Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07

the bill, but the gold-seekers emptied
their reyoiyers into hm . fsH times,
held a coroner's inquest, and found that
he died Of pneumonia
A little glrl, daughter Of Mr.. Wright
Of New Florence, Wsstporeland coun-
ty, aecomI Iauied BY an elder brother,
went to the barn last week, and while
there the brother started the cutting
box running, and by some means the
got her band into the mill and it was
pulled in between the rolled until piece
by piece i; was cut off up to the wrist.
Counterfeit silver quarters of 1876
are in circulation.
The Rev. Robert Wilson, speaking
of the sub.erranean streams Of South
Carolina, says they are lake springs,
ave is eight feet wide, and of unfathou-
able depth, countless rumbers of huge
bass, pike and erch, Tradition says
that al Indian once dived into one hole
Of Eutaw Springs, which gave their
name to d revolutionary battle, and
emerged from auoihsz hole The me-
groes now days, superstitioasV PEI
pie these springs with water spirits,
whom they call .'Cymbees." -
Richard Bradisb, of CrsnfofGd unity
while ploughiug in one Of biz sslds ii
Cussewago, turned up number q
american half dollars and Spanish guar.
tiers.
A Berks county nan had one Of his
ears bitten off by horse the other day
The Presbyterian General Assembly
adopted resolution recommending the
use of the I" term Sabbath instead oi
Sunday"
Illinois has 200 cheese factories, to
which 100000 milch cows make
daily contributions.
Dartmouth College graduates fifty
year-old student this year.
BY western despatch of the lst inst,
particulars are thus given of the mas
sacre by Indians Of large portion OF
Captain Stones company of Cincin
natians, which was on the way to the
Black Hills: Part of the expedition
was passing through the Sand Hills,
about fifty miles from the Red Cloud
agency. The day was warm and the
roads nearly impossible from sand.
The men had deposited their their coats
and weapons and we're struggling wearily
behind, when party Of lndians rushed
down and cut them from the train. The
massacre followed with but li:tle re-
sistance, the Indians numbering several
hundred. The leaders OF the party,
Captain Stone and James Wood, we're
among the first to fall. The bearer OF
the report declares that not single one
Of the party of fory-nine men escaped.
Several OF the bodies, scalped and rnu-
,ilated, we're taken to North Loup Fort
1t is stated that nearly al the indians
have left the agencies.
Nine members of the family Of Mar
tin Laios, residing at Sandt's Eddy, a
point on the Delaware river FIVE miles
above Easton, Pa, were poisoned on
the evening of the 3lst ult., by coffee
which contained some mineral substance
Mrs. Laros is dead and several of the
others are considered in a critical con.
dition. The presence Of poison in the
coffee is not accounted for.
The English Channel Tunnel ha'
been actually commenced, shafts in the
chalk on the French side having already
been sunk to depth Of one hundred
and thirty feet.
The grand jury of the United States
circuit court in Hartford, Conn, hav,
returned true bills against Jeremial
O'Neil, Michael Kelley, Julia and Sam
ueI Robinson, for manufacturing anc
passing FIVE cent nickel coins. Al
pleaded guilty, and Samuel Robinson
and Jeremiah O'Neil were sentenced t.
Imprisonment in the Hartford county
Jail one year each, and Julia Robinson
and Michael Kelley fifteen days eaci
ard to pay 81 fine. The parties belong
IN Hartford.
The following exterminator of rat
and snakes comes from Kentucky, anc
is given to the public thus: John CIarl
has introduced novel plan for exter
minating rats, driving off snakes an,
purifying the malarious atmospher
about his premises. He captured
polecat which presented him two day
afterwards with six kittens, all of then
streaked and striped and ready 70
business in few days. The wonder
full sequel TO the affair is that the rat
and snakes have left his place tn
chills have also departed, and the pros
poets for an unprecedented crop O
wheat and corn are excellent.
A mass of 9O,00O,0O0 tons of pure
solid, compact rock salt, located on a
island lS5 feet high, which rises froI
miserable sea marsh on the rout
from Brashear to New Iberia, up th
river Teche, in Louisiana, is one of th
wonders of The world. How this island
containing over 800 acres of land, eve