Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-04
News Items.

Ex-Congressman John Is. Storm oil
Pike county is about to enter the mln-
istry-
The Washington Republican thinks
Wade Hampton will be the next Dem.
ocrat nominee for the Presidency.
AT Coal Castle, Schuylk,ll county, q
child of George Hornberger was chok-
ed to death BY kernel of corn which
lodged in the wind-pipe.
4. Charles Page aud his son we're
shot and killed By r. l. Scott, at Dub
lin, Virginia, in quarrel about fence
separating land. Scott surrendered.
John Z. Breckenridge, son of the
late Vice President, will marry a San
francisco heiress next month.
Opium eating is increasing to an
alarming extent in Oregon, the victims
being mostly boys and young men be-
tween fifteen aud twenty five years of
age.
George KimbalI, an old man of Dali
ton, n. a., while drunk on Monday
night beat bis wife to death with a stick
of wood.
abraham 7. Beidler, eff Reading,
vacclnated himself with impure virus,
which produced great swelling of the
ann and inflammation Of the system re-
suI.ing in death.
The residence of Henry Seilly, at
| Creditor, ontario. Can J, was DESTROYED
by fire on Monday night a week.
Three children, age respectively 9, Z
and years were burned TO death.
A leading industry in Berks county
is and has been for years. the manufac-
ture of wool hats. The Times ard De
Spatch says; In ls40 from ten to twen-
ty hands were employed, who produced
one hundred and seven,y FIVE dozen
hats per week. In 1867 four hundred
and ten men we're engaged aud four
hundred and eighty nine dozen hats
were manufactured daily. Last year
four hundred and seventy eight men
found employment and SIX hundred and
forty eight dozen hats was the daily
product.
A child three years of age fell into
Prt:sburg sewer on Monday week and
was carried by the force of the current
which had been made unusually strong
by the heavy rain, under the surface
of Liberty street, and to the open space
beyond, where it was rescued by a
friendly hand
About 5000 persons have signed the
pledge IN Mercer county, beng fully
one sixth of the entire population.
At Plymouth, VT, there is a boy
who i. only Eve years old, but who
weighs nlnetyeight pounds, and meas
ures thirty six inches around the waist
and twenty five inches around the
thigh.
In Bethlehem when one neighbor
becomes too curious the other neighbor
erects fence tbenty feet high between
the houses, and thus effectually allays
thee uriosity of the curious neighbor.
The old county bonds OF DauphiL are
to be called In and new ones bearing
FIVE per cent, interest issued in their
stead.
A Norristown man had an old bu-
reau he couldn't sell for four dollars,
and the other day found Sl20 in one OF
the drawers.
One hundred Pennsylvania tramps
are in the Bucks county Jail
A boy named Doyle was accident
ally shot in the heart yesterday, while
playing on FIftieth street Plttsburg by
a revolver in the hands of com panion
The Hatboro' Cemetery Company,
recently chartered by the court of
Montgomery county. with a capital of
$4,000 has purchased % acres in the
lower part of the borough.
Maple molasses is selling in Wash
iugton, Pa, at one dollar and quarter
per gallon.
The Cumberland County Jail is
crowded with prisoners.
The bogus half fdollar pieces IN cir
cularion are composed of antimony,
lead and tin.
Florida green peas are in Baltimore
at ST so peck.
Harry raig, an eighteen months old
child OF Andrew t rag, of Leechburg,
Inhaled the steam from the spout Of a
teapot OH Tuesday, which scalded his
lungs and caused has death.
A large glue factory is aSout to be
started in Johnstown.
AT a late funeral in Lebanon county
FIVE hundred persons partook of dinner.
1t takes $50 per day TO relieve the
pressing wants of the Wilkesbarre poor.
Highwaymen are doing little busi-
ness on some of the roads in Clinton
county.
1t wasn't bull in china shop, but
blind horse that plunged headlong
through the large window of an Allie
gheuy tin store, playing smash with the
ware and cutting himself badly.
At tSkiDper's Eddy, WyomiDgcounty,
Pa, fea days ago, Andrew Cham
pion, young man, shot his wife and
then killed himself. The cause ia said
to have been her refusal to live with
him because lie bad no work.
The dead man found near Mahasoy
City has been identified as Philip Bre-
itenbach, a stone mason. For some
time the body remained in the station
house unclaimed, and it was thought to
have been tramp. 1t now turns out
that deceased hal about $4,000 on
deposit in Hazleton bank
Miss Sarah Evans, while returning
from POttsvile to Minersville, was
seized by stslwart man on a lonely
road, checked, struck in The face, and
dragged in a clump of bushes. She ere-
covered sufficiently to make a desper-
ate fight, and in the height Of the con-
flict, wagon was heard, and the fend
escaped.
Low shoes and striped hosiery will
be more popular than even with gentle
men next summer,