Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-29
News Items.

bibited the sale of rum.
A fox which got into a cider mill 81
HolIiston, N. IT,, drank itself dead
drunk and fell an easy victim.
Leading London hotels give Ameri'
can oysters, apples and cheese as lux
uries.
The shop girls of Boston number
nearly oue.tenth of the population ol
the city.
Exports of fresh beef to England
continue large, but operators represent
that there are no profits
Gideon Dean of Rockdale township
Crawford county, has but one arm, and
yet this year with the assistance OF a
small boy he cleared two acres OF ground
and put i in with wheat.
The Changers organization number
million Of members IN the United
States.
a hearse passed through the streets
of Dsnville, Va, followed by acarrisge,
in which were two or three colored Peo-
pie and behind this walked thirty OF
iurty white gentlemen. The deceased
was the son of prominent coiored
Democrat The youth bad died and
his fathers colored neighbors had alb
sented themselves from the premises.
The white citizens of the place laid the
remains out, purchased coffin for them,
hired the bearse and carriage, and fol-
lowed them 10 the grave A colored
preacher was present there, but stood
Of TO one side. aud would have moth
ing to do with the burial. 4 white
minister said the service and the white
people committed the remains to the
earth
In Billaucourt, Belgium, is cherry
tree upon which has been grated an
apple. The fruit precisely resembles
cherries, the same size, the same form,
aud nearly the same color; but its
taste is that of an apple, and 1t con
tains seeds instead of stones.
1t is estimated that there are from
$1,000, ,OUO TO So, ,0UO, 900 locked up in
the pool boxes of those who hold stakes
on the election.
DIR. s. ID. James has grown black tea
at his place five miles from Thomas
vile, ia, which compares favorably
with the best imported from China.
Paris will soon be provided with
street clocks run BY electricity.
While Mary SuiIh was laying out q
corpse in Liverpool she fell dead on the
top of it.
Indiana county boasts Of beets weigh
ing niue pounds.
IT'S said that Thomas Paine, the
patriot and iu6del, wrote extensively in
little old building half mile south
west Of York, Pa.
A Fremont, Ohio, voter deposited an
order for barrel Of -four in the ballot
box and carried a Democratic ticket
over to the grocery store.
Forty three cents a pound is now
being offered at Washington, Pa, for
wool, which the buyers would have been
slow to take at thirty last June. A
gentleman who purchased a large
quantity at thirty cents just after this
years clip came INTO market cold out
last week at an advance that i'll yield
him clear profit Of about forty thou
sand dollars.
The KutztowD, Berks county, Ma
tional Bank has suspended The cashier
Of the institution committed suicide.
Crasford county has 6S factories pro-
ducing 6,Sl0,000 pounds of cheese !;
Erie county, % factories. and $780,
600 pounds Mercer and Venago coun-
ties, III factories and 647,700 pounds.
Nine-tenths of these factories manufas-
ture strictly full milk cheese.
The boom at Williamsport is still
open, there being about million feet
of logs still to come.
Wild ducks have appeared in large
numbers along the Susquehanns-
The jelly factory in Hayfeld has sue
ceeded beyond the expectations of its
projectors. 1, is run night and day
ami is behind with orders.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
circulated congratulatory address to
the employees Of the road for their faith
ful attention to duties during the Cen
.ennial
The Younger brothers, better known
as the Northiield B,uk robbers, have
al pleaded guilty to the murder Of
Haywood, the cashier, aud have all been
sentenced to iBI risonment for life.
Moody and Sankey continue to draw
large ahd earnes, audiences in Chicago
and will remain there till New Years.
They will then 90 to Boston for three
months, and afterwards proceed to the
South.
Professor John G. Miller of William
sport, will start for San Antonio, Texas
next spring with a colony of sixty fam
lilies from Lycoming and adjoining cOun-
ties.
Indian scalps, with right ear at
tached, sre worth $50 piece at Dead
wood City.
A man in Susquehanna county, 20
years of age, has been sent to the peni-
tentiary for three years for burning
down his sons barn.
An Engiishmau, several members of
whose family had been sick with ty-
phoid fever, had room repapered, and
found that there we're no less than TWEEN
ty-fve wall papers already on the wall.
The presence of this mass of decom-
posing paste and paper sufficiently &C
counted for the disagreeable smell that
was always noticeable, although drains
and water closets were we'll tarped.
A box car, containing household fur
n'ture, shipped from Montrose, Iowa,
was opened on its arrival at Fremont,
Neb., the other day, and found to con-
tain, besides the goods, q woman and
two small children who had taken pas
sage in the car to avoid the payment Of