Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-31
News Items.

Three new brass bands organized IN
York county.
D,pbtheria is epidemic at Pittsburg
Sixteen cats in one box passed
through Tyrone the other day.
4 sugar mill iu Chester is Under
gong changes necessary for the man
uiaeture o: ccrn syrup.
A little girl III Armstrong county
was given six shooter as play thug.
The ball lodged in her mothers knee.
The receipts Of the recent agrlcul-
iural fair held at Carlisle loot up $500
Five hundred acres in Clinton c1uu-
ty are devoted to the raising of tobacco.
/ Fred. Bry dyes and Mis-. M'Kenzle
whose fIgnt trom Canada to the States
created such a sensation a little over
a year ago, were married in Boston on
FRIDAY last. The lady has been resi-
ding in Chicago for some time, and Oh
tanned dIvorse there lately FROM her
former husband.
Early on Saturday morning a
week, Jos. Potts. a farmer living at
Three Trees, a short distance from
Bordentown n. j., was awakened by
the falling of heavy log which he
placed against the door of his room.
He saw man who was attempting to
craw. through the panel which he had
broken out, took bis shot gun and fr-
ed. A search was made when blood
was tracked to the creek, where the
body Of the burglar had been thrown
by his companions.
Within four years family of miners
IN the ScbuyIkiIl coal region have lost
father, uncle aud two sons by accidents
IL the mines
Puxsutawney, Jefferson county,
with poll list Of only one hundred and
forty, has eighteen representatives in
the Western Penitentiary
Pithole, Pa, had, when the oil fever
was at its height, postal delivery
ranking third in Pennsylvania. At the
last election the town polled six votes
and is about to give up its charter.
A cheap cookery movement, under
the leadership of the Princess Louise,
is now in progress in Brighton Eng
land A teacher has been engaged
from the Kensington National School
of Cookery, who will give lessons reg
ularly from singh class demonstrations"
to 'cheap cookery" The school board
of the place-equivelent to board of
education in this countv-have sent
some of the elder girls from the schools
to take lessons IN the art. The girls
are reported as showing "great aptitude
| for instructions.
There are eight doctors in Congress.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has just return
ed to this country, leaving her daughter
at school in Germany.
Spelling bees have been started in
Lancaster county.
Gen. Miles who captured Chef Jo-
sepb, began life as clerk in a crock
eryware store. and was only twenty one
years of sge when the war broke out.
4 furnace al Lebanon made forty one
ton of pig iron IN twenty-four hours.
Six students IN American colleges
committed suicide within the past six
months.
j. Wesley Shorter, colored gentle
man, of Indiana, Pa, was summoned as
a grand juror to the UL,ted States Dis
tsict Court, at PIttsburg.
Pestilence walks closely in the track
of famine kilograms from ten dis
tricts of India say, '.Cho!era is preva
lent" and several include, also, '.fever,
dysentery and small pox" in the lis, of
scourges that are threatening if not
checked, speedily to more than deci-
mate the population of that fated cOuu-
try.
The Lewistown Sentinel says: that
on Friday, l2inst., Samuel Hull, aged
81, collier, living on the Logan Iron
& Steel Works property, left home on a
hunting expedition, taking with him
such au outfit as was supposed would
answer for hunt oD the mountains
near by. He has not besn seen or
heard of since that time although the
mountains have been thoroughly search
ed
A Maine man went out the other
morning and cut down his apple trees
and when his friends expostulated be
said that he had INDUCED in so much
profanity at seeing his apples stolen
from time to time, that he found every
Sunday morning that he was unit to
90 to church. That man is wiser in
bis generation than Adam.-.Nep Hd
zen Journal Courier
A Richmond paper reports that Miss
Lizzie Van Lew, late postmaster of
that city, has associated herself with
business man in the manufacture of
Plow points and castings.
The grand jury Of Pittsburg, Pa,
have agreed to postpone action compel
ling Governor Hartranfi, and other
State officials to appear as witnesses to
enable them to submit the question IN
voIued for decision by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
A strange man was recently found in
helpless condition near The house of
Casper Flic, IN Madison township, Clar
ion county. He was taken immediate
ly TO Mr.. Flick's where he died in few
minutes Laudanum and opium were
found on bis person, and the Coroner's
jury determined that death was caused
by poisoning He was about 35 years
old, of dark complexion, had a black
mustache, and evidently was of German
descent. His name Is presumed to be
Henry Wolf.
Lucy Stone and the Rev. T. +. Bliss
had lively spat at the polls in Denver
She said that if she had known who he
was she whould not have shaken hands
with him, be being an opponent of fe-
male sffrage, aud he retorted that he