Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-16
News Items.

hog cholera RACES throughodt the
blue grass region in Kentucky:
Last week Ere along Broadway,
New York city, destroyed 81, 100000
worth Of property. Two brave 6remen
lost their lives in it six or seven orhers
were seriously injured BY the falling of
q wall on which they stood.
The Moody and Sankey meetings are
we'll attended in New York.
A Congregational congregation in
Cincinnati refuses to join 10 the con-
sideration of the Beecher question in
Plymouth Church.
The London World describes new
device for burying the dead, as follows
'The body is placed in = glass boz, to
the top of which is affixed . metal rod.
As soon as the earth Is filled 10, bat
terry is connected with the rod, and an
electric shock skaters the coffin into
thousand pieces, thus allowing the earth
to press upon the dear departed, and
allowing him to return to dust 10 q
speedier way.
In the town of Roxborough, near the
line that separates the county of Phil
adelphia and Montgomery county, about
one o'clock on the morning of the 9th
inst, four burglars attempted to enter
q private residence BY the back entrance.
A policeman heard them enter the yard,
and demanded to know their business.
They answered by firing on him. He
stepped behind cherry tree and re-
turned the fire until his revolver was
exhausted of its charges, with good re-
suit, having wounded two of the thieves
The policeman then hurried Of for
more ammunition and relnforcemepts.
Meanwhile the burglars took up the one
that was SO badly wounded in the hip
that he could not walk, and also left
The policeman reinforced returned,
took up the bloody trail the thieves
left, and pursued them so closely that
they were compelled to submit to cap
ture or drop their companion thief,
which they did. The police got him.
The others escaped
Samuel Clark. of Mercer county, had
painful adventure recently. He
dreamed eight men we're in his room,
four of whom he elected. The remain
der were too much for him, and be &C
tually sprang out of the window head
foremost and ran to the house Of
neigLbor, TO whom he related his thrill
ling experience. The two went back
to Clark's residence and found no in-
truders and his wife sound asleep. In
the fall Clark was badly cut in the head
ard had six inch gash in the thigh.
A short time siaee Daniel Knoble, of
Shamokin township, Northumberland
county, lost three head Of cattle. They
licked the paint of . newly-painted
wagon one evening and died the next
day.
A mad dog passed through George
town, about sixteen miles below Sum
bury, on the 10Th inst, and bit every
thing of life it met One of the resi-.
dents of the town, whose name we did
not learn, was bitten in the arm, and .
colt three years old, . COW and dog be-
longing to the man were also bitten By
the savage brute. Last Wednesday,
the ninth day after the visit of the
rabid animal the colt showed signs of
hydrophobia, and for three succeeding
days, until Friday, when be died, r.ved
most piteously. He tore bis flesh and
bit himself and everything be could
reach. The people for uiles around
came to see the poor animal and the
sight he presented was pitiful in the
extreme. Death stopped his suffering
on Friday last and grave apprehensions
have since been entertained about the
man. DR.. Kershner has expressed the
opinion that unless something is done
to counteraet it, tie terrible disease will
make the bitten man victim as well as
his COW and dog. The doctor wanted
to cauterize the wound, but the man
had no faith in the treatment and says
he will take the chances. His case will
be anxiously watched by his neighbors
ana friends Sunbury Democrat, Jan 81.
Notwithstanding Governmental and
other drawbacks, miners and others
have obtained a Judgement In "The
Black Hills" as may learned from
dispatch as follows from Omaha, under
date of the 7th inst: A letter from
Custer City, in the Black Hills, Of JAM
uary 25th says over forty houses are
now up and sixty in process of erection.
Water was found twenty feet from the
surface A steam sawmill has been in
operation eight days. Flour is twelve
dollars per hundred pounds and shoul-
der bacou thirty cents per poun H.
New parties arrived here this winter,
and made new laws. Old pioneers find
mining claims jumped. Miners from
the North, this side of the Big Horn,