Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-05
STATE ITEMS.

The sheep g-aE-rs of Washington
csuniy saLer greatly by the ravAges OF
dogs.
Frank little son OF Amandus krause
OF Limerick. Montgomery county, was
scaided TO death by falling into ket
tie OF water.
Now that the great Eve million dol
lsr water woIks OF P:ttsburg are about
completed, after seven years work, it
is .ound that castings for two pair Of the
immense engines, costing 81, ,l00,0 900
sre detective and caEuot be used.
u bile Henry Patterson was lu the
act Of extingaishlug tie flames IN Let
Of burning siodjy IN lni.l in Chester
county his arm was caugat By the ma
cdiuery and torn from the socket.
An attempt Was made on Tuesday by
gang Of tramps to wreck a train OH
the Northern Central Railroad, between
Harrisburg aud York, by placing pile
Of stones ON the track. The obstruc-
ton, however, was discovered aud re
moved il time to prevent damage, and
about thirty Of the scacips We're locked
Up at York
Mr. Howard, of Scottsville, Warren
county, says the Cory Herald. lives
with his wife In \ sbaaty, and 10 a uiaI-
ried life of twenty oue years seventeen
children have bseu bora to them. Mr..
HowsrJ does not chew nor smoke and
never uses al oath.
Mrs. Captain Daniel Dobbins, OF
Ere who died at that place last week
in her ninety ninth year, went there
from Cl..Isle, the place Of her pIrtd,
In lSU0, oa horseback.
Mrs. Mary Sick Barefoot, of Pleas
sntviiie, Bedford county, has attained
the ripe age Of eighty eigar years weighs
two hundred and forty pounds ami has
two hundred aud forty eight living de-
scen6ants
Jacob Goodman, butcher. of Read
ing when returning from Exeter town
chip Berks county on Friday evening a
week was set upon by turee neg,oes
who wanted h.s money. Two of them
managed to get away at iimriug gait,
hut were very much worsted. The
tblrd was terribly battered up, and
crawled 20 stable near by where be
was found next the morning.. After
tie encounter was over Goodman
placed his arrls akimbo aud said ''lt
you two fellows shat run away are
sbou. you csn come hack again if you
want to-"
The Mifflin accommodation train car
ried to Harrisburg on Inauguration
day 700 passengers.
At an early hour on Sunday morning
man named SlDith fell down stair
way in Bradford and died soon after
ward.
About six hundred boys from Pitts
burg and Allegheny City, engaged in
in battle with snow balls on Sunday.
They dispersed when the cry Of police
vas raised.
A young man named Louis I0rnisb
vas found dead in bed at the Shields
House, in Pltisburg on Monday. Hear,
disease is supposed TO have been the
cause.
JIM. White, of Waterford, Erie
county, has been iewelcr in that town
In the same room for 50 years.
The religious revival in Erie con.in-
sca to grow in interest and in converts.
General Robert Patterson, of Pbila-
dcIphia, noW more than 50 years If age
is said TO have entertained at his table
every President of the United States
since Msdisnn's time.
At Lancaster the free soup supplies,
1t was discovered, we're being drawn
upon By man vbo owned three houses
He sent his children for the raticns.
Two commercial travellers were late
Iy fined fifty dollars each for flirting IN
Iowa.
onleorih.rS in ar-ears moro than lo