Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-04
STATE ITEMS.

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Butter made in Montgomery county
is sent to England.
A new vein Of copper ore, with an
average thickness of two feet, has
been found on the Gilbert farm, Potts
grove township. Berks county.
Jacob Barnbart, Of Lancaster, had
a pair of tame partridges. The female
died while sitting on a nest of eggs.
The cock took her plaee and now has a
brood OF light little partridges follow
ing after him.
The orchards in Bradford aDd Sus-
quehanus counties are heavy with enor-
nous crops of fruit.
Tioga county has a twenty five year
old woman that weighs four hundred
pounds.
An immense tobacco crop will be
cut in York county this year.
The growing tobacco IN Lancaster
county is unusually large for this sea
son of the year.
Sixteen Thousand people attended a
show at Wiliiamsport in one day.
There are at least million Of doll
ars of IDLE capitol in car works in Penn
sylvanis.
Grasshoppers devoured an acre of to-
bacco for Lancaster county farm er,
leaving nothing but bare stalks.
A new disease arong cattle in Sny.
der and Uniol counties is very fatal to
cows.
Mrs. Jerry Meyer, living in North
Heidelberg township, Berks county,
was seriously injured few days ago BY
a COW that had been separated from her
calf.
Mrs. Robinson, OF Warriorsmark
township, Huntingdon county, has
child Z months old that was born with
out eye balls. The child is remarka-
bly, healthy.
John Wesley Davis, aged IA years,
was almost instantly killed in Connells
vile, on Wednesday, by the fall of the
limb of a tree.
James Cunningham, 6f Meadville,
undertook to experiment with large
railroad torpedo. Ii exploded, and
what was left of Cunningham head is
scarcely worth the trouble of carrying
on his shoulders.
Tramps In Wilkesbarre are given
the choice between going to Jail for
sixty days or leaving the city.
Thore are three applicants for every
position of teacher in the rural districts.
A firm in Pittsburg has just finished
a contract for inside window shutters
made of decorated opal glass.
A lot of counterfeirers' materials
we're discovered at the depot in Brad
ford on Friday directed to counter
feiter recently convicted at Erie.
There is monster snake roaming |
around upper Stafford township, Mont
gomsry county, which is SAID to be
fully thirteen feet in length BY those
who have peeped at it. The Goa. of
the skin which this notable reptile /
shed last year was found to measure
twelve feet six inches lopg-
Last January l. p Hoover acct
den;aliy shot and killed his wife at
New Bloomfield, Perry county. He
soon after married again and has been
arrested on the charge of murderirg his
first wife, 1t is supposed the charge
is brought by relatives of the second
wife, who opposed her marriage with
Hoover.
A COW tramped on the foot of Elijah
Beans, thirteen years old, of North
ampton township, Bucks county, crush
ing one of his toes so that it had to be
amputated. From this wound, which
seemed Slight at first, lock-jaw ensued,
aud the case terminated IN the boys f.
death
While Father Kelly, of Bradford
county, was out bass fishing near
Blackman's Ferry, on Friday last, some
"monster of the deep" ran of with his
twenty five dollar fishing rod.
The 4 year old son of r. C. Orndorff
living in WiconisicO, pauphin county,
while playing in the yard, attempted to
take hold of a cOpperhead snake he
found in the grass, when the reptile
bit him The child died within twenty
four hours.
John Jarret, living near Port Matilda
Centre county, had his jaw bone brok-
en- and an ear severed from his head by |
the kick of horse on Friday week.
:. Odd Fellowship is strongest In Penn
sylvania, which has eighty five thousand
members. Ohio comes next with forty !
four thousand, aud New York next with |
forty thousand.
The court house officials in the sew
eral counties of this State have .rrsng-
ed for grand reunion, to come off at
Bedford Springs on September 4th.
The idea of bringing about this gath
ering was first suggested by the pro-
thonotaryof Clarion county, and 1t is
altogether probable that the affair will
prove a success.
DR. Sloan, rellknowr physician of
Chess Springs, Cambria county, vas
waylaid near Altoona a few evenings
ago and robbed of gold watch and a
large sum of money.
A 7-year-old boy named Dunlavy,
with several others of bis own age, got
into cellar at Green Ridge, Northum-
berland county, and drank freely of
whiskey. Dunlavey died.
On last Friday a week Miss Ida Will
lingtoD, of Erie, when about to make
bed il the second story of the house,
saw bird dog lying near the bed and
in her way. She ordered him away,
when he sprang at her and fastened his
teeth in her cheek, taking in the entire
side OF her face, throwing her to the
floor aud shaking her as he would rat.
Her cries soon brought assistance.
On fartii, in Spring township, Per-
~ county, where iron ore was taken
out about thirty years ago, is a pond
composed entirely of rain water, about