Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-04-28
STATE ITEMS.

Al Dctuicucm UutCucT AiitS ChtbC ~
efecrricity.
The pine forests in Elk county are
full OF rats.
The body Of John Siney, the labor
agitafor, was followed to the grave BY
procession over a mile in length.
Governor Hoyt and Secretary Edge.
Of the State Board of Agriculture, have
been Informed that cattle are being
brought into Chester county from Sec
tions Of Maryland where pleuro pneu
moDia prevails.
William W. Retter, OF Reading, has
had piece of lead taken from his
breast that was shot into it at the bat
tie Of Gettysburg.
At fairs and festivals iu the interior
of the State there is invariably = prize
for the best eater. In Washington
county a gourmand got a butter-knife
for eating six large snits pies.
There are more organs and melo-
deons owned in Berks, Lebanon and
Lsucaster counties than in other three
counties in the State.
Ida, the nine year-old daughter Of
George Fisil, of Hanover, York county
is the last reported victim OF inordlnate
rope Jumping.
Postmaster H. NJ. Zeigler. Of Hat.
field, Montgomery county, was robbed
of $50 worth of goods the other night,
and $15 In postage stamps.
The lightning melted the top of the
rod on Mrs. Lands barn, in Bcrk,
county and killed four of hi, COWS.
Daniel Conroy. the stone mason Of
Erie who went crazy over the fifteen
puzzle, has recovered and been reIea,-
ed, but the puzzle is still unsolvrd
The Pottsville veterans celebrated
their march through Baltimore the
other night.
The Bradford county bar is exercis-
ed over 3 personal quarrel, during
which General II. j. Madi!l seized Nh
Jane, Wood BY the whiskcrs and spat
in his face.
Eighty RATS are anchored on the
Snyder county eide of the river op-
posite Sunbury.
The Pennsylvania Reserve Associa-
tiou will have its annual reunion as
Harrisburg in July.
Fred Yetter, wealthy farmer of
Westmorelaud county, has tried three
times TO commit suicide; the third
time he was successful, and be was
burie LAST week.
Fifty 10 a hundred derricks were
blown down by wind-storm that pas
sed over the northern oil field on Fri
day afternoon, a week.
Robert Trego, Of Salisbury township
Lancaster county, hanged himself Oh
Thursday. He was sixty Jcar, old.
Mrs. Ann Wenned took rat poison, but
found that in vain, and so jumped into
Q cistern, but the doctors will save her
life all the same
Joseph Goldberg. who shot Edward
Mulhearn at Weisspor', Carbon county
for suspected intimacy with his wife,
h.s got off with verdict of voluntary
manslaughter.
The second trial of AIRS. Zell at Car
Isle came to an end last week in a yer
dict of not guilty.
Ellen keiger. lass of fifteen, who
had been confned in the Reform
School at Erie for cause, climbed down
a rope Of sheets from the fourth story
the other night and escaped.
The colored citizens Of northwestern
Pennsylvania will hold grand mass
convention in Oil City, " ednesdsy,
May 10, for the discussion of political
matters and consideration of such other
business as MAJ come before the meet
ing.
Judge Livingston, of Lancaster,
lately administered a severe rebu'se to
the constabies of that county and city
for their neglect of duty in reference
to unlicensed groggeries and haunts of
the prostitutes and gamblers, because
they feared the political influence of
such people.
1t is estimated that there are now
over 1000 RATS between Lackawana
aud Easton, on the Delaware river
Each raft contains about &C, 900 feet Of
lumber, making a total of l20, 0,000, 900
feet on the way to Philadelphia. The
numbering season this year has been
rather unfavorsble on account Of high
winds which drove the RATS against
rocks and sand bars, in many cases
wrecking them.
Lewis Robinson, the Chester county
farmer VINO was recently arrested for
alleged completely in several robberies,
is understood to have absconded. He
was last seen in Philadelphia. where
he purchased on Monday q week tick
ct for some point in the west. His
wife was arrested yesterday for COM
plicity, and taken to Westcbester
where she was placed under $4,000 bail
As Mrs. Angie Bach, a woman in
Whitehall township, Lebigh county,
was scOlding her children, the neigh
bors, a hired girl and every body in
general, her husband entered and in
terposed mild word. She opened her
msuth for an angry reply, but spasm
contracted her cheek, her lower jaw
fell, and she could neither speak nor
shut her mouth; her lounge hung out,
and her eyes nearly started from their
sockets. She had dislocated her jaw
bone in her violent effort to make q
stiDging reply to her husband. A
surgeon was called, who reduced the
dislocation, bound up her head and
prescribed quiet diet.
GENERA ITEMS.