Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-18
News Items.

bounty Iof trauiP soaps.
Reading has q woman who processes
to visit the angels in trance.
The salafied Of Methodist ministers
in California ranges from $50 to S4,-
900 year.
Sarah Baller, who was burned at Leb-
anon by the explosion of a can of rose
oil, is dead.
Every family in Boston is to be vis-
tied by religious workers, under the
direction of Moody.
A new cattle disease is carrying con-
sternation among the farmers in Mont
eomery county. The sxen aud cows
attacked swell up and exhibit many of
the symptoms of distemper in horses.
Pr. John Hall says: Out Of every
hundred young men who enter our
large cities with the dream Of amassing
q fortune by brain work, ninety-6ye
make total failures.
A California grower has raised four
thousand boxes of raisins, worth $4,000,
on twenty acres OF land:
a Brighton, Mass, man writes the
Ploughman that his flock OF twenty one
white Legborn pulIets, between Janu-
ary and Ostobor l, 1876, laid $3.50
eggs, daily average of over thirteen
eggs in the nine months. They were
not allowed to run at large.
William Rand, of Fayette, VT, i'm
prisoned Il potato bug in a glass case
last fall, aud 1t was found day or two
ago to have deposited 1900 eggs.
Selden l.. Jones, of Memphis, Tenn.
and Georg. II. Makely, of Little Rock +,
Ark, met at the latter place on Friday
to fight duel. Shots we're exchanged,
but the seconds had loaded the pistols
with blank cartridges. Both parties
we're arrested.
Samuel Hoffman, of Columbia, while
working on the edge of a stone quarry,
made 4 miss,ep and fell to the bottom,
distance of sixty feet. He was
picked up in e terribly bruised and
bleeding condition, and is thought to
have been fatally injured.
While D. LaDgfel,, OF Baldwin, Dau-
phin county, with bis little daughter,
aged five or six year., were descending
III the elevator, with ether persons,
from the top of blast furnace, one
bundled feet high, on Sunday a week,
the little girl suddenly stepped aside
and fell eighty feet feet TO the ground,
frscturing her skull. She died the
same night.
Join Harvey, a lad twelve years of
age, engaged in blowing the bellows at
Tyson's chrome pit, in Little Britain
township, while ascending a ladder,
slipped and fell distance of about two
hundred feet. lie escaped with frsc-
tured leg.
Henry Seymour, from Troy, New
York, who has been ,ou6ued IN the Jail
at Memp phis, sentenced to fifteen years
Imprisonment for horse stealing, was
shot and fatally Wounded on Friday
night while resisting the attempts OF
the turnkey TO search him, on suspicion
of his having tampered with the door
of his CELL
Mrs. William Morrison, of Holbrook,
l.. L., was bitten in the wrist by dog
two months ago. The wound was i'm
mediately csurerized, but on Monday a
week Ms. Morrison was seized with
hydrophophia, and died on " ednesday
night, after intense suffering.
Tx Governor T,ldeu was riding in his
carriage on Monday afternoon at New
York when the horses ran away. Mr..
Tllden jumped ou, and escaped without
any injuries. The horses were stopped
after proceeding a short distance.
The entrails of sheep are now used
for the manufacture of betting at Oak
land, Gal. They make a very strong
aud durable bolt. They are first
cIeansed aud soaked in brine for sew
eral days, and after that twisted into
ropes or woven into betting.
The Alabama game law recently en-
acted prohibits the killing of any spe
cies of game from April IA to October
l. 1t also prohibits the killing of wild
ducks at night at any time of the year,
and at any time or season with floats,
blinds or other devices.
A family in Bedminster, Bucks
county, has lost four children within a
week from diphtheria.
Isaac N. Cox, the Bowdoin, Me-, boy
who killed his father, has been con-
victed of manslaughter.
The National Bank of Berwick will
close its business. 1t cannot make any
money.
A colony of San Francisco women
have undertaken to solve the woman
problem by buying a big farm and going
to work.
Mrs. Butler, . fortune-teller, who
was found dead in Franklin township,
York county, and the cause of which
has not yet been ascertained, is said to
have become quite wealthy by plying
her vocation among the people of that
vicinity.
The broken German Bank of Morris
lana wants to settle with its deposltors
for 25 cents on the dollar. what an
encouragement to saving and economi-
cal habits it is to salt down dollar after
dollar in one of these banks mouth
after month and year BY year and for
every dollar put in get whole quarter
back again.
Reuben Kemmerer, of st. Clair, Pa,
who has been missing from his home
since April 5, Was found dead near
Silver creek dam on Friday, with his
throat cut. 1t is not known how be
came to his death, but the appearances
indicate suicide.
A GaIl,'zin correspondent of the
Altoona Mirror writes the following
There is a farluer living a couple of