Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-08-18

! Mrs. Nicholas John, of Yorktown
Carbon county, was attacked by {
seven foot black snake recently and
became insane from fright.
Tar ought not to be used in mark
ling sheep. 1t dries into hard luml
which must be cut off by hand befor,
the wool can be manufactured.
NJ. g. Wenger, of Leacock, Ian
caster county, states that the winter
will come early this year, as the birdl
are already leaving for the South.
Conrad Cride whipped horse a,
Sunneytown, Montgomery county
recently, and the horse retaliated
shortly after by biting part of Cride'.
nose off.
While returning from funeral al
Churchville, Dauphin county, a car
riage upset, and William Hoff, Mrs
Hoff, Mrs Putt and Benjamin Bley.
er were injured.
An emigrant woman left train at
Harrisburg recently to inspect the
depot at that place. When she re-
turned the train had gone, taking her
baggage and baby along.
While examining a pistol, Lowrie
Sibbett. of Shippensburg, accident
ally touched the trigger, and the ball
entered the head of Andrew Wither-
spoon, who died in an hour aud a
half.
The Greenville Progress says a
deacon of a Greenville church has a
string of buttons half yard long.
They have been taken out of the col
lections of the church during the past
few years.
The live mochette bug, Brazilian
beetle, has been introduced in Bos
ton as an article of personal adorn-
ment. The bugs shown in a jewelers.
window there are harnessed in gold
bands, and sell for SS bug. harness
and chain included
John W. Porter, of Charleston,
near Sharon, was saved from being
robbed of large sum of money he
had received from the sale of herd
of cattle by the energetic screaming
of his wife who called the neighbors.
and the robbers fed.
Although fiat turnips are mostly
water, there is nutriment enough to
make them an important addition to
food for cattle and sheep, and it is
therefore desirable that in a season
ef scarcity they be raised to the full
extent of opportunity.
Don't kill your hens that molt now,
as they will make you early layers,
and also be the most serviceable in
winter, as they will H1olt before the
cold weather comes on. Hens that
10 not finish molting until late in the
season seldom begin to lay until
spring comes on.
The boiler of threshing-machIne
exploded on the Foster farm, near
Jefferson, Wis, on Tuesday, killing
i've persons instantly: Anthony Kline
he engineer, and his son; Joseph
Lester and his 10year-old boy, and
Joseph Haas Another of Testers
IONS, aged s years, and a man named
Fisher were fatally scalded, while
several other persons received scalds-
The biggest load of saw-logs ever
lauled over a road in Washington
Territory recently arrived at Seattle.
There were eighteen logs ranging
rom "a to 120 feet in length. The
ongest ones are intended for vessels
nasts, and one has a diameter of
hirty-six inches and another forty
sight inches in the middle. The lat
er contains $4,000 feet Their gross
weight is about $50, 900 pounds, and
hey are to be shipped to the Allan
;ic coast
The Chicago Tribune tells q pa
,hetic story of the eldest daughter
If John Brigham Young, one of the
men of Utah. She was
he favorite niece of Brigham Young
vas literally educated, and was an
excellent musician. Her father want |
ID her to marry Mormon elder, but |
she eloped with Young newspaper
nan, Gentle. They came to this
:ity where he worked as a reporter
Until his eyes failed. He became
blind, and she sang in a concert sa-
Don here and supported her husband,
10 whom she was devoted. Then she
ost her voice by sickness, and the |
.wo were like to starve. They drift |
ed to Chicago, and now the wife, no |
onger young, grinds wheezy hand
organ day after day, rain or shine,
and still supports her sightless hus
oand.
A despatch from Boston says: "On |
remarkable surgical op-
Grafton was performed at the Massa-
,husetts General Hospital by DIR.
81. Richardson of this city. |
About year ago John Mccarthy |
swallowed set of artificial teeth.
The passage of food to the stomach
was most wholly prevented, the pa
tient grew emaciated and weak and
it became evident that unless relief |
was had, he must soon die. DIR.
made transverse cut in |
the left side of the abdomen, through |
which the mans stomach was drawn
out, and then cut open which by the
insertion of his arm to the elbow,
DR.. Richardson was able to remove
the teeth. The internal opening was
then closed with fine silk and the
stomach replaced, the external cut
being also closed with stitches. The
whole operation was completed in 45
minutes. The patient is doing well
and his complete recovery is now
considered little less than certain.