Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-09
STATE ITEMS.

4 he ift>ul l6EitDS ol EoSuSOuiB iu
tend TO build 4 ueE church.
Large quantities Of tobacco are now
sold 10 he brokers By the farmers OF
i.sucasier and York counties.
One haudreG Thousand dollars in
wages will be paid out at the Cambria
iron Works this month.
Slrs. Catharine " nItman aged ninety
eight years. is said to be tie oldest
woman now living in Berks county.
4 S22o horse bad to be KILLED at
Allentown, on Wednesday A dog bit
st the animal, which kicked and broke
hind leg.
The Quakers of Chester county are
organizing for a temperance canvass.
Switzerland has been shaken up by
an earthquake.
Smalipox has appeared among the in
mates of the Fsyet;e County Alnshouse.
A white weasel was caught in the
river near Easton the other day.
Preparations are being made at the
shops of the Reading Company to build
1900 ears.
10 the eastern towns the boyssre now
engaged IN a new business, that Of
gathering old broom handles, for which
they receive penny piece from the
factories, where they are cleaned aud
used again.
The black bass are dying in great mum
bers IN the Scbuylkill, near Reading.
1t is thought that they must be affected
BY some poisonous substance In the
water.
A fue-looking, oily-tongued chap
has been fooIing the god people OF
SehweDkeuksviiIe by giving free lect-
lures aud foally selling rings "dirt
cheap" which turn out to be worth
less
Six thousand FIVE hundred soldiers
orphans have graduated, at the age OF
sixteen, from the schools provided for
them by the State of Penns, lvsnia.
There are 400 Yet remaining.
A Snyder county paper says that
during the late cold weather, ole night
child in Centre twp, By the name OF
Moons, got Its hands aud arms on top
OF the bed cover. aud In the morning ii
was discovered that both arms were SO
severely frozen that they must be am
Tuiated to save the child's life.
There are ten normal schools in this
State, viz: At Millersvilie, Ednboro,
Mansfield, kuiz,own, Bloomfield, West
Chester, Shippeusburg, California, In
diana, Lock Haven.
A oaIrel of cider fell upon the hand
OF Mr.. loos, of North Coventry, Daup,
hin county, aud severed that member
from his arm.
Do Saturday evening Clement Skies
OF Churchtown, Lancaster county, wa:
struck On the head while PLAYING bal
and died Of his injuries soon afterwdrd.
Sklles was tried four years ago for the
murder of his grandfather, an old mai
named Jacob Miller. and acquitted.
The second reception by Governor
Hoyt, given at the Executive Mansion
at Harrisburg was even more largely
attended than the first.
james Young an employe at tbt
Pittsburg Water Works, was caught il
the machinery on Saturday ami had
both arms torn from the sockets. he
will probably die.
When George Shaub and wife, o
Millersville, Lancaster county, cele
brsted their golden wedd ng recently
they both expressed the wish that thcy
might die Gu the same day. Mrs
Sbaub died few days ago and no
many hours afterwards Mr.. Sbaub ais
died.
A young lady of Allegheny City me
with very singular and painful acci
dent one day last week. She was walk
lpg on pavement which was covered
with Ice and slipped and to save her
self from falling, grasped an iron fence
A loose ring worn on one of her finger
caught on one of the projections, ant
The entire weight of her body falliDi
on it, her 6uger was completely tori
off.
One night recently, says the Green
castle Echo, some person invaded tn
sheep fold on the farm of John b. Wit
mer. near this place, and took therefron
a fine eve and then proceeded to tn
woods near by, killed the animal, ap
propriated the carcass, and left tb
hide aud entrails behind IN tsstinou,
OF the dsstsrdly deed.