Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18
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Tilton and Moultou are not estrsueed.
Virginia is looking up in business
prosperity.
A hundred murders occur daily in
CoDstantiuople.
Deer are destroying the crops in parts
of North Csroliu..
Gen. Grant was delighted with fair
Biugen on the Rhine.
Bass fishing is afording splendid sport
along the Suspuehanua.
The hog cholera is prevalent in some
portions of Dauphin county.
The Harrisburg School Board has
abolished mechanical drawing.
During the heated term of last week
three of York's citizens seceived attacks
of sun stroke.
Counterfeit two dollar bills on the
Farmers Bank of Oswego, have recent
ly appeared.
Newark has drowned 30S dogs this
season. Red Bank has school house
bell l56 years old.
Over 1886 dogs have been received
since the opening of the pond IN New
York. OF this number l,500 have
been drowned. An additional 500 ours
were captured on Saturday.
James Higgins, sexton of st Mary's
Church, Lancaster. fell into the church
cellar, which is 80 fee; deep, and re-
mained all night III was badly hurt.
A young man named Warrich, living
near Chew's Landing, was struck by
lightning during a recent storm, but
recovered after being sixteen hours in-
sensible.
The Freeman says that the "coal dis
coveries" in Perry county are nothing
new. These discoveries have been
going on for forty years, but they don't
hold out.
William Liggett, Of North Coventry,
Chester county, has young heifer that
has given birth to a calf with no eye
balls. The sockets are in the head.
and the lids blink as naturally as if
they we're filed with the eye balls.
Many horses in Chester county are
taking new disease. 1t manifests itself
in staggering weakness, then in run
ming at the nose, and difficulty in
drinking water. 1t is not the old form
OF eplzooty, but mere like diphtheria.
A man in Nippenose Valley, Lycom
ing county, has $500 gallons of horos-
made vinegar.
Springfield furnace, Blair county Is
again 10 blast. The annual capacity Is
1000 net tors.
The St. Louis ladies' hair-dressers
gave a ball the other night, aud a ,,bang
up" time is reported.
There was desperate in New Jer-
sey who kept the farmers Of Warren
and Hunterdsu counties in terror fer
several years. The other night he was
shot while engaged in burgiarizing, aud
now his victims wonder why the shoot
ing didn't take place long ago.
John A. Graham. leading citizen
of Huntington, has been taken to the
Asylum fer the Insane, near Harrisburg.
be Lick monument to be erected
at Lebanon Is soon to be put up in the
cemetery at that place. 1t will cost
$40, 900, and will be adorned by seven
statues. 1t was built in Buffalo, and
is now on the road.
The residence of Mrs. Jane A. JEFF
ferries, at Coatesville, was entered sew
era. davs ago and robbed of about $50
Mrs. Jefferies, before retiring, placed
500 in a water pitcher, which was
Lot found BY the burglars.
The Pennsylvania Steel Company, of
Harrisburg. have orders sufficient to
keep the works running day and night
for four msnths. Twelve hundred
hands are employed.
A, q circus at Bethlehem, Pa, an
elephant while being loaded on a car,
fell on its back. and began a terrible
roaring, causing panic for time, as it
was thought wild beast had broken
loose.
Potato patches in Lancaster and
vicinity are full of dead English spar
rows. In single patch some thirty
dead birds we're found day or to ago.
The supposition is that the birds eat
the olorsdo be, tie and are poisoned
by the Paris Green used to kill the bug.
Sixty-two persons we're recently cap
tured in P,itsburg gambling houses, the
list including professional gamblers,
lawyers, merchants, politicians and
sprinkle of clerks.
Among the premiums awarded at a !
school examination In Lancaster, Pa,
was S. gold piece to Miss Grace
Muench for "the mos: skillful darning
of stockings" The award was hardly
COM Muench. urate with the accomplish
ment.
Lafayette College, besides having a
large number of students from this and |
other States, has on its rolls r, presenta-
tives from Brazil, East India and Ja-
pan.
The Iowa Greenbackers held their
convention on the l0rnst, nominated a
ticket sud passed the usual resolutions
Another Spanish insult to the Amer
icsn flag is reported. The whatcr Ris-
ing Sun vas brough. to, her chief mate
taken of aud detained for FIVE days.
Mrs. Eliza O'Copnell, wife of Chas
O'Cennell, with her child, and Mrs. |
Mary NJ O'Connor, wife of Thos. Is.
O'Conner, and her two children, were
drowned at Baton Rogue on Wednes
day while attempting to cross the river
in q skift.
The Bethlehem times says: alt is
reported as positsve fact that one of
the Bethlehem School Direc tors, on
being upbraided for voting for the 5 per !
centum reduction of teachers wages,
excused himself BY saying that he had
misunderstood the motion He did not
know 1t meant 8 per cent, but 5 cents
q month on each teachers salary, and
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