Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-12
News Items.

Lafayette, Ind, is shipping horses IL
Europe.
Lafayette, Iud., has mule that trots
a mile iu 2. 30.
Pittsburg auth,rities are closing
waiter girl saloons.
Eleven BARRIERS have been arrested il
Allegheny for keeping their shop,
open on Sunday.
Officer Watts, of Boston, has killed
500 dogs and wants the city TO pay hin
s. piece for them.
At ball at Shartler.ville, Berks
county, the other night, fight occur
ed, which continued for three hours
Thirty persons we're more or less injur-
ed
Brigham Young started with one
wife and no fortune, managed to save
up FIVE or six millions OF dollars and
about nineteen wives.
Two hundred farmers IN the neigh
borbood of Milwaukee, Luzerne coun
,y, have organized home guard for
the protection of their crops.
The Sheriff of Allegheny county ad.
vertised one hundred and fifty SIX pro-
perties at judicial sale, and six oi
those were disposed Of. All the other.
failed to bring the two thirds at which
the appraisers valued them.
The Susquchanna at Harrisburg i.
so low that the low water mark of
"lS03," cut on the rock off Pine street
is visible about foo. below the sur
face of the water.
Thomas Cooper, of the Linden Grove
Stock Farm, Lohigh county, recently
returned from Europe with one hun
drec and forty three head of choice
thoroughbred stock.
The entire array Of jurors drawn fol
the October term of the Blair county
courts was quashed, on the ground that
the Sheriff and Jury Commissioners
were not properly sworn. There is 4
great deal OF this kind of carelessnes:
In the State.
Seventeen years ago Mr. aud Mrs
j. L. Wilson, OF Bridewater, Beaver
county, concluded to separate. Mrs
Wilson retained the two children and
obtained divorce. Mr.. Wilson re-
moved to Philadelphia and for seven
teen years NO communication passed be-
tween them. A few months since the
daughter, learning of the whereabouts
of her father wrote to him. A CORES
pOndence ensued, the result of which
was that the former husband and wife
we're reunited compile of weeks since.
Simeon Garnett, a negro, committed
an assault upon Mrs. Perry Klngrey,
the wife of farmer residing near Ok
ford, Ohio, on Saturday evening a week
following. Garnett was arrested and
lodged III Jail. On Sunday a number
of men broke open the jail and shot
him, but not fatally. At noon yester-
day a mob took him from the Jail and
shot him to death.
The 0wyhee .7uaiancie tells of a
Plucky Idaho physician named Peters
who, when near the house of man who
had been accidently shot and whom
the Doctor was going to attend, was
thrown from buggy and had his arm
badly broken, Notwithstanding which
be dressed the patients wound, and
with his LEFT hand drove the team all
day through the heat over a rough r Dad
to reach his home il Silver City, where
the broken bones of the arm we're set.
A deserted baby IN Buffalo had a
peculiar nose. A detective learned
that the parents lived in Simcoe, Can
ada, but he did not know their names.
He went to Simcoe aud hunted for
somebody with a nose like the baby's
At length he met man in the street
whose nose was of that kind, aud who
proved to be be the baby's father.
Seventeen Irish people left Spring
field, Mass, recently, en- route for their
old homes in Ireland, where they in
tend hereafter to reside. They carry
with them fron $4,000 tOSl0,000 of
savings. Eight more of their country
men joined them at New York. whence
they all sailed by the steamer Adriatic.
The steamship ticket agent at Spring
field says that the desire to 60 back
to the sold country" is increasing
among the Irish and that probably sew
eral hundred will leave from the vi
cinity of that city before winter.
Tobacco dealers report that the crop
in the southern states for 1876 proved to
be Of better quality than had been ex-
pected early in the season. The pros
poets for this year indicate large and
healthy crop. In Virginia and North
Carolina the acreage planted is about
so per cent greater than last years plan
ting, and the increase per acre promises
to be in the same ratio. The previous
reports of ravages by worms and grass
hoppers are coutradicted, and trust
worthy reports show that the crop for
1877 will be larger than any heretofore