Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-03-12

ballot COX, and charging certain citi-
zens with voting more than once
Pendergrass was one of the princi
pal witnesses before the Teller com-
mittee at its recent session in Charles
ton.
STATE ITEMS.
The Cambria Freeman says: Mr..
Michael Quinn, former tax collector
of Conemaugh borough, pleaded
guilty at the last session of our coun-
ty court to the charge of embezzling
certain moneys collected by him in
his official capacity. On Tuesday of
last week at the special term of court
he was called before Judge Dean and
received his sentence, which is fine
of -, 500 and Imprisonment in the
Western Penitentiary for period of
fourteen months"
On Friday William Schultz, his
wife, three children, and Michael
Aikes, residing at the foot of South
mountain, back of Goods woolen
factory and several miles northeast of
Fayetteville, were brought before
Squire McNulty, by officers Cramer,
Keil and Croft, who arrested them
early on that day. Schultz and his
family occupy the premises and Aikes
seems to have been a boarder The
three adults are charged with the
supposed murder of a peddler of
knick-nacks, named Popp, whose
hand-cart was found in the cellar of
.Schultz's honse, while Popp's hat,
! two vests and his umbrella were
fond concealed in a mountain gorge,
half a nile from the house. The um-
brella. we .Sre told, was considerably
torn and aat.tered, giving evidence of
being used to defend one from an
attack; other tm.1gs seem to point
to the committal of = deed most foul.
The entire party, inclu ling the cinl-
dren, were committed TO ;all--ChaHa
berS5urg Opinion.
The Economics have terLer.d the
striking pressed-g glass blowers Of Fits
burg the use of an old bottle factory
at Beaver Falls free of rent for seven
years. The offer has been accepted,
and number of the strikers have de-
cided to start cooperative factory.
E. r. Lewis, Esq, OF Berwyn, Will
istown township, who was in West
Chester on Tuesday afternoon a week
left town on the six o'clock train for
Malvern, and, after landing at the sta
tion, was not seen again until about
eight O'Clock, when his dead body was
found lying about fifty feet from the
Pennsylvania railroad, at the Green
Tree crossing. 1t is supposed that he
was walking'on the track, and was
struck by the As p. NJ. express. A
jury was empannelled by Deputy Cor
oDer Leamy and verdict rendered in
accordance with the facts.
A jury drawn in Lancaster county on
Tuesday week included the name of
colored man. This Is the second case
of the kind within the history of the
county.
In the coal fields of Schuylkill coun-
ty, ten tons of silver have been paid
out BY the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company within the past
two years.
Joseph Cox, while being hoisted up
from coal mine at Pleasant Valley,
Pa, on the 9Th inst, fell sixty feet and
was instantly killed.
A woman has been lodged in the
Western Penitentiary, who was senten-
ced from Bedford county, for carrying
concealed deadly weapons.
The Berkshire hog, argues an intelli-
gent Dauphin county farmer, is the
most profitable, and invariable makes
the best animal for killing.
A law has passed both houses of the
Ohio Legislature prohibiting the kill
ing of quail, partridge or prairie chick
en-, in that State until November IS,
1880. This will allow the birds to re-
cuperate from the severe winter, which
has destroyed them by the thousand.
That is right.
The remains of the late Minister to |
Germany. Bayard Taylor, will arrive in
New York to-day.
Two thousand persons attended
meeting in the shenandoah Catholic
church last Sunday and solemnly dis
solved their connection With the |
knights Of Labor.
Saturday afternoon a week a young
man named Ritner, living in Lowhill
township Lehigh county, was caught in
the machinery of -four mill, and so
badly mangled that he died soon after
ward.
Mr.. james Dadley, oil gauger for
the Twenty seventh district, living
near Oil Centre, was fatally burned Oh
Monday morning BY the explosion of a
tank.
Rev. Sidney Stray, pastor of Pres
byterian church near Glen,s Falls, N.
Y, accidentally shot bis wife with re-
volver on Monday, aud thinking he h ad
killed her. put a bullet in his own
head. The balls were extracted and
the wounds are not considered danger
Gus.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued a circular giving notice that
when the outstanding five twenty bonds
are covered by subscriptions to the new
fours, arrangements will be made for
refunding the ten-forties, which will
probably be less favorable to the pur-
chaser.
William Ii. Richardson, Justice of
the Peace at Mount Washington. near
was lodged in Jail on the 4th