Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-30
News Items.

London has 1850 stseet lamps.
Hay is selling for s. per ton in the north
crn part of this State.
A ton OF honey fell on Californian aid
killed him.
Sixty thousand people paid to look at the
Centennial on Friday. Among the visitors
were President Grant, Senator Cameron,
Secretary Cameron and Governor Hurt
ranit.
@If you crook your finger al me, viii kill
you,'' said Farr to Graham, at kirSvillc, No.
Graham crooked his finger, and Farr Kept
his promise.
Those who drink blood say it tastes like
cream with tart taste.
Mrs. A. Liskey was suffocated yesterday
at Wyandotte, Mich. while end-avoring to
remove goods from burning building.
Congressman Speaker Kerr was buried at
New Albany, Indiana, on Friday, with Ma
sonic honors.
The various kinds of kissing are to be re-
presented in play called :. Kisses" to be
brought out in Brooklyn.
In a temperance parade at Portsmouth n.
H., the other day was wagonful of young
ladies', bearing banner with the strange
device 80 Teetotalcr, or No Husbind."
4 Middleport (Ohio) dispatch says
lin to rob the First National Bank at that
place by kidnapping the cashier was defeat
ed by one of the coDspirators revealing the
scheme TO the authorities, and Vim. Pom
dexter, Jos. Thomas and Thos. MCGUIRE
were arrested
500 ounces of gold dust arrived in Chcy-
enne on Friday from the Black Hills, and a
large piece of quartz bristling with free gold.
Miners are much encouraged.
Achmed Aga is the name cf the Turkish
monster who butchered nearly eight thou
sand innocent men, women and children
living in the town of Batok, in Bulgaria
The description given OF the scene by Eng
lish eye witnesses is simply appalling
A burglar entered the residence of d. ii.
Chandler, at Portland, Ne, on Thursday a
week, and after a struggle druggcd and
gagged daughter of Mrs. Chan iler, who
was alone in the house; but he was fright
ened away by the return Of the family be-
fore he was able to carry away anything.
Any healthy young man OF not over one
hundred and seventy-five pounds, and not
less than five feet three, can now be fur
nished with a uniform and free tickets 10
interview Sitting Bull.
Ra hazel PolhaiDus has been arrested at
Scranton, Pa, or a charge OF bigamy. He
had one wife at Paterson, n. and took
another at Port Jervis, MY.
A farmer named Whitesides was killed by
his son with an axe near Billinaiad, llaltOn
county, Ont, on unday night week. IL
is believed the murder was committed IN
order that young Whltesices might become
possessed of his fathers property
James H. Light and T. A. Robine, of CAL
houn, Mo-, got INTO a quarrel on Sunday u
week in that town over some business mat
tiers. RobIne struck Light several blows
with a wheel spoke, telling him 10 the
ground and injuring him seriously. While
on the ground Light drew pistol and put
two balls into Robine, INJECTING wounds
from which he died in few minutes.
drunken wretch named Benjamin Mitch
ell, living in the extreme southwestern part
of ST. LOUIS, fired a musket-load of bird
shot into his wiie's hip and thigh on Mon
uay a wei k, because she would not give him
money TO continue a spree he was on. The
brute lett his wife alter the shooting with
OF; medical or other attendance, and it was
not until Tuesday evening that her situation
was discovered, when she was found to be
in critical condition and may die. Mitch
ell has been arrested.
The third and most destructive crop of
caterI illars have made their appearance in
great numbers thrsughont the neghborhood
of Montgomery, Ala, and farmers are ap-
prehensive OF the almost total destruction
OF the cotton crop through the prairie belt
Efforts are beng extensively made TO stop
their ravagcs by the use of poison, but
many are discouraged and think all efforts
vain.
" Side aisle trash" is what they call
poor people in the fashionable churches.
Of $50 persons who died in New
York last week 339 we're under two
years of age.
Mrs. Sturgis, mother of Lieutenant
Sturgis, who was killed in the Custer
slaughter, has become insane from grief.
lie was her only sou.
MacKerel are so abundant near Block
Island that the water is said by fisher
men to look almost like dry land. They
are very large, too, 100 and l25 making
a barrel.
In a pamphlet circulated among
workingrneu in Germany, Cain is eulo-
ginized as the industrious laborer who, in
killing Abel, struck meriled blow at
laziness.
Two churches are included in property
shortly to be sold by the sheriff Of Cam
eron county.
A we'll known lumber merchant, of
Columbia, is under $1,000 bail on a
charge of obtaining 81 800 by false rep
reservations.
The Clarion Democrat says: "Mrs.
Allio, of Washington township, who is
between lOl and l02 years, raked forty
dozen of oats in one day this harvest.
She works out in the field every day and
enjoys it,"
When a dyer's wife, in Leith.
Scotland, recently entered the bed
room where three Of her children, aged
II. 4, and 9, we're sleeping she was
borri6ed to find their faces bleeding,
a ID the bed clothes bespattered' The
children had been attacked during the
night by rat, which they had vsinly
endeavored to catch on the previous
evening. 1t had bitten the cheeks of
the two little boys, aud more severely
the forehead Of girl, who lost large
quantity of blood.