Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-26
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noSosy, Vus uuuufeu su0 twenty sutee
thousand dollars were rsised 10 con.
hnue the revival work.
The President has vetoed the bill
providing for the reduction Of the Pres.
idential salary.
A Labor Convention was held in
Fittsburg last week. The resolutions
adopted favor the lending Of money By
government, the repeal of the national
bank system of legal tender greenback
currency receivable for debts, the re.
peal of the specie resumption act, and
protective tariff. The Convention
adjourned to meet in Philadelphia on
July 4th.
Last week the Judge Of Cunber-
land county, sentenced Maurice Her
man, the tramp who fred the barn
Of John Z. Rupp last February, to nine
years in the penitentiary and Henry
Schlep, who was found guilty of the
attempt to burn Hauck's foundry and
machine shop, received ten years.
A Lancaster county Grand Jury
found true bill against }. P. john
son, charged with the forgery Of natur-
alisation papers in 1872.
Governor Hartranft on The Goth is
sued the warrsn. for the execution on
Thursday. the 9Th day Of June next, Of
Edwin Kelly, convicted in Carbon
county on the 9th day of April, 1876,
for the murder of John 2. Jones, and
sentenced April Eth, 1876, to be
hanged.
James D. Williams was nominated
for Governor Of Indiana by the Demo
Texas seems to grow the right kind
of wood for paving. An Austin paper
says of it !: The bois dare is . native
of Texas and the most durable wood in
the world. whether il is used under
giourd, on top Of ground or under
water. No one has ever seen o rotten
piece of bois dare. Stakes and old
landmarks have been seen, which, on
being pulled Up, we've found to be just
as fresh as when first driven down.
There is no kind of doubt but that it is
superior, in point of durability, to any
old timber. For wagons and buggies
it is superior to any other carriage tim
Der known. 1t neither shYinks nor
swells from exposure to h.at, wet and
cold"
The fnll name of Emperor Dom
Pedro IL, Of Brazil, now in the United
States, is Pedro Joao Carlos Leopoldo
SasTadore Bibisno Xavier de Paula
Leocadio Miguel Gabriel Rapdiel Con-
zaga.
Thomas P. Somerville, q New York
lawyer, has been held in S. 900 bail to
stand his trial, pursuant to instructions
from Washington, where an indictmen:
had been found against him, charging
him with being concerned in the safe
burglary"
The new addit.s--- to the Bedford
county courthouse will cost 81, 900.
The favorite candidate for the Presi-
dency of the West Point Va Star, a
Democratic jonrnal, is jeff Davis, the
only fault it finds with him is that be is
scarcely available just now.
Quite q serious riot occurred At Lea
venworth, Kansas, on Monday a week,
between a body of striking miners and
some negroes waom the owners of the
mine intended to set to work. Pistols,
knives, rocks, brickbacks, clubs, &C.,
we're used, and some heads and bones
were broken, but no fatal casualties
are reported.
A bill has passed the Senate at Har-
risburg to legalize the attachment Of
wages for Indebtedness for boarding not
exceeding the amount of four weeks.
The Governor of Iowa has appointed
a woman to act as chaplain of the An
amosa PenItentiary.
There are now 73 900 churches in the
United States, about one to every 500
inhabitants.
Mrs. Bump resides in Bloom town
ship. Clear6eld county, Pa, and she
has potato which has been carried as
a guard against rheumatism by her
grandfather, father, and herself since
1892. This once esculent root is now
not larger than q Lima bean and as
hard as . stone.
A despatch from Leavenworth, Kan
sas, under date of the 22nd inst, says
Advices have been received here that
sometime last Thursday night family
OF emigrants, named Baker, from some
where in Pennsylvania, were massacred
by Indians, about one hundred miles
northwest Of Custer City. The family
consisted of man, bis wife and two
children, all of whom we're Drained with
hatchets or tomabawks and then scalped.
The wagon belonging to Baker was
riAed and everything valuable carried
of. The bodies of tie victims were
decently buried when found.
Charles Cook, q young farmer resi-