Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-12-06
News Items.

The sugar crop of Louisiana TINS year IL
200, 900 hogsheads-
Seven men married for the fourth time in
New York last year.
At the State iair, Lincoln, Neb., the fe-
male brass band won the prize.
As one of the strange events OF the DAY
family recently had a marriage, birth and
death in one week.
The Kansas Insurance Company, of Lea
venworth, has made an assignment Llaoli-
| tiles estimated at $500, 900; assets, $780,
600.
General Wade Hampton is q widower.
/ Colonel Fred Grant is under S4ao bail
for hearing to-day for assaulting aChicago
repo'te
Great apprehensions are fe.t that1he Egyp-
tian horse plague may spread By the car
ayau routs into Syria, and thence into Asia
and Europe. The multitude of fostering
corpses of horses which have died OF the
plague and Been thrown into the Nile or
into canals or ponds have contaminated
the water and the atmosphere, and cholera
is imminent.
Petroleum has been discovered in the
neighborhood Of Paranid Lake, in Nevads-
Two springs are said 10 have been found
from which flow about eighty or ninety gal
4
almost cOlorless.
Patrick McNally, a near sighted old man,
walked into a massive hy-wheel on Monday
a week at the rolling mill OF the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Coal Company, at Scran-
ton. Ia an instant his body was torn to
pieces and scattered about the whee!-pit.
/ Ills head was found several hours af:er the
accident.
] A few days ago a little eight year old
gIrl at Butler played suicide. She iasten-
/ ed towel TO her neck and a hook in tho
wall, and then knocked the chair from un
| der her feet. She was choked until her
/ face rescnlbled a black mask, when her pa
rents discovered her.
Miss Ella Laycock, daughter Of Mr. b. T.
Laycock, Of Bloomsbury, Luzerne county,
being :hwarted in love, resolved TO become
a nun. So she lied to Scranton to St. Ce-
celia's convent. Her father would have
none OF it, so he telegraphed 70 An officer,
who intercepted her and took her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. BrattOn, of MIfiin
county, celebrated their golden we'd
ding on the 4th ult. Mrs. Bsatton's
father, Ezra Gruman, ghen fourteen
years of age, carried the first mai! ever
sent from Philadelphia to Pittsburg,
the letters being wrapped in red silk
handkerchief.
Mrs. Justice, widow Of sixty, com
mi,ted suicide at New Bedford on
Tuesday morning week, By hanging
herself in barn. The old lady had
been deranged for some time.
There was slight row in the Frank
lin school on Monday a week. The
Principal, County superintendent and
all the Directors were sent for and be-
tween them they managed to expel
one small boy.
The handsome wife of a Petrolla
physician went around the other day
to every saloon in that borough, called
for pen, ink and paper, and wrote on,
notice warning each veoder Of spirit
uOus liquor not to sell to her liege lord
aud master.
A four gear old Pottsville child got
drunk the other day chewing Jimson
weed, and did not sober up fer eight
or nine hours.
Pithole, the place which but a few
years ago had ten thousand inhabi-
iaa's, polled bet sig votes last election.
'Thou art gone. never 10 return"
Wm. Moore was shot and it is fearec
fatally wounded a few nights ago while
attempting to cut down political poe
near Salem church, in Congruity town
ship, " estmoreland county.
Mr. j. Z. Thompson, of Shippens-
vile, went out to train a new bird dog
recently, ani while patting tbs animal
or the head in commendation of its
apiness it jumped up against him.
In doing so it struck the hammer of
bis gun aud discharged it, the load en-
tering the pit of Mr.. Thompson's arm
aud coming out at the top of his shoul-
der, making a very ugly and painful
wound.
A mouse got into the drawer Of the
City Hotel, at Reading the other day
aud chewed up into fine bits two S5
bills, one 81 bill, one 81 bill, and
quantity Of fractional currency.
The Scotch farmers are being ruined
by mice. Weasels, hawks and owls are |
treated with respect which sstonishes
these long prosecuted animals.
Mr.. Wolf recently killed four wild |
turkeys at one discharge of bis double
barreled gun willie hunting on the side
Of the mouL cain, above Harrisburg.
Mary F. Gilmore a young lady re-
siding near Pittsburg, was recently so
scared By the entrance of burglar in
to her room that she lost her reason,
and Is now the inmate of en- insane asy-
lum.
Mr.. Wamp'er, of Adams county,
lately fired at pheasant, missed the
bird and lodged charge of bird shot
in the breast and neck of Mr. Eppelman,
companion. He was seriously, but
not dangerously hurt.
They had been engaged long time
and one evening were reading the paper
together. "Look, love ~ he ex-
claimed, "only fifteen dollars for suit
of clothes 10 "Is it wedding suit %
she asked looking naively at her lover.
+" Oh no." he replied, sits a busi-
ness suit" "W ell, L mean, business"
she answered.
Mrs. johanna Fox has been arrested
in New York, at the suit Of her step
daughter, who charges her with having
sandered her to her betrothed, so that
the engagement was broken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kapp we're divorced IN
Hartford, Conn, on the 18th. At noon
on the 23d Mr.. Kapp remarked, and
on the same evening Mrs. Kapp married
Mr.. Kapp's brother.
An intelligent-lookiug colored man
walked into Buffalo office the other
day with slate in his hands, on which
he wrote " l am deaf and dumb please
belp me-" But there happened to be
sharp pointed tack, end up, In the
chair on which be was invited to sit, and