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

fhe "f Dung 6rsngers" Is Lebanon
county organization.
Middletown, Dauphir county, has al
Gold Maids" Club.
"Preacber's Meetings" are helC
weekly by Harrisburg ministers.
Montgomery county workingmeu still
agitste the colony scheme.
lancaster and Lebanon furnish most
Of the dairy COWS sold in Chester couu'
ty.
A number of two dollar notes raised
from one dollar are in circulation il
Lebanon.
A pheasant flew against and destroys &c
an eighty dollar looking glass iu Arm
strong county.
A Meadville correspondent says it Is
fact not generally known tks. the
Methodist Church of Meadsiile has the
largest membership of any Protestant
Church ID the country west of the ALE
gheny mountains, with the exception OF
a colored church in New Orleans.
A Parker City corn doctor is about
to leave for Melbourn, Australia, to
take possession of twenty Eve thousand
dollars lef: him by rich relative il
that city.
The Montreal Witness says that q
physician in that city is restoring the
faculties of an idiotic child by lifting
depressed portions of its skull.
Some ,coundrel in Beaver county en-.
tered tine pasture field of Evan Powell
and cut the throat of valuable mare.
The Bucks county Almshouse cost.
$500 a week.
A Crawford county farmer raised
twelve bushels Of potatoes from on
pound of seed.
Ut 606 persons committed to the
county Jail in Pottsville last year, %
were incarcerated Cor murder and "a
for conspiracy to murder.
Pittsburg has about twice as many
lawyers prscticing at its bar as in 1872
Mercer county farms bring ninety
dollars per acre.
A Chinaman in Nevada has been
sent to Jail for one year for stealing
chickens.
The last of the quartet of children
recently born in Phelps county, Mis-
souri,, has died, and the mother is dead
also.
The Queen City Of Rotten Banks is
what St. Louis calls Chicago.
1t is stated that the Elm Station muir
der trial will cost Montgomery county
over ten thousand dollars.
Lancaster shows no mercy to horse
thieves. John Frankford has been SEN
fenced to nineteen years.
David Moore, of Montcur county, ia
tally shot himself the other day while
handling pistol that he "thought wasn't
loaded"
The colonization scheme still agitates
the workingmen Of montgomery county.
A colony that left that county in March
last for Northern Michigan reports a
very favorable condition of affairs with
it /; and this inspires others to attempt
it.
A lady in Pottsville. thinking she
heard an unusual noise in the parlor,
stepped into the room and there discov-
cred her COW, con;entedly chewing her
cud and complacently looking at her.
self in the mirror.
A little daughter of Josiah Bender,
of Stanton's Mills, Somerset county, ac
cidentlly got bean into her windpipe
on Monday of last week, and despite
the exertlons Of three physicians who
we're called in, she died.
Half-a- million is what the Scranton
Republican estimates the riotous DEM
onstratious in that vicinity has already
cost the State.
Centre county contains cave one
quarter of mile in length, rich in stal-
ac'ites and stalagmites.
Mrs. Eva Yeagley, of Jamestown
Lebanon county was found dead iu her
bed on Friday morning. She was to
have been married the following day.
One firm at Chicago kills one hun
dred and twenty FIVE head of beeves
per day and the meat, after being cook
ed, is put up in twenty five pound cans.
The largest demand for this class Of
goods comes from France.
The wheat business Milwaukee has
of late been larger than Chicago.
Postmaster General Key has issued
an order which requires postmaster to
keep complaint book of lost letters.
Edward Brown, a young farmer of
Lower Merton township, Montgomery
county, was crushed to death by bis
mule falling on him.
Six dollars conscience money" has
been restored to Huntington gentle
man after lapse of fifteen years.
The baby show at New Castle, which
took place on the 9th, was largely at
tended. The managers have made cal
,ulations for over one hundred babies.
A tough story comes from Carlisle.
A farmer of Perry county went to that
place with lot of honey, and shortly
sster his arrival was surrounded by the
bees from whom the honey had been
aiken. They had followed him across
be noun tains.
New Cum mberland, opposite Harris
'urg, is reported to have one hundred,
md fifty cases of chills and fever
'moug its population.
The farmers throught Ohio are COM
blaming of the dry weather that has pre-
'ailed for nearly two months. 1t is es-
imated that there will be falling off
# at least thirty per cent. in the breadth
# wheat sown.
1t is thought Europe will require at
east one hundred million bushels of
Vheat in addition to her own crop.
lost of this supply will have to come
rom the Uuited States.
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