Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-16
STATE ITEMS.
The BONDED debt of Schuy kill ooun-
Nv amounts To $3.50 600


ty amounts to $3.50, 900.
The Allegheny mountains this year
enjoy beautiful crop of ground squir-
rels.
The Treasurer of Erie county pays
out annually about $4,000 for sheep
killed by dogs.
Archy Shaw, An old man of Clear
field for reasons unknown committed
suicide on Tuesday q week.
Alice Smokes, . domestic of Harris
burg while temporarily insane made
several attempts on Thursday to drown
herself.
A corporal in the Harrisburg City
Grsys is to be court.martialled for
misappropr,ating $3.50 given him to
purchase uniforms.
A tramp giving the name Of N. NJ.
Green, has been arrested at Tarport
Mexican county, for attempting An out
rage upon . nine year old girl.
A dead infant was found, wrapped
in a portion Of -four sack, with it's
skull crushed in, at Johnstown, nea,
the railroad track, on Thursday.
Philadelphia proposes to put some of
its convicts at work cleaning its streets,
and expects to make a saving of at least
$3.50, 900 per year. The work is to be
done at night, and three hundred in
mates Of the house of Correction, with
twenty extra guards are to do 1t.
Altoona is to have a magnificent FIRE
celebration on the 9th of July.
A new varity of black bearded
wheat is growing to great satisfaction
of farmers IN parts of Berks county.
David Buck, residing in Path Valley,
above Fannettsburg Perry Co., says
that a snake ten feet long was seen near
this place . few days ago. 1t was a
black snake spot.ed.-The party who
saw it were afraid to attack it.
Mr.. Schneider Of Chambersburg
Franklin Co, has in his possession .
white eel which was caught in the Con-
ococheague creek. 1t is entirely white
or steel grey with the exception of q
black spot on it's head.
The Muhlenberg farm, opposite
Reading, has been sold to the Reading
Land and Improvement Company for
100000.
All fruit peddlers are excluded
from cars on the Reading railroad,
and newsboys are forbidden to en-
gage in selling fruit in the depots or
on the trains.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
young shad have been placed in the
Susquehsnna River at Harrisburg.
Luther Wertz, of Hollidsysburg kill
ed q snake that had two bodies and on
ly one head aud tall.
A rampant steer got loose in the
streets at Chambersburg on Thursday
q week and gored Jacob Butner, q
basketmaker, so terribly that the old
man died.
Mrs. Samuel Beales, the wife of a
wealthy farmer at Beaver City, was
found on Friday evening hanging from
rafter In one Of the upper rooms ol
residence. Her domestic relation,
we're happy and she enjoyed excellent
healthy. No cause is assigned for the
act.
John Hartford, a Waynesburg farmer
used the loop Of q trace-chain for q
stirrup, on Thursday while he was re-
turning from work. The horse which
be had mounted in that manner ran
three times around the field, dragging
Harford's body until it was torn to
pieces.
The people of Duke Centre, Mexican
county, became SO disgusted with Coun-
ellis Of that place for purchasing a dill
apidated fire engine at cost OF $500
that procession moved through the
town few days sfterward burlesquing
the matter. A soda fountain was
mounted on wheels and q keg set on
fire which the soda fountain speedily
extinguished.
A valuable horse in Lawrence town.
ship Clear6eld county, had q hind leg
broken on Wednesday last, by being
kicked by another horse The owner
at once erected heavy frame and pu,
roof over the horse. He was then
raised up By means of straps so that be
stands on three feet, the broken leg
was set and hole drg 10 prevent its
resting or the ground, and the horse
is still in that position, with some pros
poets of recovering the use of his leg.
On Thursday, June 3, Prof. l.. R.
AldrIch, doctor Of stammering and
all impediments of speech, arrived in
Allentown from Bethlehem, Pa. He
was accompanied by his wife and eli
gagged rooms at the American Hotel.
On Saturday afternoon bis wife sho,
bin in the left side with revolver and
then shot herself twice in the head and
once in the breast. She cannot recov.
er, but Mr.. Aldrich was only grazed by
the bullet and is not much injured.
The tragedy was caused by jealousy.
Mrs. Aldrich's maiden name was Laura
Livingston.
In Titusville last week Mrs. Joseph
Bushnell died from the affect of kissing
the body of her dead father ten days
ago, while attending bis funeral in
Pittsburg. Her father died of erysip-
elias, and at that time mentioned she
had raw sore on her lips, through
which her blood was poisoned. Her
little daughter Ella is not expected to
live from kissing her mother.
The following despatch from Erie
under date of June 9th says: Quite a
dramatic scene occurred to day in the
house of Mr.. 2. Kelly, whose wife died
misteriously last night. The Coroner
ordered post-mortem and when the
physicians arrived Kelly placed him
self by the corpse of his wife and swore
by everything that be held sacred that
his wife's body should not be touched.
Remonstranees we're useless. He