Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-18
News Items.

made TO England, wheIe the fruit croI
this season i, poor.
Some rnH;ans stained the Soldiers
Monunient At Pitts6eld,' Mass, Will
rotten eggs, and the shaft had TO b,
chiselied down to eradicate the marks
Miss Martha Butler, of Bristol, Vir
ginis, had to drink half gallon of win,
and pint Of whisky because a spider
had bitten her.
\ rich lead mine has been discovered
in Sinking Valley, Blair county, and .
party of capitalists have leased it fol
| forty years.
A tramp stole young heifer frou
the farm Of Mr. Henderson, near Car.
Isle, few nights ago, and va,nly en-
deavored to sell it in Silver Spring
township. The animal was recovered
bnt the thief escaped.
Six thousand tons of stone were dis
placed by q single blast, recently, in the
stone quarry Of Mr.. Stricken, near
Humnelstown, Daupbin county. The
force used was nitro gIycerine, prepared
in saw dust.
Albert NJ. Bailey, q Providence K.
~ policeman who bad been off duty
for few days because of a swollen
throat, vas s,rangled to death in trying
to drink cup of coffee.
At Knoxville, Iowa, on Tuesday
night week, two naked men over
powered the treasurer Of that county,
aud forced him to open his safe, when
they secured $4,000 aud escaped.
Two children at Fitchburg, Mass,
a few days ago played at fishing, and
one of them put the hook in his mouth
while the would-be angler reeled in the
line. The hook struck deep INTO the
child's flesh, and three doctors were oc-
oupied for an hour in cutting 1t out.
W. II. Harrison was tried on Friday
q week, at Burlington, Kentucky, for
the assault upon Miss Moore, who re-
fnsed to marry him. He was adjudged
insane and sent to an asylum. Miss
Moore is improving slowly.
Fifty thousand elephants are killed
every year to furnish the ivory worked
up in England alone. The best ivory
comes from Zanzibar, the silver gray
from regions south of the equator, and
the favori;e ornamental material from
Siam.
The Jewish citizens of Miilerstowu,
Armstrong county, lately published a
s.card" of thanks to the School Board
of that place for rendering them the
use of school house as place of wor
ship.
William Tell, not the Swiss patriot,
lives in Newark, got drunk, and while
in that condition was told BY his wife
to deed her his property. He did so,
and she then turned him out of the
house, 10 order that she might live with
another man. Tell complained about
the matter to the authorities, and Mrs.
Tell was arrested and is now in Jail.
A Boston firm has contracted for a
large portion of the WOOL clip Of Wash
ington county, at 40 certs per pound.
A Paris lady recently entered shop
in Leipsic, and, being addressed in Ger
man, asked if they did not speak French.
"We can, madame," was the reply,
"but We do not, from patriotic motives ="
Saturday. September 30, was luck,
day for the fishing smacks of New Lon
don, Conn, which on that day struck a
shoal of mackerel a mile long and
quarter of q mile wide. The haul
amounted to $4,000.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that on
the 9th inst, q party Of twelve men
aud seven OK teams we're attacked by
band of twenty or thirty Indians, twen-
ty-6ve miles from Fort Fetterman.-
John Ottens, wagon master, was badly
wounded, and one horse was killed.
The fight lasted nearly four hours. The
number of Indians killed is unknown,
but two we're seen TO fall. Mr.. Powell,
a contractor, states that the Indians
showed great courage and were strong
ly armed with inchester and army
rifles. 0ttens will undoubtedly lose
bis right arm.
The Louisville Ecening Ne,cs has .
special from Mount Washington, KY,
saying that on Sunday evening q week
Sam Burkett, colored entered an .Afri-
can church while drunk. VIM. Barnes,
an elder, asked him to leave, when Bur-
kett answered, you and your church
can go to hell" Barnes asked for
repetition of the remark, aud upon re-
ceiving such. shot Burkett through the
heart. Barnes escaped.
A curious divorce case has inst been de-
cided in London. The petitioner begged
to be divorced from her husband on the
ground that she was insane at the time of
her marriage, being crdzed with grief at the
loss of previous husband.
In Methodist bclfry up in Vermont a
swarm OF bees have started a hive and de-
posted fifty pounds of honey. The minis
ter proposes next week to deliver a sermon
on the text. .sWhat is sweeter than hOneyl"
and at the close of the service will person.
ate Samson by carrying the sweet treasure
home with him.
The New York Herald's South Carolina
special, on the 18th inst, says Governor
Chamberlain has extraordinary information
TO the effect that on Monday night, ihe 18th
inst, about O'Clock, three hundred armed
men opened the county jail of Edgefield
and took from il three hundred and seventy
stand of State arms, which were stored
there. The acting deputy sheriff, jailor,
the United States sentinel, who was on post
not over two hundred yards distant, were
not aware of the presence Of the armed
band, nor the carry wing off of the arms. No
body. says the Governor, but those con-
cerned in the plot know anything about it,
and lie, of course, believes that white men
perpetrated this fresh outrage. These arms
were taken from the negro militia at time
of great disorder in EdgefeId county in
1874, upon condition that the rifle club
would disband, and have since been stored
there. They were principally breech-
leaders.
The reader has not forgotten of reading
of the murder of party of emigrants by
the Mormons some years ago. The crime
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