Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-29

the Centennial-the King or Emperor
Of Brazil.
A statue of General StouexalI Jack
son was received at Richmond, Va,
from Baltimore, last Thursday, with
marked demonstration.
The second crop Of hay in eastern
Pennsylvania is said to be very fine.
San Francisco has 352 unmarried fe-
male teachers.
Three inches Of snow fell at Colorado
Springs, Colorado Territory, on the
2lst inst.
A st. Louis woman enumerates
among her friends twenty-five women
who have become bald from wearing
heavy masses of false hair.
Miss Hulett, the thicago lawyer,
will not act in divorce case, believing,
as she says, that "any woman who will
marry a man ought 20 be forced 10 live
live with him."
Jacob Crawford, otherwise known as
Jack Saunders, a noted horse thief,
from Lycoming county, died in the
Eastern Penitentiary few days ago.
Julia Roberts, colored, Of PLenix-
vile, Pa, is ninety nine years Of age,
and can crack shellbarks with her first
teeth.
The Pennsylvania railroad is survey
ing new route for the purpose of run
ming their freight trains around instead
of through the city of Lancaster.
A Tennessee woman hanged herself
tie other day, while her husband was
at church, the cause of her suicide be-
ing this exemplary gentleman had
struck her just before departing 10 at
tend to his religious duiics.
In England $4,000 in gold i,
awaiting James Speechley or his heirs.
If Speechley is alive be had better
speak quickly. He came to America in
1886, and was last heard from IN New
York about 1859.
Mrs. james Groom, Of Bensslem,
Bucks county, made murderous as
sault on DR.. Richard Diuger, on Thurs
day. She accused him of having mur-
dered her children.
Two men named George Smith and
Benjamin Howard, both residents Of
Bloomfield, Upper Darby township,
Delaware county, while engaged in
sinking deeper the we'll of Samuel
Griffith, we're suffocated to death by
foul air.
During a recent thunder storm, as a
young lady living in St. John, n. b.,
was seated at her sewing machine, the
instrument was stuck BY lightning, and
and both the operators arms were part
ly paralyzed.
Two lady employees in Ritter, HUI
Der & Co.'s shoe mandatory at Allen
town, were accidentally locked in the
third story by the foreman at night. A
man passing was called TO, and he threw
up long thick rope, which the girls
fastened inside the window, and slid
down to the ground. One skinned her
hands badly.
The Philadelphia North .7merican
calls attention to the recently reported
discovery of China clay, or kaolin, at
Pheuixville. The vein is reported to
be sixty feet thick and remarkably pure,
and if this is true the discovery is one
of immense value. Kaolin is the ma
terial from which porcelain is made. 1t
is very scarce in this country, and the
existence of large bed Of good quail
ity will very soon be tested. If found
available 1t will add new and profita-
BILE industry tc the Schuylkill valley,
and make it more important as a man
ufacturing centre than heretofore.
A more terrible affection is seldom
heard of in family than has been the
case in that of Michael Gallagher, Of
New Garden township, Chester county.
He has lost eight Of his nine children
by scarlet fever, four having died within
one week some time ago, and four more
having died week before last.
A singular accident took place on the
farfn Of Isaac H. Ora, bill, in West
Earl township, Lancaster county, on
Wednesday a week. They were en-
gagged in :hreshing wheat in Mr.. Gray.
oill's barn, wher the cylinder burst
into one hundred and sixty-two pieces,
flying in every direction but no one
was injured. Eight persons were in
the barn at the time.
They organized balloon ascension
for village festival in France, and the
balloonist determined to take up with
him his little BOY, aged eight. The
boy was in the basket and the father
was making some 6uaI preparations be-
fore entering, wien the boy cut loose
the last cord that held the balloon and
went it alone. He has not been heard
from since.
A Snyder county r,sn raised potatoes
at the rate of three hundred and eighty
four bushels to the acre.