Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-30
News Items,

! n slver tuiDe Is Iepofteo ~ "e'S
been discovered in Upper Mou1t Beth
Ell, Northampton, county.
A prominent physician OF fCa-bondaie,
DIR. Hampton, has been held In one
Thousand dollars bail 10 answer charge
OF aduitry.
The Primitive Methodist tabernacle
at Tamaqua, has been attached by the
sheriff tor debt, and will be sold.
Dog PRISONERS are operating in hew-
istown, Pa.
There ore one hundred and ten pris-
oners in the Pottsville Jail.
Lizzie lhling, the aeronaut, will be
one of the attractions at the Beilefonte
Fair in the fall
Disappointment in love led young
lady Of we'll to do parents in st. Louis
to jump into a we'll forty feet deep and
drown herself. The stern parents Of
the suicide opposed her marriage with
the man of her choice, with the above
sad result.
The man who invented the process Of
vulcanizing rubber died the other day.
He was William Henry Towers, of
Boston, but was a native of Piqua, U.
The gallows constructed for the con-
demned Mollies in Carbon county is
Intended to swing only one at time,
and the four are to be hung one after
the other.
Detroit sends nearly 10000 frogs
legs to New York daily.
William Kelly, of Triangle, Clarion
county, was dangerously shot On Sun
| day night by some parties who forced
open the door OF his sleeping apart
ment. Who they were be does not
know.
Citizens of Lock Haven are raising
a fund by subscription to sink we'll
near that city in search OF oil.
A terrible accident occurred at York
on Friday. Samuel Sprenkle was driv
ing along an en- bankment with a blind
horse aud an empty cart, and finding
himself IN such a dangerous position
tried to turn the horse away, but pull
ed the wrong rein and precipitated
himself and team over the embank-
ment distance of th,rty feet. Spreu-
kle had bis arm crushed by the cart
falling on 1t, bu; the horse escaped
with few slight cuts.
James Neuffer rocked boat near
Pittston to frighten companion. The
craft was upset. Neuffer attemped to
SWIM to the shore aud was drowned.
The other man was saved BY clingiug
to the boat.
Gottlieb Shore, of Allegheny county,
has died from tie effects of gun shot
wound, which he received while assis:
ing a lad to turn log in a field to
search for rats, a gun in the hands Of
the boy being discharged
Myriads of grasshoppers have ap
peared in Lower Heidelberg township
Berks county, and they threaten to
move on the growing vegetation.
The investigation into the cause Of
the murder OF ex-County Commission
er, Miller, Of Lebanon county, still
continues. The body was recently e1-
humed and the stomach removed by
Drs. j. Keith and Thomas Miller, for
the purpose of examining it and cor
roboratiug the theory Of the prosecution,
that he died violent death.
At Pottsvilie, on the 23d inst, the
1 h.A IS
composed, was found floating Ill the
water in Tumbling Run dam. A frag-
ment of telegram, in which only the
words '' George r." are legibie, is the
only clew to its identity. He was ap-
parently about Fifty years of age. There
are no marks of violence on the body.
Another wonder has been discovered
in California. The water Of Deep
Spring Valley Lake is charged with
borax, and ducks, which at certain sea-
sons visit the lake in great numbers,
become so loaded down with crystaliza
tions as to be unable to fly, and fall an
easy prey to the Indians, who pick
them from the water by the hand.
Mons. GascOm the aeronaut, lost his
balloon by fire just az he was about to
make recent ascension, at Easton.
The York girls say that there is too
much collar and too little young man to
The present style of gents neckwear.
WiIllamsport has forty milk wagons
and 10 town pumps
John Z. Boorse, Esq of Pottsrown,
Surveyor and Conveyaucer, wrote III
deeds and mortgages this spIIDg, and
thinks business is rather dull, as he is
accustomed to write from 100 to $50 a
year. His records show that he has
written 1908 deeds since January l.,
1866.
Two young men from Lebanon, who
intended to commence stock farming
went into the country to look at some
6ne stock, when a bull tossed one Of
them into a stable, chased the other
over fence and threw their dog high
in the air. They have abandoned their
project.
A farmer in Peters township, Wash
iDgton county, reports killing 27S rats
within eight weeks. This has been
accomplished with two dogs and three
traps.
Miss Laura Pierce, aged sixteen, is
in the Uuion county Jail, having con-
fessed that she fired farmers barn
which was burned some weeks ago.
A young married woman named
Alderman, residing near Youngstown,
eloped few days ago with a young
man who had been a schoolmate and
lover She left note to her hus
band, stating she could not be parted
from one she loved, and one to her
mother, telling her this was in con-
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