Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-07
News Items.

Blue glass jewslry is the rage in
Georgia.
The number of priests in France is
$4,000.
Each person on the globe would ge,
81 if all the gold Was parceled out.
There is a town in Crawford county
where there are By acfaal count six girls
TO one boy. A fair count, and no one
is allowed to go behind the returns.
The schools of Green county are still
closed on account OF the diphIherla.
How to get rich: VI ork, earn and
save.
A purchasing agency and supply sta
ton for the Changers is about to be es
tabli>hed at Pittsburg.
Mrs. Julia P6zenmayer, of Williams
port, aged twenty one years, committed
suicide last week.
A valise, containing FIVE molds for
making counterfeit FIVE cent pieces. was
found in car on the Allegheny VAL
ley Railroad few days sgO.
An Augusta, Ga, boy cooked pis-
rol and put it in the hind pocket of his
pants ready for use. The doctors are
probing tor the ball.
A Chester cuupiy farmer is selling
eggs by measure IN the IL est Chester
market. Une Collar for a half peck Is
the price demanded.
The matrimonial market all over the
State is brisk.
There are $4,000 persons in Kings
county N, Y. dependent on charity for
support.
A new Methodist church in Boston
is to seat $4,000 persons.
Geh. Grant will sail for Europe in
Nav.
Within the last fortnight there has
been a marked improvement IN the iron
business at Pittsburg, and also IN other
portions Of the State.
Bread hereafter Is to be sold in
Reading, Pa, by the pound instead of
by the loaf. Those iallipg to comply
with the ordnance will be lined $i0,
and those found using improper or uu-
wholesome material in preparing bread
will be fined S25.
The Emperor Joseph, travelling in
Italy broke down his carriage, and at a
village blacksmith's worked the bellows
while the blacksmith forged
The County cmmissioners' clerk of
Lehigh county was voted salary of
$1,000 last year, but be got a salary of
abou' Sl650, in the interest Of "re-
lrenchment and REFORM The extra
salary was covered up in "sundries," "
according to the explanation of one of
the county auditors.
A small boy, twelve years old is
held $500 in Vicksburg for shoot
ing a coiored boy, about the same age,
with a revolver.
The oiupbia Herald informs its
readers that 'about two hundred yards
of the lower part OF the dam on the
York county side of the river has been
torn away" by the ice, "with a fair
prospect of making clear passage tor
The shad
New evidence confirms the suspic-
ions that Anderson, the freight con
ductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad, +,
whose mutiIated body was found on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, whnse mutiiat-
ed body was found oD The track near
Harrisburg, vas thrown there by some
of the gang of counterfeIters with
whom he had expressed determine
ton to expose the gang after his own
arrest for passing their bogus money.
A blast of thirteen holes was ex-
ploded few days ago a, the bottom of
the Locblel stone quarries, near Har-
risburg. through the agency of dyna-
mite, with astonishing results. The
bulk of stone heaved up is estimated
q. SEQ perches, some pieces, being of
astonishing dimensions. Three pieces
we're measured and found to be six
teen feet long, seven feet vide and
four feet thick, or sufficient to build
sbou, l68 feet of ordinary stone fence.