Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-11-28
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cheese weighing 1000 pounds.
1t is estimated that 72l men dispense
hot chestnuts in Nav York city.
A methodist church i'll Pittsburg has
sued to get twenty dollars, subscribed
by one of its members a few years ago
The demand for ferns is so great that
woman near New York cultivates a
fern farm, and it furnishes her a good
living
Some Union county divines condemn
that soul stirring hymn, "Hold the
Fort"
About 300 Russian Mennonites left
Berlin on the 9th inst, for the United
States.
ilIss Vanderbilt's wedding, solemn
ized In New York on the 2lst inst,
was the grandest event of the kind ever
known.
i WIiliamsport school ma'am has
been arrested and put under $500 bail
for whipping fourteen year old boy.
A burglar while attempting to rob
the post office at Grafin Station, Ohio,
on Sunday night, sho, harles Allen,
who died yesterday from the effects of
the wound.
There we're $50 persons killed in this
State during 1876, and loo injured on
the lines of railway leading to the Ex-
hibition grounds.
The manufacture of briar root pipes
from laurel root is carried on in War
rem county Ten men are employed
aud make three hundred pipes per diem.
Mrs. Fury, on Pleasant Gap, Centre
county, while IN a dark room acciden-
tally set her child in a kettle of hot
lard, scalding it SO badly that it died
shortly after.
ln Lebanon number Of small boys
are in the habit of carrying pistols
which We fear is also done by boys in
other places. The other evening Leb-
anon had fire, and while Joseph Gas
sert was running to 1t boy ''let drive"
at dog, but missed the cannes and
and planted bail in Mr., Gassert's leg,
wounding him severely.
Isaac and Samuel Noll, brothers, of
Centre county, were both killed by be-
ing thrown from their wagon the other
day, the horse having Iun away
Mrs. kIeamer, OF Auburn, wife of
the canal boat captain who was drowned
above Reading, on hearing the news of
the death of her husband immediately
laInte /, remained IN a cOmatOse state,
and III few hours was dead. She
leaves fi7e children.
Miss Sailie Hanna, Of Bellfonte,
swallowed a pin, the other day, which
lodged crosswise in her throat After
two doctors had Intellectually ATTEMPTED
to remove it and declared the girls
death inevitable, Miss Hanna thrust
finger down her throat as far as she
could, which had the effect Of causing
her to throw up and dlslodge the pin,
which she felt in her mouth and took
out herself.
Mr.. Edward T. Steel, a well-known
merchant of Philadelphia was on Mon
day fined 5000 by Judge Cadwalader for
neglectlng to answer to his name when
the roll of the grand jury.
Philadelphia's South Street Banker,
Henderson by name, who advertised
to pay 10 per cent, on call and l5 per.
cent, on time deposits, now languishes
in jail through a failure to homer checks
drawn by depositors iu the bank. Hen
Gerson's biggest advertisement was his
show window and bank shelves crowd
ed with packages of money, which pack
ages when examined turned out to be
Confederate money with greenback on
the top.
The baby cremared in New York on
the 2lst inst, came about thus: Jul
ius kircher Lutheran and his wife,
Jewes>, living in east Fiftv-sixth
street, New York, being unable to
agree to the burial of their dead child
in either Ciri- tian or Hebrew ceme-
terry, agreed to cremate it, which was
done at a chemical works, of which the
father is proprietor.
A married couple in Prussia provided
themselves WITH collins beforehand, and
kept them in a stable, where they were
utilized as cupboards for the reception
Of various kinds of food, but the final
appropriation of the coffins was marked
by singular contretemps. The man
died /; the widow packed the contents of
both collins into one, while the body
was deposited in the other. BY some
mishap the coffin full of eatabIes was
lowered into the grave. Next day the
widow, opening the lid of the isupposed)
cupboard, was scared at finding the
dead body of her husband. Of course
the interment had to be done all over
again, with an interchange of coffius.
The latest New York sensation, says
the Boston Herald, is the elopement Of
daughter of MIR. Arnold. of the great
dry goods firm of Arnold, Constable &
Go. She is nineteen years old and
belle, made, so by a combination of
personal beauty, intelligence and wealth
She fell in love with a clerk in her ia
theirs store. He Is fifty years old, and
and poor, his special employment being
that of floor walker Mr.. Arnold
sought to break off the intimacy, but
the girl was self willei. On the 2lst the
couple sailed for Europe, having pre-
viously been united in marriage. She
has fortune in her own right, and is,
ther efore, indepeu lent.
The barn of Lawrence Kepner one
mile east of Pottstown Pa, vas taken
possession of on the 18th inst, by some
twenty t-amps, who de6ed the owner
and his family to enter. They scatter
ed his hay and straw about the barn
floor, MIXED his cows, killed and roast
ed chickens, threshed out some wheat
on the machine and then wasted it.
Officers Hartenstine and Antrim, Of