Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-22
Just as We Found Them.

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children have died.
There is family in Pottsville who
have female domestic that has been
with them 80 years without Interruption
The frs: bar of railroad iron ever
made in Mercer county, was made in
the new works, at Wheatland Furnace
last week.
A travelling piano player undertook to
whip an Illinois editor, and when he
got through he had only one ear for
music.
Twenty-Five bridges were swept away
in Morgan county, ILL.,, by the recent
flood. The loss of property by the food
is immense.
The residence of Miss Egerton, No.
395 Union avenue, Brooklyn, was robbed
on Monday night of $4,000 worth Of jew
elry and large amount Of oil and coal
company bonds, by sneak thief.
Two prominent bankers of Vienna
have been suspended" by the Bourse of
that place, for week, for indulging in a
knock-down within its usually very
decorous precincts.
An extensive oil-cloth mandatory at
Elizabeth, New jersey. is soon to be
closed, the projectors claiming that the
business is not a paying one. Some sew
enty men will thus be thrown out of en-
ployment.
Il new cattle disease has appeared in
Mercer county, Ill. The animals live but
a few hours after the attack, and so far
every attack has been fatal. One man
has lost twenty three head in three or
four days.
Boston merchants lament the death of
a venerable parrot, which has inhabited
cage hanging in a shop in Exchange
street, in that city. for the last thirty-nhe
years, and has been long noted among
them for the energy and evident delight
with which it would cry fire.
A far western paper recently appeared
with two columns blank, with the excep.
tion Of this note:-"By Telegraph-Spe-
cial Dispatches to the Pacific Tribane
This is where the telesraphic news ought
to be but as we didn't receive any yet,
We can't put it here"
Of the company raised in Meadville
for the war of 1872, three persons survive;
james Beatty, now living in Mercer
county; Samuel Beatty. of Vernon, and
George Smith. of Mead township, Craw-
ford county. The company served one
month
A desperate fight occurred between
negroes aud Indians in Texas a few days
since. and beside the body Of ore of the
former were found hundred and forty
four exploded cartridges thrown out of
his Winchester, showing how desperate
ly the negroes must have fought before
the Indians killed them.
Mr. Levi Irish II Appleton Me-, had
a COW and horse occupying adjoining
places in the BAN. The cow reached
out her tongue to gather in the hay in
front of the horse, when he reyenged
himself by seizing that organ in his
teeth and biting clean off three and half
inches of it The COW had to be killed.
An old lady who had been driving her
hogs off the railroad track near Marietta
Ga, had her dress caught by one of the
iron rails, holding her fast, and the train
being very near, it was impossible to
escape being run over. She was sud
denly killed, and a horrible mangled
corpse only remained to testify to the
fatal accident.
Some weeks ago poor fellow, by the
name of Charles Brown. attempted to
steal ride in box car on the Union
Pacific Railroad The car was locked,
his presence not being known, and he
was kept confined for FIVE days, without
food or drink, till the car arrived at
Omaha. His feet, and legs to the knees,
were frozen solid.
The house Of Jonas Frederick, near
Reamstown station, on the Reading and |
Columbia railroad, was entered by burg
lars Oh Thursday night last, and 500 in
$40 bank bills was taken from a chest
belonging to Andrew son of MIR. Fred
erick, who only a few days before drew
the money from. the Mannheim bank, in
order to commence housekeeping.
John Steffy and John Baker, of Sus-
quehanna township, Cambria county,
while engaged in putting heavy log into
the river, permitted it to get control, and
being in front of it, on a steep bank, they
ran for their lives The former unable
to get out of the way was run over and
killed. The latter escaped by jumping
into the river and swimming away
Steffy was twenty five years of age.
A despatch from Detroit Mich of the