Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-19
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Tyner. Of the State Of Indiana, sue
ceeds him.
Uu Monday week . nine-year-old
boy committed sdicide in his father's
barn in Bart township, Lancaster
county.
Heath, the Republican candidate for
Mayor in Chicago, was elected BY large
majority, last Wednesday. 1t Is the
FIRST straw Of the campaign, and tells
which way the wind blows.
Peaches from the South are sold in
the Philadelphia market.
Thieves have been practiring IN their
crooked ways, in the departments OF
Japan and Sweden, at the Centennial
Exhibition.
The Confederates in Congress have
postponed the further examination OF
Senator Blaine till next session of Con
grssa.
! A man IN st. Louis afflicted with
neuralgia, declared that he would kill
himself if not cured within q week. lie
tried every remedy that he could hear
of, but was no bette. at he end Of the
allotted titae, and then be kept his word
BY taking morphine.
A savage dog in Rome, Ca attack
ed a man, who defended himself with a
lantern that be was carrying, and the
lantern became fastened to the dogs
neck in such gay as to cause death by
burning.
Prolific. Brigham Young is the fa-
ther of sixty-tbree children, forty-fiye
Of whom are living. More than half
Ct them are females, and, with bat two
or three exceptions. all are blonds and
none besutiful. The youngest is a
g,rl, about six years old, daughter OF
Amelia VanCott, the fourteenth wife.
Wm. Waller, an old farmer of Soath
Strabane township, Washington county
hung himself Cd an apple tree in the or
chard.
Lancaster county fowls are dying by
hundreds, fron peculiar disease that
battles remedy.
1t is understood that United State,
Commissioner of Revenue Pratt has
rendered his Resignation, to take effect
Angus. /.
Between 5000 and 5000 people per
ished in this country last year victims
Of kerosene accidents.
While a gang of fifty convicts trans,
ferred from Sing Sing were on their
way to Auburn, on the l4th iDst., Thos.
Edgerly, aged fifteen years, from New
York, ieapcd through the Car window
while the train was running at the rate
of forty miles per hour, and Was In
stantly Killed. Among those who safely
arrived was Edward S. Stokes.
Hate Welch aud Aune Mshoney, aged
Is and II, were drowned while bathing
at Northbridge, Mass, on Wednesday
q week.
John Wolf and wife were burned to
death by the explosion of kerosene
oil lamp near Trenton, N. D., on Wed
nesday night week
The news comes frou New Hamp
shire that the hotels ct the mountain.
are, as usual, employing tor walters
g,rls belonging to some of the best
families of New Hampshire and Yer
mont, aid they make themselves USE
fnl not only IN the dining room, but
in the parlors, entertaining guests.
There is said to be benevolent gen
tleman IN Boston who gives tSenty- five
cents for religious purposes e.srJ time
he swears. He has already sworn a
new steeple on the Presbyterian church,
aud is now engaged "cussing up" a gift
to the Home Missionary Society.
| Crop reports from the West indicate
that the yield of wheat has been about
two thirds, that there is an average
crop of oats, that prospects are good
Tor an unusually fine corn crop (not iu-
cluding the shoemaker's manufacturer J.
aud that the hay crop is very heavy.
On the 10th inst. Mr.. Frank Hauser
and young employe, a florist named
Henry Heusman, were engaged In haul
ing in wheat at Hauser's farm, near
Reading. They had hitched up in the
four horse team young animal who
was rather wild and unbrozen. In
going for load the young horse be-
haved badly and set the others on a
run. Heusman ran ahead TO try to
check the team, and when in front be
tripped and fell, and one of the neal
wheels of the heavy wagon ran over bis
head. The thick, sharp iron tire tore
off the top of his head, and so COM
pleteiy scalped him that the hair and
skin hung down over his face.
Mr.. Samuel Fitzpatrick, a prominen;
business man of williamsport, was
found dead in sleeping car at Phila-
delphia, on the morning of the lltb
inst. The Gazette and Bulletin of the
above date says: Mr.. Fitzpatrick lef,
bis home last night to take the IL 81
A. NJ. train for Philadelphia. Prior to
icoNiug uOiuc uc Sdiu ID uis vile tudt ut
never before felt so troubled at going
away that it seemed to him as if he
would not return alive. She insisted
upon blm remaining at home, but be
said 10 was necessary that be should 60
bis business demandingIt. This moro
ing, when Mr.. William Butler, book.
keeper for Mr.. Fitzpatrick, went to the
house of the deceased, Mrs. Fitzpatrick
told him that be need not tell her whal
was the matter, for she had had dream
during the night which informed heI
that her husband was dead The de-
ceased was about thirty-four years o.
age.
A Shark recently captured at Ship Shoa
lighthouse, Louisiana, was over nine feet
: long, and in lis stomach was a watch, two
metal buttons and buckle.
1t is known that under the constitution OF
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