Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-08
News Items,

DiPhtheria prevails in Allentown.
Winter travel has set in for Florida.
Nine hundred and sixty women in the
United States live by telling fortunes
A New Jersey court has sentenced a
number OF prize fighters for man
slaughter, to ten years Imprisonment
and 5 900 fine.
Chickens are nine cents q pound in
Lebanon.
The Presbyte:ians Of Bellefonte have
elected Rev. Mr.. Laurie, of Watkins,
n. Y, pastor of their church at sal
ary of 81 900 per year, in place of Mr.
Wyhe, who resigned some months since.
Twenty tons of coal are stolen daily
from the trains at Pheaixville.
Eighteen attempts have been made
to burn the town of Catasauqua, LehIgh
county, in the past two years.
Spurgeon wears blue overcoat, anc
"a cigar burns merrily in his mouth"
The arrests of the Philadelphia police
last month numbered nearly 4,300, of
of which over 400 were iu the Centen.
NAL division.
The wool hat trade in Reading Is
looking up. A factory that has been
idle for years has just resumed work,
and several other manufactures are
busy.
The Sandy Run railroad. from Hope
we'll to Bedford, is to be built imme-
diately.
Harrisburg is reported to have l, 400
Odd Fellows.
A young lady of Pittston will soon
apply for admission to the bar.
An apple tree IN Lehigh county is
81 feet in circumference aud 100 years
old.
A costly and beautiful monument is
to be erected over the tomb Of the late
John L Alexander, the "Catile King"
of Illinois, to be constructed by Volk,
of Chicago. Such is fame these days
"White Leon," a chief of the Miami
tribe of Indians, died lately near Fort
Wayne, Ind, at the great age Of lG7.
He recollected Tecumseh, and events
that happened nipetY- five years ago.
He was straight as an arrow, with white
hair, red complexion, and small, pierre
ing eyes.
A murderer was hung in Bombay,
and just before the drop fell he whis-
pered to the executioner "In one min
ute what lot | shall know,"
Mrs. Esther Alsdurf died in Craw-
ford county, on the 29th uItimo, aged
80 years, She was the oldest person
in that county.
The people of Oxford, Chester coun-
ty are preparing for tournament.
The Western Penitent;ary contains
672 prisoners, the largest number ever
confined in that institution.
DIR. K. III Storrs is one of the few
clergymen who refuse "louder calls"
He was invited to Fifth Avenue Brick
Church on the top of Murrah Hill at
salary of $4,000 aud millionaire Of
tered to purchase house which read
lily sold for sos 300 before the panic,
and to furnish 1t handsomely from top
to bottom for his use while be remain
ed pastor of the church. And yet be
would not accept
The corner stone of Solomon's Tenn
pie which has been discovered, lies
ninety feet below the present surface
of the ground. In a niche of it is
found Phenician jar of clay.
The faithful dogs Of Cass county, 1u-
diana, have slaughtered ove- $1,000
worth of mutton for farmers during the
year.
John Chinamar has 100 represen-
ratives IN New England colleges. John
is the Yankee of Asia, as the Yankee
is the American Ah Sin.
Detroit freezes 100000 fish in
season for more southern markets.
An English amateur bulliehter re-
Gently killed two bulls at Barcelona,
Spain, il the presence of l6, 900 specta-
! tors.
James Lick was eccentrically quar-
relsome and had an eccentric way of
hurting huge and hot adjectives at his
serva ITS and of dismlsslng them with
out ceremony. He sometimes dis
charged dozen In a week and dis
missed his favorite nurse every little
while, but always rs-engaged her again.
At Toulouse, France, curious law
suit is going on. All oyster opener,
while opening a few bivalves for a pur-
chaser, found in one of them a valua-
BILE pearl. This he at once pocxeted
but the buyer of the oysters insisted
that it was his. He claimed that be
bought shells, Juice, oysters, and every
thing, while the oyster-opener alleged
that he had only 5oug gLt the oyster.
The question cf ownership of the pearl
is yet undecided.
A pine tree was cut last week upon
the property of Mr.. Horn, in Clearield
county, which measured thirty y-six inches
at the but and from which six sixteen
feet saw-l logs were cut. The last log
measured fifteen inches at the top end.
The Harrisburg Telegraph of the I'd
list, says: This morning VIM. q. Um-
berger, aged about nineteen years, son
of Calvin Umberger, who resided with
his parents on Calder street, near Wal
lace, employed as brakeman on the
24th extra freight west on the Penusyl-
vania railroad, was thrown off the cars
while shifting at Bells Mills, east of
Altoona, and killed. HIS remains were
brought to this city on the Day Ex-
press east this afternoon.
The Buffalo Express of Saturday
says: "a singular case of Poisoning
came to light yesterday, the victims
being the family of John G. Klein,
Deputy PoOrmaster. He lives on
Michigan street, and on the night pre-
vious bought quantity Of 'liver sau-
sage at a butcher-shop in the vicin-
ity. 1t was cooked for supper and the
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