Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-21
News Items.

N. T., IL nov eighty two years OF age.
The entrails of sheep are being utir
lied in CaiiforDia, whers they are mau
ufac;ured into ropes for hosting sppa-
ratus in mines, &c.
A COW belonging to West Bradford
Chester county, farmer, died last week
and h posi- mortem examination disclosed
a hair pin sticking il the animals heart.
Professor Dieterici, of Berlin, sought
to show in a recent lecture that the
theories of Darwin we're by no means
novel, having been published in sub
stance by learned Arabs in the tenth
century.
Isaac Marks, secently hanged in Lon
don for murder, was the first lsrselite
England had legally put to death In 200
years.
Samuel Shilling, Of Reading, was
made the father of triplets on Washing
toms birthday-th'ee genuine shillings.
4 l0-year old miss OF Cayuga, Kinds
county, Miss, stands six feet in her
striped stockings, kicks the beam at
1875 pounds, aud sports six fingers on
each hand aud SIX toes on each foot.
Ike Shatfer, veterae horse thief,
aged Il, has been clspped in Bedford
jail for having horses IN his possession
that belonged to owuers in Virginia
Huntingdon Monitor.
The Altoona Globe saws that, on
Thursday last, a respectable looking
German woman was found in box car
upon the ARRIVAL of a freight train in
that city. She appeared cortented
and said she bad very pleasant ride
from Harrisburg.
Franklin Hall, aged ffty-eight, an
old counterfeiter, was arresed in St.
Louis on Wednesday. A large lot Of
dies for eounterfeiting silver coin of all
denominations below 81, were found in
bis room.
Six Cinnamon sere attacked in their
in Cisco, Cal, on Wednesday night, by
gang of whites. Three we're shot dead
the forth died soon after, the fifth will
not recover, and the sixth escaped with
a slight wound. The cabin was set on
fle, but the surviving Chinaman ex-
riuguished the flames. The assassins
escaped and no clue to them has been
found The murder was in cold blood
and unprnvoked.
At Miilvale. Bucks county, Jonas
Hagar, who had been drinking. by mis-
take walked out OF the third story door
of mill and fell to the ground. He
escaped with broken arm and di.lo-
Gated shoulder.
On Monday last a young married
man of LaceyvIlie, being unable TO get
work, and his wife threatening not to
live with him unless he did work, shot
her and then blmself, dying instantly.
There are slight hopes Of her recovery.
Ii is announced that the First Ma
tionsl Bank of Northumberland will
close up its business, there being no
profits in it.
Among the candidates for the ST.
Louis Post Office is Miss Phebe Coz
zens. During a call upon the Presi.
dent day or TWO after his Inaugura-
tion, she to d him that Gen. Grant,
when he had so much trouble to find a
suItab BILE mau to maze Chief Justice of
the Supreme ourt, assured her that If
the Senate refused to confirm Judge
Waite be would nominate he. Presi-
dent Hayes replied that she certainly
would have made a most charming
Chef Justice. and that If she had held
the Office when be took the oath he
should have been tempted to kiss her
instead of the Bible.
Muups are epidemic iu South East
on.
According to a Democratic news
papes more than three thousand murders
have been committed Iu Kentucky with
IN the past sixteen years and anly
thirty Of the rhurderers have been pun
isbed.
A despatch from Aiken, SC, under
date of March l6, says: On Novem
ber I'd, 1876, two quiet Germans, nam-
ed Harreman aud Porrman, living four
miles iIom this pace, were murdered
their house robbed, set on fire aud
burned to ashes. Suspicion attached
IN five negroes named Nelson Brown,
Lucius Thomas, Adam Johnston, John
Henry Denis and Stephen Anderson.
who were arrested. Proofs accumula-
ted that they we're the right arties, and
they 6ual v made a con essiUn, and also
confessed to burning the Baptist church
at Aiken, numbering a white man nam
ed Levin aud other crimes.
On January 5 they we're tried by a
jury composed of twelve negroes, con
victed aud sentenced to be hung on the
18th of March. Yesterday Governor
Hampton respited Anderson for thirty
days. This morning the execution of
the four others, Nelson Brown Lucius
Thomas. Adam Johnston and John
Henry Denis took place in the presence
of about 5000 people. The sheriff had
a posse of one hundred armed men
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