Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18
News Items.

England in the possession of "veiled
lady"
| Physicians state that secondhand
furniture stores spread infection, by ex-
posing old mattresses aud bed clothes.
! Over one hundred men are at present
employed in the Chester rolling mills
manufacturing plate iron.
Mr.. Nary, OF Luzerne county, aged
ninety-eight years, who hao been blind
nine years, arose a few mornings since
with fully restored eye sight.
A young Iowa lady who goes strong
for woman's rights, las been presented
with a pair of pants. She painted fol
freedom, she painted for rerown; thai
made pair OF pants and she put :hem
Oh.
Altoona boasts of a canary bird that
whistles Yankee Doodle.
Woojs,owu, n j., Is to have little
canal, three miles long, and costing
S25,000
The Baptist ministers Of Western
New York and Pennsylvania are hold
ing a social meeting on the banks OF
Chautauqua Lake.
A Catholic picnic in Bradford coun-
ty on the 4th inst. netted the church
$500.
At Vienna Michigan, Louis Jacobs,
aged 73, was married to Mary Moni
nee, aged 81 The bridegroom,s ia.
ther, LOUIS Jacobs, Sr., who has lived
through log summers, officiated a:
groomsman and led the wedding dance
Pleasant Stanley, aged 20, living in
Greensburg, lud., was murdered In bis
bed by unknown men on Thursday
night week. Robbery was evidently
the motive, as large amount of money,
usually kept about bis person, wa,
stolen.
| Two hundred horses have been dis
abled by their feet being badly burned
by lime in the burnt district at ST. John
N. b. Ten thousand dollars additional
have been received from Chicago fol
the sufferers. Rebuilding is gong on
brlskly.
On the morning of the 9Th inst, a
young son of s. II. Kauffman. of the
Washington Erening Star, while play.
ing with a Smith & Wesson revolver
kept loaded in the house as a guard
against burglars, discharged it acci-
dentally, receiving the contents in his
breast and dying almost Immediately.
The boiler of a steam thresher ol
George Patterson, in operation about a
mile from Nashville III exploded with
great force on Friday a week, injuring
n. ". Moore and Harvey Lee Sc badly
that they died during the day. George
Wells, William Arhens and a young
son of n. McCracken were seriously
wounded.
Not long ago, woman living on the
river shore, near Marsh Run, York
county, who has been catching fish for
living. found something very heavy
attached to her hook and line, and 70
secure what she supposed to be large
fish, put her hand under the water close
to the hook, to raise 1t up, when the
thing, which proved to be large snap
per, bit her finger off.
An unknown German, aged abOu;
twenty FIVE, was found dead IN bed at
Philip Sody's hotel, Newark, on the
morning of the llth inst. A bullet wa.
probed from his brain.
On FRIDAY last Mrs. Johu Green,
living near Rouoake. Randolph county.
Mo-, was shot by her husband and
mortaliy wounded. Green claimed
that the shooting vas accidental, but
Nrs. Green declared it was not, and
shortly afterwards died Mrs. Green's
father caused the arrest Of Green aud
be was taken to Huntsville for eXami-
nation. On Monday night party OF
abou, fifty men took Green from the
custody of the sheriff and hung him to
a tree near at hand 1t is said Green
intimacy with another woman led him
to murder his wife. They had a fam-
ily of seven children.
Commercial Advertiser At a pro-
posed family reunion Of Pennypackers
in Pennsylvania, this summer, some
four thousand members are expected.
Colonel Wbipple,s command had q
fight with the Looking Glass Indians,
on the Clearwater river Idaho, on the
ID inst. Four Indians we're killed,
and many wounded. Several of the
squaws and children trying to escape
across the river, were drowned.
In York county recently a vicious
SOW fatally injured child aged about
four wears. The little one attempted
to catch one of the sow's pigs, when
the animal attacked the child, knock.
ing it down, biting the left hand
through, tearing large piece OF flesh
out of the LETT arm and left side, Bit
ing out two teeth and lacerating the
cheek and several other portions Of the
body.
On Thursday night last dark
brown mare SIX years old belonging to
Senator Pesle, of Lock Haven, was
stolen at Rebersburg, Centre county.
A rewari OF Sl00 for the recovery OF
the animal and $25 additional tor the
capture Of the thief is offered.
William H. Brady, OF Bristol, Bucks
county, ran against gate. post with a
clay pipe IN his mouth, lnjuring him so
that death resulted therefrom. The
stem had been driven through the GER
vical vertebra.
A travelling peddler, who was en-
gagged in selling potato bug extermI-
Dator, broke several bottles containing
the compound in lane near the resi-
dence OF Willism Stewart, in " bite
township, Indiana county, the other day,
the liquid saturatiDg the grass IN the
immediate vicinity. A flock Of sheep,
belonging to Mr.. Holsbery, we're graz