Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-22

horseback. His horse collided with
the cart and threw Mrs. VALLEY out
on the road.
There is a great dewand for crow
as washington since the Lower
House Of Congress has set the exam
pie OF feastihg on the foul bird. It is
not known whether President Cleye.
land will partske of what he himself
called the ''per6dy and dishonor"
!afin OF the Gormsn democrats, but
II ne does all the democratic Office
holders, post masters included will
have to eat crow. What a cawl cawI
time there will be.
What fat job it would be to un.
LOAD the. railroads and telegraph
lines upon the government. It
would be q grand scheme to get rid
OF the inflated and watered stock
concerns. For example what a nice
loo 1t would be to unload the Read
Ing Railroad on Government. The
populists will keep on fooling with
the question till the railroads take
up the question and unload the
mountain of debt that will not be
paid at the crack of doom.
West Chester. Aug 14th-An aged
resident of .Msrshalton, Mrs. Mary
Pennypacker, has been fasting for
about two months, having partaken
OF no nourishment for a period of fif-
tv days; and her family feels that her
death is only a matter of hours. Mrs.
Fennypacker has been suffering from
adropsical affection, induced by mfr
mites of old age, she beng well up
in the eighties, and ever since being
confined to her bed nearly two months
ago, she has refused all nourishmeut.
daniel Harshberger committed
suicide last Wednesday morning at
the residence of his aged parents,
about mile east of Geistown, Cam
bria county. The deed was commit
ted in little building that is used
as a carpenter shop, which adjoins
his fathers home. Harshberger
placed a moose around his neck and
then fired n bullet from % calibre
revolver into the left side of his bead,
thus shooting and hanging himself
almost at the same time. The de-
ceased was about 80 years old"
5ohn Garman, Esq, who years
Ago. was superintendent of common
schools in Juniata with two friends
all on BICYCLES paid the town visit
on Saturday forenoon having come
on the ears from Harrisburg, whith-
er they had ridden from the Wyom-
ing Valley on Thursday aud Friday.
Garman has grown heavy, looks well
aud young excepting few gray
hairs that are scattered throughout
his hair. He is District Attorney of
Luzerne county and has been talked
of for the Judgeship among the dem
ocracy.
The Franklin Repository of Aug
ust Is, says: The Rev. Thomas J.
Sherrard of this place, and the Rev.
John H. Sherrard of Rockville, Ind,
have accepted :. :. an invitation from
their brother, the Hon Robert Sber
rard. of Steubenville, Ohio, to spend
next winter with him in Southern
Europe and Egypt, and the early
spring in Palestine and CONSTANT
nople. The party will consist only
of the three brothers, who will travel
leisurely, and expect to be absent
about four months, leaving New
York the middle of January.
The date ef the next Perry Coun-
ty Teachers Institute has been set
for the week ending December 3rd.
County Superintendent Arnold is al
ready at work on the details of the
Institute, and has arranged for the
evening entertainments as follows:
Monday evening-Rev. G.. II. Fitz
William, "The Battle of Life;" Tues
day evening-Dr. J.. Handy. "The
American Idea;" Wednesday evening
The Torbett Concert Company and
the Tuttleman Sextette, from Stock
holm. Sweden; Thursday evening,
James NJ. Beck, Esq, of the Phila-
delphia Bar. Ground Arms -
Bloomfield Advocate.
The Second National Bank of A.
toona. is the source of misfortune to
a good many people. The cashier,
was a poor. weak mortal who could
not resist temptation, and entered
into all kinds of business ventures
with the money of the bank, and in
addition to his family was having
hidden amours with another woman.
all of which entailed an expenditure
of money upon him, many times be-
yond his earnings, and wnen his use
of the bank funds Was about to be
discovered by a bank examiner, be
fed, all of which was supplemented
last Friday by the bank examiner
committing suicide by shooting a
bullet through his head. He had
been working hard on the books to
disentangle the accounts of the run,
away cashier, working almost everv
night till midnight, and going to
work again in the morning at 6
o'clock, and taking little or no exer
else, with mistake here and there.
with his work to be gone over, put a
worry and STRAIN on him that pro
duced momenta-y insanity, or dread
of longer carrying the responsibility
of the position that he occupied, md
that drove him to the tragic act o.
taking his life.