Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-04-09
STATE ITEMS.

OTAIE ITEMS.
john Clark, of Chester, Pa, aged
twenty-nine years, fell deao April Is,
while taking drink of liquor in . sa.
loon IN Chester. Heart disease is SUP.
posed to be the cause.
A tree was Gu, iu Chester county re-
Gently that split ninety posts aud made
several wagon loads Of wood for fuel in
addition.
A Chester county sharpshooter, the
favorite in famous rife team, shot ten
times at six snipe recently without ruff
fling feather.
Over 100 persons we're converted at
the revival held at the West Granville
church, Bradford county, during the
past winter.
The people Of Washington county
are a good deal exercised over the im-
prisopment Of the miners who have
failed to pay the costs in the recent
suits in the courts Of that county. The
men were without money and forty eight
Of them we're sent to prison. The ex-
penses Of supporting the men in Jail
will be more than $1,000, which added
to the cost of arresiing and prosecuting
them will ruu the total expense of the
Brownsville troubles TO over $4,000,
A perfect reg iment of tramps, mum
bering more than hundred, descended
upon the Chester county AImshouse
last Monday night They came from
the large cities principally New York,
Philadelphia aud Baitimore-and the
next morning started toward. The Vall-
cy.
After afew days illness, John Innes,
prominent citizen and leading pol
itician Of Easton, suddenly leaped from
his bed a few days ago, and running to
the window threw himself out. The
fall was from the second floor, aud Mr..
lnues is at present very ill from injur-
les received.
The wife of Jacob Reed, an old and
we'll known resident of Danville, Mon
tour county, entered the parlor of the
house last Sunday morning a week aud
found her husband seated in a chair
dead. He had one boot on, and was
evidently about in the act of putting on
the other.
An e!opement prevented in Pittsburg
on Friday week by the arrival of the
husband as his wife was about to leave
with another. The husband fell upon
the serpent that had invaded his home
and would have been whipped by the
serpent but for the IDterposition of
neighbors.
The people Of Reading have in their
midst woman who has slept contin-
ously for three months with the excep-
ton of half hour each day when she
is aroused to take food. She has a
nursing child.
An attempt was made at an early
hour on Friday morning q week to throw
train on the Pittsburg and Castle
Sharon railroad from a trestle two bun
dred feet high.
One hundred and thirty persons re-
Gently sat down to "the funeral baked
meats" when prominent citizen of
Cumberland comfy was buried.
A tramp laid down to sleep on the
track of the Philadelphia aud Reading
Railroad near Matanoy Plane, on Fri
day night a week and was run over and
killed.
A you1g man was shot in at Dutch
Gap, near Scranton, some time ago by
another young man whom the first had
grossly insulted while walking with
some ladies. The wounded man de-
clined to prosecute, confessing his err
ror.
A Millerstown boy named George
Jacobs was found dead in bed in Sci
insgrOve, Snyder county, Sunday morn
ing week.
Patrick McClarren, an Irishman, who
is employed in Pittsburg livery sta
bic, has fallen heir TO $50, 900 BY the
death of his father in ireland.
A young school teacher named Jos
iah. Holsopple, of RichIand township
Blair county, has suddenly disappear.
ed. He prosecuted a number of boys
a week or t~o since for disturbing a
smelling hee which he was conducting
in the district school house in Taylor
Us school term expired
last week, when be aro'T bis mouey and
started for his home in Richiscd town
ship. He had not yet arrived tins
and bis family are terribly
at his prolonged absence. Foul
play is suspected.
A cal! slgned by more than two hun
dred men, representing scores of relig-
lous and temperance societies, has Just
been published for State Conven-
tion, to be held at Harrisburg on the
2t;h and 25inst. All Ministerial and
temperance associations are requested
to send at least two delegates.
1t only costs twenty-eight cents =
week to feed prisoner in the Western
Peni:entiary.
l, Is estimated that under the new
census Pennsylvania will have q popu-
ation of 4 10000
Hundreds of people have focked in
to Johnstown recentlysupon the repres-
entation that large amount of Labor
was needed there.
A pretended Western drover has
been circulating counterfeit fve-dollar
bills on the National Bank of Hanover,
Pa, abou. West Chester.
On Friday last MIR. Zebulon Martin
Ind his sou, living a. Henry's Bend,
lear Oil City, while removing a pile of
itones came across what at first seemed |
/ large ball of black rope. As soon as
he sun struck i, the discovery was
made that it was roll of rattlesnakes
hat had Luddled together as a means
# protection from the cold. The two
men commenced an active warfare, and
dispatched fifty-six of the varmints.
The Oil City Derrick is responsible for
his story, aud as it appeared on the lst
# April, it has . taint of suspicion
bout it.
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