Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-08
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
There are twenty hat manufactorie'
in Reading.
The Milton relief fund has at las
been distributed.
An ice breaking boat is operating il
the Lehigh Canal.
There are twenty candidates fol-
Court Crier in Berks county.
There are three sisters is Williams
port who weigh exactly l4O pound:
each.
The house of Mr.. John c. LOCKER
near Summit, Mexican county, wa,
burned down on Wednesday, and BIZ
6-year- old son perished in the flames.
In all the western counties farmer,
are combining against the hunters.
A horse died iu Lancaster county, q
few days ago, thirty-eight years old.
In Pike county two young womer
have swapped lovers on account of pol
i,ics, and the lovers appear to be per
fectly satisfied.
DIR. James J. Mccormick, of Irwin,
was SO badly poisoned through small
wound on the thumb while handling q
green skeleton that his life was nearly
lost.
Secretary of War Ramsey was {
school teacher in Kutztown girl in
1888. He fell in love with Kutz.
town girl and asked her to marry him,
but she refused because his purse wa:
as lean as giraife's neck
Joseph Bare. of j Jeffersonville, Mont
,yomery, county was chopping wood fol
dear life the other day, when suddenly
his axe-blade Clipped off bis right cal
close to the mead. The blade had
struck a clothes-line.
An unknown laborer on the Somerset
and Cambria Railroad was killed neal
Huntingdon. The names of Sam Cash
and A. j. Dixon were found on a slip
of paper iu his pocket.
James Z. Brown, who died at kittan
ming last Saturday, leaves an estate
valued at S3,000,000.
A black bear, Weighing $50 pounds
was killed on Sugar Run, eight mile:
from Bradford, on Wednesday.
Ashley Baughman, of Port L ennedy,
aged Is years, fell from horse Oh Fri
day, ard the animal, slipping upon tue
ice, fell upon him. causing his death.
Mrs George King and w. 7. Caller,
of Smetbporr, ran away few months
ago, but have returned home aud are
now living together within square of
the wronged husband.
The Huntingdon car shops are max
ing between sixty and seventy-tive cars
q week.
There has never been legal hang
ing in Pike county.
ln Chester cc~Iiy farmers are coG-
pPsiied to dig new wells on account of
the drought. In Berks county farmers
have to go several miles for their water
The Dauphln county Jail has seventy
one prisoners.
James Thompson died at Birming
ham, Huntingdon county. on the 26th
ultimo, in his 93d year. He was a
Justice of the Peace for forty conse-
cutive years.
The new silk factory at Hawley,
Wayne county, is manufacturing the
finest quality, of ribbon.
The Greenville Progress says a large
number of farmers in that vicinity are
compelled to haul water for watering
stock. The fall rains were not suffi-
cient to fill the springs and ponds, aud
as result wells are lower than in sum
ner.
Joseph Walford was tried in court
In Westmoreland county last week and
convicted of having four wives.
Mr.. Hop Sing, a Chinese laundry
man, at JOhnstown, attended the First
NJ. f. Sabbath school last Sunday, and
showed that he had considerable knowl-
edge of scripture.
A public school teacher in Lycoming
county was formally tried by a school
board on charge of laziness and &C
quilted.
John Barrick came very near being
shot by another turkey hunter on War
rior's ridge, Huntingdon county, on
Saturday a week. He was calling, and
hearing a noise behind him rose up to
observe another hunter drawing a bead
on him.
Sheriff Berlin, Of Westmoreland coun-
ty, has informed his bondsmen that he
has failed. aud his liabilities are estim-
ated at $4,000. Bad investments are
said to be the cause OF the failure.
A loaf of bread baked in Syria is on
exhibition at E5ensburg 1t is des-
cribed as looking like jelly roll and
having the taste of rye bread.
Simon. RessIer, who lives near Bird
in Hand, Lancaster, was attacked by a
mad bull the other day and frigbtfully
injured. His body was badly bruised
two of his ribs we're broken and be was
injured internally.
About dusk the other evening En-
gineer StrOuse, of the Harrisburg ex-
press on the Pennsylvania Road, saw
the figure of woman directly in front
Of his engine. He blew the whistle and
applied the brakes, but the engine
crunched the figure under its wheels in
an instant. Supposing that he had kill
ed woman, the engineer was in agony.
but be soon learned that Ardmore's bad
boys had stood up snow woman ON
Tie track.