Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-19
News Items.
weed is said to be in Canada.

Striped gloves are coming in vogue.
Lord Derby says that people must
not seek learning and expect that it
will bring money.
1t has been suggested to the Harris
burg Telegraph to state that dogs should
have water furnished them in frozen
weather, and thus prevent that much
dreaded disease, "herdrophobe." !"
In Bradford county, the other day,
father sged ninety years boxed his
son's ears severely for abusing his wife.
The boy is about sixty years old.
Gotlieb Reihart, of Montgomery
county, killed himself on Wednesday of
last week. His wife and him had some
quarrel about some trifiing matter, when
be told her that he would take his life.
She paid nc attention to his threat, and
bad nearly forgotten the little affair,
when in passing to another part of the
house, what was her horror upon dis
covering his dead body dang gl,ug from
a rope fastened to the top Of room
door. 1t is believed that he merely
intended tC frighten her, as the wall
and door bear marks of his desperate
struggles to free himself.
Two twelve year old boys quarreled
in Reading the other day, wien one of
them stabbed the other in the side with
a pocket-knife, ipficting a serious
wound. That boy will be candidate
for the penitrntiary one of these days,
unless his friends put on the brakes
pretty soon.
Wolves are killing sheep in large
numbers in localities in Clear6eld coun-
ty, in which the beasts have not been
seen for fifteen years. An old resident
says be has heard wolf music for fifty
years, but has never heard 30 much as
this winter. Some farmers have lost as
high as twenty sheep in one night
1t is said that the squirrel plague
threatens to be as fital to California as
the grasshopper to Kansas.
The Encampment Of Uniformed Pa
triarchs, l. o. o. F., of Washington,
has appointed Centennial Committee
to arrange for visiting the Exhibition
in body.
Z. S. Stokes, who murdered James
Fisk, Jr., has been refused pardon BY
Governor Tlden.
Young gentlemen who appear on the
streets with books under their arms are
not necessarily students. A patent
has Just been issued for q whisky flask
in book form, with natural leaves and
backs.
The Grand Jury at jacksonville,
Fla, makes the following disclosures !:
awe fnd that there are three prisoners
in the jail who have been there nearly
two years, for the p,tiful sum of $40
costs each. These prisoner have cost
the county nearly 5000. We recou-
mend that the County Commissioners
pay the fines, release the prisoners, and
thereby save money for the county.
William Cameron, who was stoned
by some boys, in New Iork, on New
Year Eve, died in the hospital yestsr-
day. Three of the boys have been ar
rested.
Indianapolis ministers are going to
discuss ssWhat constitutes call to the
ministry" Some sort Of practical an.
swer to this question would be of value
and interest.
They are eating roasting ears freshly
plucked from the green growing stocks
in 0akville, Texas.
There are IL 1888 blind men and g..
977 blind women in the United States.
What stir would church make in
an American community which should
be organized ike certain one in Ja-
pan. 1t has but twenty male members
but of these thirteen are lay preachers,
WHO visit six stations per week. Every
man not iucapacitstcd BY age or sick