Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-04
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OF S4VV,cOO-
Greene county farmers report On
unfavorabIe outlook for the grain crol
in that neighborhood-
Forty four Mormon missionaries are
en- route 70. Wales, where they will
work among the miners and ironworkers'
Congressman Henry Walker, OF Will
Transport, has erected a costly monu-
ment over the grave of pet dog at that
place.
In Bethlehem, Northampton county,
the people have mutually pledged eacn
other not to give tramp anything 10
eat until be has earned it. Most of the
gardens in the village have been dug
in this way.
| A Carlisle woman informs the people
of that region of perpetual bliss that
she is prepared to do whitewa'hlng'
calsomining, carpet-cleauing, garden
making, house cleaning, trimming trees
repairing shoes and boiling soap.
John Morrow, of Easton, caught his
left hand in q circular saw on Thurs
day a week IN consequence OF which
three fingers had to be ampatated.
William Folmef, a German, resid-
ing not far from Lancaster, obtained
more liquor than was good for him IN
that city on Friday afternoon. On his
way home he fell out Of his wagon,
striking upon his head, and the wheels
passed over bis back. He died imme-
drately, his neck havirg been broken
by the fall.
Mrs. Igo, aged so, died at Shenan-
doah few days ago, very poor, yet
she had the grandest funeral ever seen
in the region. 1t turns out that the
deceased was insured for 100000,
that the casket bad been donated BY
policy holders, that the beautiful floral
decorations had been furnished BY pol
icy holders, and that the mouIners
were policy holders.
As the Harrisburg accommodation
was about one-fourth of mile west OF
Mouptville on Friday evening week
some miscreants threw a number OF
stones at the train, two Of which crash
ed through the car windows, narrowly
missing some Of the passengers.
A Mrs. Doctor Norton got number
of ladies in Franklin, Venango county
interested in the "Little Alice Mining
Company" and as soon as $500 bad
been paid in the Doctor left for parts
unknown with the money.
George Dougherty, horse thief es-
capped from the Sunbury Jail by soaping
his body and squeezing through mar
row window.
Judge Fl. W. Williams says Potter
county which is portion Of his judicial
district) is the most moral spot in Penn
sylvania-tbe people have no crime to
contend with, no paupers, no taxes no
county debt, no railroads, and hunt the
deer and wild fowl in forests which
have never resounded to the woodman's
axe.
There il a teamster in Philadelphia
who during the last fifteen years, has
taken ten drinks at the same store dai-
iy. This makes low average of three
thousand year or forty-fve thousand
drinks in fifteen years, and the proprie-
tor of the store youches for the truth
of the statement. At FIVE cents
a drink, wholesale be has consumed
$2.250 worth of whisky in that time.
The Franklin Repository of last week
says: An accident of a most terrible
character occurred sometime Sunday
morning at the Conewago furnace, near
Middletown. Eli Gibson, colored
man, aged probably between thirty and
thirty five years, has been employed as
a filler at the furnace. He went to work
as usual. At noon his daughter arriv-
ed with her fathers dinner. She as
cended to the cupola where he was EN-.
ployed, but be was not there. Some
thing impelled her to look down the
stack, when she was horrified to see the
body OF man burned to crisp, which
she supposed to be that of her father.
She ran and summoned assistance. The
body was taken out and it proved to be
that of the unfortunate Gibson. He had
in some unaccountable way fallen into
the stack and met horrible fate. How
the accident could have occurred is not
known as no one was near at the time
it happened. Gibson was a very re-
spectacle colored man and leaves a
wife and several children.
A case of suicide is reported from
Wellsboro, Pa, under date of the
9th ult-, as follows: The facts of a
remarkable suicide have just come to
light. On Sunday evening last a
young lady named Sophia Showers,
of this place, about eighteen years
old, returned from church, as usual,
and leaving her hat and cloak on the
side porch went around to the els
tern, in the rear of the house. She
removed the cover of the ''man-hole, =
let herself down through the open
ing, which was only seventeen inches
square, and dropped into the cold
water below. When the family were
about to retire for the night the
young Lady was missed and search
was at once instituted. Her hat and
cloak were found where she left them
and suspicious of disaster We're at
once aroused. After thorough ex-
animation of the premises she was
discovered in the bottom of the els
tern. Physicians were summoned
and every possible effort made for
her resuscitation, but without sue
cess. She had been in the water
nearly two hours when found. She
must have experienced considerable
difficulty in getting into the cistern,
as it was found almost impossible to
remove her from it, and some of the
planking had to be displaced in order
to do SO. Evidently she had de-
ta1-nined rur,,Osa tn destroy herself