Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-05-21

STATE ITEMS.
Mead7ille has twenty-six lodges OF
secret societies.
The l34th and 18TH regiments Pa.
Vols. are making arrangements for a
monster reunion.
A disease of the kidneys is giving the
owners of horses in Chester county
much trouble.
Fisherman who angle on Sunday in
the waters of Chester county pay their
S25 fine.
A project is on foot to build rail-
road from Bellefonte through Nittapy
valley, to Mill Hall Clinton county.
The road bed, ties and ballasting on
the Middle division, Pennsylvania
railroad, never was in more pertect
condition than it is now.
In Franklin, during a circus exhibi-
ton, not scholar was absent morning
or afternoon frOm schoOl-room. The
spirit of the Spartan youth still lives.
Two boys in Columbia county have
been sentenced to pay S25 fine and
costs OF prosecution for beating school
teacher who had cbastised them.
State Treasurer Noyes is the owner of
herd of deer, which roam the park
surrounding his residence at Westport,
Clinton county. He has also some fine
Alderney stock.
Miss Lou Yelling, of Pottsville, re-
Gently gave private exhibition before
Wilhelm, on the piano which so pleas
ed the great musician that he will take
her to Hamburg with him aud place
her under the tuition of the best teach
ers.
Michael BolliDger of McVeytown,
who is seventy-nine years old, several
days last week walked two miles, made
l25 rails and returned home in the
evening.
Superstitious Chambersburgers be-
lieve that Hezekiah Schatfer was inno-
cent of the crime for which be suffered
death, because the night following his
death light fail of snow covered his
grave.
A Clearfeld county man wants to
walk around the world in 500 days,
not including Sundays, for purse of
S25, 900, which is at the rate of 81
per mile.
The grand jury of Bedford county
presented to the court as Duissnces each
and every mill dam in the Raystown
branch so constructed as to prevent the
free passage of fish up the waters of
SAID river.
Xingo Park, who was arrested in
Clearfeld county two or three years
ago for participation in labor riots, and
def. .nded by General Butler and Hon.
Matt Carpenter, has suddenly disap-
peared from Elizabeth, where he has
been living about year. 1t is feared
that be has been fouIly dealt with BY
miners, who accuse him of having in
cited them to strike, and then deserted
them.
The wife of Pittsburg baker took
$500 from her husbands safe, a year
ago, and started her father in the hotel
business. She contracted bill of $3.50
for liquors in her husbands name, and
a few days ago took Sl,l00 from the
safe and sent 1t to her father. The hus-
band is at loss to know what to do, as
be cannot indict bis wife for larceny.
A teu-year-old son of Mr.. Wilber-
force C. Eaton, of FairvIeT, Erie
county, was knocked down ~ vi;ious
horse on Monday a week, and literally
tramped to death.
Jennie Layton, a n-year- old girl,
living in Johnstown, picked up pistol
in play on Sunday week, and fred at
her cousin, young man named Jesse
Layton. The ball struck him in the
center of the forehead, but, glancing
upward, he escaped with no greater in
jury than an abrasion of the skin.
A dispatch from Reading says, on
the l4th inst, the police by order of
Mayor Tyson, notified the proprletors
of all stores usually kept open on Sun
day tnat they must positively close
next Sunday. The mayor has express
ed his determination TO do all in his
power to prevent open violation of the
Sunday laws.
That it is best not to touch things
that one has no acquaintance with, is
illustrated by dispatch from Potts
vile, on the l4.h, which says: This
morning while Mary Scanlon, aged 10,
was walking on the track on the Lehigh |
Valley railroad, near Shenandoah, she
saw torpedo attached to a rail, and
not knowing what it was, struck it with
stone, when it exploded, tearing the
flesh from her arms and legs. Her in
juries, though serious, are not thought
to be fatal.
Near Remove, short time since, q
man and his dog, while out hunting,
came across bear at the foot of hol-
low tree. Nothing daunted, the hunter
poured some heavy buckshot on top of
pheasant shot, and brought down old
bruin at the first shot. A half grown
cub then ran ont, which the man felled
with an axe. Two more cubs we're Sc
cured alive. The old 'un weighed $50
pounds. If this hunting can be ex-
celled on the Rocky mountains, or any
where else, let US have a note of the
fact. Pennsylvania sharp-shooters are
hard to beat in tie feld. |