Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-11-07
News Items.

arrested for arson.
Earso murder trial cost Ncrtham ton
county the sum of S5,9 $50 67
The fiity.sixtb annual session of the
Lancaster County Teachers Institute
will be held at the Court. house in Lam
caster, fiom the 18th inst inclusive.
Sixty thousand dollars have been re-
fused by Harper for his brag hurse Ten
! Brock.
James Manly, Schyulkill coanry
Molly Mcguire, was arrested near
Wilkesbarre on Thursday upon charge
of being accessory to the murder of
Wren and Sanger near Pottsville In
September, 1875.
Mr.. Errett, of Pennsylvania says he
will ask an appropriation of 5 900 900
for the Putsburs Custom house. The
ground has been purchased at c,st of
55O, 900 and nothing has yet been done
with it.
William b. Booth, one Of the oldest
aud most prominent citizen OF chester,
dropped dead in his yard GU Thursday
morning. He was sixty SIX years OF
age.
Adyices from Newfoundland state
that tue fisheries are u failure, and that
the prospects have not be.n 50 bai for
years. % the western coast there is
great destitution, aud fears are enter
tanned of much suffering during the
coming winter.
An excursion party will leave Cham
ber,burg about the 18th for Kansas
City, Mo
A PIttsburg man, who was seriously
injured whist intoxicated, has brought
suit to recover $4,000 damages from the
man who sold hun the liquor.
i man died in the Reading hospital
q few days since friend!ess and penni-
less, vino 10 his time had won half a
million dollars at three card monte.
The French are much pleased with
General Grant but theu, all people
are pleased with General Grant, but the
Democrats.
The Number of lives lost on steamers
IN American waters N the past year was
2lI.
Mrs. Ellen Ciney, who set her sister
in laws house on fire 10 New York aud
said sne would like to dance on the ash
es, has been sentenced to Imprisonment
( for lite,
! There were six hundred and ,ix,eeu
berrhs and tour hundred aud forty
seven deaths 10 New York last week.
\ lady in Reading was suddenly
sei,-d sIth nausea and retchihg which
/ dlsiodged a lizard about three inches
long, the tail having been broken. She
said this way the fourth one that left
her IN the same way and she attrIbu-
ted their presence to the fact tba; she
drank water at pump some time last
summer.
A jurymao in the Risser murder trial
AT Lebanon gave US 4 reason for their
not bringing IN a verdict of guilty that
they "were afraid that Risse.'s ghos: in
after lifetime would haunt US if we found
him guilty"
At Patterson, n j.. on Sunday, two
boys aged respectively 10 AMI Is year,
Of aye, annoyed a canal boat captain to
such degree that he fired at them with
a shot gun and severely wounded both
On last Wednesday a man named
Frank Parks fell dead in front of Jack
son aud WOdin's stree He vas en-
ployed about the place at the time, and
had been apparently we'll. Heart dis
ease probably - Bloomsbury COlum5ian
Mr.. Spurge0n gave bis congregation
, the other day some personal information
concerning hats. Tie said that in his
younger days the chimney pot hat was
indispensable if breaches wished to
maintain his respectabiIity; but tba; he
now wore any kind OF hat, regardless
of consequences.
Miss Lizzie Ih!ing Rose made an as
cent in balloon from ST. Louis recent
Iy' and spent the night in the clouds
She had a thrilling adventure and was
finally landed in tree top. from which
she was assisted by a farmer to the
ground She made a narrow escape
from landing in the Mississippi.
A woodpecker bored hole in the
spire of church in jackson. Mississip-
pi, last Spring, and made his nest with
in Ii In the Summer however, a swarm
of bees flew to the spire, drove out the
wooipecker, and have since filled the
the Interior with honey. And now
man. the sovereign despoiler, has dis
covered the hoard, and resolved to ex-
hibIt. the spire, with its novel contents
at the State Fair.
A resident Of Bradock Allegeny
collector who had almost pestered the
life out of him. on Wednesday paid the
amount of his taxes, Sll %. 10 old fash
ioned red coppers. The money weigh
ed twenty six pounds and filed peck
measure to overfowing. The collector
had to get bag to carry the coppers
away in.
Miles kIinch, Of hicago, SIX years
ago married Mrs. Klinch, and she has
since presented him with eleven chill
dren. Four times she has given birth
to triplets.
The Free Press is still away behind
the age, for il thinks sit is better that
a woman should keep her stockings in
repair than that she should know the
origin OF the rainbow"
In the P,tt-burg Penitentiary is
child that was born there, aud has new
er been outside its walls. The moth
er was committed to the institution two
years ago. Three weeks after her in
generation she gave birth to the child,
which is we'll cared for By the prison
authorities.
Philip Wismer and bis son, of Toby
hanna, Luzern county, the former aged
fnrtv five and tho Iatfar savantaan an