Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-06
STATE ITEMS,

Philadelphia receives q million oI
oysters daily.
The Williamsport sswmills are run
ming on full time.
\ bicycle club has been formed a,
TitusvIlie.
Texas fever is killing cattle III Mer-
Ger county.
Chestnuts are selling for three doll
srs per bushel in Johnstown.
Twenty four women marched in q
Democratic procession in Washington
county the other night.
The Indian pupils of the Carlisle
school are the principal attraction at
the county fairs this year in this part
of the State. They have more engage
ments than they can fIl.
Mr. Samuel Wilson, an old and high
ly respected citizen of Potter township,
Centre county, died few days ago at
the advanced age of ninety years.
Spencer c. Ogden, of Bellfoute, has
gone to the waste of Africa to act as the
shipping agent of a Philadelphia Rrm
engaged in the coffee business.
}. l.. Henderson, of Washington
county, has purchased the Cotswoli !
ram that took the 800 premium at the
State Fair.
Abel Craft, a wealthy farmer OF
Bentleysviile, Washington county com
mitted suicide oo Monday by taking
sirychniDe.
Sophia Young, colored, of Carlisle,
committed suicide on Sunday a week.
Sickness ard fear that she could not
be able to provide for her children
drove her to the deed.
Frank Coulter, Of MiIlerstown, CON-
mitted suicide on Monday night week
by blowing out his brains.
A skeleton, supposed TO &c that of a
tramp, has been fouud in the woods near
Milierstown, Butler county.
The last of the tobacco crop of 1850
has been cut and housed. 1t has been
badly flea bitten in some sections.
Three hundred bushels of potatoes
have been raised upon one acre of
ground at Litiz, Lancaster cOunty.
4 Cambria county bunter shot and
killed l04 squirrels in a single day this
season.
4 disease whioh the physicians do
not seem to understand has taken of
several persons in Clesrfeld county.
Adam Bare died a few day. ago at
Barevllle, Lancaster county, eyed %
vea-s. He was Sheriff Of Lancaster
county in 1889.
A pike, nineteen inches long and
weighing two pounds, was caught last
week at Huntingdon By Frank O'Don
nell
The buckwheat crop, Of Tioga, Sus-
uuehanna and other northern counties
has been the largest known for years,
and the best.
The General Council of the Lutheran
Church 10 North America will meet In
the English Lutheran church in Greens
burg, on Thursday, October 2lst-
A large number of hogs have lately
died along the North Branch above
Northumberland. The disease IS new
one; the hogs weaken in the spinal col
umn, and break down, refuse to drunk
and IN day or two die. Several farm
ers have lost-one as high as fifteen on
one farm.
Sample Polan cut and tied one hun
dred and fifty shocks OF corn, thirty
SIX nils to the shock, on the farm oi
Mr.. BlatchIey, in Morris township
Washington county, one day last week
A few days ago Mr.. Heister, of Con
cordviile, while driving from Ivy Mills
t. Concord Delaware county, was ROB
bed by a highwsyman and had taken
from him a gold watch and seventy
dollars in money. A line was stretch
across the road which threw MS horses
While a young son of Mlcbae: Don
oyan of Erie, was feeding a COW, th'
flies botheriug her, she gave sudder
fling of her head catching the lads up
per lin with one of her horns sitting
through up to the nose
The Franklin Repository of Septem
Der >29th cit says: A number OF ou
farmers took advantage of the brigh
moonlight last week and cut quantit'
of corn by the light of Lunar.
The trial of the muderers OF iona
than Kiprzler and his wife, at 1roxel
vile SNYDER county, December o. lo'
commenced on Monday at Middleoure
and l. exciting considerably interest II
IN that section.
The fastest time over the Pennsyi
yauia railroad, from PIttsburg TO a.
tooua. which has ever been recorded
wee accomplished on Saturday 'as' 90 o,
james Dougherty, of engine No 30
He made the run of one hundred au'
seventeen miles iu two hours and for'y
two minutes WITH his engine a''ac"e'
second Mail Express.
Miss Annie Fisher, while at ~ofA "
her Kitchen in Johnstown Cambria coun
ty.Monday last, found a paper OF s,rans :
looking black powder, and regardlng
as worthless, threw IT on the nre =,
coal stove. A powerful fast folioWe
instantly, and the lady was severe,
burned about the face and neck, whi'
her right forearm was also r.D"i. bad.
scorcbed Her clothing hSe"'S
caught FIRE, but the flames were spec
diIy quenched by Mrs. Fisher VINO We
fortunately close at hand
The novel feat of walking the ws'e
by Conrad Zimmerman, al mana s tn
Saturday, came off as ADVERTISED -,
squsrious feat didn't prove as grv~ 70
miracle as the public had anuelPa..
when the performer made bis appea' J
snce ON a PAR of air tight boxes II
planks, and its novelty Vanished pa,sr -
moment when the "doubtIng re.e'
lost his balance and sank to the oo''o'
of the canal.