Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-17
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600 miles.
Mules are bought and sold By the
pound in Kentucky.
Apples are selling in Danbury, n
Z at two cents busbel
Harpers Bazv opposes low aecked
dresses.
A Greenback dollar IS Worth about
one cent more than silver dollar.
There were forty-four suicides in
New York city during the quarter end
ing June 80, lS77-su average of three
a week.
Reading is shipping hardware to En-
gland.
A horse vas stung to death by yellow
jackets near Titusville.
The Holidaysburg Register publish
list of twenty five residents of that
place over seventy years of age
A chicken hawk measuring FIVE feet
six inches from tip to tIp Of its wings
has been shot in Lancaster county.
The annual reunion of the l40th reg
iment will be held at Caunonsburg on
30th inst
A Lancaster county pumkin weighs
l7S pouuds
York county has produced a swee,
potato weighing five pounds fourteen
ounces
Potter county Republicans have ad-
dopted the crawford county sy ystem,
Baltimore employs some so, 900 per-
sons in catching aud preparing oysters
for market.
Oliver Dalrymple. the 'Wheat King
of Miaueso;a," has 1000 acres of wheat
this year.
rhe Grand Lodge Of Ode Fellows
hold a special session at Meadville on
the 22d inst. for the purpose of admit
ting Pest Grands TO membership.
A "gentleman" at leading hotel in
Hamilton, Ontario, spoke disparagingly Y
of Que Of the lady guests. She heard
of it invited him into the parlor, pre-
sented a pistol at his breast and asked
him TO apologize. He acquiesced.
Captain Julius ID. Rhodes, who div
ed from the few Suspension bridge at
Niagara, height of 1911 feet, is me-
dium sized, sinewy man, with Burnside
whiskers. He has made sixty nine
high leaps of all sorts, dives for glory,
ami finds no trouble in iGhating and
emptying his lungs or speaking during
a trip in the air aud can guide himself I
with his legs. The sensation when fall
ling is, he says, indescribable.
There's fine old lady of seventy
FIVE in Dartmouth Massachusetts,, who
walked fourteen miles the other day to
pay her newspaper subscription.
The Cambria Heyqid Is informed by
a Blacklick township farmer that gras-
hoppers in large numbers are destroy
ing the fall wheat crop in that locality"
The Scranton Free Press states that
the bond OF j. Ii. MiIlspaugh, the de-
taultlng aud abscordlng Treasures of
that city has been stolen from the
office in Wilkesbarre.
The Good TempIars' Lodge at Tunk-
hammock has dlstanded.
Nearly two hundred bushels of chest
nuts were shipped from Johnstown in
one day. The crop i'll that section is
immense
England imported S25, ,000,0 worth
more of wheat this year than last.
Rev. Lewis Bond, jr-, and family,
who were compelled to flee from their
work in Turkey, have arriv-
ed at their home in Plainield, y. j.
Emms Pfeitfer, young girl in the
family, of Allen q. Ballet, Allentowa,
committed suicide on Friday, taking
poison.
Three of GeOrgia's Superior Court
Judges have died this year.
The corporate rights and franchises
Of the South Mountain railroad com
pany, including the furniture OF their
office at Jamestown, will be sold at Le5-
anon, by Sheriff Deininger, on the 23d
Os October.
Miss Olive B. jac.,man, otganist of a
church in Concord. n H., played the
accompaniment TO the first hymn Oh
Sunday morning, and then suddenly
fell forward and died.
A little son of Benjamin Fox, of
Pennesburg, Montgomery county, at
to climb over a paling fence
one dag last week, and his clothing be-
ing caught; vas strangled to death be-
fore auy one discovered him.
A large Darn, belonging to William
NJ. Watts, near Johannesburg, was
burned on Sunday night, together with
all its contents, including live stock.
Loss sl2, 900; fully insured The FIRE
was lDcendiarv.
A little girl named Hoffman was
crossing the railroad at Braddock's
Station on Thursday evening. when het
foot became fastened in the rail. Be-
fore she could extricate it she was
knocked down by an express train.
Her body fell outside the rail, which
saved her life. Her foot was crushed.
Fernandiua fairly invited yellow fe-
yer TO enter her gates BY neglecting,
from motives of economy, to eileen her
garbage covered streets. There have
been over 100 cases of the disease,
although only fifty persons have died.
The coiored people seem to have lost
the immunity they formerly enjoyed
from attacks of the disease. Many
Of them have died, and many are
suffering from lack of food; trade being
suspended and they not having an op-