Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-19
News Items.


Turkeys are s.'drug' in Berk. coun-
ty.
Venisou six cents pound in Johns
town.
London contains uesrly 1000 uedica
students.
More pennies are clamored for BY the
western press.
A Huntingdon man has killed TWEEN
ty three wild turkeys thus season.
Diphiheria killed thirty hogs in a
Pu'-burg cistillery.
C,rds p oclaining the birth Of a son
or daughter are fashionable.
O.hnan Pasha's Wounds are danger
Gus, snd may prove fatal.
Mad dogs spread dismay in Irish
Valley, Northumberland county.
Hereafter York will provide work
for all rrsmps caught iu that vicinity
The wife OF n L. Reed, of the Pitts
burg COnuerciai Gszette is dead.
Chicago determined not to De behind
New York and Philadelphia, wants a
baby show.
The cost Of marriage licenses was re-
duced in Memphis from four dollars to
f.ty cents each.
The coffee producing industry iu
Mexico mas largely developed within
the last six years.
In four years the number of taxable
inhs5itants Of Wiiliamsport has Incress
ed los.
A Newark sneak thief purloined the
Grape and white ribbon from q door
knob recently.
Mary Ann Collins fell through the
trap door of an Allegheny paper mill
into Vat of scald,ne water and virriol
She was taken out dead.
George Rapp killed John Eiser with
stone at Chambersburg, aud Is under
arrest therefore. Both had been drink
ing.
Between $50 and 200 hogs have died
Of cholera at Iiylersviiie aud vicinity.
Centre county, recently. Tobias Frants
lost twenty-seven.
The watch factories at Waltham,
Mass, and Elgin, Ill, are still running
on full time.
john A. Moore of Plttsbuog va,
killed IN Texas recently during q raid
OF Mexican cattle thieves.
Tae latest thing in the monopoly
line is an effort to concentrate IN one
company the whole petroleum trade.
The Administrator fear serious
Chinese troubles in California.
Servia has at last declared war
sgalnst Turkey
A number of the Shamokin region
colleries have shut down until after the
Thirty eight prisoners occupied the
Blair county jail last week.
A four ear old daughter belonging TO
a family named ONeili, Of Ashland.
Schuyl ylkill county, wuiie playing 10 the
room recently fell with her iaoe upon a
hot cooking stove, rom which she was
uu able 30 Iise and was slowly rvssird
to death.
A San Francisco despatch SAYS the
Southern Pacific Railroad is building
200 miles into Arizona. Trade is
largely increasing.
A Berlin, Ont. Infant died in the
,,..rkla raoa,,fl,
One hundred and twenty four tramps
were admitted at the York county alms- !
house during the week ending Saturday
December Sth.
IL j, stated that an Englishman has
been arrested at Berlin by request #
the Germ IN military authorities, on a
charge of tr"ssou against the Empire
He had the plans of Metz and other
'or,resses in bis possession.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: On
tuesday while William Hoffer Of Car
isle was feeding his hogs he chanced
to lay his pocket book containing thir-
y dollars in greenbacks and check tor
thirty five dollars hear The trough, and
when be looked for it the animals had
eaten il.
b. d. Koons, an ex member Of the
State Legislature, was tried at " likes
barre, last week for the embezzlement
IF 200 from an Odd Fellows lodge.
The jury returned verdict Of guilty.
AOOus has applied for lew trial.
Isaiah b. Mufchler, who, with his
brother, left philIipsburg N. j., early
n the year 1857 and jnined the regular
lrmy. and who had not been heard
rom in twenty years, has returned to
,is former home.
The Berks County Poultry Associa
ion will hold an exhibition at Reading
Turing Christmas week. Application,
or space have been received from this
.ity, Allentown and elsewhere.
On the Western hi ision II the Penn
ylvsnia railroad, which extends from
Altoona to fittsburg, and embraces The
leavy grades over the Allsghenies and
he H"lidsvs burg, Epeusburg and
Cresson and Southwest branch lines,
wo hundred and sixty four iocomo-
ives are required TO haul the traffic.