Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-29
News Items.

Omaha advices say that the rush Of
Black Killers is undiminished, and the
trains are overcrowded daily with them
en- route via Chey ennc. il
At Sunbury, Pa, in the case of the
Cameron township or Mahanoy robbers
the jury on the 22nd inst, returned q
verdict of guilty. The prisoners were
sentenced as follows: HeaIey, seven
years. impr. r.sonment Farrell, nine
years; Levens eight years; Delaney ten
years.
A few days ago James l.. Benedict,
aged Is years mail carrier between
South NorwaIk and Norwalk, Conn,
was arrested for robbing the mail.
Upon his person were forty letters
which he haa,stolen and opened, and
cv-order fok $40.
On the 22nd inst., four hundred
pounds of 'Jupitefy' powder exploded
in New York, BY wbiS q four men we're
literally blown 70 atOms,SX some six
or seven severely injured, 81 whom one
or two will die. The mill S,s blown.
to pieces, and buildings in i,ss :ml-fe
date vicinity we're considerably stat
tered.
The Easton md. Star ha, the fol-
lowing about two diminutiye young
ladies from the lower part of Delaware.
The Misses Marine, from Greensbor-
ough, are extraordinary curiosities.
They were born and raised in Sussex
county, Delaware. Miss Lizzie, twenty
eight, is thirty three inches tall, and
weighs fifty five pounds. Miss Amanda,
eighteen, is thirty seven inches tall,
and weighs fifty pounds. They have
heads of natural size, are intelligent,
ana converse fuently. They have no
bones, only sort Of muscle or cartil-
age, and can bend their hands and fig
ures in any direction. They do beau
tisul needlework, embroidery, &c.
There is nothing unpleasant. In their
appearance. They have not travelled
heretofore, but intend to visit the Gen.
tennial.
Light weight pugilists pounded each
other seventy eight rounds, near Elk
ton Md, last Wednesday.
There seems to have been an organ
lied attempt to burn Scranton, in this
State, within the past week, by incen-
diaries. Five thousand dollars reward
is offered for information that will lead
to the arrest AID conviction of the in
cendiaries.
General Merritt warns simple folks
who may be tempted painfully TO 60 to
the Black Hills that the auriferous ca
pacity of that part of the country
which is now accessible has been over
rated, that the diggings are already
overcrowded that the most fortunate
do not more than make wages by hard
work in the midst of danger and dis
comfort. His language, that the busi-
ness is worse than a stupendous hum
bug, an infamous traffic, may appear
strong, but IS without doubt justified
by the false information circulated by
interested persons to attract to the
Hills BY their route the credulous
from all parts of the country to encir-
Gle their merchants or forwarders."
Henry's cotton mill in Angora, Pa,
was burned Saturday morning a week.
The fire originated from the heating of
a shaft. Loss 100000; insurance
$4,000.
Mrs. Jane Hunter, of Fayette City,
was born in III, and is therefore los
years old.
Twelve ladies received the degree of
NJ. D., at the commencement of the
Women's Medical Celiege Ia Phnadei-
phia yesterday.
Las: Tuesday a week ago a man
named Williamsby, residing near st.
Petersburg, beat his wife almost to
death. 1t is feared that she cannot
recover. The man was drunk at the
time the beating occurred. He has
been lodged in the Clarion Jail.
The Butler Citizen says: ga whisky |
man informed US the other day that
pool amounting to $500 had been rais-
ed by the whisky men of one of the oil
towns, in this county, and presented it
to a certain attorney In this town, who
has been very Jealous in the cause Of
temperance, to keep him from opposing
certain applications for license in said |
oil town."
Elijah Jones, aged sixty-fve, has
married his step daughter' Martha
aged sixteen, in Trigg coun-
ty, Ky. She is his fifth wife.
The additional clerk work required
by the investigation at Washington, it
is estimated, will cost Fifty thousand
dollars.
The next panic is predicted; it is to
take place in 1891.
John Rowland, of Abbeyvi.le conn
y, S. c., young man about 20, tried
10 draw a load out of his shot gun,
and, heating an iron rod nine inches in