Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-08-29
News Items.

Darn, Lebanon county.
Lebanon county produced potato
stalks yielding one peck each.
ln tanada wheat is averaging about
40 bushels to the acre.
The Western Penitentiary has now
635 inmates.
The tobacco in Lycoming and Clinton
counties is growing 6ueiy.
The sheriff of Bradford county adver
iises l40 saIes for August 80.
An average'of forty thousand water
melons are received in New York daily.
A New York broker offers three per
cent. premium for fractional currency.
The militia privates receive Sl3 per
month; Co!onels , 1874.
West Chester citizens subscribed
$39S for families of militiamen.
Hopping cough is prevalent about
Sharon.
Eigh, companies of regular troops
are stationed at Scranton and two at
" ilkesbarre.
Among the Pi'sburg rioters was
Pole named Pulaski.
Lebanon county fair will open Octo-
Der 2.
A Lebanon county bald eagle want
a fresh meat dinner, and John ShultZ
is minus pig.
The Reading Railroad machine shop,
at Pottstown, has been closed aud the
windows boarded rp.
The stonecutters on the Bucks conn-
ty court house struck recently. They
are now open for engagements.
Lewisburg had a picnic attended BY
10 600 people.
Twelve female postmasters distribute
the mails in SchuylkiIl county.
ltis graveiy announced that the shoes
of Reading halter are thirteen and
half inches long, FIVE aud half wide
and soles an inch thick.
The day the Democratic county con-
venrion met at Butler, an observant
youth wanted to know what so many
tramps were doing iu town.
The Bradford county Commissioners
are going to purchase two hundred and
seventy acres for poorbouse farm.
A little daughter of Mr. John Kin
ney, of Tioga, severely burned the
other day by the careless use of kero
sene OIL
A Kentucky paper thus chronicles
an el"pement "Mr. j. c. Jarboe and
Miss Artelia Sterett left rather hastily
en the up packet last night, destined
for watrimony aud misery"
FIVE million feet more lumber has
been shipped from Lock Haven thus
far this year than during the first six
months of last year.
Addison Banker was shot ~ his
brother Wallace, while playing a game
of base ball near Stearo Hollow, Sus
9uebaDua county. He has since died
" lillian Driesbach a Williamsport
boy, is only seventeen years old, but is
SIX feet three inches tall, and weighs
one hundred and sixty six pounds.
A tramp attacked party of three
ladies and half grown boy near York
but the bog knocked the tramp down
and beat him until be was sens.less.
Miss Emma Gray, of Nuncy Creek
twp, Lycoming county, removed cher
ry seed from her ear few days ago
that had been fast there for fifteen years.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company paid
$40 900 in silver to their employees IN
the vicinity o. Pitrston. As silver in
large quantities can be purchased at
two per cent. disc.unt the company
made 81 400 by the operation.
New Castle will hold a baby show in
connection with the iair to be held 10
that city the latter part Of September.
We DO not envy the judge who awards
the premiums.
Ii required eight men and a block
aud tackle to lower Fannie v allace, Of
Lancaster county, into her grave. She
was 81 years old and weighed 5S5
pounds. Her coffin was I feet 8 inch
es long 5 teet 6 inches IN width and
1 feet deep.
Isaac J Wilkinson, of Coatesvill,
tried to shuttle of the mortal coil with
a dose of Paris green, but being green
in the business he took an overdose and
will recover.
More than LOO 900 Jews perished
in the siege AID destruction Of Jerusa-
lem by Titus, A ID. 20.
Lamps we're used by the ancients and
candles were an Invention of the Mid
die Ages. Wicks we're made of hemp,
papyrus, and the pith of rusbes.
The people of Winnebago county
Illinois, who two years ago refused to
permit Jeffer-ou Davis to address
them, will on the 18th of next month,
at their county fair. listen TO Governor
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina.
An aged couple living near Bowers
Station on the East Pennsy lvsnia rail-
road, named James and Elizabeth
Bower, aged eighty one and seventy
one respectively, recently superintend-
eli the digging of their own graves, in
DeLong cnurcbysrd. They are lined
with stone, and cost $500.
A lady from this city, while in Ale
gheny few days since, was met on the
street in front of a grocery by another
lady, who was carrying large package.
Lady No. | was requested to hold the
package for No. while she went into
the store. The package was banded
over, and it had been transferred but a
minute OF two until something in it be-
gan to kick. The Plttsburg lady at
once entered the grocery store in search |
of the owner of the package, but she
could not be found. The package was
examined and found to coutain a child
about two weeks old. BIB McGounigle,
of the Allegheny City Poor, board, will
D,fYob.~r r,-ofy,