Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-14
STATE ITEMS.


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STATE ITEMS.
The new Allentown silk mill turn
out l 900 pounds of silk week.
OIL has been struck in small quaint.
ties in Washington county.
The clergymen of Scranton are de-
nouncing the evil Of social card playing
as tending to train men in gambling.
The income of the Indian school d
Carlilse this year will exceed the ex'
penses nearly $500.
A shoemaker IN Allestovs, named
Jerry Wilson, shot at companion be.
cause be circulated a story that he was
an in6del.
Work on the Pittsburg and Western
Railroad is now progressing at Butler.
A farm of Covington, Tiogs county,
made 400 barrels Of cider this year.
Solomon Snyder, q farmer of Myers
town, shot a chicken hawk on SUNDAY
last which had stolen twenty chicken:
from his premises during the fall and
winter.
Hiram Henderson, of Sharon, has
woven two thousand yards of carpe,
this year averaging sixteen hours day.
Horatio Anderson, a negro, ran
away with white woman, the wife ol
a one-legged shoemaker, because the
colOred man could play the accordion.
The affair took place near Falmouth,
Lancaster county.
In Clarion county the "Sheep Law
was defeated, the farmers generally
voting against, it while the townspeople
favored it, thinking that it would be q
benefit to those interested in the rais-
ing Of sheep.
Bernard Wilson, an old stage driver
OF Mercer county, has never ridden on
q railroad, never been inside church,
never bad bis face touched with a razor
since be had a vote, never swore an
oath or drank drop of liquor, and at
seventy handles the ribbons with the
grace of man of thirty.
Thomas Tyson, farmer 10 Upper
Dublin township, Montgomery coun-
ty, As years Of age, was accidentally
run over BY his wagon loaded with hay,
on Monday . week and was killed al
most instantly.
The corner stone Of a Mennonite,
church, to cost about 1000, las been
laid in Philadelphia. There are said
to be 10000 people of this faith in
Pennsylvania, and about 10000 in
the United States.
A pear tree in Everett, Bedford
county. has borne three crops of fruit
this year and two crops in each Of the
two previous years.
Last week Mrs. Mary Jones died ID
a drunken stupor at Calasauqua and on
Sunday the 81. E. Church of that place
passed series of resolutions asking
in the vicinity to use all
proper means to suppress the liquor
traffic and calling on constatles to fear
lessly perform their duty, especially in
regard to license laws.
John H. Fisher, of Bradford, on Sat-
urday night, unsuccessfully tried to
kill himself, first BY cutting bis throat
and then by swallowing half an ounce
Of arsenic. He was pumped out.
Two maiden ladies named Means,
30 and SO years old, living in Franklin
Westmorelaud county, were
assaulted and robbed three weeks ago.
The oldest one died on Monday and
the other is not expected to live.
Peter Smith, a prisoner in the coun.
~ jail at Wilkesbarre, succeeded iu
making bis escape on Tuesday evening.
He was sentenced in September last to
. term of eighteen months for burglary
A reward is offered for bis spprehen-
ZION.
Muskrats are late in building their
houses this year. Old settlers say this
means an open winter.
The horse thief in the Montgomery
county Jail who was reported as having
ost his speech. recovered the use Of
lis brogue few days ago almost as
uddenly as he lost it. The physician,
atisfed that the man was an impostor,
ave directions in bis hearing for shay
ng ard blistering his head, but before
hey could be carried out the man ask
d for his work and announced his en-
Ire recovery.
The Sharon Herald tells of farmer
Fho has a dog trained to worry sheep,
md makes him profitable in this way:
ae buys lot fold and diseased eheep
flows the dog to worry them and calls
N the commissioners to pay the bill.
t has worked we'll, but is now getting
90 much publicity.
The danger often attending the bite
f seemingly iuocuous animal is for
r0iy shown lc case recently reported
q California. A man was bitten BY .
abbit and nearly died in Consequence.
Ills physician, hardly believing that all
be trouble proceeded from the bite,
shich was q mere scratch, carefully
the upper jaws Of several
abbits and found in each . hollow
Doth containing fluid % deadly that
wo drops oft administered hypoder
nicafly, caused the death Of . lamb
'ithin IN hour.
A sneak thief entered the residence
( W. C. Brown, Liverpool, Perry
ounty, on Saturday night last, going
through the pockets Of all the male
nembers Of the family, - we'll -
hrough desks and trunk carryipg OF =
title money, some clothing sad lot Of