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

DAPehOAi i~ 'Aovoho W oA uiaf illilS
extent is upper Leacock township,
Lancaster county.
There were 1872 deaths in Alleghe-
ny last month, nineteen of which were
from diphtberia:
Hazing at Dartmouth College is
almost entirely suppressed. Four
hundred and twenty five students are
now in attendance.
In Indiana a married woman can
sue in her own name to recover dam
ages from saloon keepers who sell IL
quor to her husband.
The Indians seem to have started
on the war path
Panels for doors and tables are
being made of plate glass
A yellow rabbit was killed near
York, one day last week.
George Long, of Hill Valley, killed
wild turkey, the other day, that
dressed twenty five pounds.
John Booher of Huntingdon coun-
ty, on Thanksgiving day, killed a
large blBck bear in the vicinity of
Mount Union.
A nimrod named Wash Bradney,
of Hyner. has trapped seven bears in
the wilds of Clinton county, this sea-
son.
Mrs. Hayes. is quoted as asserting
that having lived so many years
where there were few public amuse-
ments, she had lost all taste for the
theater.
A French chemist is said to have
succeeded in producing a paint with
which to illuminate the numbers on
street doors at night. Figures traced
with it are so lustrous as to be read
even on a dark night, and the prep
aration of the compound is said to
be simple, inexpensive and not injur
ions
A Chinese girl ten years old, was
recently stolen from Sacramento,
Cal, and was, after a prolonged
search, found to have been taken by
a chinaman named Lin Toy, to Rab-
bits Creek, near Downieville, and
sold for S120 The girls relatives
had to pay the owner that sum be-
fore she was released.
Oh, do not be discouraged. Stan
ley, with only ia fighting natives,
wallopped 100 hostile Africans in
fight lasting fifteen minutes, and he
lost but one man.
Scranton has been swindled by
her local officers, who raised city
warrants, some of them from 81 to
$1,000.
Miss Harriet Lyon, of Beaver, lost
her poketbook in Rochester in 1S47.
Recently she received through the
post Office the amount originally lost
with thirty years. interest. The adj
dress of the envelope was construct
ed of printed letters cut out and pas
ted together, leaving no marks with
which to identity the sender.
A few nights ago Mrs. Elizabeth
Kirk, of Downington, was startled
from her slrImbers by some one lay
ing a hand on her. She jumped
from the bed, struck light, and saw
a negro in her room Upon asking
him what he wanted he said he wish
ed to sleep in the house. She told
him to go down stairs and lie on the
loung, which he did. She afterwards
covered him up and, making some
excuse about going out to see obout
her chickens, she left the house and
found Constable Henderson, who ar
rested the fellow while he lay on the
lounge. He gave his name as Nat
Williams.
j. b. Shearer, blacksmith of S o.
nersviIIe, Pa, has two phenomenal
children. One is girl of SIX, that
weighs eleven pounds, and can neither
walk nor speak Sb. was boru without
eyes or eyellds, the skin berg drawn
tightly over sockets. The other is a
girl almost four years old, aud Is also
very small, but some what heavier than
her sister. She is similarly jeformed.
the principal difference being that she
has the partial sight Of of one eye.
They are III perfect health, ami eat as
heartily as any of the family, and take
great delight in being noticed. Mr..
Shearer has two sons, aged respectfully
fourteen and three years, whp are fne-
looking boys.
Baked clay fence posts are used in
Lehigh county.
The total loss by the Millerstown,
Butler county, fire is estimated at
$500, 900. The postofice, hotel and
number Of business houses and dwell
hugs were burned, and many families
rendered homeless. The fire is be-
lieved 20 have originated from the ex-
p!osiOn of q coal oil lamp.
A Tyrone Pa. lady was consider
ably alarmed the other evening, when,
having occasion to procure something
from the wardrobe, her hand came in
contact with a bearded face. She
tainted on the spot, and the man evac-
uated the closet promptly. He was
probably waiting for the family to re-
tire, and then would have entered upon
systemtic ROBBERY of the premises.
The wages Of the track hands at
Scranton have been reduced to ninety
cents per day.
The hog disease has caused serious
loss to the farmers of Lebanon county.
Nine hundred thousand toby segars
are made weekly at Pittsbnrg.
or the thirty eight Legislatures,
twenty four now meet only once in two
years.
One of the prettiest girls of Pleasan-
ton (Texls) recently elopeG with and
married colored laborer employed by
her father
Forty San Francirco men have for
tunes exceeding four millions of dollars
each Forty others have from one to
Al