Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-24
A psrty of four or Eve bad school

iuelce, n. l., SSW ucct"I insuiciue
case," and tsstea medicine. 'Twas
poison. One four-year- old boy is dead,
and several others are at the point Of
death.
Ludlowtowr, Mass, celebrates its
Centennial. Col. John Miller is the
oldest citizen. He is 80 years old.
The right Of women to serve on school
boards is contested in the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts,.
The ejsctnent suits against the Phil
adelphia and Reading Coal and lion
Company, for the recovery Of 2,S0O
acres of coal lands in Schuy kill coun-
ty, we're called in the Columbia county,
Pa, courts. The trac. of land in ois
pute is estimated to be worth a million
and half Of dollars.
A steer became enraged while being
driven through Baltimore, and gored
well-known cattle drover named George
ReinhoId SO seriously that his life is
despsired Of.
The tobacco crop will be one-third
less in Southern Kentucky in conse-
qreuce of the drought; SO with the
grain in the same section.
Citizens Of Dodge city, Kansas, have
asked the Governor Of that State to
send arms for the defence that place. as
hostile Indians are killing settlers with
in ten miles of that city.
Manufacturing mills at Worcester,
Mass, we're destroyed by fire. Loss
about $50, 900.
One hundred and twenty-five dogs
we're executed in New York. After
the lapse of certain number Of hours
after capture they are put into close
room or tank, into which gas is turned,
which suffocates them.
New York city has appropriated SlO,'
600 for fire works for the 4th of July.
If that sum we're distributed among the
10000 people there, who co not know
today where to get VIctuals to eat to-
morrow, it would have gi.en each one 3
half dollar, and do some good.
The ranchers on the Texas frontier
have represented to the House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs of Congress,
that Mexicans have deprecated on them
to the amount of Sl5, 5,000,000. They
want Congress to do something fer them
against the slexicans.
i Three hundred thousand people are
fed by the government in India to keep
them from starving.
These are the financial piauks adopt
ed By the Illinois Republican State
convention that Assembled at Spring
field:
First. That as one of the conse-
quences Of the late civil war about
$3.50, 900 900 of poTinterest- bearing
Treasury notes we're issued to and are
now held by the people as safe and con-
yenieht currency, it w1uld be unwlse
and inexpedient in the present fnan-
cial condition of the people TO attempt
policy of immediate cancellation ol
any portion of such Treasury notes.
Second That ,he laws for the estab'
lishment of national banks having Sc.
cured to the States and Territories the
best system of bank circulation evel
before offered to tAe people, its issu'
ance should no longer be confided to q
privileged class, but should be free t,
all alike, under general and equa! laws
the aggregate volume Of cHrrency TO b,
regulated by the untrammeled laws ct
trade.
, Third. That we reafiirm the declar.
alton of the National Republican Con
vention of 1872 in favor of a return tC
specie paymen; at the earliest practi
cal day.
THURSDAY, JUNE is.
/ The Maine Republican State Con
ventIou nominated by a unanimous
, rising vote Nelson Dingley, Jr., tol
, Governor.
The last rail Of tire new railroad
from Reading to Slatiugton, a distanc'
; o: fcrty-ive miles, was laid.
, The Massachusetts, Labor Reform
, party will not nominate a ticket thi
: fall, but will question candidates o
: other parties whether they be favorable
Or unfavorable to the eight hour system
"Francis Butler, a we'll known do|
fancier, and regarded as authority o'
, dogs, died at bis residence in Brooklyi
, yesterday Of hydrophobia. He wa
, bitten at his store 10 New York city
) SIX weeks ago, by small spitz dog
: while endeavoring to make it take som
! medicine. MIR. Butler was 4 native o
England, an accomplished linguist, ant
f has been connected with several educa
tional institutions as professor of Ian
! guages. Some years ago he went int
the business of training, buying an,
f selling dogs, and his ability in control
ling and training them was marvellous
!, He wrote a book entitled, ''Dog Train
:, ing" lie had no fear of hydrophobia
D and often expressed the opinion that
e was simply nervous affection, and tia
the bite of dog would not produc
e disease unless fear supervened and oc
: casioned it,"