Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-01

fhe Ohio river IL nearly 4V mite'
loug.
Tue Cs,holio is the prevalent religion
Of Canada.
The United Ststes in 1880 contained
IL, 7U0 ,Uut inhabitants.
A Berks county farmer had twelve
ducks killed by lightning.
Cuba, the largest OF the West Indis
Islands, is 764 miles loog and averages
100 miles wide.
Jesus.lem is 2 500 feet above tb'
level of the sea, aud thirty one uilsl
southesst from Jsfs, on tho Msditer
ranean.
The French settlement at Cayenne
nearly under the equator, produces ths
pepper Of that name 50 extensively used
in the United States.
Nearly all the cattle in Germany ars
stailfed. A traveller passing through
the country rarely sees any live atocl
in the fields or pastures.
Jimmy Ksrrigsn, Of Schuylkill ooun
ty, who saved bis neck by turning
States evidence agsins; the Moiliss
has gone to work in the ,uines again.
1t IS estimated that thers are ono
hundred tramps 10 the vicinity Of Erie
TIE Titusviile Herald estimates the
less to the oil region by the prese NJ
strike at $l00, 900 day.
Jacksonville, Florida, has torn up
her street railway.
Henry c. S,kes, an old man IL
years OF age, is uuder arrest at Nor
folk, Va charged with the murder OF
Peter j. Clinton. The affair occurred
twenty-five years ago.
The Lancaster tobacco crop this
year will be the largest ever raised
there.
A panther with brass ring in its
nose IS frightening the ciusens near
Dreheisville, Sohuy ikili county 1t is
believed to have escaped from q circus.
There are twenty two national banks
in P,rsburg.
Chief Justice Agnew residing At Bea-
yer, Pa, ou the 20th ult., was sued IN
the charge of shooting game out Of sea
son, which resulted in his being lined ten
The Lock Haven Na,iona. Bank sus-
pended payments on Monday.
dollars for each of the two Pheasants
shot.
The Emporium Press says that so,
900 cords OF bark are shipped yearly
from Cameron county, worth 5000 900.
There are | 500 tavern keepers in
PblIsdelphia who have not paid for
their licenses this year.
The school directors of Rocklsnd
township, Berks county, have made q
sweeping reduction in the salaries Of
the teachers for the coming winter, hav-
ing reduced the wages 20 $2l per.
month, which is very much below whs,
any of the adjoining townships are pay
ing.
The peach growers in Delaware are
despondeut. It's feared that the whole
crop now ripe in Delaware snd clss
where, ...ere, the strike Is raging, will
prove q total loss, since the fruit can
not be taken to market.
A man named Scull is the dog catch
er of Chester. His captures approach
200 at 81 head. He has been bit
ten seriously FIVE times. has no belief
in hydrophobia, and cures bites by re
ducins the inflammation with cold water.
Says the Wrighrsville Star: We
were shown few days sgo, By Mr..
john Beitler, an eight-lesved clover,
found by him in his yard the other day.
This is certainly a curiosity. The speci-
men before US Is perfect, there being
eigh. fully developed leaves on A'ingIe
stem.
A sudden draught of hot air is re-
ported to have passed through a cotton
field and peach orchard IN western Tex
as, tew days ago, scorching aud kill
ing every green thing it touched for 9
space l40 yards vide and 400 yards
long.
George Larson, young lad living
at Stockton, n. j., while at work in q
field few days ago, noticed a fight
going on between his dog and some
festhercd object. He went to the scene
of action aud found his dog in conflict
with n hig esgls. The lad threw q
stone which struck the bird on the head
and stunned it. He then carried it
to a safe place. The bird, which turn
ed out to be a bald eagle, soon recov-
cred, and the lad sold it 10 the Deer
Park Association at New Hope
THERE has been q great deal said in
ridieuie OF the conduct and dispense
nent of General Briuton's command
while at Piitsburg. The following
dispatch tells plainly of the fsbricstiOns
relative to the command that were cir
culated
BLAIRsvnLE, Pa. July 25.-The asser-
tion ID DR.. Maury, surgeon of the City
Troop, as published in newspapers, stating
that out Of the $40 men took TO Pittsburg
not 200 are now with me, is utterly false.
With the exception of my killed and wound
ed, and few sick, have every man with
me that lett Philadelphia. Ny command is
in perfect condition, and such vile ISLANDERS
should OILY come from one of the Pitts
burg mob.
R. W. BRISToS, Major General.
A SWindle.
One of the latest and shrewdest