Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-18
STATE ITEMS.

An extensive paper mill is building
at Tyrone.
Beaver Falls is to have q wbiteware
pottery.
Lycoming county wants to rival Ian
caster as tobacco region.
A Hummellstown man picked and
sold four hundred quarts Of blaokber-
ries this season
Miss Margaret Rex died in Heidel-
burg township, Lehigh county, on Mon
day q week, in the Tooth year Of her
age.
Gold rock, which will yield $500 to
the ton, is said to have been struck
near Littlestown, Adams county.
A blacksnake IL feet long was killed
by John Mclaughlin last Wednesday,
at Watts Station, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
A Millersburg fishing party caught
IN John Albert's dam, about three BUSH
els of fish, including 1877 pike of large
size. Such wholesale destruction Of
pike Is an outrage.
Robert Bland, who died recently in
Union township, Berks county, aged
~ years, is said to have had an insur-
ance of $4,000 on his life.
There Is a stream of water, clear as
crystal and almos: Ice cold, issuing
from a hill at Clearfeld which is as
sour and astrIngeut as If strongly I'M
pregnated with alum.
A small boy named Morris Lane vas
knocked down by shifting engine at
Harrisburg on Wednesday. The en-
CINE and five cars passed over him as
be lay between the rails, but ne escaped
with few bruises.
A Greenback orator, who states that
his name is Francis McGovern, and that
be is lawyer from Philadelphia, has
been committed to Jail in Reading, for
stealing a valise from the Rev. james
Good, of that city.
Twenty young ladies at Wilkesbarre
on Wednesday were invested with the
white veil as postulants in the order of
the Sisters of Christian Charity. They
will enter the Malinkrodt Convent iD
that city.
Samuel, a little two-year- son Of
Judge A }. Beaver, on Penn township,
Huntingdon county, one day recently,
had one of his legs broken at the rS'gh
and the other one above the ankle. by
barn door falling in upon him, which
was torn from its fastenings by storm
raging at the time.
A perfectly white snake, two feet
long, was killed in Lincoln township,
Huntingdon county, recently, by Miss
Annie Baer, while out gathering berries.
The reptile is believed to be of the
viper species.
As stock train going east, on Sun
day week, was short distance east Of
Lewistown, the horses contained in one
of the cars got to kicking and knock
ing the side of the car out, three horses
fell out on the track and we're killed.7
John Frankford, who is serving a
term of nineteen years for horse steal
ing was frustrated in an attempt to
break out of the Lancaster jail on
Tuesday night be had hammer con-
cea!ed in bar of soap, and file in a
loaf of bread.
John Lewis Sutton, an employe of
the Erie railroad, living at Hancock,
Wayne county was killed while under
the influence of liquor and walking on
the track. The engineer whistled, but
Sutton was too drunk to hear or heed,
and when struck by the engine he was
hurled some twenty-five feet into the
air. He was instantly killed, bis neck
and back being broken in three or four
places.
On Saturday evening a week, Sam
uel d. Smith, herdsnan at Elizabeth
farms, met with rather singular, and
certainly very disagreeable accident.
He was bailing out swilS barrel when
he lost his balance and tumbled into
about a foot of swill, bead foremost.
But for the timely assistance of two
female servants the man might have
drowned. They seized him by the feet
and with great deal of spluttering and
splashing landed him high, but no: dry,
on terra firma.
Says the Greencsstle Valley Echo :
E" Last Wednesday night well known
farmer of this vicinity, left a straw
berry roam horse tied to the hitchlng-
rack in front of G. W. Rhodes & Co. s
store, where he remained in the rain all
night. In the morning the farmers
hired man missed the horse, and rushing
into the house informed his employer
that Link was stolen The farmer
opened his eyes, looked sidewise for
while and then exclaimed Mighty
souls. left him in town last night y
1t was case of pure absent-minded-
ness, as the farmer, forgetting that he
had rode to town, accepted seat in
buggy, was driven home and
turned in, all unconscious that his noble
beast was standing a prey for horse
thief or some cuss bent on malicious
1t was not long after the dis
covery that the horse was missing, that
Link shook the mud from his hoofs and
made his way home to break bis en-
forced fast on a peck of oats"
Colonel Mcclure, in the Philadelphia
Times, predicts the election of Hancock.