Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
News Items,

American beef.
Mr.. Weik, of Myefetown, has lost all
of bis children, fse in number, within .
month By diphtheria'
Henry Forshey, of East Tyrone, for
twelve years a conductor on the Penn
sylvsnis railroad, wars killed On Friday
a week at Powellton. He tripped and
fell on the track and before be could
recover himself was run over BY the
engine.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is having built at its shops IN Altoona
six substantial new posts. cars for i'm
mediate Use. Each car viii be hand
somely furnished, heated by steam,
lighted with non explosive or salty
lamps, and will be decided improve
ment on the cars first turned out of
their shops The shop hands are work
ing twelve hours day in order to Get
them OUT upon the road speedily as
possible.
b. II. Hickok, Portmaster at South
berry, Conn, has been arrested for rob
bing the mail. He cnnfesses his gull,
One family of eight children at Ley
den, Mass, boasts that neither Of ZEN
has ever been sick day, and all be-
cause that mother has lived up to the
rule o, putting them to bed 6 r. NJ
A parrot is said to live to be 200
years old A barber does not live SO
long, but lie talks more.
One Of the curiosities at a recent
silver wedding id st Louis was a cake
25 years old, which was baked on the
occasion of the original wedding.
IL the village of HarbottIc, North
umberlsnd, no child has died the last
twenty years; farmer and bis three
shepherds have between them forty
seven children, and during tine past
thirty year, not death ha> occurred in
their families The Sanitary Record.
Johustown is excited over the elope
ment of two Of its citizens. Mrs. Sarah
Jones, the young wife of MIR. Enoch
Jones, could not withstand the uniaw-
full opportunities Of one John W. Jones.
a widower.
Mr.. James Wilt, of Centre Valley,
has been postmaster at that place foi
period of twenty years.
Peter Norke, of Shenandoah, bor-
rowed a PERCUSSION cartridge on Sun
day and took it home. He wanted to
know all about the composition Of the
rather innocent looking object, So he
took pin and picked the head off the
cartridge. Upon taking an account of
stock an account Of stock moment or
two afterward. he found that on one
hand there was no thumb and only
very bad wreck of second finger, while
from the other hand one joint of the
thumb was missing, the fore6nger in
need Of repairs, tie second finger mi
nus joint, aud the third inger shater-
ed.
The Mouirosc Republican says DR..
Latborp, Of that town. has received
from Pekin, China, pair of ducks that
are rarity in this country. They are
pure white in color and three tunes the
size of the common barnyard duck.
The First National Bank of Frank
lin. Johnson county, Indiana has sus- {
pended owing to the defalcation Of
100000 By the cashier, Richard I. t
Ia, lOr, absconded on the 9th inst.
At recent COW sale at Fitzwater- |
towL, Bucks county, fifteen cows we're :
sold at prices averaging $40.
The short-horn COW, "Tenth Duchess
of Geneva" which was purchased by |
an English nobleman at sale in New
York State in 1878, for the fancy price
of thirty thousand dollars, died in Eng |
Ian 1 last Thursday.
Queen Victoria has received from the
Empress of Brazil present of a dress
woven of the webs of the large South |
American spider.
A perfectly white ink has now been
which flows freely from
a fine or coarse pen, makes q delicate
hair line, and dries quickly. This ink |
requires dark paper, and several styles
have already been introduced. |
Two women have been making trouble |
in Meadville by passing bogus silver
halves. One of them was arrested,
and on her person was found fortyeight
pieces Of the "queer."
A little son of Mr. Jeremiah Kelly,
of Hugbesvilie, dangerously i'll with
diphtheria, was successfully treated by
the fumes Of Stacked llme, last
week. A small piece of lime was
placed in cup and the fumes conveyed
to the mouth of the child through a
funnel with a long tube. In a short |
time after large lump Of tough mucus
was discharged from the throat, after
which the little fellow at once COM
menced to get better --Sunbury DAILY.
Mrs. Acres daughter, about eighteen
years of age, had started ont to take a
horse, and had the lariat around her
arm, when the horse soaring, Jumped,
causing the young lady to fall. AT
this the horse became terribly alright
ed and dashed off through the woods,
and brush, cactus,&, dragging Miss
Acres with him some three quarters of
a mile. When the horse was halted
and the rope loosed from ber arm, she
was indeed pitiful objec.--all of her
clothes, except her collar and shoes and
hose, having been literally torn off, and
her person having nearly all the skin
dragged off, aud some contuslons in he.
flesh made by snags and brush. She
was not fatally injured, and is recover
ing.-.ftacosa Teras) .News.