Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-19
STATE ITEMS.


Daniel Couroy, oil Erie, has gone TO
the insane as, lum again. Before II was
the Fifteen puzzle now he thinks that
he Is DauIei IN the mons den.
The great pigeon nesting OF Forest
county covers twenty square miles ln
jerks and Howe townships, twenty
miles south OF Kane, they come in myr
lads after the beecbnuts which abound
there.
" orkmeD, while digging a trench
through the site of old Fort Bedford,
at Bedford, unearthed number OF
cannon balls and eanlsters The fort
was built and in possession of the Brit
ish as early as 1888
0ne of the largest stockholders in
one of the Easton national banks IS
woman who commenced lite by going
out washing, and doing all kinds ot
housework for pay Some estimate her
wealth at $3.50. 900, and some place 1t
at still higher figures.
A strange story comes from Scar
iettstown, Berks county. a young
man tried to pre- cent bis fatner from
chastising a little girl, when father and
son c,inched 10 a hard iussle Tor mus
cuisr supremacy. The pugliists rolled
into a mill race and fought IN the water
for some minutes Having ended the
struggle at last the father packed up
a few dujs and left home for the West.
The son also packed his trunk and left
for parts unknown.
Recently young man named John
Wade jumped Oh an eastern bound
freight train at Huntingdon, aud in a
few minutes a brakeman threw bis hat
of. Wade jumped off the train after
his hat, when his head struck against
the ground, causing a fracture of the
skull behind the ear, and his left foot
was run over. He was removed to the
aims house at Shirleysburg.
" This was an actual occurrence in
Pittsburg restaurant toe other day.
One of those fellows who are eccentric
because they imagine they are wits, sat
down, lo1ked over the bill of fare, and
said to the waiter Bring me an um
brelis and dollar and half Just
to see what was coming, the waiter filed
the order, bringing dllapidated old
gingham umbrella that looked as If
Noah might have bought it new for
seventy cents 10 hold over him when he
took in the prospect from the window.
ANY thing else 2 said the waiter. y es,
cup of coffee The coffee was
brought, be drank It, ard the waiter
gave him the check. 1t was 81 %.
And when tae funny man realized that
be paid 81 for that old umbrella, aud a
joke about a. bad aS the umbrella, be
felt like kicking himself all the way
down street"
One firm in Chsmber>bnrg recently
shipped to eastern cities 1850 dozen
eggs Ia one day.
Jame> kearney, a iahorer. at Eliza
Furnsce, uear PIrtsburg, committed
suicide gu TUESDAY evening. Dssp
poiu,m-ot ia .cv- ua- the cluse.
4 ,i';ie grl wa> born N the Norris
tom jail 'he other Lay. The mother
Is serving a term of ninety days tor
selling liquor wiJhoU, a !ic-nse.
The Po,t>toau post cfhce .ss enter
ed On " eduesisy night by burglars,
who blew open the safe. The explO
sion aroused the neigh borhood, and the
burglars fed without securing any
thing.
Miss Anna Hammond; Of Elk City.
Clarion county, having been dI-appoinr
ed in love, shot herself through the
body on Monday week, with the ia
tention OF committing suicide, but will
recover
Isaac d. Bnsler vas instantly killed
while at work ., a saW at Coudersport,
on the 1th INST, by being thrown
against a circular saw while IN motion,
by which has body was horribly mutt
lated. and then east of to a great dis
tance from the revolving saw.
There are one hundred and FORTY
students III Pennsylvania College, Ger
" sburg The semi centennial ami
versary will occur IN 1882, when taere
will be a grand celeorapun, for which
preparations are already IN progress.
The destruction OF hemlnck hummer
and bark, in Potter, Tioga, Bradford
and adjoining counties, by forest fires,
has been enormous.
Mrs. John Trees, of Blair county,
increased the population of her district
three the other day-two boys and a
girl. She must iive in healthy dis
trict.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
is adopting the new electric bell, and
all that that hard worked persoIage-
the coHductor--has to do to stop or
start train is to pull small cord
which runs the entire length of each
car. The slightest touch rings the bell
at the engine.
The first rolling mill in America was
established IN Chester county in ,19S.
1t was used in rolling sheet iron and
strips, the latter being used for nails.
The engineer of the Gautier steel
works of Johnstown- Michael Kearney
by name-was almost instantly killed
on Thursday a week, by the bursting
of the belt pulley of the fy-wheel.
The pulley was made OF iron, and when
it bursted large pieces of iron flew
through the building in every direction.
kearney vas struck by a piece, and
when a search was made for HIM. be
was found in the pit of the main pulley,
with large hole in his stomach from
which his entraiIs we're proiruding.
His lef; collar bone and both of bis legs
were broken aud his left arm almost
cut off His death was instantaneous,
and be was aged abou; 30 years. A
man named Fisher Was also hurt 10 some