Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-10
News Items.

The Board of Pardons will not meet un-
| til February 9th.
Governor Hampton OF South Carolina, is
thorougly insolvent.
II you now shoot a partridge or qnail you
are liable to a line OF $40 for each bird.
The Colorado House of Representative 5
has female enrolling clerk.
Altoona has lost twenty-six people. They
pulled up stakes and went 70 Kansas.
Over s26.OOO,O00 worth of leather has
been shipped to Europe during the past
four years.
Three persons convicted of Illegal voting
in Cincinnati were sentenced to thirteen
months imprisonment.
A new counterfeit ST. ,OC0 greenback has
come into possession Of the Treasury de-
iectives.
There are about two hundred persons
cared for at the Cumberland county aims
house and insane asylum. The expenses
for the past year are $4,000.
Commodore Vanderbilt died on the morn
ing Of the 4th inst, at nine minutes to
eleven O'Clock, at bis residence in wash
ington Place
The diamond ring, costing $50, made for
Lucia Zrrste, aud offered to any child whom
it would liz, has been awarded to George
Henry Davenport, of Boston. i little fellow
aged three weeks aud weighing three and a
halt pounds.
An apple-dumpling eating match recently
Cane of ut Allentown, when the victor
scored w.n;y-six dumplings and the next
highest eighteen.
"a sin. ii girl' of Chicago writes TO Mr..
Moody as follows: 81 think YOU are a one
sided evag seiist and pander more to the
tastes OF society than to your entire duty.
You give yourself up to work for Christ,
but don't halt do it. Remember that Chi =
cago has nearly as miny abandoned women
as men. We need the comfort OF Jesus
Chri,t a. much as they aid are just as ca
pable to remain steadiast in our reforma-
ton as they. Notwithstanding, We are os-
traci.ed IRON society, while they are ad-
mitted into the best. Hoping when you
next speak you will say something about
our present lives, We Il. e., some OF us) will
be there to hear what you say
To ''get better seat aud see the
fun," boy the other night shouted
sire" in New Haven theatre while
the 1.-TWO Orphans was being per-
formed. A stampede occurred, but
when the audience discovered the wi
lainous fraud, the youDgster vas beaten
halt to death. Served uum right.
On Saturday last, says the Newville
Star, dog belonging to w. H. Keudig,
secuted wild eat iu the woods lying
between Steelstuwn aud the Conedo-
gulnet creek known as M'Guffey's Hills.
Mr. followed The dog and found taem in
mortal con- bat, the wild cat scoring two
TO the dogs one, having drawn the first
blood. A gun was procured, the cat
aud the dog in the meantime having
gone about mile. lu pursuing them
MIR. *. met the animal and shot it. Ii,
was one of the largest size. The dog
Jared rather badly in the fight, having
had bis ears spill, aud being otherwise
scratched.
The other evening Mrs. Levi SbieIy,
living two miles northeast Of Logans
vile, York county, went to a neigh
hor's house TO get some eggs. and left
her two children alone in the house.
When she returned she found the eldest
one, a boy about i've years of age, ly-
ing at the yard gate, burned to a crisp.
every particle of clothing having been
burned from its body but small piece
on its back, on which the child wa.
lying
DipLtheria RACES in Berks county.
and Mr. Samuel Rachel lost three chill.
dren and grand child iu three days of
last week.
The Grangers in this state number
thirty thousand.
liz French family who work at
mill in Slatersville, R, l., there are
four pairs Of twins.