Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-08-15
Sale of Horses.

Latimer Wilson OF Illinois will
sell ca load of Western horses,
some drivers. some draft horses: on
Friday Aug, 18th, 1883, on Main
street Mitfiintown. The horses can
be seen at Foorman' stable.
The Huntingdon Globe of August
8. says: On Sunday week ago VIII
liam Straight, of West Huntingdon,
was bitten in the hand by copper
head snake while coming over War
rior Ridge. To save himself he i'm
mediateiy sucked the blood and poi
son from his hand and threw it out.
1t appears that ne had several de-
cayed teeth in his mouth, AMI some
of the poison lodged IN them. The
poison proceeded to his brain, and
since Tuesday Mr.. Straight has Civ
en- violent signs OF insanity. The
case is very sad one. MIR. Straight
has a family.
In the south east corner of the ex
cavation that q. W. Smith, and John
McCoy. have made for E. d. Parker,
on the site of the house so long oc
cupied by George Doughman in this
place. there was discovered a cavity
of about Al feet long and about the
same in height and width, filed with
ashes, the ash pit was buried under
ground to the depth OF at least 2 and
a half feet. The discovery was made
one evening last week about the
time to quit work, and soon it was
talked about that a vault had been
found in the cellar of the old house.
A number of people were attracted
to the place. The ashes we're care
fully removed by Mr.. Smith, end the
witnesses to the removal were on the
tip toe of expectancy all the Tune of
the operation of the removal, but
nothing was taken out of the pit or
cavity, but ashes. The sides of the
Dit and its floor had once been form
ed of boards, for wood mould adher-
ed to the clay sides and bottom OF
the cavity. When the mould was
scraped off the clay sides were smooth.
The ground or top above the ashes
was mixture of oid rubbish, egg
shells, bones. broken dishes and clay
enough to cause it to adhere and not
cave in when the ashes were taken
out. The general opinion expressed,
was, that it had been box placed
there, down in the ground, as place
to hide valuables for some early set
tier, who in his day might perchance
be driven from his home by Indians.
The pieces of broken dishes did not
impress the people present with the
fact. that at the time hostile indians
inhabited these valleys, the luxury
of eating off of fine dishes was un
known to settlers here and the near
est store was at Carlisle military post
The broken pieces of dishes were
carried away as relics of some
association not well defined in the
mind of the persons that helped
themselves from the rnbish on tor
of an old ash box that in all probab
ility had been filed for the purpose
of making soap with. The ground
in all probability where it stood was
several feet lower than surrounding
ground, and that accounts for the
rubish being on top of the box; il
was a sort of ont of the way place
When the yard or garden was level
ed up, the most convenient thing to
do with the old ash box and rubisf
was to cover it, and that was done
There are a number of places in Milf
fintown and Patterson, that have
been leveled up from lower depths
than that, but how many ash barrels
or boxes and other rubish lies buried
in such filled up places of course can
not be here stated. Perhaps in ex
cavations that will take place three
quarters of a century hereafter the
excavators will be puzzled to know
how the things that one might expect
to find on top should be dug out Of
the ground ) to 10 feet below Its
surface.
A little girl of Henry Mengle, aged
two years, was injured by an ore
team and empty wagon, belonging
to Jacob Sulouff. on the road, in front
of the house, near the second lock,
north of town, ON Tuesday evening,
August 7th inst, under the following
circumstances. The teamster Tobias
Shotzbarger, had been behind. the
wagon, locking, and unlocking the
same, going down the hill near Men
giles house. and did not see the child
on the road. When the child moth
er, Mrs. Mengle first noticed the child
the team was uponit- She screamed
but the teamster could not then stop,
and did not fully comprehend the
'cause Of the alarm, and the team and