Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-05
News Items,

American butter is exported to Den
marx IN large Quantities
The premiun nn gold in Havana,
Cuba is up to 229 per cent.
Farming lands In Iowa Minnesota
and Illinois are increasing in value.
Hog cholera is prevailing TO an
alarming extent III some portions oi
Fraukliu county. Some of the farmer
have lost their eGtlre stock By the dis
ease.
The beautiful Methodist Church in
Saratoga, n. Y, wh'ch Gust over
81 l,UUe, 600, Is almost held IN the
grasp of the Sherlff for a debt of $780,
600, aud will be actually in his grip ere
long unless this SUN or part Of 1t is
paid.
Mayor Gw,n. of Eff igham, H., has
been tined $40 for al assault On the
i,y Attorney, and the latter has beeu
iued 50 Tor hlrung back. And Mar
shal Was specifically Instructed TO send
both TO the rock. pile lu default OF pay
meBt.
A Broadway dealer in China shows a
Set OF ''individual' butter plates which
are painted with appropriate designs.
Ou Que is a onurn, ON another Is a COW.
while OF third maid with mliking
psil is painted. THIS set Gust 5000
In the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Bos
ton, Is lot cuntaIuIng five stunrs, one
at each corner aud Que III the centre
The latter Is inscribed s.Our Husband
aud the others respectfully bear "My
Wife," "My I'll Wife," ""My I'LL Wife, y
and My " Wife"
The belle OF a ball in Washington
Ky, was fought over by rival admirers
each of whom waured To dance with hel
to the exclusion ut all the others. Tw,
were wounded with pistol shots aud
three with knives.
A man named Iost, employed IN the
lime quarrIes at poy iestown. alter friug
fuse, InOughtIessl, druppvd the luatct
into keg OF powder, wnlch Instantly
exploded, and the unfortunate man Wa,
fearfuily burned about the head aud
body 1t vas thought be would reeov.
er, but lose his sight.
Tue railroads leading East from Chi
cago have decided to sell second elias.
limited tickets at the following reduced
rates b 'srnn, Sl7; to Boston via
Grand Trunk Road, SIS; New York
SIG; Pnlladeiphia, S,4 81 Baltimore
SI4
Rev. Charles Il. Laiubach. pastor o.
RiOpp's church, Lebanon county, frou
June 1864, to the present time, ha'
preached l45 sermons, baptised l0lC
infants and % adults, confirmed I20
admitted DO certlicate 100, prea ;hed
$40 funeral sermous. married 33L
couple aud administered cOmuuion tt
$4,000.
The District Attorney of Blair coun
ty, james f. MIlliken, has been arrest
ed at the Insiigation of the Pennsy Ivan
ia Railroad Company, charged witt
having on Saturday, July u, at Al
toona, made a speech to the strikers fol
the purpose of getting them to riot.
Airs. Sa:ah NJ KIRBY, living neal
Bridgeport. n. j. D., while eating piect
If bread aud butter on which honey
bee had settled unnOticed bv her, wa,
stung % her tongue, which immedlatel,
began to SWELL and. until medical aid
Was procured, she was in danger of suf
location.
About 8 o'clock, Saturday morning
the wife o. Stephen Fonda Sheriff o
Montgomery county, New York. com
Eiitted sui ide at her home in the will
age Of Fonda, by firing a pistol ball in
10 her forehead during ft of insanity
and expired instantly The was thirty
ntne years Of age. and had been of un
sound mind eighteen years.
Last Wednesday, about seven mile.
from Des MONIES, Iowa, a terrible acci
dent happened on the Chicago, Rocl
Island and Pacific railroad, whereof,
6fty people were ki led aud wounded
The accident was occssionrd by th,
washing out of bridge. The water il
rhe stream is about twenty feet deep
The locomotive went out Of sight in th,
nasd aud vssef