Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
News Items.

Governors.
The MeadvilIe cheese fair has prov
ed successful
Smallpox has almost disappeared
from Reading.
Sleighing at Ebensourg Cambri'
county.
The Uuited States regular have lief
left Reading.
After an absence of three hundred
years, the herring has returned to tb,
coast Of Denmark
Massachusetts fisherman have suul
,nonsy in the mackerel line this season
Every available vessel in Chicago i,
being pressed INTO the grain trade.
About 1000 bushels of chcstuuts
have been shipped from Johnstown thi,
season.
Some Titusville capitalists propos,
to bore FOR oil in Indiana county.
Beaver county has got the oil fever
severely. Many new wells are being
bored.
The Paxton Rolling Mill, at Harris
burg, is running full time, working q
hundred aud seventy five meR.
The Berks County Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold four days
exhibition in Reading, commencing on
December Is.
Sitting Bull refused to shake hand:
with Uncle Sans commissioners.
There are fourteen ex-gOvernors iu
the Senate and eight in the House, be-
sides several ex governors Of Terri
tories.
A large number of horse thefts have
of late occurred IN the eastern section
Of the State.
The Presbyterian Relief Society oi
PbiIlipsburg contempla.es soup house
In North Carolina apples are two
cents a bushel.
A Harrisburg dairyman feeds toma-
toes to his cows and declares he has
golden cream.
Wilkesbare young ladies practice
walking on stills. They say it strength
ems their instep.
Monroe, Ga, has had a wedding in
which the bride was but twelve years
old.
With a 500 bill Missouri man in
duced his wife to deserted him.
There are FIVE preachers to one edi-
tor in the Kentucky penitertiary.
Mrs. General Sherman continues her
crusade against round dances
The divorce business is very active in
Crawford county. Six applications
were filed in one week.
Mrs. Samuel German, of Lebanon
undertook to kindle fire with
coal oil. A child in the room was bad
ly burned. but will recover. Mrs. Ger
mans funeral followed in due time.
Mr. Dell No5lit, of Wilmington, eel =
ebrat,d his Tooth birthday last Friday
a week.
A man has arrived in Pittsburg who
walked from the Black Hills. He is
a resident Of Forest county, this State.
George Buchanan, a Washington
county school teacher has sold a wash
ing machine patent for $40, 900.
Columbia county will have to pay
$1,000 for the two trials of Patrick
Hester ond others tried fer tue mur-
der of Alexander W. Rea.
There are many cases Of typhoid fe
yer at Danvill, caused by the defective
drainage of the insane asylum.
The father, three sons and two daugh-
tiers of family living in Venango coun-
ty died recently from contagious fever.
Jane Laughlin, convicted in New
York of abducting little girl, was
sent to prison for ten years.
Initiatory proceedings have been be-
gun In the courts against the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company for damages
arising out of the riots. The cases are
very numerous and promise rich har-
vest for the lawyers.
On Tuesday a gun in the hands of
Mr.. Enos Hause, of Pughtown, Chester
county was accidentally discharged and
its entire contents struck Mr.. Hause,
who was standing in the saw mill listen
ing to the cunning exploits of his son.
One of his arms was badly shattered;
two of the shot also entered his head
Harry grant, a lad of sixteen, of Pot
tsgrove Montgomery county. has been
placed in jail for theft of SIS. The
money was stolen from the cash draw
er of business man of the place.
A Reading paper says the heaviest
woman in Berks county is Mrs. Catha
rine Sunday, of Windsor township, her
weight being 3Q5 pounds. She is
about 30 years of age
Ex-Congressman Sobieski Ross shot
himself on the 24th inst. at his resi-
dence in Coudersport, Ia. He had
been IN i'll health for some time.
In boring for oil at Osceola Clear
field county, vein of bitumiuous coal
was found one hundred feet below the
surface.
The Blue Mountain range running
through Pennsylvania is said to be di
vided at regular intervals of twenty
seven miles by rivers or water-courses.
A Boston school teacher ran so
eagerly after a street car on Friday
on her way to school, that
she burst blood vessel, aud died in a
few hours She was 81 years of age.
Charles A. TAFT, of Allegheny, while
playing base ball, about a year ago
was struck on the leg by bat. Next
day he caught cold in the injury, and
three successive amputations of the
limb we're made. from which he died,
being performed few days ago.
Ga Saturday night week lamp ex-
ploding set the house of Widow Wal
born, of Myerstown, on fire. Mrs.
Devices and her mother were taken out
Of the burning bniIding IN an insensible
and all attempts to restore
them have been in vain.
A saloon keeper in Pittston GOT on