Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-02
STATE ITEMS.

A Chester county COW died with by
drophobia.
Schuylkill county has bonded debt
of S250,000.
A soldiers monument is to be erect
ed at Reading.
A Clarion county Justice fined him
self for swearing during a trial
A mastodon'S tooth, unearthed in
Erie county few days ago, weighed
three pounds.
Two years is what ;hey give sheep
siealers in estmoreland county.
A pot containing large number of
ancient coins was recently dug up near
Pittston.
"Uncle Ben," an old snake hunter Of
Forest county, states that he killed six
hundred of the reptiles in one day.
Il Chester county boy caught fifteen
ground hogs the other day.
A frog weighing six pounds and one
ounce was shot in French creek, Ches-
ter county, a few days ago.
Ellis Rinehart, of Marietta, is twenty
two years old, thirty-two inches high,
and weighs forty-eight ponnds, and is
the smallest man in the United States.
Annie jones, of Harrisburg, went to
Hoilidaysburg to marry man whom
she knew only By letter. took a good
look at him, and turned around and
came home again.
Mrs. Tyler, the widow of the ex-
President, lives at Sherwood Forest,
the Tyler estate on the James river,
she not having retired, as was reported,
to convent, nor to the Louise Home.
Her daughter, her little rand-daugh-
ter and herself, have all been received
into the Catholic church.
When the body of Scott Mardis. q
notorious counterfeiter and gambler,
who died in the penitentiary, was being
taken out Of the house. few days ago,
a pack of cards fell from a shelf, and
many Of them were distributed upon
the coffin
A scheme for defrauding citizens Of
money, under the mask of aid for the
Milton sufferers, has been exposed a,
Erie.
A body Of iron orc half a mile in
thickness is said to have been discover
ed near Saylorsburg, Monroe county.
Sheffield, Warren county, has ship
ped to market this season 1000 barrels
of dead wild pigeons; l,2OO barrels
were sent from Kane.
Silver mines are worked near Indian
town, Lebanon county, with excellent
prospects.
a -four mill has been started at Har-
risburg that has a capacity for turning
out 800 barrels per day.
a tiger (stuffed skim in front Of q
hat store in Easton has been twice at
tackled by horses, and at the second as
sau,t Demolished.
A horse killed BY lightning in Wash
lngton county last week had :he con-
tents of his head scooped out as cleanly
as if it has been Labeled, and no other
evidence of injury TO the animal.
Last Thursday night a young man
named Osterstock, living near Philips
burg, Lehigh county, was killed in his
fathers house by lightning. A brother
on the same mattress on the floor and
two others in the same room were not
even awakened. The parents, who
were in the lover part of the house,
we're stunned, the mother being uDcon-
scious for half an hour, and the father
for upward of two hours. The storm
was violent one, and the wind and
hail did much damage to the grain and
fruit.
The Fulton Republican prints the fol-
lowing heaTt-rendiDg story, which comes
from the neighborhood of Addison post
Office, Somerset county: In the early
part of week before last dlphtheria en-
tered the family of Mr. Edgar Nate, a
we'll known citizen. The household
was composed of mother, father and
five small children. On Wednesday,
the 2lst of April, three of the little
ones died, and the blow was So severe
that Mrs. Nate lost her reason. Steal
ing from the house. she went to the
barn, made rope of her petticoat, and
hung herself to q beam. Her lifeless
body vas soon afterwards found by Mrs.
Kemp, a neighbor, who was nursing the
sick, and who had gone in search of the
distracted mother. Later in the week
the two remaining children died, and
the desolation of once happy home
vas complete.