Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-27
News Items.

Over 1000 cattle have been shipped TO Eu-
rope within a week.
We send a hundred million pounds of
cheese year to England.
The Hebrew population of Jerusalem is
now double what it was ten years ago.
Twenty living and only three dead horses
have done better than 2.20. The three
ran in dead heats.
A Nan in San joaquin county, California
has cleared $4,000 this year from eight acres
OF blackberries.
On the 18th inst, the boiler of steam
thresher exploded near Canfield, Ohio, kill
ing Noah Cummings, Daniel Fox and Isaac
Roads, and severely injuring two Others.
Hepworth Dixon saws that Solomon's
Temple was a small editice
A Farmer in Chenango county, New
York, who lost his voice two years ago, re-
covered it the other day as suddenly as 1t
left him, ON his attempting TO yell at a stub
born mule which he was driving.
A strange and fatal disease has broken cut
among the cattle in Wayne county, this
State, cansing much alarm. The cattle are
infested by singular tick, which borcs
deep into the flesh OF the creature. lnham-
nation sets in and death follows in a few
hours. Some thirty head have died at
Hawlew's.
Four of the Northfeld bank robbers were
captured in a clump OF bushes about five
miles from Modelia, Watertown county,
Minnesota, last week, after a stubborn fight,
in which one of their number was killed
and the other three were wounded.
Reinhart Gersback, ex-County Commits
siener of Luzerne county, last Thursday
pleaded guilty TO five distinct charges of
extortiOn against him, on which he was ar
rested last July and held in $4,000 bail.
Sentence as follows was pronounced on him:
That he pay fine of $3.50 TO the Common
wealth for the first four ofienses, and under
go an Imprisonment of one year on the last
charge.
4 roguish young milk wagon driver in
Louisville lately hit upon the idea of put
ting vinegar into the buckets, cups, &c,
which he found in the dOOrways of those
who patronized the other milk men. Great
were the complaints and one company was
losing customers by the Wholesale. An
examination disclosed the trick The in
gen'ous young milkmin has been arrested.
The case of Duffy, another of the Mollie
Mcguire conspirators, who is accused Of
being accessory before the fact of the mur-
der of policeman Yost at Tamaqua, was
given 10 the jury on Tuesday, the 18th inst, /,
and the next morning a vercict OF guilty of
murder in the first degree was returned.
This is the ninth conviction for murder of
members of this organization, five being
already under sentence of death III Schuyl-
kill county and three in Carbon county.
A st. Thomas, Ont, dispatch says that
at one O'Clock on the morning of the Goth
inst. two miles east of Brownsville, on the
Canada Southern Railroad, just in time
TO catch the New York express train
bound east, train wreckers uncoupled the
fish plates, parted and chained the rails
apart, aud threw the whole train off except
the hind sleeper. Engineer Hunt was Sc
vcrely scalded. None of the passengers
were seriously hurt. One of the villains
was captured.
Edwin Lindsay, age l3, while on his way
ON Sunday, Aug. 8, to chapel in Terring-
ton, St. Clement, England, was seized
by three men, who pulled off the boys
shoes, and taking the lacers there
from tied his legs with them, strapped the
boys hands behind his back, carried him a
short distance to wasps' nest, which they
had Just dug up, and, having thrown him
into, it they deprted. The boy was horri-
billy stung on his face, neck, arms. knees,
and thighs. His screams of agony were
heard a long distance, aud at last even
moved the hearts of his prosecutors, who
returned and released him. The ruffiaus
were arrested and have recently been tried.
They were each fined s. and the costs s.. ~.