Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-11-21
News Items.

A Mennonite school has been opened
in Fayette county.
A cheese factory is to be erected a.
Lymansville, Potter comfy.
Westmoreland county boasts of cab
bage heads weighing eighteen pounds.
Reading car shops are overcrowded
with work, the men working twelve hours
In Utah few weeks ago q couple
we're married on Saturday sud divorced
on Monday. 1t was the msn Who sr-
piled for the divorce.
A Drunken man was picked up in the
streets of Pittsburg recently, with
$500 in bis pockets.
Special constablss, appointed by the
ssuc.ion of the Governor, are now arr
esting tramps along the line Of the
PennsS lvania Railroad.
A visitor at the house Of MIR. Sallada
o: Bsrks county, witnessed the extraor-
dinary sight of father and mother and
% of their sons and daughters seated
at the same table.
A woman writes to the Boston Globe
to say that there Is question in her
mind whether it is exactly the proper
thing for young men clerks in shoe
stores to fit young ladies boots on and
lace them up for them She says she
saw young man fit ten pairs of boots
one after another on a young lady re-
Gently and then they could't find fit;
and the young fellow seemed to like it
too.
Rockville bridge has been the scene
of a nun Der of accidents since the new
bridge was begun The Harrisburg
Telegraph OF the l4th says: We are
called on to chronicle another accident,
which, fortunately, was devoid of SER
ious result. Ayoung man named Stroh
from this city, who has been working
on the bridge, yesterday afternoon fell
off that structure, dropping a distance
Of forty five feet and striking on hi,
back in the water He turned quickly
and swan for the pier, not a bit hurt
His fellow workman let down ropes and
pulled him up.
Mrs. Csdy Stanton is credited With
making very sensible and sarcastic re-
ply to some one who asked her if she
thought that girls possessed, as a gen
eral thing, the physique necessary for
the wear and tear of a collegiate course
of study. Mrs. Stanton answered 81
would like to see you take thirteen
hundred young men and lace them up,
and bang ten to twenty pounds weight
on their waists, perch them on three
inch heels, cover their heads with rip
piles chIgnous, rats and mice, and stick
10000 hair Plus into their scalps; if
they then can staCd all this, they can
stand little Latin and Greek"
A tramp, who tried to steal a ride
from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Green
river, on the top of one of Jarrett x
Palmer's cars recently, had terrible
experience. The rapid motion of the
car compelled him 10 wind bis arms and
legs round stove pipe, aud hang on
for dear life, and his coat and hat we're
carried away BY the force of the wind.
The burning cinders pierced bis clothes
like bullets, and cut and scorched his
hands and face, so that, when be reach
ed Green river, the terror, exhaustion
and pain had made bis hair turn gray.
The Greensburg Herald says There
are about 100000 more os less-bIrds,
black or COW bIrCs, that have establish
ed '.roost' in ST Clair Cemetery, and, &,
just as regulaIly as the rising OF the sun
these birds leave their roost between
day light add sunrise, aud in one in
mense flock wend their way westward.
j ust exactly where they 90 We know
not, and, after foraging all day they re-
turn between sundown and dark and
take up their lodging for the night on
the trees in the cemetery. Can any
one give reason why those birds Sc
iected the cemetery instead of other
woodland for their roosis Or why
they all congregate together at night
and all leave at the same time, and all
go west, aud never east, south or north.
A little more than a month since,
Mr.. George Swapger, Of Dickinson
township Cumberland county, was ta-
ken ii! with symptoms resembling inter-
susseption of the bowels. He was un
der treatment DR.. NJ. r. CuIlison of
White House for about two weeks when
DR. A. j. Miller, of Carlisle, was called
in consultation. 1t was agreed that
the patient was suffering from intersus
seption br a twist of the bowels. The
most powerful known purgativ.s and
enemata were resorted to without effect.
The patient lived one month without
a passage from the bowels when death
came to his relief. A post mortem ex-
animation was made by Drs. A. j Mil
Ter and VI. r. Cullison which disclosed
the fact that the large bowel was iu
complete twist allowing nothing to pass
either way, and which was the inevita-
cause of death.
About twelve o,clock Saturday night
Mr. 7. I Barner, travelling agent for an
Ohio boot and shoe house, met three
men near the Union depot in Pittsburg
and asked them to tell him the way to
the Central hotel. They volunteered
to show him, and started down Liberty
street. Instead of taking him to the
the hotel they turned up Stevensou's
alley and, struck him choked him and
robbed him, of two hundred dollars in
CASH silver watch and gold chain and
his valise: the latter, however did not
anything of much value. He
notified the police at once of the affair
but the officers failed to find the men,
On Saturday night last, as Mr.. Vim.
Blesly, of Silver Spring township Cum
oerland county, was on his way home
rom Hogestown, bis horse came to q
halt in q road aud refused to proceed
arther. The visions of midnight rob-
oers' highwaymen, etc, instantly loom