Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-26
STATE ITEMS.

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Two Altoona boys were fined $3.50
each for loaing in front of a church.
The Philadelphia and Reading Com.
pany paid April wages in Reading OF
Saturday.
A large bald eagle was captured neal
Pennfeld, Clesr6eld county, on Satur'
day.
All horses left unhitched in the
streets of Erie are taken in charge
by the police.
Altoona will celebrate the Fourth
of July with a great deal of powder
and noise.
Wool washing is now the pastime Of
the boys and girls of Washington and
Beaver counties.
Scarlet fever is epidemic in Tioga
and Bradford counties, whole families
being swept away by the red demon.
1t is estimated that over o thousand
barns have been burned in the northern
part of the State this month.
A pelican that measured nine feet
from tip to tip was shot near Remove
recently.
A small bug that is doing great dam
age to the tobacco plants has made its
appearance Desr Martinville, Lancaster
county.
Washington county farmers are ex.
pecting to realize from So to 60 cents q
pound en- wool this year.
Mrs. Drill, an aged lady, was burned
to death near Shamokin by the explo-
sion of coal oil lamp on Sunday night.
A COW IN Connellsville, when separ-
ated from her calf, jumped from high
embankment and was instantly killed.
Mr.. Samuel Shoemaker, of Centre,
vile, Cumberland county, who went to
Illinois last winter, was almost instant
ly killed week before last while hauling
rails. The wagon upset aud The load
fell upon him.
Crawford cOuuty's chief agricultural
industry is cheese-making, and this in-
terest is just now entering upon 1t:
active season. There&re some sixty oil
sixty FIVE factories in the county, and
these are now beginning operations foI
the summer.
Company b, National Guard of Penn
sylvania, Of Belleionte, has been dis.
banded by order of the State aurhori.
ties to Col. Burcbfeld, who mustered
the company Of service. The boys
were mutineus, doing things disgrace
full and dangerous to the public peace
and dignity of the service. A new
company will be formed out of better
material IN which BelIefonte abounds.
A Johustown pastor was aroused
from bis slumbers at two o'clock the
other morning 20 Rarry a young couple
who had suddenly .ahen the notion &c
be made one IN order that they might
start the same morning on trip tC
West Virginia.
Ths authorities Of Franklin borough,
Cambria county, have given notice by
handbills that no loafng, on bridges
sidewalks, etc., will be tolerated.
On Saturday morning at 3 o'clock q
fire broke out in the dwelling house Of
Mrs. FreiGel, at Lock Haven. The
body of Mrs. Freidel was burned to Q
crisp. No other occupants of the
house were in at the time. She was
known to have a box of hard money,
containing about $500, and, nothing
being found after the fire was extin-
guished, it is coDjectured she may have
been robbed and murdered.
A Shippensburg butcher, Mr.. Ed.
Farley, made narrow escape from be-
ing gored to death recently. He en-
tered pen in which a steer was con-
fined. and by some means the door was
closed, so that be could not get out.
The animal attacked hin with great
ferocity, and threw him to the ground,
but the man khpt cool and preserved
himself from fatal injury by keeping
bis body between the widespread horns.
He finally regained his feet, only to be
again attacked and thrown down, es
Gaping as before. The butcher then
tried to climb out of the pen. While
doing this the sharp horns of the ami
NAL were at work, and by the time Mr.
Farley had forced board from the pen
near the roof, thus securing an avenue
of escape, every particle of clothing
except bis boots was torn from bis body
As it was the escape from death was
miraculous.
One day last week Mr.. Sam'l WON
elsdorf, living near Muncy, Lycomipg
county, while looking over his farm,
came to a marshy spot along the run,
where he witnessed singular specta-
Gle. A crow had gone down to the
marsh in search of food or water, and
was apparently unable to rise again. 1t
tapped its wings wonderfully, but some
unseen power held it to the ground.
After looking at the bird in wonder for
some time, Mr. Womelsdorf determined d
to investigate the cause, and waded
into to the marsh to release the captive
ii possible. He took the bird in his
hands and gently lifted 1t, when to his
great surprise, one of it's feet renamed
down in the mud, and the poor crow
screamed with pain. Fearing to put
down his hand, he secured stout stick
and after working and pryipg for sew
eral minutes be uneartbed a swapping
turtle, over twelve inches across the
she'll.
The Harrisburg Telegraph of May
81 says: We have received the follow
ing communication, signed Manadsville:
Samuel K. Smith, son of Michael
Smith, residing in Lebanon, left bis
home some three weeks ago, with the
intention of going to Philadelphia to
transact some business. Since then no
one could learn of bis whereabouts
until this morning, the 2lst, when he
was found near the residence of David
b. Kieffer, in South Hanover township,
Dauphin county, gagged and locked