Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-10

Mr. Patrick O'Hair, Of the IIl,noi.
Legislature, desires the passage Of q
bill imposing fine of not less than SO
nor more than 500 on any person who
shall invite another to drink any intox-
icating liquors.
A colored member of the Alabama
Legislature has been expelled by q
unanimous vote
Governor Ingersoll, of Connecticut,
has appointed Friday, March 26, as a
day of fasting and prayer.
All the Centre county iron works are
in full blast.
Last Friday State School Superin-
tendent Wickersham was presented
with handsome gold watch as testi-
mou;al BY bis friends at Harrisburg,
the occasion being his 6ftieth anniver-
sary.
Edward Yost butcher who was in
the habit Of sleeping in The banking
house of Hayes & Walls; at Johns
town. n. Y, was murde.e3 oa Friday
night in hi. sleeping spa.tineut. All
the valuables belonging 20 The deceased
were carried off, aud the building was
set on FIRE. NJ efforts NeIe made to
rob the safes of the firm. The flames
we're extinguished before any serious
damage was done.
Renova people get theft water from
across the river at that place. The ice
has cut the pipe, and they have trouble
to get something to drink.
A man named Brown, wEo is to be
executed in Schuylkill county March
"a, for the murder Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kramer, made full confession on the
4th inst, stating that he committed the
murder, and had no accomrllce.
Under the Civil Rights BILL, four col
ored men demanded admission to the
new Memphis Theater on the night Of
the 4th inst. and Me.e given seats In
the dress circle,
A rough threatened a reporter Of ths
Brooklyn Eagle with personal violence.
The reporter made complaint before
Judge Walsh, who sen, the fellow to
jail in default Of $500 bail, last Friday
The Mennonite immigration frou,
Russia still continues, and nearly one
thousand families Of this people are
to soon arrive in Canada.
They will settle in Manitoba. There
are already about six thousand of these
people, or twelve hundcrd families, 10
the United States. OF these, two hun
drea and thirty families have settled in
Manitoba, two hundred In Dakota Ter
ritory, fifteen in Minnesota, eighty in
three hundred and fifteen in
Kansas, and sixty in Iowa and other
States. They remaining three hundred
families have arrived recently, and
their destination is unknown The Kan
sas Mennonites have bought one hun
dred and fifty thousand acres OF land,
upon which they will settle in the spring
A meeting of delegates from those now
here is to be held at Elkhart, Indiana
next month, to make arrangements fol
the immigration Of the present year.
A despatch from Wilmington, n. c.,
under date of March 9th, says: The
first case here under the Civil Rights
bill came up before U. S Commissioner
Z. II. McQulgg to-day. A negro
named Francis Holmes, had W. Il
Gekren, saloon keeper, arrested for re-
fusing to sell him drink. The Com
missioner dismissed the case on thu
ground that the Civil Rights bill die
not apply to bar rooms.
A hound chased fox seventy miles
in Lebanon and Berks counties, th,
other day, captured and killed it, and
was found exhausted by the side of th,
dead body.
Two men were caught applauding th'
verdict of a jury, ,u Bradford county
aud fined by His Honor Judge Morrow
five dollars each.
LAST week i, was from a Wiscon .ir
paper. THIS week it is as follows from
q Kansas paper: Bigamy, Trigany
Quadrigamy, or whatever you ma,
please to call the simultaneous posses
sien Of more wives than one, two, three
or four-this repreheusible offeils'
against law, gospel, and good sense
is, We groan to say, far from being oI
the dwindle. In almost every othcl
newspaper which We take up-and VI
are doomed to take up q great man,
we read of some rascal who has de
ceived an innocent woman into unlaw
full joinery. Just to think that one O
the last scamps of this sort should b
named Snow-beautiful Snow! He op
Grated last at Columbus, Ohio. First
he married Miss Weatherby Of Massa
chusetts, but she, fortunately, is N
more. Then be espoused Miss Cowic
of Connecticut- and left her. Then a