Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-06-25
STATE ITEMS.


towns in the coal regions.
1t is reported in the northern part of
the Stat. tina; large quantities of apples
are held in store from last ears crop.
Po,tstown fishermen bait their hooks
with balogna sausage to catch bass.
A four year-0ld son of Abraham
Kulp was drowned in a we'll at his fa-
theirs house, nea- Hatfield, Moutgom-
cry county, few days ago.
In Moptrose, SusquehaLna county, a
cat that had been missing four weeks
was found locked up in trunk. She
was terribly emaciated.
At Charlotte Furnace, Fayette coun-
ty, on Wednesday a week, John Nor
ris fell into a pool of molten iron and
received injuries from which be died
soon afterwsrd.
Mr.. George w Francis. of Kettle
Greek, Potter county. killed bear last
week that weighed 800 pounds.
Three hundred acres have been
planted 10 tobacco in Tioga county this
spring.
Thirty barrels OF pretzels are ship
ped from Allentown every day.
1t is estimated that 10000 persons
have left this State since January lst,
for Kansas.
The arrangements for the dedication
of Washingtcn's headquarters at Valley
Forge, on the Fourth of July, are on 4
scale of great nagnifcence.
Jeremiah IL. Hamker, of Wilkes
barre, has sued ten citizens of that city
for libel, 10 having signed a remon-
STRANGE to the issuing of commission
to him as superintendent Of public
schools in that city.
In Lower Merton, Chester county,
the other day, six young men under
took to dig z out nest of young foxes.
A crowd gathered. The diggers after
a great deal of labor came near to the
bed where the offspring of Mrs Rey-
nard we're concealed, when the sym
pa'bies of the crowd began to be ea-
listed in behalf ot the little animals,
and a fight ensued. The diggers we're
beaten and forced 20 leave.
A race is to come off on the 4th of
July at Cedar Hill, Robertson towa-
ship, Berks county, three suirors for
the hand of a young lady-a landlords
daughter. The young man who makes
his mile the quickest is to have the
young lady. The contestants are
friends, and think this is the fairest
way to decide which is to have the fair
one.
A dispatch from Milford, Pa, under
date of June Is, says: A few morn
ings ago. at an early hour, Benjamin H..
Holgate, farmer of Damascus town
ship, Wayne county, Pa, left his home
with his gun, telling his family that he
was going out to the corn field to kill
crows. Later in the morning he re-
turned to the house with one side of his
face terribly lacersted, the cheek being
torn out, several teeth and portion Of
the upper jaw carried away, one eye
completely destroyed, and the skull
shattered at the temple in such a man
ner as to leave the brain exposed. He
was unable to give any account of the
circumstances which had resulted in his
; mutilation. He is still living, but can
not recover. The belief is very gen.
eral that the shooting was an attempt
at suicide, resulting from depressed
condition Of the injured mans mind.
! Readings trouble in school affairs is
a serious affair. A school board with
two D. Presidents, each having resolved to
ho.d on, is a source of revolution tha,
may vet q, nand q military force to
secure order.
There is fa,al disease among the
chickens in Monroe county, species Of
, il dueDza, swelling tie throat of the
fowl until they die By sh!focation.
1t is 'eported that there N'ii' only be
q half crop of peaches in Yorh county
this year.
The inmates of the Perry county
prison sent q petition to the Young
Mems Christian Association of New
Bloomfield to " come in and pray for
u.s." The request was granted.
Henry Baney stabbed James Park,
of Bellefonte, last week. with poke.
knife, wounding him severely in The
knee. Baney is in Jail, and Park in
| bed.
Judge Bucher recently refused to
grant tavern licenses in Mifflinburg, be-
cause the applicants could not bring
twelve respectable men to endorse the
applications.
The stomach of the man McGee, ex-
humed at Red Bank, Clarion county,
supposed TO contain arsenic admins
tered by bis wife, is in the possession
of Pittsburg chemist. He wants
$500 to analyze it, and refuses to un-
derrake the job until the county guar
antees him the money.
A fight between bull and q bear
has been advertised to take place at
Custer, Mexican county, on the LIST of
July. Seating accommodations have
been arranged for 4,OUu persons, ana
Sl00 of the proceeds from the fight will
be appropriated to ths school district in
which the fight occurs.
John Siney, the labor strike sgitator,
is dying of consumption at bis home In
Clesrfeld county.
Nineteen sunmers are all that have
\ p,ssaI over the bead of an Alleotoun
girl who has twice been divorced.
a colored boy, aged about fifteen
years. named Samuel Harley, assaulted
a white boy named Tennis, who was
pasturing cows near Highspire, Dau-
phiu county, on Friday evening. Har-
ley got off a wagon, on which be was
riding to Harrisburg, went into the
field, threw the Tennis boy down, and
from toe assault be died. The Harley
boy is in the Harrisburg Jail.