Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23
News Items.

A Chiciso court sentenced . coun-
terfeiter named Ben Boyd to ten years.
Imprisonment.
The grassbopper has at this early
day in the season appeared in certain
parts of Missouri.
The United States Treasure received
$2400 conscience money last week from
one man.
This year, Lent season begins on the
LIST of Marcel.
A species Of golden trout has been
discovered in California.
Monroe county Penitentiary contains
260 prisoners, who manufacture $40
pairs Of boots and shoes daily. That
ought to pay.
Bank robberies are becoming numer-
Gus. The latest is despatched from
California last Friday, and said A
dispatch from Bakersfield says the Kern
Valley Bank was entered by burglars
last night while the cashier was work;
ing at the accounts. They knocked
down and chloroformed the cashier,
and robbed the bank of $27, 900, of
S22 900 belonged to the county Treas
urer. The cashier was found insensi-
Bile on table this morning.
A Philadelphian, who smuggled Sl00
worth of goods through the Custom
House, became conscience-smitten and
returned the ware, or the value of the
duty to the U. s. Treasury last week,
but withheld his name
Both houses Of the Maine Legisla-
ture have passed bill Establishing the
death penalty, and substituting impris-
ment and hard labor for life."
There are 5000 Chinese boys in Cal.
ifornia who will be voters when OF age.
A well-to- do Inhabitant of Owen
Sound, Canada, became crazed over
the notion that tie world was coming
to an end on the first day of next April.
He had a vision telling him 20 warn
the people, and last week he reused the
town by going through the streets
shouting. He also visited many fam
lilies, declaring that he was the Shep-
herd of Israel, and putting his mark
ON the houses of those who were to be
saved.
Meyersdale, Somerset county, this
State, has small pox badly.
There is vein of marble in Somer-
set county, this State, that equals the
East Tennessee marble.
The Treasurer of school board in
Clinton county ran away with four hun
dred dollars Of the school fund.
A farmer of Washington, Pa, hear
ing an unusual disturbance among his
sheep, one night could not account for
it. The next morning, however, the
pelts Of six of his sheep hangisg on a
fence informed him of the fact that
sheep thieves had been among bis flock.
There was falling off in the pork
packing business in the West last year.
Over one hundred young ladies will
be in attendance in the building of the
Dairymens Association during the
Centennial show, dressed in the CO.'S
tune Of Normandy daisymaids, to deal
out milk, cream, butterDllk, curds and
whey, pastry and berries.
One of the grea. features of the
Philadelphia Exhibition will be the en-
gine in Machinery Hall. 1t will sup
ply the power for all the machinery in
building covering seventeen acres of
ground. 1t has the capacity of $500
horse power, and will cost when COM
ple;ed $4,000. American mechanics
will be proud to show that engine to
their European neighbors.
John Travis, a miner in Amador
county, California, is an Austrian, who
settled there four years since, and had
accumulated $500. With this be
started to return the home of his youth,
carrying most Of his gold in a belt
around bis person. The journey across
the continent and across the ocean was
made in safety, Hamburg reached, and
plank laid for the passengers to pass
from the steamer to the wharf The
plank was at once crowded. 1t broke,
and twenty or thirty poor wretches
we're prec,pitated into the water. t.
Wis was one Of these, and felt that the
weight of gold in his belt was dragging
him to the bottom. He loosened and
dropped it, and was one of the rescued,
five being drowned. Then came the
search for the lost treasure, but it could
not be found. Travis then counted
the means be had left-it was enough
to take him on home, or take him back
to California. Aud bsck he went, and