SENTINEITAND REPUBLICAN-Extri. Mifflintown, Wednesday, July 8, 1874. The Fourth at MrrTUX. Tbere'bearta plainly depicted on tbeir frcesJtbct sUfrip. of 41m bjldge ndJcftiiy wis no organtXBtion here fur a genera r j 1 - - n j - ' -. - ' - v t t gathered at the railroad, about the tel-lbut not a uiomeot too soon, for they egraph office, and there, in ' the most bad scarcely got off when it fell, dreadful suspense, awaited despatched William Bartley was buried on Mon- frou Lwiatown. ; iJy moA by the Uutalday, at IV o'loe, prarie uwsa waa reached.. Two boys killed, and two,en, at 2 o'clock-of t.awe day, in the injured : Charles Goshen, a lad aboutUoioo Cemetery. The funerals were 13 years of see. son of George GoshenJatttended by a large concourse of cit. of I'atterson, killed ; w Uliam artisy,n ixens. , ... . .'I:.' celebration of the 4th, consequently people celebrated it as beat suited tbeir individual tastes Some weut a fishing, some drove to the country, where the farmer were busily engaged at harvest ing. The farming community general-1 It abstain froui the observance of the dav on accouut of it iiolsuitiux tbeir bu-'a lad in his 14tb v ear, son af Calvin B Milieu at this time of year. Their holi i hartley, of uba Mills, Fermanagh tpj On Thursday, the 2d iusU, Michael days, days of ease, good things and lulled ; liarvey shirk, youLb, a -sod, Hoffman wa nbowt t leavw bit- place luxuries, come in the winter holidays 'of Simon Shirk, of Patterson, severely at Uakland,MUW l-drw. to, JtyMiu, and thence on till spring. A club of injured, (hop? are uow entertertained when hia horse fiigbicnedat a dog aod base ball players letl in the uiorniugiof his recovery) ; and Clayton 'Weid-'niade great effotf to get away.' Mr. to play a waicb game at LuwitownJiuan, youth, son of 1 Adam Weidman,! Hoffman and bia brotbe, Isaac,' bow -At uouii a company of ladies and geo- ate . of Fayette - township, deeeasedjever, succeeded in Jaildibg - the horse, tletuen went to a grove iu the gorge ol alifbtly injuied-, - .. . . . . ,In the straggle Michael Hoffman was the ridge north of Mr. U lull's resi j The jtorui in which the, boy lost thrown down ; in the fall he hurt the deuce, iu Fermanagh township, tit eel their lives had also obstructed the rail 'back of his bead. This took place iu ebrate the day A number of . this road track above Lewistuwn, so that no the niorniDg. After dinuer Mr. Iloff company weut the canal in the "Cm trains from that plaee or above came' mm drove to Mifflin, and' thetiee back aadcr," . l. I. SuioufT handsome new down. About 11 o'clock P. ., the borne. In the veiling hr complained pleasure boat, to a poiut on the canal obstruction wax removed, and I ha pas-of being unwell. Ha gradually grew bank nearest the pic-nic ground, from seuger train that lay west of it passed more feeble until on Sunday . morning, wheueH they were taken in the "lielle'.'.Jowu, bringing to our miJSt the dead when be died. He was not, however, ot Miffl'n t the pleasure grouud, while and injured boys and a aiultitude of no much enfeebled (hat confinement t. others drove up in buggies. , Their fe 'citixets who bad gone to Lewistown on bed was necessvy.' He waft op and tivitie there, however, were of shorl'every freight an4 passenger train -that walked across the room about five miiir durulioa, for a wing of the storm that bad paused westward afur the news of utes betore be lay down am) died., He did such destructive work in MitHm the accident was received. , . was aged 61 year, 4 months and - county swept over the inouiitaiu, and; The two toys killed were noted for days. His body was buried iu the with wiud, rain and hail, broke up the industry and other good qualities, why Meononite grave-yard, on Monday at party. The company precipitately ad-such youth should be taken, and otb- 10 o'clock, being attended In that de journed to re-a-semble in Grajbill'aer worthh-s ones apart-d, is tor Provi. poaitory of the dead by a very large. Hall, to complete the eelcbratiuu of deuce to deiermiue, aud not for man to concourse, of citiaens. - , the day ; but on arriving at home they question. .After the bodies of the found tha whole town as it were in a hot ha l beeo borne to their nemes, On the 3rd inst. an orphan boy from state ol mourning. A despatch had the visible nervousness of the town Shaniokin, at McAlislerville Orphan jut been received from Lewif town, aiitjsobsided, and thus ended the 4th day .School, named Milsnn, aged a boot 15 uoiuicing the destruction of I lit river of July, 1874; may there never beyari, fell under a call drawn bv a bridge at ibat place, and thit the Mif-'auelher such iulensa heart-suffering a uqU., m hauling water, and Was ho s flin base ball club bad takvn shelter m tint experienced b) the citix"ii of riously hurt by a wheel passing over it from the storm, and hid been nearly Mifflin between , the hours of the first hbi abdomen that he died almost in all killed or injured in its ruins. , Tbeindefiiiate despatch and the last' de 'stantly. tin,' remains were esenrted by town never before looked ho sad.. It apatch whiMi announced definitely the k committee of fellow-orphan- boys In was not the purse that wa probed, it'ejtonl of th death-dealing calamity. ib railroad in time for the ll:'2rt A. a was the heart, the affections., The loss The boys did uot belong to the- base travio eastward bound on Saturday, for of property was not talked or thought. ball c!u. intermeut at borne. ' . of. Almost every family had a uieiuJ Several young ladies from this place ber at Iewistowu' in the per-ou of a had aNo taken sfielter in the same end THE Railroad Cxmipany will have boy or more distant kin. . Hundreds of of ihe bri.fge the , end forthest from the bndga at lewiRtoww in a audition of people, with the anxiety of their Lewihtown but became alarmed at to croa on by Saturday. . . . ,
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