Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-04-27

nned Tor the most part 10 petty pii'
ferings, varied by an occasional horse
theft, their incarceration will carry
with it a sense of grateful relief ia
the farmers of the neighborhood in
which they operated, and the stables,
hen-roosts and provision houses OF
the eastern end Of the county and OF
the neighboring counties of Berks
and Chester may be deemed by the
owners as reasonably secure from
devastation during the period of then
imprisonment
Washington county is sending large
quantities of lead made there to New
York.
Duck shooting is more profitable a:
a business, on the Susquehanna at Co
lumbla, than shsd fishing.
Bernard Melholand, of West Chest.
er, attepped to cut his throat with q
knife which his daughter was using to
pare potatoes but was frustrated in the
attempt.
The Williamsport boom never con-
tanned as many logs IS have been driv-
en- into it this spring.
L; required Sl25,000 to pay tb,
Reading railroad employees at Read.
ing for March.
Swapping wives has become popular
in Indiana.
Carbonjale, Pa, has had q sensation
Jerome Wilson, who deserted bis wife
aud child in that place fourteen year.
ago aud who had long since been given
up as dead, returned few days age
to find his wife true to him and hi.
daughter beautiful young woman.
Erie is more than 81 100000 iu
debt.
A young man named John Williams
issued q general invitation to the in
habitan,s of Pottsville to fight him OF
Sunday evening. The first person to
respond was al officer who, took charge
of him for the night.
Martin Snyder Of Union county, il
tie p, Of shooting rat, perched on ,
feed box in his stable, missed tn,
rodent and killed a COW, the buile
passing through the bovine's eye.
Twenty thousand pounds OF Of butter
was recently shipped from q Buck
county creamery to a Philadelphia
market.
Mrs. Putt, Of M'Connellsburg, Ful
ton county, was made raving mania'
By the death of her son.
There are 600 bands employed in ih,
Erie car works.
Miss Theresa Anderson of Baden
Beaver county, has hair eight feet II
length.
Margaret Pryor, colored on trial a
at Harrisburg for attempting to poiso'
the family of T. l.. Williamson wa
found guilty and the term of her i'm
prisonment in the peuitertiary fixed a
four years.
A large black bear is exciting tb'
people in Lowhill, Lehigh county, b,
prowling around their neighborhood.
On Tuesday last ffteen armed mel
rede to Mr.. McLaureDs' house in Frio
Edwards county, Texas, and murderer
McLaurens, his wife and a young ma
named Lease. Nothing in the hou-
was disturbed. No explanation Of th
motives of the crime is given.
An insane woman in Arkansas kille,
| her i've children by throwing them in
to a we'll.
A number of iron balls weighin
about fifteen pounds each, with six fee
of chain attached, have been sent to tb
almshouse, wherewith to punish tramp
who refuse to work in the stone QUAR-
Lebanon Times.
A correspondent writes from Petro
leun Centre that the McCresry farr
is deserted. In days gone by, when th
land was studded with oil derricks, it
owner, without investing dollar recei,
$4,000 day FROM it in royalties on th
oil produced
The Standard steel works of MIffli
county are now shipping locomotiv
tires to Japan. This is at once sue
gestive of growing Japanese eivillzatio
and American enterprise.
A hen belonging to Mrs. Jonah Wor
rail-, of Upper Providence, Cheste
county, lost her life in ar attempt I
swallow a garter snake eighteen incbe
in length.
Throughout Lawrence, Venango an
Mercer counties ell the towns and wi
lagos convert their Sunday evenin
church services into meetings for th
discussion of the anti-liquor constitu
tional amendment.
A spark from locomotive set fr
to blanket that was wrapped aroun
a 81 600 stallion owned in Pleasar
township, Warren county. The hors
was msddened by pain and bis vii
leaps made relief impossible. He va
so badly burned tha. be died within
few hours Of the accident.
A small boy in Harrisburg name
James Dougberty on Wednesday trie
to jump on q moving train, near th
Pennsylvania railroad crossing, at Sc,
Und street. Dougherfy lost mis- footin
and fell with bis legs under the cal
and both the limbs were badly crusbe
BY the passing wheels. He Was take
to the hospital and later 10 the day on
of his legs was amputsted BY the ho.
pital surgeon between the knee and Lip
The other leg will also have to be am
putated between the knee and ankle
but up to late hour last night the DO
was too weak to undergo the operation
although be begged to have it perforu