Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-13
STATE ITEMS.

squirrels are not 10 De iOunu III Dfa0-
ford county.
1t is estimated that the tobacco crop
covers l49, 600 acres in Pennsylvania.
The epizooty, in mild form, has
reached Harrisburg.
Erie has a strong Garfield club com
posed Of e6lored voters
The epizooty is reported in Pitts
burg, and the car horses are somewhat
afflicted with it.
The receipts of the Berks county
fair were 81, 200.
Girls are the most expert thieves in
Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania has an area of 46, 900
square miles, and 6,06S miles OF rail
road.
A drive of $4,000, 900 feet of logs
was recently sent down Beach Creek to
Pennington.
laundering promises to be very ac-
tive in Clear6eld county.
Levi Felty, Of Miffiin, Lebanon coun
ty, has what he calls a Garfield sweet
potato, which weighs q pounds.
Christian Bosche, an old employe OF
the Switobback Road, had leg cut of
By cars on Friday.
A man named Wilson was killed by
cars near Bradford on Thursday.
A young married woman named Tests
was found dead in garret in Scranton
on Sunday with an infant two days old
by her side. A few days before she
cut off her hair to buy food while her
husband was carousing In saloon.
In the Snyder county case of the
Commonwealth against E. Ettinger the
jury rendered verdict of guilty Of
murder in the FIRST degree.
The erection of political poles is for
hidden in Allegheny, Pa. One fell
down there two years ago and hurt q
boy, and it cost the city 81, 200 to set
tie the damages.
Robert Meagle, colored, was arrest
ed at Harrisburg on Monday night q
week charged with attempting to poison
his wife, three children and step father
at their home in Charlestown, ". Va.
last week. He was committed to prison
to await the arrival of West Virginia
officers.
James Loughrey, Is years old, liv'
ing at Pitrston, was accidentally shot
aud killed on the 18th inst, while re-
turning from q hunting excursion BY
the gun of companion-Patrick Clis
ham-catchiDg in the branches of &
tree and being discharged, the contents
lodging in Loughrey's brain.
An unknown disease is prevailing
with fatal effect among the hogs along
the North Branch of the Susquehanna
The Hollidaysburg schools closed sew
ersl weeks ago on account Of scarle
fever.
Titusville people enjoyed a remark
able spectacle on Monday evening. L
was nothing less than sunset repro
duction of the great fire IN that city
As the san went down among the heavy
black clouds scene almost exactly lik,
that on the night OF the fire was wrough
ir the sky; So say the local papers.
Mrs. David Schrack, the wife of
wealthy farmer living near Port Ken
nedy, drowned herself in the Schuyl
Kill river, while suffering from malaria
fever, which prevails extensively aicDl
that water course.
Diphtheria has been prevalent T.
such an extent IN Connellsville that th,
schools are but slightly attended, AM
many parents have removed their chill
dren from the town to escape the raw
ages of the dread disease.
The Huntingdon Journal says: 4
miner named John Lavell, was killed IL
Mears Bros mine, in Carbon township
on Friday afternoon of last week. Th'
deceased was about 60 years of age
and leaves a wife and nine children.
At Canoe creek, Blair county, TWEEN
ty-6ve cows have died from the effect
of eating scorns.
In Trough Creek Valley, Hunting
don county, last Wednesday, a bo.
named Clark, aged IL years, was thrown
from a horse, and Instantly killed. Ii
was riding the animal from water. wheI
it gave sudden jump, throwing hin
off. His neck was broken
Complaints are frequent among tn
Chester county farmers Of the numbe
Of sheep killed by dogs, and numbe
of them have resolved to make use o
the shotgun policy.
A young and tender couple were re
Gently united in the holy bonds, etc., a
PhenIxville, but the mother Of tn
groom being somewhat of a virago AM
strongly opposed to the union, has de
cided to draw bis salary, be being tel
egraph operator aud minor, and j
aSout to sue the clergyman who unite
them.
Curwinsyiile has 4 cheese factory
and the other day shipped four tons o
choice cheese to the eastern market.
Mrs. Mary Ritter, of Bethlehem, !
an invalid. Recently she was ap
preached by Gipsy woman, who prom
ises to cure her for eighty-two dollar
in money aud about score of such ar
tic!es as dresses, breast-pins and rib
bons. The Gipsy procured all that sh
asked for, and enjoining Mrs. Ritter t
keep the transaction from Mr.. Ritter
she disappeared. She has not bee
heard from since.
On Tuesday morning little 4-year
old daughter of H. E. Shaffer was in
stantly killed at Mt. Union. She wa
playing With her brother in front Of
store, where stood a wheelbsrrow o.
which we're two barrels of apples. Th
little ones were playing about the wheel
barrow when by some means it was up
set, one of the barrels Of apples fallin,
upon the little girl and crushing the lif
out of her.
Enos Cummings, a farmer, of West
moreland county, was ordered out q