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

Wild pigeons are plenty in Elk coun-
ty-
NJ. Theirs regarded coffee as poison,
and never drank tea.
The campaign has cost Russia over
10000 men SO far.
Mrs Cooper, of Texas, Is the proud
mother of new four In hand-all boys
Twenty two deaths from diphtne.is
in Plttsburg last woek.
The Lord Mayor of London is paid
$50, 900 per annuDa, just the same as our
President.
The Sheriff of Bullock county,
Georgia, levied on thirty seven rattle
snakes the other day.
The Han Zachariah Chandler owns
and manages farm in New England
and another in Michigan.
4 woman in Saratoga county, \.
Y, and her seven children have died
of diptheria within a month.
A two and half year old son of
Daniel Mosher, of Reiner City,
Schuylkill county, upset a pot of
boiling coffee on himself and was
scalded to death.
There are five born sisters in a
Canadian convent, all of them pro-
fessed nuns, and they have contribu-
ted their combined fortunes, amount
ing 10 s500,OOO, to the treasury Of
the nunnery.
The School Board of Greefeld
township, Erie county, has brought
suit against the township, auditors
for not publishing the annual state
ment as required.
Walking along the Strand the 9th
er day,an English officer saw a man
approaching him in tatters carrying
a tray, on which were some small
pies, marked one penny each. As he
got near him he recognized a broth
er officer, who had served in the same
regiment some years previously. He
accosted the poor fellow, and was
sympathizing with him on his sad
plight and altered circumstances,
when the other exclaimed, Hang
your pity! Buy pie.
The Presbyterian Board of Educa
ton aided 462 students for the min
istry last year. Of the 249 who are
in their theological course. 102 are
graded ''high" in point of scholarship
A are above medium, - IS are .'med
ium," 5 are below medium" and 20
are ..low."
A case of jilting unparalleled for heart
lessIess comes to light IN an English
Court in the suit of maiden of forty
nine, to recover damages from a lover
to whom sue had been engaged for
thirty years. he was poor, and she
waited and waited AID then the faith
less fellow up aud married well-to- do
butchers widow. He was mulcted ST.
$50.
The Court Circular warns American
girls who marry French noblemen, that
they will never be cordially received
by the French aristocracy.
A Wayne county, N. Y farmer left
his vest hanging upon chair. In one
of the pockets we're about a dozen
stry chnine pills. His two little chill
dren discovered them thought they
we're candy, and eat them Physicians
we're called and antidotes administered
bat both died within an hour.
A Chinese hag has been placed on
bail in San Francisco, on the charge of
cruelty treating a child, to give her the
fashiouable Chinese little foot. The
member was shockingly distorted.
A New York firm has successfully
a new mode of shipping
oysters to England. The biyalves are
first opened and then put in refrigera-
ting tubs, which are aftcrward carefully
closed. The first shipment made this
way was sent on the 10th of August,
and the oysters arrived at their destin
alton in perfect condition.
Colorado has done it-has exLumed
the "missing link" A peri6ed form
seven feet high with long arms and a
short tail but human, has been revealed
aud science aud greed are bidding for
the wondor. When it is proved that
this is no Cardiff giant science will feel
and new explorations will
uncover the tribe of Cog and Magog.
John Frankford, Lancaster's champ |
ion horse thief, burglar, jail5raker, &C.,
has been sentenced to Jail for nineteen
years. On Saturday be was removed
to the county prison aud placed in the
IRON clad cell especially prepared for
him. This cell is lined with boiler iron
arouod the whole interior, riveted be-
meath the surface in such a way as to
the use Of files or any other
!