Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-22
News Items.

a general famine Is feared Ia the
East Indies.
Hogs are being fattened on peaches
about Columbia, 5. G.
A western paper says nearly all the
tramps hai! from New York.
Two Gatllng guns have been sent to
Wilkesbsrre from West Point.
A company a. Allentown have begun
the manufacture OF paper bags.
There is a vigilance committee in
every township iu Lancaster county.
A disease attended with great NOR
taIity has broken ont among tie horses
in Jersey CRY.
Sixty millions Of dollars is the sum
set down as having been lost by the
late railway strikes.
A colony is being formed at Allen
town Texas is their destination.
DR.. a. b. Crawford, of Z ulenton,
first introduced refined petroleum into
Europe. Ii occurred while he was Con-
sui IN a Belgium city
Among the citizens composing the
Sheriff S possee. of Harrisburg, Is John
A. aged 16. He has been on duty
since the formation of the company.
Peter Stiles. Of Bedford county. was
way laid by four iontpads last week and
relieved of over 500. He resisted
their attempts and was shot in the arm
and hand.
In 1920 times we're so slow in the
best portions of Pennsy ylvania that real
estate was vaiueless. Grain sold at
from eight to twelve cents per bushel,
vegetables brought next to nothing.
aud sheep could be bought for fifty
cents.
The Pittsbrrg Telegraph estimates
that tie gun dealers of that city lost
$4,000 in goods stolen by the mob.
STYLES Brookens was bitten by a
mad dog on Tuesday, on Duncau's Is
lard
A hunter, named James Wilson,
near Sh,rl-ysburg, one day last week,
killed rattelsnske six feet long 81 in-
ches in dla meter aud having 8 .attics.
The Sheriff of Berks county has
made claim against the county of
81 rs Tor each member of the posse he
summoned during the disturbances in
Reading.
A Young lady of fifteen summers. who
was iusuI,ed at ball ip Kempton, Lee
high county, by two men, gave one of
them a sudden knock with her fist in
the face, sending him sprawling on tue
floor, aud thea attacked the other chok-
ing him severely.
Four members of the coal iron police,
we'll armed, enter the Berks county
jail each evening and remain there un
nj the following morning. There are
still some thirty five OF these police in
Reading guarding the property Of the
railroad company.
A poor woman in Berks county had
provided for Is dogs until recently,
when a storm blew down her cabin and
xii ed six.
Twelve thousand sewing machine
needles are made daily at the Domes-
tic Needle Works, MIddlvboro, Mass.
Fifteen thousand per month are sent to
Australia.
The Latta Guards, of Altoona, have
disbanded. Just two of the mem bers
of that organization reported for duty
when called upon to turn out to assist
in putting down the rioters.
One OF the leading hotels of New
York has the Lords Prayer printed en-
tire on It's daily bill of fare.
The Loca! Optionists are accused of
using whisky to carry one Kentucky
district at the late election. They jus.
tify their conduct on the ground that is
proper TO fgh; the devil with fire water
The 600 cottsges aud 500 tents at
Ocean Grove accommodate 5000 per-
sons.
A child of Nicholas VAIN. Jr., re.
siding near Hornerstown, Ocean county,
died recently from eating fystone and
molasses, which had been placed in the
dining room for the purpose of destroy
ing flies. The little child was but
months old, and strayed into
the dining room through earelessness on
the part of some oae eaving the door /
open, and before it was discovered it
had eaten a sufficient quantity to cause
death.
A son of Edward Woody, o. Centre
vile, Monmouth county N. j., aged
four ears, was drowned in singular
manner on Friday. The child was
missed from the house, and the mother,
m going TO look for him, found him
head foremost in large iron kettle
filed with rain water a0d when she ex
tricatcd him he was quite dead.
A daughter of Joseph Foose, of
Berks county, was alone in the house
1ue day last week when a man, whose
face vas covered With a handkerchief.
entered and offered to shake hands.
Thinking it was neighbor disposed to
play joke. Hiss Foose, took the ex
ended hand when she was sei-ed and
bound after which the thieves ransack-
ID the house. !