Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-12
News Items.


ced BY Chattanooga clergymen.
A COW was extricated from a Green
vile Is. C.,) we'll recently BY slowly
throwing in earth. The animal Kept
on top of the dirt until high enough to
step out.
Ten deer were killed nesr Mays
Landing. Atlantic county, last week.
The number of hands in the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company's quarries
in Hunterdon county are to be increas-
ed from sixteen to fifty.
Lewis county, KY, contains a town
called belzebub.
The Swedes are asserting political
power in Newbraska.
Warren county KY, cultivates Bra
zil tobacco.
A California agricu,turist claims to
have slaughtered 5000 wild geese this
year
The Pope is mending again.
A Texan has contrived a machine
for taking wood on trains without their
stopping.
Saffron is raised By York county
farmers and disposed of at remuner
erative prices to druggists.
Machinery is being made in New
Orleans to be used in manufacturing
bats from the fibre of palmetto leaves
at Orange Park Fla,
Hogs are selling in Washington coun-
ty at 3Ac in the rough and A cents.
Owing to difficulty in the collection
of the tax assessed by the Grand Lodge
of Kentucky, the Masonic lodge of
Maysviile Kentucky has been declared
clandestine by the Grand Master Of the
State.
Forty-se, en- members of the Forty
fourth Congress are natives Of Pennsyl-
vsria
Samuel Roser, of Burlington township
Indiana county, was riding on horse
back to a mill having bag of wheat
Ou the horse. In crossing a small
bridge or culvert, his horse broke
through a plank in the bridge, and it
was supposed fell, throwing MIR. Roser
aud the bag on top of him, breaking
his neck aud producing instant death.
On Thursday a week last a party of
colonists started on raft from Pitts
burg, with the intention of going to
Arkansas. Just as they reached the
mouth of the Ohio river the fistboat
struck coal barge, and five of the oc-
cupants OF the former were drowned.
The short crop of apples in this
country appears to be known in Nova
Scotia, for that province has just sent
cargo of 1000 barrels to the port of
New York.
Eighty eight tramps were sheltered
in the Berks county almshouse one
night recently.
Berks county raised $50 900 worth
of tobacco last year.
Nine boys procured a quantity of
powder from an abandoned powder mill
near Ly ykees' Dauphin county recently
played with the compound awhile, and
went home badly scorched.
Bethlehem is enlivened by town and
gown fights" iu which students at the
Lehigh University and boys of the
towns participate. rhe last set to
eventuated on Friday, when a heavy
"Pennsylvania Dutchman" won endur
ing laurels by badly thresning collie
gian.
The Canadian GoverameD. has taken
measures to prevent the American fish
ernan from driving the ish from the
E anadiau TO the opposite side of the
Detroit river oy the "shirgiing' pro-
cess. Hundreds of small pieces of
board were anchored below the surface
and being tossed by the current fright
ened the fish off. This seriously inter-
fered with the catch on the Canadian
side.
The Savannah bondhoiders have met
and resolved that the city is able to
discharge her present bonded indebted
ness provided time be gwen.
A coal train ran off the track at Lost
Creek Station, Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad, on the 3rd. Twenty ears
were we're wrecked, the telegraph lines
Knocked down, the passenger station
demolished, and the freight depot and
store house damaged. Several persons
were slightly injured.
Two Harrisburg servant girls blew
out the gas on retiring Sunday night
and we're nearly suffocated.
Game 10 the central and western
parts of the State is as plentiful as in
Colorado and Minnesota
The Delaware and Hudson dam at
Lackawa1en has been passed over by
1882 RATS since January first.
A two tailed rabbit exists a, Pho
nixville.
In breach of promise case, tried at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on Monday, the
plaintiff, young lady of eighteen, was
non suited because the defendant, a
New York youth was minor when the
alleged contract of marriage was made.
Ten passenger coaches and seventeen
hundred aud seventy-one freight cars
we're turned out at the Altoona shops
between January l and October 81 of
this year. During the same period
nine thousand, seven hundred and twen-
ty three cars were repaired
A New York man, whose children
we're rejected at the public schools
nearest his residence on the ground
that the schools were overcrowded, has
brought suit by mandamus against the
against the school board of the dis
trict, to determine whether the courts
cannot compel the school trustees to
furnish accommodation for all the chill
dreE in the district over which they
have authority.
Numerous cross ties on the Union
Pacific Railroad have become petrifed.
They we're laid several years ago.
The new Sheriff of Kemper county.