Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-29

-Four inches of spow fell at Milwaukee,
WIS, on last Friday.

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Cayuga Lake attracts French settlers by
producing frogs weighing over fifteen lbs
Timothy B. Snow, a clerk in the West
field (Mass.) post-U flee, has been arrested
for sobbing letters.
The Mennonite, who settled 10 DaEota
have become dissatisfied with the country
and will remove TO Nebraska.
The Texas cattle drive for the season
through Kansas will aggregate $50 zoo Head,
valued ut $I5 per steer.
The society of Friends in Indiana are re-
ported to have abolished all rules against
"inarrying cut"
That man in Trenton who found s21 900,
about two years ago, is still advertising for
the owre- thereof.
All the outgoing steamships from New
York to foreign ports, on Saturday week,
carried large cusces Of bresdstuf's and
meats.
The money-order clerk in the Atlanta
post Office has absconded. There is de-
felt in his account, but the amount is not
known.
Charles Il. Phelps, cashier of the New
York State Treasury at Albany. has been
arrested for stealing sSOO,00o of the State
funds.
On Friday, October Slst, the Vienna Ex-
position Will close. On the evening OF that
day the city will be illuminated and grand
banquet will be given.
General Sam houston ;:lvays had on his
niantel in his parlor a written notice that
g General Houston retires at nine O'Clock
every evening"
The earnings of the Pennsylvania Rail-
rod Company during September, 1878,
was 81, 46s ,016, an increase Of 1897, Col
the same month last year.
Mr. Tome, imprisoned in the York coun-
ty jail, ten or twelve years for contempt of
court, was set at liberty few days since,
on the ground that he was sufficiently pun
ished.
The Baldwin Locomotive works. Of Phil
adelphia, discharged five hundred men
week before lsst. This reduction is caused
BY railroad companies rovoking their or
ders for locomotives.
The Chancellor of Delaware decides that
,ba ,;a,r foam n rrfndou- cannot he ohStruc-
ted by the erection of any building on ad-
joining property, after it has remained un-
interrupted for twenty years.
The Convention of the executive COM
mittees of the Patrons of Husbandry, IN
council at Keokuk, Iowa, decided to es-
tablish in every State of the Union bureau
for the collecti of agricultural statistics.
On last Saturday a Titusvile man named
Newton, in trying to brighten his sister, IL
wears of age, out of bed with a shot gun he
thought was not loaded, accidentally shot
her in the forehead, causing instant death.
The First National Bank of Athens, Pa,
was robbed on Monday night OF last week
While the cashier was At his desk five men
entered, gagged and handcuffed him, and
carried of D,OO0, mostly in specie de-
posits. The cashier was found ON the floor
of the hack Office next morning
The fastest train on the English RAILWAYS
is the Great Western Express between Pad
iington depot, in London, and Exeter. Its
average rate OF speed is As 6i-lOO miles
per hour but bstSeeH Paddmgton and
Swindoa it travels at the rate OF 53 62-lOO
miles per hour, including the stopping.
white oak tree ~as cut down shor,
time ago in Lebanon county, which yieldei
5000 feet of plank, and ten cords OF wood.
The logs were FIVE and a half feet in diam
eter. About thirty five years ago the tree
was trimmed, and about three cords f
wood were cut from the limbs.
clergyman once, when reading the
burial service, came to the place where he
must say, "Our deceased brother (or sis
ter.) lie did not know which so, turning
80 the mourper, he asked whether il was
.sbrother' or sssister" The mourner limo
Gently said, 81 No relation at all, sir-only
an acquaintance"
A new law has been drawn up in Russia
to legalize the family relations of those
who do not accept the established form of
faith. Hitherto no marriage not ccieorl-
ted in the orthodox church has been valid
the law has not recognized the religious
practices Of the sects, so that marriages
have no legal validity, and children have
no right 10 inherit the property of their
parents or relations. Under the new law,
though the sects are ignored, their mar
riages aye to be legalized BY registration at
the police Offices
A despatch from Watertown n. Y. states
the death, and briefly narratcs the history
of an old citizen thus. Robert Sexbury
died on October 23d, in the town of Leary,
Jefferson county, aged one hundred and
ten yezIs and seven months. He had ac-
quired great reputation as hunter in
Northern New York. He had killed over
1000 deer. when past eight years of age,
he met with an accident which recessitated
the amputation of one of his legs. He stood
the operation without fiinching. His fu-
neral was attended BY several Of bis chill
dren, aged between eigh1y and ninety years.
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