Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15
News Items.

Reading has just had an infsntlcide
case of rather singular character. A
suspicious looking person was seen
burying mysterious oblong box, which
was believed to contain the body of
murdered infant. The police got wind
of the affair, and two officers were sent
to disinter the body, which they did on
Wednesday last. They commenced
digging, worked faithfully in removing
tie 'cold, cold ground,' rntil they came
down to the little coffin, removed it
from the grave, and then proceeded to
open the casket. The corpse was en-
folded il piece of Brussels carpet,
which was unrolled, and then came q
muslin shroud, which was unwrapped
carefully, and there was the little VIC
tim, sure enough, the dead body of a
Thomas cat. The detectives hastily re-
inferred the remains, and in due time
reported at City Hall. Here they
were greeted with loud 'guffaw,' in
which all the city officials and bystand-
ers joined very heartily.
On Saturday afternoon a week lit
tie girl aged five years and named Bel
Ia Dwelling, was sent by her mother on
an errand to a neighbor's. She had
gone out the gate and came up behind
her brother David, aged about nineteen
years, as he was in the act Of striking
at stone with a base ball bat. In
swinging tue bat he accidentally struck
her near the left temple with such
force as to knock her to the ground in
an insensible condition. She was car
rIed into the house, and was taken with
commissions, and, notwithstanding the
best efforts of physician called to at
tend her, died from her injuries about
nine o'clock the same evening.
The Kentucky Grangers, through
their State convention, urge upon Con
gress the passage of aid laws for the
Texas Pacific Railroad.
A band of IS whites and a band of
200 negroes had bloody fight with
firearms at Rolling Fork, Miss
The Democratic house of Congress
is wedding out all officials that have
Republican proclivities.
At the Plymouth Church prayer
meeting. last Friday night. the roll of
membership was read. Last year at
The same date the membership num-
bered 1880. Last Friday it numbered
2,490.
The Revival undertaking in Chicago
has been pronounced failure.
John Norris, of Petersburg, Keh-
lucky, is survivor of Perry's victory
on Lake Erie. He is 81 years of age,
and weighs 200 pounds.
The State Treasurer and Auditor
General of West Virginia have been
charged with high crimes and misde-
meanors in office. They have been ar
raigned before a court of impeachment.
This horrible story was dispatched
from Cincinnati on the 9th inst, about
the doings of one Ehlerman, proprietor
Of fertilizing factory near Lawrence
burg He was arrested and is in Jail
on charge of shooting hogs for the
purpose of getting their .carcasses for
his factory 1t is stated that he has
been iu the habit Of poisoning hogs in
the surrounding country by the hun
dreds with corrosive sublimate, pur-
chasing the csrcasses, rendering them
and putting them on the market.
On the morning of the 10th inst, at
8 o'clock, party Of forty men broke
into the house OF Mrs. O'Dounell, at
Wiggan's patch, pear Mahanoy City,
took Charles O'Dopnell, her son, aged