Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-24
News Items.

America.
At Portland, Maine, it has just tran
spired that an insane woman has been
confined all winter in room in her
husbands house. Part of the time she
was ch.inei, sna when discovered she
was neatly nnde, and her limbs were
badly fros,-bitten.
At Chicago on the 18th, John knet-
ing aud Jacob Merrer, laborets, were
smo,hered to death BY a quan,,iy o:
coal falling On them.
An one hunired and fifty barrel oil
well w:s struck at slilerstown, Butler
county on the 18th.
\ Boston girl named Roberna Greise,
a girl sixteen years old was committed
on the 18Th, for raising certificate of
stock of the Michigan Central Railroad
from one share to sixty-rhe original
value Of the same being S6S ard pre-
tented value Sl6S0. Uron this well
executed certificate $1,000 was obtain
ed when the fraud was discovered.
A fire in Port-au- Prince, Hayti,
about 10 o'clock on the llth, rendered
about seven hundred families homeless
Jason Weeks, of Bangor, Maine, who
was robbed of $4,000 in bonds in one
of the passenger cars of the New Ha-
ven Railroad at the Twenty seventh
street depot, New York, several years
ago, and who brought suit against the
company to recover, received a verdict
IN the Supreme Court on the 18th fox
the full amount of the stolen bonds.
Ed. Smith, negro on the Jury of
the City Court, In Montgomery, Ala,
was pu; on the city chain gang un the
18th for one hundred days, for stealing
hogs.
Ike Hooper, colored, was hanged on
the 10Th at Montgomery, Ala, for the
murder of Howard Sattcr White, color
ed, in December, 1873.
The Illinois Legislature ha, passed a
bill authorizing the Governor to appoint
women to be notaries public.
Gen. Longstreet, whilom Confederate
commander, and since Republican
polititian in Louisiana, has bought a
farm hear Gainesville, Ga, and there
proposes to spend in peace and quiet
the remainder of his days, forgetting in
country life the memories of the bat
tie field and caucus.
There are 10000 paupers in Lon
don who have 10 be supported by the
public authorities.
Mrs. Soulton has been On the wit
ness stand in the Beecher aad Tilion
case.
The railroads leading east Of Chicago
have reduced the rate of freight on
dressed hogs as follows To New York,
Albany, Boston aud Baltimore ten
cents to Philadelphia seven cents, and
TO Buffalo five cents.
At Boston on the 18th ult a negro
was sentenced to an imprisonment for
life. for an assault upon little girl.
A colored boy was admitted into the
senior class OF the High School at New
Orleans on the 18th, and 90 out of the
- in the class Immediately left. There
was no disturbance.
The steamer Vancouver, at San Fran
cisco from Hong Kong January 20, and
Yokohama the Both, brings Intelligence
that the japanese government has ap-
pFoPriatec 500, 600 for expenditures in
connection with the Ceutenial Exposi.
tion in Philadelphia
Van Dieman's Land has its grass
hopper plague, and IN December-eariy
summer there-the district where they
are was stripped OF every green thing,
and even clothing and leather we're de-
vou:ed. The only hope of the remain
der of the country was in the starvation
of the insects before they reached una
turi;y.
Some men who were sinking a we'll
at Portlandville, Dakota, the other day,
came upon big open space, abou.
thirty feet down, and when the drill
was withdrawn hot steam began to
pour out and has continued to escape
ever since. The snow has been melted
for about a half mile around the wei,
the air anG earth being very warm, and
wolves aud other wild animals congre-
gate there at night TO escape from the
cold. The we'll is a great curiosity to
the people of that country, and no ex
PLANTATION of the strange phenomena has
yet been offered
st Montreal parties of all kinds are
fashionable on the Ice.
Russia is trying on large scale the
experiment of educating women for the
medical profession. Two hundred aud
forty young women from different parts
of the empire are now siuden,s a. a
medical school in ST. Petersburg, each
in four years course.
The house of D. Is. MellUt,, in Bel !