Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-31
STATE ITEMS.

q ton of sugar.
The fifteen puzzle has driven Daniel
Conroy, respectable citizen OF Erie
insane.
The winter just closed was the warm.
est bad in Pennsylvania according tc
general records, for nlnety-oue years.
Pike county has female hermit, who
has lived alone in the mountains fol
seven years without FIRE, remaining in
bed when the weather is too cold to GET
out.
A wild monkey IN the woods of Lu-
zerne county is attracting the attention
OF al classes. hunt is TO be organ
lied.
There was ieap-year church festival
at Pittston the other night, at which
the men waited on the tables and did the
cooking.
A Connellsville fool ate four mince
pies IN four and a-hAlf minutes on bet,
and physicians we're in vain
Ben Hogan, the reformed prize fight
er and whisky seller, is now learning to
read and write.
There are seventeen female appli-
cants for census enumerators in Mont
gomery county.
Miss kneiss, Of Redbank township,
Armstrong county, age l5 years, weighs
two hundred and thirty six pounds.
There are twenty persons in the Leb-
anon county jail, held for trial on a
charge of Jumping railroad trains.
e. A Greene, John Campbell and
Mrs. Harriet Sweeney have been at
Lancaster to answer in Court for prac-
tisiDg medicine without diploma.
An s year old boy named Bennett,
living IN Lower Yoder township Cam
bria county, was kicked IN the abdo-
men By playmate few days ago anG
died from the injury.
The Methodists in the northern part
of the State are holding the largest re-
vivals they have had for years. In
Bradford, Tioga aud Susquehanna coun
ties this is particularly the case.
John g. Calhoun's seven children,
five sons aud two daughters, are all
living.
Perry Davis, of Norristown, is S3
years Of sge-has his second sight, bis
third teeth, and is even more pert and
clipper than some of the organs repre-
sen. Nr Tilden to be.
Daniel Conroy, the poor wretch who
has been driven to madness over the
Fifteen puzzle, was removed to the asy-
lum at Erie the other day. In the cars
he broke up his dinner into fifteen
pieces and played the game with them.
This brought on another violent parox-
ysm, and the sheriff had to lash him to
the scat with the bell rope. He bit an
officers watch in two, and made des-
perate attempt to fling himself out OF
the window. The physicians have but
little hope of him.
The Chambersburg Talley Spirit
chronicles the case of a young man
named Oberholtzer, in Green township
that county, who was paralyzed in both
legs in 1879 and remained so until a
few days ago, when be stated that be
had placed his faith in the Lord and He
had healed him, and to the astonish-
ment of his parents, the long afflicted
young man got up and walked about
the room.
Daniel Fink, living near Grims-
vile, Berks county, discovered large
fat stone on his farm and upon remov-
ing 1t found the SHELTON of an infant
child that is supposed to have been
there for many years.
Miss Ella Benton, niece of Henry
Schoonover, hunter and trapper living
near Prompton, killed a black bear
weighing over 400 pounds IN hand-to-
hand encounter fortnight ago. She
was rabbit hunting, when the dogs treed
an animal, and she, presuming it to be
a coon, took aim up the hollow interior
of the tree in which it was disappear
ing. Master Bruin promptly tumbIed
down, and made after her, but she
greeted him with a knife-thrust, and
when he threw her down was fortunate
enough to get in second blow, sever
ing the jugular vein.
A lad In Easton, eleven years ole,
named William Clifton, while engaged
in fiy ing a kite, its tail became fast in a
tree, and as the lad stepped backward
TO note it position, he fell over a preci-
pice, sheer plunge of about forty feet,
breaking the fall by clutching some
brushes in his descent. From the first
landing he rolled about forty feet more
into the yard of Que of the houses on
tie Snufftown road. The lad sustained
the fracture of the right wrist, had the
cheek cut, aud was badly bruised all
over the body.
Robert Wilson, Wyoming drug
gist, walked into his store in a fit of
somnambulism and swallowed poison.
The noise of the bottle on the coun-
ter awoke him, and stomach pump
and strong antidotes did the rest.
The National Guard of Pennsylva-
MA intend to have a number of en-
campments the coming summer.
Aaron Geist, a supervisor of Long
swamp township, Berks county, drank
poison, instead of brandy as he sup
posed, and is dead.
A few days ago Mrs. Catharine
Bortner, widow of Jacob Bortner of
York county, died, aged eighty-s;x
She was the mother of thirteen chill
dren, all of whom attended her fu-
neral; of one hundred grandchildren,
one hundred and one great grand
children, and one great great grand
child. Seventy-seven of the grand
eighty-fve of the great
grandchildren and the great great
survive her.
The mystery surrounding the man
ner of the killing of Andrew Miller,
at Jersey Shore, Pa, on Friday night
a week, has finally been cleared up
by full confession of the murdered