Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
STATE ITEMS.

Sunday funerals are no longer "fash
ionable."
LycomiDg county is headquarters fol
horse thieves.
TitusviIle is going to try the electric
light for street illumination.
Hannah Kitchen, of Easton, thrashel
her father soundly once a week.
William Ambruster, a boy, was con
victed in the Schuylkill county court
last week, of having unmercIfully beat
en- and stoned an old woman in Maha
noy City, and was sent to Jail for min,
months.
There are more marriages in Penn
sylvania than in any other State in tb,
Union.
The body of Jacob Werrer, aged 73
and a wellto-do farmer of Prescott
Lebanon county, was found floating il
the canal near tha. place, q few days
ago. 1t is not known how he met hi.
death.
The wild pigeons have left Kane
which is not at all remarkable consid
ering that seven tons of them were
shipped to New York in one week.
A new jail and Sheriff's residence il
to be erected in Greene county
Several cases of smallpox have oc'
cured at Modeville, Chester county
Mrs. Susan Getz, of Lancaster, ageG
n,nety-one, has 1875 descendants.
Joseph Haverstick, aged ii years
was drowned 10 Conondoguinet Creek
near Carlisle: on Tuesday week, Will,
bathing.
10 many of the borougbs of the north
ern part of the State there are ordi.
nances in force compelling beer saloor
keepers TO close at 9 P. NJ. and not oper
before 6 A. NJ.
Miss Ella Whirley, OF Croyle town
ship, Cambria county, sued the schoo
directors Of that district for $4,000, q
months salary, and damages for de.
famation of character in being dismiss,
ed from her school in summary man
ner The salary with costs we're al.
lowed BY the Squire, but no damages
The school board appeals.
There are row $50 pupils in the In.
dian training school al Carlisle, many
of whom have been baptized.
Mrs. Henley died near Shamokin the
other day, weighing 400 pounds. She
filed coffin SIX feet long and twenty.
six inches high, and it required the
help of ten men to lower ner body into
the grave.
More tobacco will be planted IN Mon
tour and Adams counties this spring
than ever before.
Burglars got $500 in money and $4OO
in postage stamps by blowing open the
safe in the Columbia Post office.
Cornelius Van Buskirk, aged sixty,
committed suicide at Easton, his mind
being unbalanced ~ the loss of bis
wife and drinking to drown sCrrow.
Ann Eliza Arnold hanged herself to
bed-pos at her home near Cory in
the very room where her brother hang
ed himself years ago.
A Lancaster county farmer, sixty
years old, saw railroad car and gas
light for the first time last week.
Mr.. Daniel Sbarpnack has found a
real estate investment that paid, havirg
sold his $50 acre farm in Uniontowu
for S37.500. He bought it seven years
ago for S25,500.
Michael Mccullough and Peter
Dunn, two we'll known citizens OF AL
toona, have been arrested on suspicion
of setting fire to house to defraud the
insurance companies.
Miss Minich, of VOLTS Store, Cen
tire county, has a head the size of a
half-bushel measure, though she is only
twenty-four years old, and the rest of
the body is o: normal proportions.
A Lancaster county farm that has
been owned by the Cameron, Cassatt,
Killinger, McElrath and Wiley fami-
lies, has just been sold for s2I,0O0-
$500 an acre.
Mrs. James Harrier, said to have
been the oldest person in Pennsylvania,
died at Pulaski, Lawrence county, the
other day She was born in Germany
in 1773, and was consequently 107
years of age at the time of her death.
Her Oldest surviving child is eighty
years of age. Her father reached lis
years, aud her husband los.
Cremation costs $45 head, or body,
in Washington county.
An old woman was struck and killed
BY passing train while picking coal
Oh the track at Harrisburg.