Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-22

The women 10 New YORK city are
moving among employers 70 have them
pay their vorkmen Mondays instead Of
Saturdays, in order thus to Lessen Sat-
urdsy night and Sunday dfdufsunsss.
A aarning to slanderers: Miss Aliss,
young lady Of nineteen. was awarded
by a Jersey City jury $1,000 damages,
she having been falsely accused By
Charles Herberinau, banker of steal
ing money from the drawer.
The eight furnaces id the Allentown,
Pa, rolling mills are iu full operation.
employing lbs men.
There are sixty siz counties In the
State.
Hon. James Il. Grahsfa, who re-
moved to Pittsburgh to pfcctics his
profession, has returned to Carlisle.
A knife is being made at the Besset
Falls Cutlery for the Centennial. 1t
will be nine feet long, and upon it will
be pictures OF William Penn and Gov
ernor Har,ranft.
Penn township, Berts county, boasts
of woman blacksmith. She is helper
in blacksmith shop, and handles the
big hammer better than many black
smiths do.
One day last week at the farm of Mr..
Henry Yoder, Elk Lick, Somerset
county, one hundred and seventy five
barrels Of sugar water were collected.
A romantic young girl of Christian
county, Kentucky, clipped of her
brown curls, dressed in boys clothes,
and clandestinely started for the Black
Hills on foot. On the first night out
that Indiana tornado found her on a
mud road, and rolled her around for
about quarter of mile. She re-
( turned home.
Fort Sill, so suddenly grown famous,
was named in honor of General j. w.
Sill, a most brilliant and promising
young officer, who commanded brig
ade in Sheridan's division at the battle
of Stone River, and fell dead at the
head Of his troops December 81, 1862.
A tramp named Rily, in the Cum
berland county aims house, recently
made an attack upon the Steward Of
that institution. All able bodied
tramps in the poor house are required
BY the board Of directors to break stone
part of the time each day. A hammer
vas given Rily for that purpose, but the
pugnacious fellow proceeded to break
the head of the Steward. The cheek
bone aud upper jaw were broken and a
portion Of the teeth knocked out.
Frederick Weaver, hostler at a hotel
in Boyertown, Berks county, aged 35
years, had by industry accumulated
means enough to bay a farm worth
| $4,000 o: $4,000. On Saturday a
week be was to be married, but saved
himself that trouble by hanging him
self two days before the wedding was
to come of.
The latest phase of leap-year ecccntricity is
recorded from Portsmouth, N. H., where q
lady clad in deep mourning promenaded the
streets the other day with a ribbon in front
of her forehead, on which was embroidered
in white the word 'Alone."
At Hershey's mill, il Butler township,
Adams county, OF Monday Of week before
last. A girl twelve or fourteen years of age
daughter of Peter Hummer, Esq, stopped
into the mill to see her brother-in-law
young Mr.. Hershey, and whilst passing a
shaft was caught by it and whirled against
a post or beam, crushing her skull and
causing instant death.
Rockville bridge, five miles west of Har-
risburg, (the longest wooden structure on
the line of the Pennsylvania railroad), will
be entirely replaced with substantial iron
structure the coming summer.
The Christian rite of baptism was admin
istered in the Episcopal church of Phenix-
vile, on aturday a week and the water
used was from the river Jordan.
The Coatesville Union says: +" Miss
Dwyer, a young lady residing at Isaac
Kings, in Wallace township, while feeding
dog some time since, was bitten by him.
Very little attention was paid to the matter
at the time, but on Tuesday week the
young lady was thrown into spasms, and
had nine during the day. Very little hopes
are entertained of her recovery. The dog
was shot.
Lycoming, Pa, has resident seven feet
two inches high.
The surface Of the Connoquenessing. in
Butler county was covered with oil last
Saturday, which accumulated in the dam
of the old Butler mill until it was foot
thick. Fred. King and son of the miller
Mr.. Haller, dished up about twenty barrels
of il.
A little fellow not far from Allentown
being told by man to get OFF his knee, that
he was too heavy to hold in that way made
quite sensation among the persons pres
ent by yelling back, "Too heavy, hey .
Sister Sal weighs hundred pounds more
than |, and you held her on your knee for
four hours last night"
District Attorney John W. Johnson was
arrested at Lancaster yesterday on charge
of issuing forged and fraudulent naturaliza-
tion papers. The alleged offence was COM
mitted four years ago.
How does this suit you, from New YORK 2
On the 18th inst, glove fight between Miss
/ Sapdaro an1 u,so Doso u.-l~,I