester coun-
ty farmer, who lives Just north of
Coatesville, acknowledged to patent
medicine agent Joseph Ash that he
always did have a kind Of hankerin
after pills and salves, and assured Mr.
Ash that If he were of the mind to
leave some of the stuff he d do all he
could TO sell it, to be sure. So Mr..
Ash sent Farmer Swinehart whole
boxful. Next day G. W. Owen called
upon the farmer. and smilingly re-
marked that as Mr.. Ash had forgot
ten to take the gentlemans note, he
would do it just as well, as the firm
name really read '>Ash & Owen" Mr..
Swinehalt was much taken back 1
,Ir. Owen was aggressive. Mr..
Swinehart signed-for S75. Later
u the day Mr.. Owen left the note at
lie Coatesville livery stable as secu- j
ity for SIS bill