Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-07
News Items,


What a CHASTITY j"ke it was naming
thai swindling Life Insurance Company
In New York, "The Security"
1t is strange that the counterfeit ten
cent pieces cause more general alarm
than the counterfeit $1,000 bills.
The Harrisburg Car Manufacturing
Company have a contract Tor building
number OF cars for Baruun, the great
shnwman.
Moses Oxenrider, of Berks county
recently made the following prepara-
rions for the subsis' ence of his family
He killed bullock weighing, dressed,
SS7 pounds, and five hogs weighing
2.276 dressed. He made | .02S pounds
Of sausage. one of whicn weighed 33
pounds; l30 pounds of pudding, over
200 pounds Of lard, besides q .ot Of
scrapple. Moses must have large
family.
Mr.. Jeremiah ". Andreas, of Berlns-
vile, Northampton county, Is owner of
torse 80 years old.
A black eagle, weighing forty four
pounds, was recently killed bv party
of hunters near Monticello, Va, and
only surrendered after both It's wings
had been broken and it had been pur
sued several miles by hounds and horse
men. 1t had on its neck when cap
tured brass collar, with ~. s." en-
graved upon it.
Mrs. Abigail Gage, wife of Rev. j.
W. Gage, pastor OF the U. B hurch,
of Uuion City, Erie county, died few
days ago from the effect Of q dose of
corrosive subiInate Purpose!y swallow
ed. She left note staring that she
had been struggling all her life against
q desire to take her own life. aud that
since the death of her child she could
no longer resist it.
In Cambridge Mass evening school
is nan Of fifty seven lrsrn'ng to read,
and "ne of forty working arithmetic.
The Piusburg pickpockets are reap
ing the teetofsl field with great success
At one of Murphv's recent meetings
one gentleman had $1,000 stolen from
his pocket.
At KeeneyvilIe. in Tioga county, the
orher day, Edwin Mosier, a lad of
twelve yeais, adopted singular meth
od to relieve a gun Of charge it had |
contained for couple of years. Tax
ing the barrel out Of the stock he put
the butt of it in the kitchen FIRE, with |
the muzzle pointing into the room.
The little daughter Of the family, Hat
tie, sged about three years, sat on the
floor deeply interested in the operation
and looking directly toward the FIRE.
Very soon there was an explosion, and
the little girl fell unconscious, the ball
having struck her near the right temple
and passed through the bra to the
back OF the skull, where it was after.
wards found Aa,tened against the bone.
She died IN two hours. The careless
mother sat by and watched the whole
performance.
A Man and his wife and six children
residing near IIonesdale, we're recently
poisoned by eating pie that bad been
cooked III all imper!eci.y qlazrd plate.
A father TT mother who will cut a pie
in eight pieces deserves punishment of
some kind.
4 San Francisco clerk paid SS5 a
month for his rooms, ate So diuners,
and smoked % cent segs.s. The frm
ovarhauled his accounts aud found them
S2l 600 short.
The Fresno (Cal.) Expositor Of the
l1rh OF January says that a q .ck Of
wild geese, forming solid column Of
birds seven miles in length, passed over
that town the day before.
Charles Snyder was triel in Mead
vile two weeks ago and convicted Of
murder in the second degree. The
crimes charged agsins, hun were be-
yond belief, being among other things,
the murder Of his iliegIriwate child, of
which his daughter was the mother.
The evidence as Adduced showed that
Snyder had put the child In box be
fore it was dead, and carried 1t off and .
buried it no one knows where, as 10
trace of it has ever been found.
SIXTY two foxes and two wild cats
were killed IN Dauphlu county last year. .
Ii has been discovered that swlnj
ling scheme is On foot for obtaining un-
claimed interest on the registered bonds
by means of forged powers Of attorney, ;
the sh.rpers having pre- resiously ob,aired .
the numbers, amounts and owners
names of the bonds. .
The St. Louis Republican claims that
the wheat belt is shifting from the North
western TO the Middle, Western and
States, and that the -four
best suited to foreign Commerce is made
from wheat grown in Southern Illinois.
Southern Missouri, Kentucky, Teunes-
see aud Kansas, and to the list of States .
there will be speedily added Arkansas,
Texas, Colorado. New Mexico and the
Indian country. ,
At a Dunkard baptising near Green
Tree on the SchuyIkIll, the preacher
and woman he was dipping would both !
have been drawn under the ice and
drowned but for the timely aid Of two .
of the spectators who rushed in aud
caught them.
Philadelphia brews 1000, 900 barrel. !
of beer annually, valued at DearIy Sl0,.
200, 600.
Geo. Schlamp's pistol fell out of bis !
pocket in Letigh county last week,
'' went off," and Georges lamp Of lite
nearly went out. ]
Mrs. Dugan, of Harrisburg, draws a :
double pens'ou-as the widow Of two !
revolutionary soldiers. \
Twenty three persons were immersed )
in the North Branch about four miles
above Northumberland, Jan. 20ih. ]
Pittsburg is over Si4,000,0O0 il I
ieb', and is talking temperance