Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-08-13
STATE ITEMS

SUES duUtDeI woman iuE S-O1NN| 'Oi
having estranged from her The love OF
be. husband.
Nine new posts of the Grand Army
Of the Republic have been organized N
tins State during the past month, and
over two thousand members have beeh
admitted 10 the organisation s'oce Jan
uary |.
AN old gentleman of Washington was
20 much pleased because os the atten
;ious shown him by waiting maid N
P,,tsburg hotel that when he died re-
Gently be left her $ 900.
Two children, living near Turkey
Run ScEuy!kill county. went out on the
mountains to pick berries, and 10. com
ing home, search was made for them.
They were found safe in su old sink
hole, into which they bad fallen, and
where they bad remained sixteen hours.
A farmer living near Altoona sold
three thousand quarts of cherries this
season.
Turtles are pejdled in Kittanning
by the wagon load. The streams in
Armstrong county swarm with snap
pers.
General W ". Irwin, of New Bright
on, Beaver county, Pa, and formerly
Treasurer of this State died Of apoplexy
on Saturday evening a week. He was
elected State Treasurer in 1868 over
William V. McGra;h the Democratic
nominee, and belonged to what was
known at that time as the Curtin wing
of bis party.
! A shoemaker, named Winters of Har-
risbufg, who lost his hearing during an
engagement in the late war, suddenly
recovered it while bathing few days
ago.
On Monday morning week George
Clancy, a farmer residing between
Evansburg and Hartstown, Crawford
county, went Iuto the woods to do some
chopping. Not returning 70. dinner
Mrs. clancy became alarmed and went
in search of him She had only gone
about half the distance when she found
his lfeless body Mr.. Clancy was 46
years old and leaves wife and one
child iis death is supposed to have
been caused ty heart disease, but, as
no post morten examination has been
J held, this is only conjecture.
1t is stated in Plltsburg paper that
Annie Moore, the Beaver county girl
who married negro coal miner some
weeks ago, and who has been living With
him at Salem, Ohio. has deserted her
husband and returned TO the home OF
her parents in Beaver. 1t is stated
that she bas returned a wiser girl aud
that hereafter she will endeavor TO do
better. She left Salem On Tuesday last
tuving 4 ticket for Beaver.
When the train on the Erie road was
coming from Red House TO Salamanca
on Saturday afternoon a ueeh, at the
rate of thirty miles an heur it brought
u.n cd suddenly as TO shake up the pas
senEe-s thoroughly. The cause of the
,roubi was a woe-begoDe looking eoun-
trymau, who stepped forward and said
he stopped the "keers kase he thought
it mought do the passengers good to
look a, the big trout he had just ketch-
ed" In a manner not at all amiab!e
the conductor pulled the bell.
DR.. Wickersham, Superintendent OF
Soldiers Orphan Schools has issued q
circular addressed to mothers guard
ians and friends Of the soldiers orphans
of the schcol at bridgewster, stating
that the principal, James Sitter, hav-
ing resigned that school will be closed on
the Goth lust, and the pupils transfer
ed to any one of the following schools
which they may select, viz: Unloutown,
Fayette county; Mercer, Mercer coup-
ty; Dayton, Armstrong county: Maus-
field, Tioga county; Hartford Sus1ue-
hanna county: McAlIstervilie, JunIata
county, or Mount Joy, Lancaster couu-
ty i: the department be informed of the
choice of those interested within ten
days.
W. K. Miller, of Harrisburg, was
slot and instantly killed last Thursday
by Samuel L. Albright, of Montgom-
ery's Ferry, Perry county, Albright
, ard The murdered man were both pay
: ing attention to young lady by the
=. name of Hammaker, who resides at the
5 ferry, and it was while Miller was on 4
! visit to her that Albright deliberately
walked INTO the girls fathers bous'
S and shot Miller through the heart, in
q stantiy killing bin. The murderer es
capped 10 the mountains.
A dispatch from Mecbsnicsburg, Pa,
!, under date of the 7th inst, says: Ol
Tuesday night last Levi Smith, a farme
!, residing near this place, was taken sud
;. denly i'll. The family becoming alarm
y ed called in DR.. l.. P. O'Neal, who a
once pronouocod it case of hydropho
a bia. On the 4th of July dog be
!, y longing to Mr.. Smith, and which ha'
u been absent several days, returned, in
jured in one leg. While the owner wa
. examining the wound the dog bit blu
u in the Guger. The wound was Sigh
and caused no alarm. On Tuesday Nj
Smith overheated himself, when To
8 disease mauiscsted itself Tie sic
a a man suffered greatly, but is easier, an
: = some hopes are entertained of his re
covery.
$ The following is from . Lancaste
9 paper Of last " ednesday: AT lat
4 hour yesterday afternoon Miles Frank
d ford, Paul Quigley, Charles Albrigh
aud John Thompson, alias " Whitley
:. the Tramp" were arranged before Al
- g derman Spurrier. of Lancaster, charge
= = with the larceny of chickens by mum
e % Der of respectable farmers of the cour
ty. They are believed to be member
;, of an organized band Of thieves, an
- when it is stated that the farmers c
that county lose thousands Of dollars
'e chicken flesh annually by the depre
" dations of professional and amatue
,b,auas ~ ,p,y ha i,,au,ned the foe lin