Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-10-22
STATE ITEMS.

AS result oi EcNihihE ouSSS'
hsnoy City has four bands.
The advance in oil gives the pro-
ducers about $4,000 day more.
A. A. Shisler Ct Sunbury, imprison-
ed in Philadelphia for the murder OF
George Truman, was released an - ,ooo
bail.
Peter Gavin, an old employe OF the
road, was killed by New York ex-
press train, six miles east of Scranton
on Monday evening week.
Abram Kurtz, of Salisbury, Lancaster
county, made the first sale of this years
tobacco crop at twenty cents pound
The product of sowing two bushels
of buckwheat in Clearfeld was one
hundred and nine bushels.
Ex Governor Hsrtrantt is understood
to be 1T the mead of a large corporation
formed in Phi.sdelpbis for the manu-
facture of steel from the ores Of the
James river valley, Virginia.
Horsemep's clubs, for the training
of men 10 perfect riding, are very pop
ular in the northern part of the State.
In Johnstown and vicinity more than
a hundred children have died with
diphtheria within FIVE or six weeks.
The trial of the Legislative bribery
cases has been postponed until NOvem-
"a They were to have commenced on
/ the 18th of November.
The Bucks county court is going ia
struggle With the rights cf tree owners
shortly, the question being as to the
ownership of apples that grow upon
bough overbangins the land Of a neigh
bor. Hitherto the decisions have been
that the tree owner has a hight to the
apples, but that the man owning the
adjoining lot may cut off all branches
projecting over his line.
The drought continues, and the Iiv'
ers are lower than for forty or tift!
years. In Berks county hay wagons
| loaded with water are a common sigh
and IN some places water is carried tvs
miles. Wells are drying up and ever
the springs are giving out. The ra'l
roads have had to call in the assistance
of pumpiu z engines TO supply thei
watering tanks.
Joseph Hannah. a resident Of Unio,
township, near Meadville, while driv
ing across the railroad track, saw
train approaching and in striking th
horse with the whip lost his baianc
and fell, his head striking the iron rail
killing him Instantly. His son wh
was accompanying him, bad barrel.
time TO drag bis fathers corpse fror
the track before the train rushed past
The deceased was a much respected eli
izen-
A number of wheat fields in Law
renee township, Clea, field county. hav
been suffering somewhat from the In
roads OF grasshoprers. The hopper'
it seems, infest the adjoining Glove
fields from whence during the daytim
they make raids on the wheat tield'
around the edges of which they hay
eaten up the growing grain for di:
tauce Of severa! Yards. This is an un
usual occurrence for this time of III
year, and the Rattman's Journal, iroI
! which We get the face, says 1t is slngu
lar tha; The boppers should prove d.
structive to any of the growing crops.
A HolIidaysburg paper says: y
: Sunday morning week pheasar
closely followed by a wild duck mao
u dash for an open window of the Ho
idaysburg Presbyterian Church. I'll
> pheasant ahghted ou the window sil
5 where it remained for several hour
when 1t few for its natural cover in Il
a woods. The wild duck, however, wei
u 10 at the open window and bi6 itself
4 the cbancel of the church, where
. quietly renamed during service Aft
the cOngre cation had retired the sextC
Mr. John McGinnes, approached i
hiding place when it few with conside
able force against the ceiling and fe
to the floor, but raised again and struC
4 window, broke out the glass and e
capped. The suppositIon is that bo
a pheasant and duck we're led 10 d
e church through a mistaken identit
lr The wild duck was no doubt flying pa
G the pheasant's cover, and the BIZ
< thinking it was a hawk took to Il
g wing to escape its natural enemy. III
Ie wild duck thinking it had found
% mate kept close in the rear and so bo
l. landed in rhe church. We leave Il
)e moral for the preachers,