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

cancelled ihrir license and closed bhsi-
ness because of the fear that the pas
sage of The Civil Rights bill will cause
coiOred people to stop there. For the
same reason the Park Hotel in B.iti
moro has closed.
The Ohio House of Representatives
on the 2ud inst. passed = joint resoiu-
tiop requesting Congress 20 reduce the
Presidents salary to $25, 900.
Petroleum Ia. been discovered near
Des Moines, Iowa.
Flora Temple is 80 wears old.
Floods in East Tennessee have swept
two thirds of the mills away.
An Hungarian Count vas discovered
@ dishwasher N hotel iI Omaha, Iowa,
last week.
The Rev. r. c. O'H.ra's stable, at
Hazclton, Pa, was burned on the morn
ing Of the Sd inst, With three horses,
one COW, and al the carriages and
sleighs. One of the horses was valued
at over 81 800. At one time ST. Ga
briefs church was on FIRE, but it was
saved without material damage. A man
has been arrested on suspicion Of set
ting the stable on FIRE.
The passage Of the Civil Rights bill
has put the South on the qui viue, As Is
learned from the following despatch
from Augusta, Ga, on the 4th inst.
There was quite sensation here to day
caused by what was supposed to be
practical enforcement o: Civil Rights.
VIM r. Hatch, of Providence, r. [,
en- route to Jacksonville, Fla, arrived
at the Planters Hotel, and secured
room for himself and another, whom be
registered as Moses Daley. Both a2-
pcared in the dining room together and
took seats At the table. Considerable
surprise and some feeling prevailed as
Daley appeared to be colored man
The news soon spread over the city, and
there was quite commotlou for while.
On investigation it turned out that Da-
ley Is a full blooded Pequod Indian.
employed as q nurse by Hatch, who is
an invalid. on his way to Florida.
Amos Clark, Of Tennessee, upon his
death bed expressed the wish that twelve
fiddl.rs would stand around bis grave
and play 'Old Dog Tray" The widow
Clalk saw it done.
Last weeks snow storm was severe
in the west.
Application has been made for the
appointment of q receiver for the New
Jersey Midland Railway Company.
Elk Gov. Moses of South Carolina,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy,
placing his liabilities at $92, ,45l.50,
and his assets q: $1,000 in personal
property, and some very misty posses
sions in real estate.
Drops of molten iron in . foundry in
Paterson, N. j., destroyed the eyes Of
q workman on tho 3rd inst.
The Con- nnis.ioners of Charities in
Brooklyn supplied the demands of l6,-
600 people during the month of Feb
ruary.
Barnum's big show house is turucd
into preaching house on Sunday even
iDgs.
1t is said that Tweed's friends have
offered So, ,0OO, 900 for his release and
the dropping Of proceedings against him,
and that the offer has been declined,
and it is further said that long since
Sc, 900 900 we're offered with the same
object and result. The 50, ,000, 900 Of
fer came from b. G. Jayne, whose ex-
2crience in making compromises as
Government official was likely to be Of
service in this little matter.
Colorado was admitted as State, in
the closing hours CT Congress.
One Of the last things done BY the
late Congress was an amendment to the
Post Office Appropriation bill. which
provides that all public documents now
printed or hereafter to be printed BY
order of Congress may be sent free
through the mails until the 6ist day Of
next December, on . personal frank Of
Member of the present Congress. 1t
is also provided that the Commissioner
Of Agriculture may hereafter send
through the mails, on his frank, copies
Of the Agricultural Report and such
seeds as be fas for distribution.
Troubles on the Mexican border.
A Philadelphia despatch Of the 5th
inst. says: Three boys we're committed
to-day to answer 4 charge of setting
FIRE to the House of Refuge on Monday.
They admitted the crime, and SAID it
was done TO enable them to escape
The damage to the building is slight.
A match between American and Irish
rifemen is to take place on the 18th
day of next June, in Ireland.
The family of Henry hsrk, of Gregg
township, Centre county, we're poisoned
on the 18th ult., all excepting the
mother. BY eating pork pudding, which