Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-02
News Items.


ported from New York city.
The newspapers Of Baltirnore are afteI
the bad policemen OF that place.
They hsd-a frost or two In York State
last week.
A London tailor died recently and left q
fortune of S600,00O.
On Tuesday of last week cloud bursted
on the Diamond Range of hills in Califor.
MIA, thirteen miles east of Eureka, which
resulted in the death OF thirteen Chinese
woodchoppers, and probably a large num-
ber of Italians, camped in the canon, get.
ting out timber. The Italians were camped
a short distance above, and, as no trace OF
them can be found, it is feared that all per
ishcd. ssss 90 a7srfrk
Bob Lincoln denies that he supports Til
den for President.
Ladies will hereafter take off their hats In
the California theatres.
The Venango county Prohibitionists have
nominated county and Congressional
ticket.
Only eight deaths from cricketing acci-
dents have occurred in England during the
past 100 years. Base ball beats cricket all
to pieces.
Two young daughters of Mr.. P,ichard,
near LogansPort, Ind, were burned to death
on Sunday night by the explosion Of an oil
can from which they were pouring kero-
sene upon the kitchen fire.
Morris Meyer. a merchant from Selma,
Alabama, was robbed in a New York horse
car, on Wednesday, of $500.
On Thursday, the Goth ult, a negro al
Red Hill, Edgcfield county, S. C, commit
ted an outrage on little white girl D years
of age, the daughter of Louis Prescott. On
the evening of the 25th a party of men
took the negro into the woods and hung
him.
On Wednesday night week a colored
constable of Hamburg, S. c., attempted to
arrest two negroes charged with stealing
| He succeeded in catching one when the
other fired at HIM but the ball struck the
prisoner and killed him instantly. The mur-
derer escaped.
-Four inches of snow fell on Mount Wash
ington on the 26th ult., just after sunrise.
The residence of j. Mccoy, near Water
ford, n. Y, was entered by eight masked
burglars on Tuesday night week Two gold
watches, one hundred dollars in money,
and valuble jewelry were stolen. The inmates
were forced to swear they would not divulge
the robbery until O'Clock the next morn
ing.
Tine hot weather has brought on the straw
berries in Maine, where they now sell for six
cents quart.
About 200 clerks in the departments al
Washington are to be dismissed.
| Col. Wilson, a retired merchant of Lynn,
Mass, who has been for some time laboring
under paralytic stroke, was cured by an at.
tack of mad dog, which bounded up stairs
| In fh. y.sli ~ Ouiel- uUht
Col. Wilson siezed a crutch and dealt the
dog blow which killed the animal. The
gentleman since the moment or excitement
has regained the use OF his limbs.
Nj Moody's church in Chicago Cost SCI >
600, and is all paid for.
! A gentlemen who has tried ostrich farm
ing at Cape Good Hope has bought rancho
in Almeda county, California, and is intend.
ing TO stock it as an ostrich farm. The in.
dustry has proved profitable in South AT
rica, and we mar perhaps expect before
long to grow our own os:riches. The in
dustry is novel and shows the infinite varl-
ETY. of employments profitable here.
A train on the Central Pacific Railroad
ran over and killed man near Truckee,
who was found to have been lashed TO the
tack, on Saturday.
| ". uCOIpC a
notorious Eastern cracksman, charged with
burglarizing the First National Bank Of
Wellsboro, Tioga county, and similar dep
relations in Philadelphia, was arrested at the
Monongahela House, Pirtsburg, On the even
ing of the oath ult., and held to await the
action of the Eastern authorities.
The farmers of Morris county, New Jer-
sey, esaimate the damage done in that Sec
| I. 60
The potato crop is almost failure, and un-
less rain speedily falls it Will be too late to
save the corn.
Two girls were carrying pail Of milk in
Caryille, Virginia, last week, when stroke
of lightning killed one and stunned the
other.
A mother of four children in New Or
leans has been convicted of regularly send
ing them out to steal. By practice they be-
came very expert; and the profits of their
thieving enabled the woman to buy house
and live comfortably. She devoted herself
to the sale OF the stolen articles and the gen.
eral direction of the children.
Adam Mogg, of Pittsburg, had brother
killed in the Custer ms ssacre, and was so
grieyed by the misfortune that he poisoned
himself. He was fifty-sne years old and
lCdfOs W lC dlu tuTtt
An English baronet, Sir Simeon Henry
Straut, wrote a letter to his daughter and
another 10 Miss Blanford, and by mistak e
misdirected the envelopes. Consequently
the daughter receive and handed TO her
mother missIve containing such passages
as this :: s'My own Darling was so pleased
to see you last night. How good Of you
to come over! L do love having you here,
Aaar \ Il,
to be able to say to myself, shall see my
darling TO day. What shall do when you
are gone, dearl II is so wcaryiDg then 10
know that L shall not see you for days !;
but it will not be for tong, will itf You viii
come TO me again, and soon.' Sir Simeon,
upon discovering his biunder, teIegraphed
TO his daughter to burn the letter, but he
was too late, and it is now being used in a
divorce suit.
The grasshopper is devastating the
crops and grass Of large portion of
MINI resota.
Turkey has again changed her Sultan
or King. Spoiled Turkey.
The embezz.ements of bank cashier
in New Jersey, last week, footed up
some $4,000.
On Thursday, the 4th inst, while
Mr.. Samuel Killlan, of this place, was
hauling load of bark off the North
mountain, and was descending what is
known as the sold Ickes Road" which
at the point of the accident is as steep
as an ordinary house-roof, the rubbers
of the wagon broke, and lively scene
followed. As it was impossible tor
the horses to hold the wagon, which
contained over two cords of bark, they
started to run, Mr.. KilIian and sew
eral others who accompanied the wa
gon, promptly getting out Of way.
After going short distance the wagon
ran to the side of the road, the bank
gave way, throwing the whole team down
the almost perpendicular enbankment
at least seventy five feet. The wagon
and horses rolled completely around
four times, crushing trees and every
thing else in the way and landing at