Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-05
News Items.


Grant for President in 1880.
Neck tie parties are held in. Leban;
on.
The shaft collieries At Pottsri!ie are
idle.
Petty thieving is On the increase il
Reading.
A Virginia boy died after eating /,
pint of raw cbestDuts.
Tramps avoid Bethlehem since tn,
establishment of the Stone brs akipg fsc
tory.
There is said to be rich deposit o
silver in Lancaster county near safe
Hsrbor.
The establishment of q home fol
widows aud single women OF READING
has proved decided success.
Matte Weller, of Wuriemburg
Lawrence county, was burned to deatl
by the explosion of coal oil lamp.
The editor of the Easton Free Pres,
wants a baby show held IN tina, town.
He was married two wears ago.
The statement that ChIef Justice
Aguew intends to resign at the end oI
his present term is denied By the Har
risturg Telegraph.
Generals Early and Beaurgard are
now managing the louisiana State Lot
terry. From superstition they never
advertise on Friday.
A cabbage with fourteen distinct
heads surrounding a larger one is exhi
bited as a curiosity in York.
At Ashland child was found roast
ed to death. Ii had fallen from q chair
upon stove.
At Northumberland turkies have
been sold at five cents a pound lately
The throa. disease is killing gres,
many hogs in York county.
A horse thief esconced himself in q
culvert near Phenlxville, and after 9
siege of some hours Was captured.
The Wyoming massacre, which oc
Cured in that valley one hundred years
sgo the Sd of next July, will be com
nemorated on that date.
Fourteen children in the Lehigt
county allns house are laid up with the
measles.
Harrisburg is the sixth city in size
in this State.
A seven year old boy in Sullivan
county placed powder in bottle and
set fire to it. The lad was seriously
injured.
Patterson brushes back bis gray
brown bair 10 crinkly waving masses
from a dead white face
A Morrisyille saloon keeper, a few
days ago, became conscience stricken
because of his business, whereupon he
sold all of his liquor as soon as possible
aud Immediately joined a temperance
society.
j. j. Wright (colored). Associate
Justice Of the South Carolina Supreme
Court, has resigned, charges of habit
ual drunkenness and other irregularit-
les having been preferred against him.
One day last week the ceiling Of a
school house III Snyder county fell dur,
ing school hours, and a IL year old
daughter Of Josiah Kline, was inju ed
from which she died IN few hours
aiterwsrd.
A hunter named Long, residing IN
Trough reek Valley, one night last
week, succeeded in killing 2 deer aud
wounded third one. He secreted
himself on a tree, staadi0g IN grain
field, and while the deer we're feeding
be killed them.
The Renovo shops are now repairing
nine eng nes lately wrecked Oh the
Philsdeiphia and Erie Railroad Or
those burned at Pittsburg during the
riots ten are being reconstructed at the
atove shops, which are running full
time.
John Ii Barret. saloon keeper in
Auburn, n. Y was shot dead b. his
mistress, G .ra Youngs, on the morning
Of June l5, a; house of I'll fame in
Auburn. Last Saturday toe girl was
acquitted more from sympathy and
because of her beauty than from the
evidence. Prominent among those WIN
assisted the girl during the trial was
the wife of one of the jury. And now
that jury man and the girl have:run of
together.
John Lockhart was accidently shot
by companion while hunting near
Bradford. Ii is thought be will die.
A free "Diet of the Lutheran Church
is to be held in Philadeiphia the last
week in December, a, which addresses
will be delivered BY prominent divines.
The trial of the ShamGkin riuters cost
the county about twelve hundred dol
lars, aud the Knouf arson case about
the same
A duel was arranged to conc off
between two students OF the college at
Newark. They were to fire at random
through handkerchief to be extended
between them, but their courage cooling
they concluded to decline the combat.
liz Chester the advocates of temper
ance have established "experience meet
ings," at which the reformed drunkard
can state how be had wrestled with rum
when be permitted it to steal away bis
brains.
On Wednesday last Wells Sherk
four years old, son of Daniel Sterk, of
MonroevlIle, went into the boiler house
and breaking the stop cock of the boi
Ter, was scaIded to death BY the escap-
ing steam.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
lost by death during the last ten years
an aggregate OF l6s, Csc lay members.
The increase in the Methodist Church
for the year 1877 is about $1,000 mem
bers.
The Dallas TEX Herald paints a
gloomy picture of the labor market in
that city. 1t says: "Every fresh ar
irving train bur add to the miserable
multitude that suffers, starves, and e.