Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-29
News Items.
Plenty of oranges.

| Potatoes are dearer.
Florida oranges $40 per barrel.
John Yost me: his death ON the goth
by falling into vat Of boiling beer at
Lebanon.
Nineteen horse thieves have been
convicted IN Cumberland county ia q
few months.
The Williamsport rubber works are
producing daily twenty-six hundreds
pairs of shoes and two hundred pairs Of
boots, and still cannot keep abreast OF
their orders.
Eighteen persons have died Of diph
iberia IN fortnight, near Waynesburg.
The State Grange of Pennsylvania
will hold its fourth meeting in Mead
willie, Crawford county. commencing on
Tuesday, December 18th aud 10 cou-
tlnue four days.
The Austrian and Hungarian Govern
ments have resolved to prohibit the sx
portation Of horses
Paris has . grave difficulty to solve,
what to do with her dead : For ten
years has this subject been under con-
sideration, and Baron Haussnan COM
planned that the dead gave him far more
trouble than the living.
Harrisburg is building a new brick
school house for colored pupils.
Upon balf acre Of ground, Henry
II. Lefevre, in Eden township, Laucas-
ter county, raised this season q four
horse load of hay, 100 stalks Of tobac-
CO and 40 bushels Of ruruips.
The farmers Of Mclean county, ILL.,,
did not raise enough potatoes Tor their
own consumption.
In the Northern States the popular
majority is l50, 900 against Tilden.
A man from Name makes his head
quarters at Rummy every winter. and
sets over 3OU0 traps for different kinds
of animals in Cous and Grafton coun-
ties. 1t takcs him two weeks to make
the round of BIS traps on horsebsck.
He secured furs to the value Of $1,000.
including IL offers at SIS each, last
season and has already captured $500
worth this season.
A Kentucky woman is mother Of
eighteen children, nine having blue
eyes aud light hair and nine having
dark eyes and dark hair. Seventeen
of the children have married and have
families and the mother visits them
yearly.
William Cox left Williston, Chester
county, on June "a, and has not been
heard from since.
John Musselman of Leacock town
ship, Lancaster county, shot an owl
last week which measured 5 feet 8 in
ches from tip to tip Of wings.
The late DR.. Hall remarked that
twenty Eve men out Of every 100 COO
in the United States commit suicide
but only three women, showing that the
latter bear trouble more heroically than
does the sterner sex.
Joseph Mishrow, of Williamsport,
103 years of age walked to tie polls
on the 9TH inst. and deposited his vote.
"Twenty !sshes each"-Richmond,
Va. Judge to two tramps.
a bursting steam p pc scared a con
necticut mill glri into jumping out OF a
fourth story window. Not killed.
Twenty FIVE Chicago druDkards &C.
cepted Moody's invitation to be talked
to in room BY themselves, aud twen-
ty-four of them subsequently announc-
ed that they had been converted.
Mrs. Wayne Sweigart, of Ephrata
township, Lancaster county, was Bit
ten by house dog several weeks ago.
he latter part of last week she died
from bydrophobia leaving an infant
only four weeks old.
A wedding occurred few days ago
at Corinth, Miss, in whi,h the groom
was German Catholic. the bride an
American Presbyterian, the attendant
Baptist, the Clergyman an Episcop
allan, and the ceremony was preformed
in a Methodist church before a mixed
assembly.
A West Chester man recently shot
FIVE ducks at one shot on the Brandy
wine.
There are over 400 pupils in the Mil
Flersville State Normal School.
1t is said tha. the reflection of the
street lamps in Philadelphia, can be
seen plainly at Chadd's Ford, 80 miles
west of the city, on dark nights.
There is law in New Jersey for
the abatement Of the tramp nuisance.
On Wednesday seven we're arrested in
Newark aud three of them were sent
to Jail for ninety days. The others
we're released on promise of leaving the
city.
,r. Isaac Weaver, residing near
Reinhold's Station, Berks county, was
engaged 10 digging a hole on Friday
last, to bury rock weighing about
fifty-two tons, when it tell in on him,
crushing him to earth, and killing bim
instantly.
Germany grows faster than anv coun-
try in Europe except Great Britain.
1t now has AZ, 2,I26 ,S44 people aud has
been sixty years IN doubling.
The Swiss write more letters to each
other than any other people.
ATurk, who has been residing for some
time in Paris with q seraglio of eight
ladies has just been arrested. There
was no trouble until the ladies' began
to make acquaintance, and then the fat
was all in the FIRE.
Capital is easily alarmed. A Detroit
er who had two dollars bet on the result
quit work for four days in his anxiety
10 know If he had lost.
The Goldfish caught of the shore of
Newfoundland are split, washed and
laid on spruce 5oughs to dry. After
The sun and air have bleached them
white they are assorted into ''meIchant-
able," fish.
Oshkosh, Wis, is afflicted with
literal plague of rats; they infest even