Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-28
News Items,
Moody is down in Connecticut.

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chez factories.
Mr.. hs Faucber says that the worlt
will come to an end before or on July 4
The salmon put into the Connecucu
river two years ago are now from foul
to six inches III length.
PeIeg G. COl.its, a school teacher
committed suicide in South Kingston
r. L., on Friday a week, BY banging
Almost the entire crop on French
Broad River, Tennessee, has been de.
stroyed by the recent freshet.
Eleven tons of cucumbers for North.
ern digestion we're shipped from Jack.
sonvil!e, Fla, few days ago.
T:tusville, Pa, recently sent a man
to Jail for sixty days for sounding a
false alarm Of fire on the city fire bell.
Frank Webber, q night herder, was
killed by Indians, on the 18th inst,
near Sydney Crossing, on the Platte
river. His nurse and revolver we're
taken oy the savages.
The Supreme Court of New York
has decided that bank depositors are
not subject to assessment for taxation
A torpedo factory at Greeuville, N.
j., exploded on the 2lst inst, and
killed two boys.
In Mesopotamia, country a long
distance away, the "real plague" pre-
walls to an alarming extent.
A. j. Williams, one of the Luzerne
county commissioners charged with
bribery, plead guilty, at Wilkesbarre,
OH the 23d inst, and was sentenced to
pay fine equal to the amount of bribes
received.
Sixty men employed in the Erie
shops, at Port JeIvis, we're discharged
on the 22nd INST.
London society is in a fever of ex-
citement over the elopemeut.of young
Noblemap's wife with tailor's son.
A Centennial jubilee took place in
Reading, Pa, on the Goth inst, marked
by procession three miles in length
and celebration at Lauer's Park, in
which 5000 persons participated.
George Knigh. was convicted of mur-
der il the fourth degree, on the both
inst, in New York for stabbing Joseph
Bennett, from the effects of which the
latter died. knight was sent to the
State prison for one year, with hard
labor.
Mr.. Adm, who killed bis wife, step
daughter, and Mrs. Benton, in Decem
Der last, was hanged at Cleveland on
the 22ud inst. He maintained to the
last that the deed was unpremeditated
Mrs. N. K. Pittiplace, wife of the
pastor of the Second Advent Church.
Lowell, Mass, has presented serious
charges against her husband. A COM
mittee at once walked upon the accus-
ed, who, taken BY surprise, confessed
the truth of the charges.
Two immense cheeses, made in Buf-
falo, N. Y, one of twelve and another
of fourteen tons weight, have been
built on platform cars, upon which they
will be kept during the entire Centen-
NAL Exhibition. They are ten or twelve
feet high, and are bound with iron
hoops one inch thick.
An unknown man was detected in the
effort to fire the Catholic church at
Houtzdale, Pa, on Friday night week.
He escaped. This is the same church
in which q contractor was killed and
thirty persons were injured on Sunday,
the 18th inst. by tie floors giving way.
On Sunday night week a number of
men, supposed to belong to " The Cir
cassian League" set Ere to a Chinese
cabin, occupied by three Cinnamon,
near Truckec, California. As the
Cbinamen ran out they were fred upon
by the mob, and one was instantly
killed and another seriously wounded.
1t is said that about forty shots were
fired.
Juseph S. Neville committed suicide
in cell of the Jersey City prison on
Saturday q week, By severing the veins
and arteries of his left arm, nearly cut
ting the limb from his body. He had
been committed for swindling emigrants,
was native of Natick, Massachusetts,,
and was very respectfully connected.
At one time be owned drug stofe at
New Jersey.
A boy ten years of age was terribly
gored by bull on the farm of Jona-
than Cornell, Northampton township,
b ucks county, on Sunday . week. He
tied next day. Mr.. Cornell had taken
the lad from the almshouse last spring.
A despatch from Muskegee, Illinois,
under date of the 2lst inst, says The
most terrible bail storm ever known in
this section passed over the South Cam
sdian river yesterday morning. The
course of the storm was from west to
east and varied in width from half to
Two miles. Timber vas blown down,
trees entirely stripped of leaves, and
sverJ species of vegetation in its track
destroyed. All the glass in Dwellings,
md passing trains was broken. At
seven o'clock in the morning cars could
hase been loaded with hail stones the |
,ize of hens eggs, and at three o'clock |
in the afternoon they still covered the
ground. The damage done is immense
Ind cannot now be estimsted.