Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-05
News Items,
New York has 5000 telephones.

New York has 5000 telephones.
Cftron culture i'll Florida is q success
The smallpox Is still prevalent il
Budief county.
The lawyers of y ilksbarre have or
gan'zed a '.wsikIDg club"
Up to date Al. clay Marshall, esq
OF Mount Uuion, has killed nine Wild
turkeys.
+ j. Humphreys, of Ebensburg, has
bagged forty seven pheasauts this sea
sun up to date.
Anew method for heating and ven
ti,ating railroad cars has been invented
by Mr.. w. IL. Kilbourn of CORY
The hot air from the locomotive is driv-
ell into the cars by blower and regu.
lated.
A glass merchant in Hamburg, Ger
many, has forwarded ssnples of ware
10 an e.Ia5ushnent IN Pttsburg, with
a view of having h,s ware mauutaet ur
ed there
The Pennsy ylvanis Railroad shops al
Altoona employ 1900 operatives
N,th tue iaeIiiies at hand, an eight
wheel hopper bottom ear can be con
structed III al hour.
The Jesuits are now stated to NUN
Der ten thousand persons in their order
and their organization is one o: the
most complete the world has ever had
A lady who took passage at Pitts
burg for Greensburg the other day,
was found to be dead, sitting 10 her
seat, when the train arrived at he:
point OF destination.
A despatch from Watertowp N. Y.
under date of the 30th ult., says
Elizabeth Robinson, OF Antwerp, N. Y e,
stopping at the Woodruff house in this
city blew out the gas in her room on
Wednesday night aud was found yes
terday morning almost suffocated
Her recovery is doubtful. Also Mag
Barrett, aged fifty years rag picker
went to bed on Wednesday night with
a lighted pipe in her mouth. The bed
clothes took fire. and she was burned to
death.
1t costs from $4,000 to $4,000
build Pullman palace car in Altoona.
There are families in West Mid
dietown, Allegheny county, that can
march out SO children. The smallest
family contains 10, and the largest Is
children
At country school house in West
moreland county a teacher usmed
Young punished a pupil named BeIn
for breach of discipline The next
Gay the boy struck :be teacher with a
chair, knocking him down and injuring
him so badly that death is expected to
follow.
AT an early hour on Saturday morn
ing eight brick dwellings a, Mechan-
Icsburg, Cumberland county, the prop
critics Of l.. f Zoliinger. Mrs. Barnes,
Mrs. Baker, Rev Mr.. Hafeigh, Mrs
Moore, Mrs. Sepceman, Shope's estate
aud Mrs Coleman, were totally destroy
ed by fire. Loss,Sl0,000; insurance,
between 81 900 aud 5000.
All the funds on hand belonging TO
st. Peters Catholic church at Read
ing, We're deposited in one of the
banks of that city which has failed
The most valuable church proper
ty IN the Wilmington Methodist Con
ference is Grace, at Wilmington Del,
valued at S217,000, upon which there
is an Indebtedness of 100000 The
church at Port Deposit comes next
and is valued at $4,000.
Father Casci, the editor of the
Cirii'a Cathoiica, of Rome, who was
expelled from the order of Jesuits
for writing letter to the Pope in
which he advised the Holy Father to
the claim of temporal pow
er, has made his submission to the
Vatican.
William +. uriis was arrested a
short time since On Charge of passing
a couutortei; $1,000 Treasury note,
tut after i hearing was discharged by
Commissioned Sheldon, Mr. Curtis
vent 10 Cleveland Ohio, aud the officers
OF the cleveland Savings Institution,
after full investigation, ascertained
iha; Mr. Curtis had obtained the bill.
from the bank. The value of it was
promptly REFUNDED to him
An effectual and inexpensive deoder
izer is obtained by dissolviDg half
dram of nitrate of lead in pint of boil
ing water and two drains of common
salt IN a pail of water; the two solu
tioLs are then mixed aud the sediment
allowed to settle. A cloth dipped In
the liquid and hung up in the apart
ment is all that is required to purify
the most fetid atmosphere. II is recon-
mended for Its ckeapness, pound of
the materials costing about twenty-five
cents.
In the Criminal Court at Pittsburg
on Saturday sentence was passed oD six
men convicted of participation in the
riots OF last July. Matthew Marshall,
for burning railway cars, was sent to
the penitentiary for six years and ten
mouths and 6ued Eve thousand dollars;
James Carter, who attempted to fire the
Duquesue freight depot, to one year
and ten months in the Workhouse for
Assaulung Superintendent White while
ATTEMPTING to send out his trains on the
firs; day of the strike; j. NJ. Green,
who tampered with switch on the Al
Iegheny Valley road, one year and five
months in the peui,entiary aud fifteen
hundred dollars fine; Alexander Nc
Call and Daniel Moran, malicious mis-
chief, each six month in the Workhouse
and five hundred dollars.
Matthew Davenport, ofNorthamp-
ton, Mass, whose wife left him about
l month ago (they having frequently
1uarrelled), and who has since been
living with one Pratt, concealed HIM
self in Pratt's cellar last night, and