Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-31
News Items.

A wild man is the latest sensation at
Bennington, Pa.
The public school, of this State con.
tain 902.345 pupils.
l2000,00O pounds OF butter were
exported to Euglaud last year.
Only 253 divorces in San Francisco
last year.
Train wrecker, is what they call the
west who steps on q girls dress.
Over 5000, 600 cigars are daily smo-
ked in this country.
Poker, is what q committee of Ne
vada miners are trying to codify.
There are six members in the Geor-
gia Legislature under 26 years of age.
A fifteen year old chap has been ar
rested in Washington City, charged
with couuterieiting street car tickets.
Samuel H. Th9burn, who stole $l6,-
700 from the Bank of Petersburg, Vir-
g,nia, has been convicted and sentenced
to ten years. Imprisonment.
George Wells, for fifty years presi-
dent OF the Farmers and Planters
Bank ot Annapolis, Md Is q defsulter
to the bank for SOS, 600.
1t cost Krupp, the great gun maker Of
Prussia, one hundred aud twenty thou
sand dollars to make the show he die at
the Centennial Exhibition
A panther chased a child to the door
of its iather's house in East Providence
township, Bedford county, the other
day, aud the father shot the animal on
the doorstep charge this to the Bed
ford Inquirer.
A Jerseyman was lately fined BY
Justice of the Peace, for profane swear
ing.
The Fulton Republican says a black
bear weighing over four hundred pounds
was killed in Southampton township,
Bedford county, recently. In the fight
he killed four large dogs.
John A. Stuber. Of Allentown, is re-
cruiting Joung men for the Black Hills
country.
The LehIgh County Agricultural So
ciety has l, ,s24 members.
The coasting localities of Reading
have been covered with ashes by order
of the municipal authorities.
Simon Rogland, negro, was hanged
at Williamson, n. c., for rape, on Mon
day week.
DauT'lie, KY, reports the peach buds
killed in that vicinity.
Poultry raising IN Buckport, Me., is
heroic amusement. A farmer lost
ifty SIX hens one night lately, and the
next day took it out on q wild cat four
feet long.
Lancaster has patent butter man
ufactory, and beef taliow is the prInci
pal material. So keep your Eyes open
when you are asked to buy Lancaster
county butter
Chinese Immigration has fallen off at
San Francisco very rapidly, the depar
lures exceeding the arrivals during
December by over GOO.
A Norristown man shot q neigbbor's
pointer dog, for winch act be paid S35
He don't think il SO "dog cheap" As be
thought it would be.
A Tsmaqua grocer took poor mans
pocket kuite rs pledge that he would
pay for Two pounds of -four wan.ed to
keep his family from starving. As be
dose no. advertise, such fellow should
be ADVERTISED by the citizens, so that
everyb body could know his name.
John Myers, OF Hullersburg, Centre
county, Pa aged ~ years, is the father
of thirty children, eighteen of whom are
living fourteen were by bis first wife
aud sixteen by bis second
a Princeton, KY, married man eiop- |
ed last week with an insane woman, !
and his family think he was the craziest
Of the two.
"Keep your seat, sir" is what
Pottsville lady remarked to chap who
fell on the sidewalk and appeared TO be
in hurry to get up and let her pass.
The Detroit Fress Press says Many
OF the white men III CalIfornla will pot
sit at hotel table with a Gilman. an,
but will follow him two miles after dark
to borrow money Of him.
The way the King of the Sandwich
Islands carves chicken is to take hold
of both legs, draw long breath, and
pull for sll be is worth.
There are ninety-three railroad sta
tions in Montgomery county.
Charles knoedler, residing in Lehigh
county, during one Of the late excess
lively cold nights walked three miles in
his sleep ard escaped with no very
serious consequences.
The new Lutheran Church at Bells
Mills, Blair county, Pa, in the charge
of the Rev. j. Kistler, was dedicated
last Sabbath.
A small child of Jacob Zeigler, of
j Juuiara township, Perry county, met
with its death on Sunday a week by the
mother placing it on bed, and by some
means or other 1t fell through the cord
ing with its body, when it. head became
fastened between the ropes, strainipg
its neck.
A Philadelphia man had couple of
thousand dollars, which be wished to