Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-13
News Summary of the Week.
WEDNESDAY,, MAY 6TH.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9TH.
The Legislature will adjourn on next
Friday BY proper church authority
Philadelphia has been made Catholic
arch diocese. The waters of western
rivers are no longer destructive.
Resolution of Pennsylvania Legislature
appealing to Congress to appropriate a
SIM of S3,G00,000 for the Centennial
Celebration received at Washington aud
debated in Congress. All year old
lady in Philadeiphis committed suicide
b. eating matches. Loss of her lover
was the cause. A clerk, about 10
years old, in the Treasurer's Office Of
the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad knew how tn unlock the
Company's safe. He unlocked 1t, stole
49, 900 and left. Baxter's and
Brooks lawyers have not yet fnishsd
the presentation of the Arkansas trou-
BILE to the President and Cabinet.
The round house of the Toledo, Wa
bash and Western Railroad at Spring
field, Ill, was burned. Loss $780,
900. Midland, Michigan, had a
$4,000 IRE.
Wheat in Philadelphia. a.-Penusylya-
MIA amber 81 7Sal so. Gold ll2s.
THURSDAY, 7TH.
Bill for the repeal of The local option
law is revived In the Legislature.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange
sends out invitations to all States inter-
ested in the cultivation of cotton, or the
manufacture of cotton cotton goods, to
send delegates to a convention in the
city of Augusta, Ca, to consider the
cotton interest. The two judges of
the Supreme Court of Arkansas who
were captured by the Baxter men made
their escape. The telegraph reports
seventy thousand miners out of en-
ployment in Great Britain. Measles
and smallpox are reported among the
violators of oIder in Arkansas.
One hundred and forty thousand people
were rendered homeless by the late
foods in the Mississippi river. 1t is
estimated that it viii require SAC, 600
every day to keep these people. twill
be midsummer before the food entirely
disappears from their lands. Cen
eral a. b. MeCalnont died at the Gil
rard hotel, Philadelphia, whittier he
had gone to have an operation per-
formed for cancer on the head.
Pennsylvania wheat at Philadelphia
amber 81 7Sal so.
FRIDAY, sTH.
Alabama has State FAIR at Mobile
0,000i people attended to-day.
The S3,000,000 Centennial Congress
sional appropriation bill was defeated
in the House. Yeas 81, nays 1873.
Four of the FIVE Judges of the Supreme
Court of the State of Arkansas deliv-
cred an opinion concerning the Cover
norship between Baxter and Brooks.
Their opinion sustains the lower court,
which declared Brooks entitled to the
Office. A trans atlantic despatch an
nounces the strike among the coal
miners of Great Britain at an end.
Catharine Schmeck, an aged lady of
Reading, was burned to death ty her
clothing catching fire at stove. a
Georgia merchant is advertising for
$4,000 Confederate money. He
wants to pay a war debt. The U. S.
Senate bill for the relief of the sufferers
by the food along the Mississippi has
been amended from 100000 to Sll0,-
GOO. Philadelphia subscribed $780,
600 10 that fund A river fight re-
suited in the capture of boat by the
Brooksites aud the killing of two men
and the wounding of a number OF
athers.
Wheat IN Philadelphia, amber 81 20
al IS. Gold ll2t
SATURDAY, 9rH.
Telegraphic communication with Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas, has been cut off,
and report has it that considerable
fighting has taken place between the
parties in the city. The Baxter and
Brooks attorneys at Washington have
agreed on plan of settlement of the
Arkansas trouble, and forwarded it to
the respective parties. 1t provides
that the respective armies shall be dis
banded ard the men sent home, and
that the Legislature shall examine the
case, admitting such witnesses as each
party shall present, and then upon the
evidence and law decide which of con-
testants received a msjorty of the
legal votes in 1872.