Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-26
News Items.

News Items.
Oats are selling at ten cents bushel
in Kansas. sislss
1t is now stated that Sitting Bull can
speak and read French Aueutly.
A Union county man killed twenty
Eve copperhead snakes 10 one day,
recently. On the came day his daugh-
killed large rattlesnake.
2,370 horses were eaten in Paris
during the FIRST quarter of the presen,
gear, and the use of this kind Of food
| is g .sstly on the increase in that city.
Several Baltimore physicians say
that many diseases are caused BY soap,
the greas for which is obtained from
unhealthy animals.
The Rev. F. d. James, of Somer
I vile, Mass, Is in Jail as a forger, He
made deeds of property to which be at
F, tached counterfeit signatures, his ras-
{. calities running back several years, and
! affecting property worth $l00, 600.
| William H. Cooper, the head waiter
at the Pequos House, New London,
I laughed so heartily at a sack race on
the Fourth tiat he burst a blood
vessel and died immediately.
Wisner Murray who Was shot at Go
shen, N. j., July 13, by Robert II.
Berdell, whom he horsewhipped for an
alledged insult TO his mother, died on
Frida, morning from his wound in the
head. He was thirty three years of
age. He was president of the village
of Goshen. and assistant cashier of the
National Bank Of Orange county, of
which his father, Hon Acjrew jackson
Murry, was president.
The pay of the members of the Tex
as Legislature has been reduced to 81
per day.
Four London brokers have been sent
to prison for organizing bogus gas
company. .....-t.t
Three-fourths of the duels that have
been fought or arranged in the South
since the war we're about females, and
most Of the combatants were ssMajors., >,
AIR. Moody's plans for the next win
ter seem to be definitely settled. He
is to spend the autumn in converting
chicago; but his real solid winters
work he is to do in Boston. He pro-
7 oses to begin at the latter place 10
January.
At Lebanon, on the night Of July
Sd, q reckless william deliberately dis
charged musket into crowd of women
and children, wounding four Of them.
At the execution of Chinaman in
Sydney, Australia, for murder, the
hangman was mistaken for the clergy.
man. He wore . well-6tting black
cloth suit, with black silk hat, kid
boots, white shirt with studs, white COL
lar, white necktie, white wristbands,
and white kid gloves. He went about
his business in the most dainty manner.
On the 2sth of June Daniel Kroninger,
of Berks county, cut piece Of wheat had
the grain threshed, converted into flour
and baked into bread on the Same day.
Mrs. Washington was noted for her pret-
ty foot. She was not a large person, and
she wore, listen, ye bellies Of the Avenue,
and give ear, o matrons of the Cspitai-she
wore, As the way-biiI, from England are
alive at this day to testify, the very
smallest fivcs 20 Itis the fashion, just now
to copy that stately lady in her habit as she
lived. If the imitation should extend to
her frank avowai of the size of her feet,
what gain in health and comfort our girls
would make!
Four women have been arrested in Gin
cinnati for counterfeiting silver half dollars
Over 5000 deaths by sunstroke are re-
ported to have occurred in this country
during the last two weeks.
John II. Powers, the Kentucky giant is
travelling on exhibition, weighs COL lbs. His
sister accompanying him lifts the beam at
sO7t.
| A Lady named Rufhrauff, living near
hercersburg was recently bitten by a rat
tlesnake while wedding in the garden.
Two huge snakes of this species were kill
ed in the garden shortly after. A free
use of whisky averted any bad results.
A Rochester man, who had become
crazy from the effects of sun stroke drowned
himself in the cistern the other day.
Grasshoppers threaten to become q
greater pest in Alabama this year than last.
A vile in San Jose, Cal became wildly
jealous Of her husband, and killed herself,
which left the husband free to marry the
woman who had caused the jealousy. and he
did it within three months.
William NeeIis and Alice McNullen, of
Pirtsburg, were recently united in marriage,
after which they went to Philadelphia on
their wedding tour, and while in that city,
the husband was 50 overcome by the heat,
that he fell over on the streets and expired
| in few moments. The honeymoon was
thus brought to tragical termination, and
the grief-stricken wife returned home with
the corpse. eff aI-
A Tennessee mule died with hydrophobia
i last week