Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-05-14
STATE ITEMS.

SIAk III E-ASs
Several wears ago John Berger, OF
Allentown, got GONE butter frVm tne
store of Mrs. Bortz and failed to pay
for it. A few days ego Burger came
along peddling fish, and Mrs Bor'z
seized Que iu pa, ,ment for the butter;
The peddler watched bis chances anu
laid hold upon tin pan and two irous
belonging to Mrs BorIz. A lawsuit Will
| be the result. .-
The spsrrows must 60. The West
Chester Neps has been Informed thst
severa! sporting gentlemen are import
ing ten thousand quail to be let loose
in the State.
Heavy fish stories are in order. Here
is the latest: The M'Veyto~n Journal
SAYS that "David Rershberger, jr., OF
Bratton township recently lifted set
net out OF the Juniata river containing
ninety catfish aud four eeis, the aver
age weight of which was three pounds
The soldiers monument to be erect
ed a; Sunbury will cost So ,25O, and
General Cameron has offered to pay
one half.
At the same hour, almost, in Pitts
burg on Friday afternoon week there
were two singular and similsr accidents
one Of which resulted fatally. A SIX
year-old little girl, named Gilston,
swallowed a grain of coffee, and before
assistance could be rendered she chok-
ed to death. The other accident was
to a six year old little girl named Lu-
mar, who swallowed grain of coffee,
and life was only saved By cutting open
the wiRdpipe and, in that way, remOv-
ing the grain. The operation was so
unusual and difficult that it was wit
messed by seven physicians.
Early on Monday morning week,
FIVE prisoners escaped from the Dauph-
in county Jail. Two of the prisoners
were pickpockets and Pete Douglass
Robt. Douglass and Harry Spahr, bur-
glars. The two pickpOckets pulled out
staple with which they dug around
the steam pipe effectiDg an entrance to
the next cell containing the burglars.
Here they dug out the veutllator, cut
| through the board and tin roof and all
gained The wall. Pete Douglass swung
himself off when the rope broke, he fall
ing heavily on the steps, the fall stun
mig him The res, jumped from the
wall Bob Douglass remained with
his unconscious companion, and both
were discovered and returned to Jail.
The two pickpockets were caugh.
near Falmouth, on Monday afternoon.
Harry Spahr, burglar, is still at large.
Quite sensation was created ct q
funeral in StrOuchsburg, Berks county
few days since. The body of Mr.
Searle, well known in that section, had
been lowered iDte the grave when some
member OF the family present asserted
that he was not dead. The coffin was
taken up, aud several veins of the de-
ceased's right arm opened before the
relative would believe that death had
occurred.
Mrs. Caruaham, of Kelly's Station
Armstrong county, accidentally drop
ped pOcketbook containing S275 into
a trough from which mule was feed
ing. How to regain it va, the next
question. The animal chewed on it TIL
his teeth ached aud then eschewed it.
/ Only $50 of il was found to be redeem
atle
The Bradford Era thinks that Who
ever holds the faintest idea tha; Brad
ford is going to fade from impor ance,
like many other places in the o.. re-
giOhs, hugs delusive phantom to bis
breast. There is more oil in Northern
Pennsylvania, says that journal than
has yet been produced.
! The Lebanon Daily Times ssys;
Present Indications Justify our expecta-
tions that large acreage Of tobacco
will be cultivated this season in differ
ent sections of Of this county than e7-
er heretofore witnessed. Many of the
laborers find 1t arduous to obtain reg
uiar employment with the farmers and
have concluded TO earn = livelihood In
tbs cultivation of the weed"
The Bedford Gazette says that Mr.
Ephriam Miller, of that county, has an
Alderney COW that has dropped fou-
calves within the past fourteen months
The four calves are in an excellent con-
dition. Mr.. Miller intends to have
them on exhibition at the next county
fair. Bedford is the wendsrfulest
county, and has the wonderfulest lot of
wouderfulest happenings We ever heard
of.
Edward Parr, in Philadelphia mur-
dered his daughter Mrs. Susan Irwin in
Tuesday week. The prisoner has re-
Gently been liberated from Joliet pris-
on, Illinois where he served out FIVE
Gears sentence. Upon Parr's appesr-
ance al the house where the murder
occurred, Mrs. irwin fed up stairs and
bolted the door Parr following, broke
down tie door, and the woman took
refuge in a closet, from which she was
dragged by her father and hacked to
death with a shoemaker's knife Parr
/ has hpen arrested and will he tried for