Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-11
News Items,

A colored woman gave birth TO Eve
three boys aud two girls, at
Mars Bluff, Union county, S. c., re
Gently.
The leading city clergy are engaging
heartily in the Moody aud Sankey meet
ings at Chicago.
Shoe leather has been made from
sturgeon skins at Green Bay.
An spple-dry ny establishment of
Memphis employs nearly one hundred
persons.
Dynamite resembles brown sugar
Strike it With spoon.
Four Cinnamon we're baptized at
North Adams, Mass, on Sunday week.
Julian Kennedy, Yale's crack oars
man, has gone to Youngstown, Ohio,
where be takes charge of large iron
works.
Tie school children in the city Of
Pittsburg are to be taken to the Gen.
tennial on the 18th inst
The English law now secures to any
wife her own earnings in any occupa-
ton which she carries on separately
from her husband.
Jean Baptisre Mourow, a French
man, who had been sent to the galleys
for murder and arson IN l776, is ll6
years old, and still refuses to be dis
charged, though the authorities have
offered to pardon him several times.
The attempt BY Chinese merchants
TO establish line of steamers between
Shanghai and Japanese ports has failed,
and the enterprise has been abandoned
S2S,430 have been contributed in
New York for the yellcw fever sufferers
1t Savannah and Brunswick.
There is a grasshopper invasion in
Northern Texas, and wheat-sowing is
delayed until 1t is known whether they
will remain long enough to deposit
their eggs.
The largest fish ever caught IN Lake
Ontario Was taken at Sackett's Harbor
on Monday week IN seine. 1t was
a sturgeon nine feet inIength and weigh
ing two hundred pounds.
Governor Hartrsnft has promised to
address the Pittsburg school children at
Independence Hall on the occasion of
their visit to the Centennial.
The Philadelphia Erening Bulletin,
in alluding to the failure to produce a
com5ustibIe portrait of George Wash
ington at the Centennial display of FIRE
works on the 2Sth ult., remarks-''The
English were never happy in their
efforts to handle George"
Four clergyman have already fallen
victims to their devotion in attending
the fever stricken people Of Savannah.
Three of them were Catholic priests,
and one very we'll known Methodist
clergyman, Rev. Edward fl. Myers, d.
d. One of the little band of Sisters
of Charity, who were seH to Savannah
Immediately on the breaking out Of the
scourge, died on Monday week.
The pet ballucination entertained by
Morrow b. Lowry, who is confined in
DR.. Kirkbride's asylum for the insane
at Philadelphia, is that be is engaged in
constructing railway around the world f,
which Will be finished in three weeks.
Baltimore, with apopulatiOn Of S0O,-
600, has 1000 drinking saloons, or a
drinking place for every $50 of its in
habitants, and more in this proportion
than any other city in the Union.
Although Pittsburg man had his
head about half cut of in a row about
a week ago, he still lives, and will prob
ably recover. The wound was inflicted
in the back part of the neck, seyering
the leaders and causing the head to fall
powerless to raise itself.
Mark Twain and Senator Jones are
among the shareholders of the Hart
ford accident insurance company that
has just burst after brief but iDglo-
rious existence of two years.
The town of Gotha has granted a
site for the cremation of bodies, the
Duchy Of SAKE Gotha having allowed
the right to be established. Previous
to incremation, however, all bodies are
to be examined by competent medical
officers, that the cause of death may be
properly ascertained. No corpse is to
be burned except in ful6lment Of the
wishes of the deceased and with the ap-
probation of the relatives.
Some of the choirs provided by IN
dertakers in Brooklyn to chant at
graves 60 to the cemetery in advance
of funerals to try their voices in the
open air and to select their positions i'll
order to avoid awkwardness and confu-
sion at the time of the services.
Celina Monteland, who sang at the
Grand Opera House, New York, in
Fisk's time, having increased so much
in size that for some time she bad to
abandon the stage, employed a Paris
who promised to reduce ber
to moderate plumpness. His system
embraced daily shampooning, but she
gained flesh under it instead of getting
slender, and refuses to pay him. A law
suit brings out the facts.
The Oil City Derrick says that the
oil region is worth S25, 100000 more
than it was three months ago, before
the rise in the price of petroleum.
The Egyptian juggler in South Car
olina who allowed himself to be screwed
into a coffin and be buried in a grave
SIX feet deep, promising TO rise within
a half hour, actually performed the feat.
An excavation had been secretly made
near the head of the grave. The Jug
gler forced the head of the coffin out
and worked himself into the opening,
which came near enough to the surface
Of the ground to allow him to burst up
through the earth, and so appear to
have risen up through it.
William Henry Harrison, grandson
Of the former President IF the United
States, on Tuesday entered the resi-
ianco of John A Maora in Roope