Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-13
News Items.

The Democracy OF Massachusetts, have
nominated Charles Francis Adams for Gov
eruor.
Potatoes are going up in price. Sons of
Erin, remember, when you go to vote, that
the Republican party has formed an allianc e
with the potato bug and the heather Chinee
TO put up the price.
The Grand Army of tie Republic have
taken in hand the project of sending the
soldiers orphans, at present at school, TO
the Centennial Exhibition.
They arrest and fine people in Freehold, n
J., for swearing, Fifty cents a ..cuss' is
the price.
Thursday, in the town Of Wilmington,
two girls, Rosie Green, aged fourteen
years, and companion, Miss Shurtliff, II
years old, took strychine with a suicidal
purpose. Miss Green died in four hours.
Just before death she stated as her motive
that no one cared tor her that her dead
mother was calling her, and she was tired
OF lie. Miss Shuriii is alive, but still in
danger Two young men We're present
when the fatal dose was taken, and were
urged 10 partake OF il, although they
thought the whole thing was joke.
The Republican party has pald off
nearly fifty millions of war debt every
year since tue war.
1t should never be forgotten-it is
not forgotten by tax payers-that the
entire national debt is the direct result
of theDemocratic rebellion
California Grangers have decided to
break up the SO called grain ring, by
selling no wheat at San Francisco for
less than 81 90 per central, and have
made arrangements for shipping grain
on their own account.
The Supreme Court has decided that
usuriOus interest charged by national
bank does vitlate the contract, as has
been held by the courts of this State.
Such an overcharge simply works for
feiture of ali interest agreed to be paid
They are harvesting the hop crop iu
England this year nearly two weeks
earlier than usual. The total crop III
Europe is hardly more than half it was
in 1875 and to the increased price is
added a tax Of FIVE instead of two pounds
per pocket.
A large number of collieries have
been stopped, and thousands of men
are being throw out of employment
IN the coal regions.
Last Thursday company of militia
were ordered out to break up prize
fight that was about to take place near
Walton, Ky, about Is miles from Gin
cinnati, Ohio. The fighters left in a
hurry
The peach districts of Delaware are
overrun by tramps, few of whom pick
peaches during the day and at night sit
about fires built in the fields, and gam
bic their earnings away.
1t gravels young minister fearfully,
who has spent every cent he could earn,
beg and borrow for four years to acquire
good theological education, and has
settled over a Western church with a
salary of $500 year, if he can collect
it, and three donation parties in spite OF
him, to read that Skyfier, the pitcher
Of the Brooklyn nine, has consented, in
view of the hard times, to a reduction
of his salary to S4,500 this season.
A train ran over a child on the Old
Colony Railroad. aud the engineer went
back, expecting to pick up mangled re-
mains. lie found the little one under
the third passenger car, unhurt.
If you wish to get sheep cheap, go to
Oregon, for there the meek creatures
are sold at a dollar head.
Baby swimming ln New York appears
to be quite fashionable In swimming
school there for feminines, in which a
Miss Bennett is the teacher, she had a
match, few days since, between two
infants, aged about four years each and
they appear ofabout equal skill. They
plunge into the water over their depth
with :earlessness, and none OF the scream
and scare Of the grown up bellies
Democracy is at low ebb in Iowa
In the State Convention the other day
only fifty-tbree out of the one hundred
counties of the State were represented
and the whole body numbered only sew
enty men. Evidently tie people of Iowa
think they can get reform enough with
Governor Hayes.
The acreage of wheat IN Kansas i:
twenty per cent larger than last year
Ohio has sent over $4,000 visitors tc
the Centennial.
The most popular " opening" thil
month is that Of tt" oyster.