Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-21
News Items.

market abnut l2u, ,VUU i0x skins.
Over 5000 Murphy nen live in
Mesdvilie and the temperance wave is
sSeeping irresistibly over every town
and village in Crav ford county.
Anglers should remember that it is
illegal to catch black bass IN any of the
streams OF the State until the lst of
July. The penalty for violating the
law is $40
A special session of the Il. W.
Grand Lodge of Penusylv4sia, L. .. o.
F.. will be held at Esston on April
10th, for the purpose of Admitting Past
Grands to membership in the Grand
Lodge aud inpar,ins instruction In the
work of the order.
Francisco PeraltO finished riding iu
New York at lU o'clock last Wednes-
day having accomplished l57 miles,
being l43 miles behind. His actual
riding Iime was % hours s minutes So
secuuds.
Mrs. Daniel Wolf, of DanvIIle, aged
~ yeaIs, committed suicide By hang
iug, on Saturday last. Just eleven
years ago her sou, Hiram Wolf, of
Mauch Chunk, committed suiside by
shooting himself.
A fire occurred in the Sheriff's office
of the kittanning courthouse on Sun
day, which destroyed all the Sheriff 5
private papers. The jury room was
also consumed.
Some of the citizens Of Schuylkill
county adhere to the opinion that gold
is 10 be found in the Mahanoy Valley,
and few of the farmers 10 that locali-
~ have, in consequence of the gold
fever, put up the price of land about
City per cent.
Blue glass trinkets of all kinds are
for sac, and many treasure them as
charms. They are made in Boston and
New Haven.
Rats are invading Saline county, Mo-,
and "literalIy gobtling up young pigs,
chickens, ducks, &C."
The PottsvIlie Miners Journal says ::
''N hIie digging grave in the Welsh
gravey ard, MlnersviiIe street Saturday,
Mr.. LrwIs Quinn, sexton found a gold
ring perfect as when /; came from
the jewellers. 1t was the wedding ring
OF lady who was buried twenty seven
years ago, and was made ill " Wales abuut
thirty years ago. The ring was sent
TO the husband Of the deceased owner,
who is now IN California.
AT Minneapolis, Miun., on Monday
night week the dead budy OF Mrs.
Mary Lyons was found at her residence.
her face and head hJrribiy mutilate6
and her skull broken. Her husband, =,
Daniel Lyons, was arrested on suspi
cion of having committed the deed.
The ticket ofiic- at Mill Creek station
was entered by forcing window on
Thursday night. The place was thor
oughly ransscked but nothing stolen.
A child a. Mill Creek was fatally
scalded by falling into tuo Of hot wa
ter ON Saturday a week.
A party of men killed, cooked aud
ate Spitz dog recently at Evansville.
Opinions as TO to the quality of the
mea, differ.
Those S"nth Bend wagon makers
turn out 100 wagons per day.
The pride of Grandview, Iowa, is 4
girl OF fourteen, who weighs 300 pounds.
Carlisle Is about organizing a c1ior-
ed coruet band.
The temperance excitement in Al
toona is intense.
Monroe county has arrived at the
dignity Of lady school director.
A flock of eight swans few over
Holiday sburg, on Monday, one of
them was shot by PhllIp ~ aIker, of
that place, which measured SIX feet
five inches from tip to tip. He shot it
on the wing with a rife.
An eight year old son of Jonas Lu,z,
wLo resides near Cen,revllle, Bucks
csunty, while riding horse to water
on " ednesday las. 4 week. was thrown
of the animals back and had his neck
broken
W. j. Wood, one of the county
auditors of LycOmiDg county, refuses
to sign the annual report, and gives
some excei,en: reasons for his action.
Montgomery county has q inmates
in the lunatic asylum, at Harrisburg
Pa. for which she pay. So per week.
each, with cost of clothing and other
expense in addition.
The Lehigh hunters max. bets on
their hounds. They take a fox, sttach
him to a chain, and run with him over
q number of felds back to the place of
starting. They then let the dogs out
and the one that takes the trail and
comes iu first wins the money.
Several years ago a man sold No
Kean county farmer an organ, and took
in payment sixty acres Of wild land
worth two dollars an acre. OIL has
been found on 1t, and il is now worth
$1,000 per acre. Oil of which is ratis-
factory to the organ seller.
A violent tornado has passed over
Alabama. 1t developed In the south
west and swept toward the northeast.
The houses on several plantations we're
demolished, and two persons are known
to have been killed.
At Williamsburg,N.Y., on Tuesday
week Johu Rooskamp, aged sixteen
years, was caught in the shaftlng in a
sboddy factory and whirIed about strik
ing the flooring until reduced to a
sbapeless mass, pieces Of aesh aud bone
clinging to the rafteIs.
jun Walker, colored, seventeen years
old, attempted to murder and rob Airs
Stocked last Wednesday, near Union
Ridge, Williamson county, Tenn, She
was rescued by another negro, Walker
was arrested and placed in jail at Frank
lin, from which be was taken out by
about dozen masked men, at eleven
o'clock on Wednesday night and hang
ed within a mile of that town.