Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-09
News Items.

Forty butchers supply Carlisle with meat.
Republican Mayor was elected at Forts
mouth, n. H.. August first.
"A drunken C:hcinnatian in trying to shoot
his sweetheart, hit two persons passing the
house, killing one of them.
A baiky horse stopped a train Of cars in
CharIisle on Saturday afternoon q week
As the horse WAS being driven over the
track, he stopped and would not move,
when the eastern bound train had to be
stopped to prevent collision. The horse
was finally taken off the track.
Mrs. Alexander, while passing to her home
in Johustown nom PhiIadelphia, recently
gave birth to daughter after the train had
left Altoona.
Ii is said that the Turks are carving
about cart loads of women's and girls head 5
in the district of Bazardjik in order to ter
rify the inhabitants.
A mackerel 4, feet long and weighing 35
pounds, caught in the Chesapeake Bay, is
shown in a Baltimore restaurant.
Pickles, said to be superior to cucumbers,
are put up in Florida from the pith of pa
lettmo roots.
The ChIlian Supreme Court has sentenced
post-offce clerk tor robberies on the mon
ey-order department 10 consecutive terms
OF imprisonment asochtiDg TO l24 years.
The Chinese army numbers POO, 600
men.
s'There! that explains where my clothes
line went to-" exclaimed an Ohio woman, as
she found her husband hanging in TIE sta
Bile.
Mexico IL lazy country. but the sight of
drove Of Texas cattle will fill a Mexican
with the enterprise Of frLit-tree peddler.
Sixty-oue families of Mennouites, nun
bering three hundred persons, arrived at
Castle Garden, New York, on Thursday.
They lett Tor Kansas on Friday.
A Clergyman went to livery stable on a
hot day recently TO get team. While
waiting for it to he harness he pulled OF his
coat and sat down in a convenient chair.
A doctor came for his horse. and seeing the
parson in his shirt sleeves, remarked face
tiously, s.fou are the man want. should
, like 10 get you to help me about NY hayiHg,"
The parson said, with twinkle in his eye (.
81 can't pitch, and | can't NOW ; but per-
hass | can rake alter you-l am Just going
to attend funeral Hartford Couranf.
We know gentleman who, in the COURSE
of his business the ether day received So in
silver, which 50 elated HIM that lac put the
coin in bag which he hung at the head of
his bed, and reused up every hour in the
night to jingle the money 10 remind him of
former days.-West Chester Republican.
At the the closing oi 4 concert. while n
young gentleman was struggling with his
hat, cane overcoat, opera glass, and his
young Iady's ian, all OF which he WIS try
ing to retain on his lap, a suspicious-fook-
ing black bottle tell on the floor with thud.
.sihere," he exclaimed 70 his companion,
81 shall lose my cough medicine" That
was presence OF mind Tor you.
The lIgh:aing struck the horn of a COW at
South Buriins sfon, Vermont, the other day.
shivering it tu the roots, but otherwise ieav-
ing the COW unhurt.
Belknap's trial cost the government $780,
00U.
A Clinton county boy, Arthur Dornbiaser
by name. years old, weighs Us pounds.
Two children of John N. Smith set fire
to 4 barn accidentally, AZ ST. Johnsbury.
VT, and one OF them was burned TO death.
The flames spread, destroying sevtal buiid-
ings. Loss, 5000; insurance, 81, 200.
Congress is awakening to sense of
the Importance of increasing the mill
tary force on the frontier.
Five hundred dollars worth of post
age stamps we're stolen from the post
office at Newcastle, Me last week.
Moses Milton, a we'll known farmer
Of Berks county, committed suicide
on Monday week, by banging himself.
The Centennial Exhibition cattle aud
horse stalls will accommodate 800 head
of cattle aud 400 horses.
Some one suggests ttat ladies take
off their hats in church. Fiddlesticks !,
What are ornamental ba.s for, if not
for wear in churches aud other places
of assemtlage.
Two millions Sc ven hundred thousand
people have visited the Centennial Ex-
position. The crowds are yet to visit it.
Philadelphia has 10000 more houses
than New York.
Everything that relates to Presiden-
tial candidates is interesting now, there
fore it is interesting to tell that Mrs.
Todd, of Huntsville, Ala, is said to be
the lady whom Governor Tiiden has
selected for a wife.
" orBnen at the Erie railway repair
shops have been discharged. The work
force Of the read is also reduced from
1900 to 800 men.
/ A gentleman In Danbury, Conn.,, has
long been annoyed by his neighbor's S
hens. which made a daily practice of
rowing through his front garden and
back yard. And what did this worthy
gentleman. do, He just went patiently
aud put some old hats and hay under
his steps and in the barn, and when
those hens came on their marsudiog ex-
peditiGns those that came 20 scratch re-
manned to lay. He has had all the fresh
eggs he wanted this spring, and has sold
| 81 60 war,h to the man that owns the
hens