Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-07
News Items,
The buds Of trees are swelling.
Sulphur from coal mines kills fish.

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A cat nearly a hundred years old
has turned Up at New South Wales.
A two-year old child of George Gil
bert, of Lebanon, while eating peanuts
had one lodge in her throat.
She died of strsngulatiOn despite the
efforts of the ducror.
Shenandoah Herald says: Its q
fact that a large number of families III
this borough are actually starving al
the present time"
Lancaster and Reading have both
been supporting extensive soup houses
this winter, and supplying many poor
families with wholesome diet.
Forty eight persons have died from
small pox at Reading since January l.
Five deaths occurred from the disease
during the past week, says the Tunes
and Dispatch.
Mr.. Ritch, of Georgia. who ate
thirty quails in 80 days, has gained
three pounds.
In 4 years our merchandise i'm
ports have fallen off 2S per cent.
California wool has cut down the
imports thereof from S13,000,000 to
half that
A Leeds, Mass, button company
makes 1000 gross of them daily.
Californians are eating ripe toma-
/ toes.
During the year 1876, Luzerne
county sent 922 persons to jail and
81 to the penitentiary.
$1,000 reward is offered for the
detection of the incendiary who fired
the Sehesgrove bridge.
Two large wolves were recently
seen in the neighborhood of Sechler's
Mill, Cambria county
The cattle plague is making fearful
ravages in the Mongolian steppes. The
Mongcls make no effort to prevent the
spread of the disease, and they even
eat the sheep that have died of
it. This state of things has arrest
ed the overland tea trade, which was
carried on by horses, camels, &c.
Aldus Weaver's mare ran away as be
was getting into his sulky, in West
Lampeter, Lancaster county, throwing
him down and overtaking Henry Staut-
fer, who was riding fine young horse,
the mare ran against the horse and
plunged the shaft foot into his hip.
The horse died in an hour. -
The cabins Of some of the canal boats
tied up at Marietta have been occupied
all winter by the boatmen, who lived
in them quite as comfortably as if they
had "kept house" on terra frma.
The youths of Carlisle must be
awarded the premium for successful
deviltry. They have succeeded in
procuring suspension of the high
school In that place by their vicious
pranks. Two teachers have resign
ed recently, and the directors after a
vain effort to ferret out the guilty
parties have suspended the school.
The Honesdale Ctizen says the
Dortiinger glass works of that place
are filing ar order for $4,000 hand
lamps to be shipped to Japan. At the
same time the Honesdae works have
just sent ll5.000 fruit jars across the
continent to San Francisco.
An organization has been affected in
Pit,sburg for reclaiming fallen women.
Several Instances were related where
the pangs of poverty compelled the
bartering of virtue, and it was deemed
a field of labor in which greatest fruits
could be gathered if some of these IN
fortunates could be saved.
A few months ago an attempt was
made to assassinatc j. n. Fisher, OF
Huntingdon. Last week the attempt
was repeated. Some person secured
pistol TO the door of bis office, so that
when the door would be opened the
weapon would be discharged, but for
tunately it vas discovered aud removed
without any mischief being done.