Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-08-27
STATE ITEMS

Dieck squirrels swarm on the dl.e- /
ghenies in the neighb0rhood Of Horse
shoe Bend.
The CIear6eld Jail now holds four
horse thieves.
Clear6eld is to have the largest tan
merry in the State.
John Bellman, of Milton was sent to
jail for thirty days for thrashing his son
with a thorn stick.
In the M'Kean county Jail SANDY"
Tracy is awaiting the 9th of October aud
the bangman's moose. His crime was
the murder of his sweetheart, Mary
Riley, at that place. He killed her in
q fit of anger because she refused his
company on q certain occasion.
The Second Brigade. n. g. Pa, are
to 60 into camp at Easton, beginning
September 20 and ending October 8.
The warden of the Leblgh county
Jail has secured bloodhound to Is.
sist in guard duty there.
MIR. David Weaver, of Allentown,
who is seventy years old, jumped out
of q second story window on Sunday q
week while suffering from pain and was
killed.
A beautiful custom prevails IN Le-
high, Berks, Lebanon, and Lancaster
counties of Offering up thanks in the
churches for the harvest. In every
church from the largest to the smallest
sermons are preached upon this sub
ject, and the greatest skill is used by
the ladies iu ornamentation Of the build
ing, who, with sheaves of wheat, work
out some beautiful designs.
At the conclusion Of a song by Miss
Ida Burt, at the Academy Of Music, in
Bradford on Saturday night a young
man threw boquet upon the stage,
which be immediately withdrew with
string when the actress reached for 1t.
Miss Burt had her revenge by empty
ing the contents Of q sack of -four
over the offender in the presence OF
the audience.
The post-ofice at Bellevllle, Niflin-
county, was entered by burglars early
on Monday morning week Fifty dol
lars worth of stamps and about $25 in
money were taken. No clue to the
robbers.
John Ii. Kurtz attempting to board
west bound freight train on the Penn
sylvan,a Railroad a, Tyrone on the
Goth inst, missed his footing and fell
under the train, the wheels cutting of
his left leg below the knee.
A young man named Rager of India
ma county was bitten by rattlesnake
recently. He Immediately cut an on
ion in two pieces, taking out the heart
filed it with salt, and applied it to the
wound. He changed it occasionally
for two hours and then went to work
again, none the worse of the bite.
Three cows owned by Augustus Dir
lin, of Dirlin's Forge, Chester county
showed unmistakable signs Of hydro
phobis last week, and had to be killed
1t Is feared tLat his entire herd one of
the finest in the State, are all under the
same influence, and will have to be kill
ed.
The acreage of spring wheat in Illi-
nois this year is 303,736, giving an
average yield per acre of IL bushels.
The total yield is 1876. 400 bushels.
AT an average price Of 7S lilo cents
per busbel, the value of the crop in
1879 is S2,263,ss2.
William Logan is the name Of q
farmer living about seven miles beyond
Allegheny City. On Wednesday morn
ing a week two of bis children, Rebec-
ca, aged four years, and Thomas, aged
two, wandered into the fields, where
they both ate lot Of toad stools. They
thought they we're eating mushrooms
Both children were soon taken sick, and
notwithstanding the efforts of the ply
sician they died from the effects of the
poison on the afternoon of the same
day on which they ate it.
At Wilkesbarre, on the l1th inst
the six year old daughter of Edward
Ryan endeavored to cross the railroad
track by crawling under a freight trair
Her nurse Cassie Latin, aged eigbieer
years started to bring her back, wher
the train started up ard both girl
we're run over and killed.
! Harry Strock, an eight-year- old boy
with a big dog attachment, recently en-
tered Samuel keim's house at Harmony
VILE, Warwick township, Chester coun'
ty, while the family we're away fishing
He broke about two dozen eggs and :ec
them to his dog, ate all the sugar h'
could find, about two pounds, broke I
couple of chairs, ate two pies and fiileo
his pockets with the children's play
things. Then he marched to the spring
house and broke the water pipe, ant
poured several quarts of milk away
then TO the barn, where he destroyed 81
the hens nests, broke the wheelbarrou
and then locked himself in, seeing th'
Keims we're coming home. Miss Ida
Keim broke open the barn door ant
WdTmeu Tue icsltsc smdi pob yoShS
for him, then locked him up, aud sub
sequently gave him another fogging
lie is now a sadder, a wiser and bet
ter boy.
Up in Mexican county, where every
body keeps pistols and fists ready fol
use, it is said that white man accident
ally, while in summer garden, bleV
come froth from glass Of beer into
colored, woman's face. 1t was but {
moments work for her to draw from
the mysterious folds of her hustle an ol'
navy revolver, that carried ball abou
the size of plum. This she thrust un
der his nose and said "You po' miser
able white trash, jes you blow dat off,
dat glass once mo-" He did not blow Il
A dispatch says: Quite a sensation
was created at Allentown on the 2lst
over the confession of Henry Gang
we're, who set fire to the livery stable
carriage house and other buildings o
Snyder & Sons on the night of Angus
Sth. and for which he was committed T.