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

lue nBttets a1e ufktpS Ooo6a
reduce the duties on silk plushes.
The Reese trial cost Huntingdon
comfy over 5000
A machine in the western penitentia-
~ paints twenty five broom handles .
minute.
Indian outlaws in Arizona recently
captured q mail stage and killed the
driver.
Alexander Hall, of Washington
township westmoreiand county, is one
Of the largest men in Pennsylvania.
His height is six feet eight inches, and
bis weight is PSI.
John Rehm, sged ~ years, . resi-
dent of Bethel township, Lebanon coun-
ty, was instantly killed BY being thrown
from his wagon.
A saur kraut sociable for Christmas
eve is proposed by Pitfsburg journal
ist. The profit will be devoted 10 the
benefit Of the fraternity OF that city.
The Grand Jury of Delaware coun-
ty have found the Jail over crowded, and
concur IN the recommendation Of pre-
vious juries that additional accommda-
tions be provided.
The Convention Of Manufactures Of
Saddlerv Hardware. recently IN ses-
sion at Nex York, has adjourned. The
established prices Of the association will
be maintained during the coming sea-
son.
A rabbit With two tails has been shot
in hester county.
The daily production of the Clarion
oil field is put at 1000 barrels.
A I've year old child at LewistoWu
was badly poisoned by wearing cardIn
al red srockInges. l, is though, ampu-
tarlou Of the foot will be nsce>suy
"PronouucIng matches" have super.
seded spelling matches
Since the Su.z canal has been opened
the level of the Mediterranean sea has
fallen four inches, and serious changes
on its shores are spprahended.
Nearly 6.O00. 900, tons Of freight
and over 5,UU0, 900 passengers w,re
carried by the Erie Railway last year.
Ninety thousand of Kenrucky's two
hcndred and seventy thousand voters
csunot read and over forty thousand of
them are white men.
The car factories are generally run
far below their full capacity.
NJ. Ronge, aged l02 years and III
month. died recently in Copenhagen.
where he was the oldest merchant, and
probaly the oldest in denmark.
The powder marks made on Admiral
John Worden's $ face in the famous Mon
itor fight in Chesapeake Bay are almost
obliterated, aud his sight has been res
tored.
AT Archibald. nine miles north Of
Scranton the house of PANEL Atkinson
was broken Into Sunday evening dur
ing the absence of the family at church
aud robbed OF $7u0 10 bonds and $500
in currency. The thieves made good
their escape.
Six prisoners escaped from the
Kingston, New York Jail on the llth
inst, by saving the bolts and locks of
doors Ii Is supposed that the saw was
provided BY friend visiting the PRS
ouers. The escaped prisoners we're
committed for CRIME, ranging from pet
~ larceny TO attemped rape.
A committee appointed BY the ALE
gheny County Medical Society report
the city of Pitts5urg to be the dirtiesr
in the Union. There had been 299
deaths from consumption in that city
from January IA TO date Of report
Fro.I iDperfeciions In sewerage and |
aud other causes the committee think !
il no wonder the cltizsns are dying by |
hundreds.
L, is expected tina, the work Of tun
nellng the Hudson between New York |
aud Jersey City will begin next spring
A yoke of steers has been the sub
ject OF litigation in Campbell, Ca, for
fifteen years The costs 30 far have
aulhuhteV ~ y ,0Ou-
Dr. Chapman says that be has known /
but one drunksrd to have diphtheria.
FsG-on says: "There are no better
domestic people in the world than the
Jews. They enjoy their families, and
never come home drunk. 4 Jew may
drink, but he never gets drunk.
A Pittsburg man has recently been
made happy by the recovery Of q dog
which he values at 81 .0G0, and which
was lnst some weeks ago.
A man in Venango contracted With q
doctor to remove some of the bodies of
the latter's relatives TO a new cemetery
and claimed short time subsequently
TO have per formed the task. Ii has
since been discovered th>t the bodies
have not been disturbed, but that the
head stones of the old graves have been
removed to the cemetery we're the bod
les we're to have been taken.
An Allegheny alderman has been
sued tor misdesmor BY the chief Of po-
lice, who alleges that the squire wrote
a newspaper article intImatibg tha, the
cbiet received sums Of money for the
settlement of illegal liquor cases in
winch he appeared As prosecutor.
Two small children Of Daniel Wit.
man, living about six miles from York
were play ing about the house = few
evenings ago, when one Of them, = lit
tie girl between I and s years old, got
q piece Of apple in ber throat. 1t was
strangled to death before any assis-
tsnce to relieve it could be rendered.
Near Liberty, Ky on Sunday night
the llth, Thomas Moore and United
States Specia! Bailiff George d. Ellis
killed one another. The authorities
have been looking for Moore for year
past on an indictment charging him