Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-17
News Items.

Three deaths from hydrophohia took
place IN Tamaqua last week.
A Leh:gh county lover languishes in
Jail to answer for a malicious and de-
famatory libel of aud concerning the
young lady who rejected his attentions.
Trsmps who wish to sleep in the
Warwick Iron " orks, at Pottstown,
are obliged to break limestone an hour
for the privilege.
John X. jenkins, wife AID six chill
dren, residing near Honesdale, we're
recently poisoned by eating pie tina,
had been cooked in AL imperfectly
glazed plate.
The Iron .7ge says that paper car
wheels have run over 100000 miles
aud promise to last one or two thou
sand more without new set Of tires.
The salary of the burgess of Middle
town is $50 year.
There are two hundred persons cared
for at the cumberland county aims
house.
The epizootic ha. made its appear
ance among horses in Franklin county.
1t cost Columbia youth ten dollars
to throw a SNOWFALL at ex Governor
Chamberlain.
Owing to the hard times and a gen.
eral stoppage Of work the Cinnamon in
San Francisco have very gloomy out
look as regards employment. 1t is
not improbable that this will discount
the troublesome question of Asiatic
immigration.
The farmers Of Berks county have
loaned the Commissioners of that Sec
tion Of the State $4,000 at FIVE per
cent.
A colony is forming in Williamsport
to 60 to Texas
On Sunday night last five prisoners
escaped from the Jail at Greeusburg.
Jacob Trout, of Huntingdon county,
was killed recently by the falling of &
tree.
A new bell, weighing 2,400 pounds,
has been placed in the tower of the
HoIlidaysburg Court House.
A Hartford German made himself
notorious the other day by eating half
a pound Of new butter and drinking
an entire keg Of lager in three hours.
He was sober when be got through.
Bethlehem is proud because it con-
sumes more pretzeIs and lager beer
than Reading.
Florida has young lady named Neu-
ralgia Dimple. Her mother found it
on a medicine bottle and was captivs-
ted With it.
There is genuine buzzards' roost
on the hills IF Muddy creek, York
county, where thousands of these birds
roost nightly.
A very petite lady who did not wish
to ask for a cradle, asked the store
keeper ifhe had any matrimonial. baskets.
A writer in a Lebanon paper dis
cusses the indelicacy Of congregation
making Its pastor an ostentatious pre-
sent, when at the same time it is 10 ar
rears with his salary. That is q hard
life.
The daily production in the oil re.
giOn is now about 5000 barrels day.
The Walnut Street Presbyterian
Church, st. Louis has seeded from the
Southern Assembly and joined the Pres
byterian Church Of the United States.
During the storm two weeks ago the
wind over Mount Washington blew q.
the rate Of 200 miles an hour.
Four banks in New York State have
closed during the year, and the deposits
have decreased five millions.
Laborers are SO plenty in China tha:
man sentenced to be hanged in that
country can buy substitute for fifteen
dollars.
BY statistics il is shown that within
the limits Of the island of Java every
year about three hundred people are ca
ten by carnivora, two hundred by the
crocodiles, one hundred killed by the
rhinoceros, FIVE hundred killed by light
nlng, while one hundred die by snake
bites. and a varying number by earth
quakes and volcanic action.
Congress has time getting tie de-
spatches that were sent by the respec-
tive parties from New York, South,
during the election.
The small pox is raging fesrfully in
London, England.