Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-04
News Items.

New York. His companion. Hunt, was re-
leased.
Jacob Huntsinger, ex-president of the
defnnct Miners Trust Company Bank, at
Pottsville, has been charged with embezz.e-
meut, and is now out on bail.
A Centennial young lady, being told that
the car on the elevated railway stradd.ed
the track, innocently inquired if it was
proper tor ladies TO ride in that way
Bull fights are all the rage in iTexa.
Blackbirds are frequently sold in
markets for reed birds.
The Witherspoon statue will be un-
yelled on the 10Th of October.
The creditors of Il. A. Pierce, a
Springfield bankrupt, get one cent on
dollar.
A man jumped off train near Sum
NIT, Miss, to get his hat and didn't
get it because he broke his neck.
Barre, VT, has four lawyers who do
not use profane language, tobacco or
strong drink in any form. And Barre
hasn't many lawyers, either.
A house has been built in Trego,
Kan, entirely of sawed blocks of chalk
"a mineral which abounds in that re-
gion in q very pure state.
Five young southern students at
Princeton College have gone home be-
cause young theological student whose
skin is black attended their lectures, sit
ting by himself in remote corner of the
room.
A Romantic young lady of Edinburg,
Scotland, l9 years of age, of fine ap-
pearance and superior accomplishments,
recently eloped with and married her
fathers coachman.
The Chicago "Young Mems Polite
Debating Society" has decided after
eight nights thoughtful discussion,
that it is allowable to speak of the
cotton crop IN the presence of ladies.
A ten-ycar old boy is said to be dy.
ing in New York in consequence Of
having his ear violently pulled by a
man named Brisbin. The brutal Of
fender is under arrest.
Mrs. Rice, heliertown, of Northamp-
ION county, is now one hundred and
two years of age. When at the age of
one hundred years she busked corn IN
the fields. She is now in good health,
sound condition, aud with prospects Of
a longer life. Her brother Simon is
ninety years of age.
On Friday week near Freehold,
Pa, Ira Root who runs threshing-
machine had quarrel with a farmer
named Roland Huntley, regarding the
Measurement of grain. Huntley drove
Root from the barn with pitchfork,
aud while following him was hit on the
head with stone thrown by Root, from
the effects of which he died Root was
arrested.
A farmer residing in North Middle
ton township, relates this incident :;
About 8 o'clock on the morning of the
18th ult., he started for the Carlisle
markets in a spring wagon On
his arrival at toe market he observed
two bantam hens quietly roosting on the
front axle of his wagon. The fowls had
occupied this part of the wagon during
the whole diStance--four miles-and
singular as it may seem, were not dis
turbed by the gathering noise and jolts
OF the wagon during the trip. That
farmer says FIVE dollars would not be
sufficient to purchase that pair of ban
tam chickens Volunteer.
All the business failures, the destruc-
ton of property by fire and food and
storm during the past sixty-6ve years,
since Schuykill county was formed,
have not brought as much ruin, distress,
grief, sleeplessuess, shedding OF tears,
starvation, want and misery on our
people as the failure of the Miners
Trust Company Bank of Pottsville,
through the gross mismanagement,
criminal misappropriation and corrupt
practices of its designing president,
Jacob Huntzinger Euenmg
Chronicle.
lu Forest county, Pa, on Thursday
a week, the mountain streams became
greatly swollen from the recent storm,
the waters flooding the partly settled
yslleys in the lumber regions, and DO
ing much carnage. Near Ralston, a
newly y-opened numbering hamlet, two
cabins, occupied BY George Parks and
Daniel Cooper, woodchoppers, were
-..lol Iur A., ,,ovptsip cida in
the stream below at an early hour IN
the morning, and before the families
we're aroused from their slumber. The
Park family consisted of seven persons
the father, mother and Eve children
There we're nine members of the Coop
er famIly-Cooper, his wife, their SIX
children, and Mrs Adams, the mother
of Mrs. Cooper. The sixteen persons
we're all drowned, ard their bodies we're
carried aud jammed between "boom''
of logs in Forest creek. The houses
were completely wrecked. The county
Is very spars.ly settled, but it is feared
that other lives we're lost during the
great storm. In Mexican county the
storm was Of long duration and severe
Two persons we're drowned near South
! port. In Tioga county three lives have
been lost, and 1t is automatically report
ed that four persons were drowned
while attempting to cross a swollen
stream at Well.port. Forest county,
the scene of the above disaster, is in the
northwestern part of The State, about
midway between the Alleghenies and
Lake Erie.