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

Crawforo county reports q culid en-
tirely boneless.
The Texas sweet potato crop will be
unusally large.
A black snake thirteen feet long, has
been killed in Berks county.
In Somerset county eggs are selling
as lew as eight cents per dozen.
A C.earfeld farmer reports sixty
eight bushels Of oats to an acre.
There we're forty-6ve deaths from
dipbtherIa in Plttsburg last month.
Enelaud's fruit crop is the poorest
since 1879.
The bee keepers are to hold a con
vention 10 New York next October.
A Missouri man ran away with his
brothers wife aud FIVE children.
A clergyman SOU in Walters Lick,
KY, has just married his step grand
mother
Sorghum molasses mills at Concord,
N. H., have begun operations.
England's fruit crop is the poorest
since 1870.
An ink factory is TO be started at
Washington, d. G.
Apples sell in Atlantic county N j.,
for % cents per bushel.
A pet calf knocked down a Blair
county woman and broke her leg.
Unskilled laborer, eau make from 81
to 50 picking Gotten in the south.
The State of Virginia wants the
scalps of foxes, at the rate OF 81 for
gray aud $3.50 for red foxes.
A Lancaster county farmer has
been offered $4,000 for twenty acres of
tobacco.
The new Jail at Suubury has been so
far completed as to be used for prison
/ ers.
Arsenic was left lying around the
house OF James Miller, York county.
The family, consisting of four persons,
are in a critical condition.
Beer is pronounced a better tonic
than whiskey by the best medical chem
lists of Germany.
The windows of $50 veterans of the
war of 1872 draw pensions from the
consolidated pension agencies Of 10
diana.
The total amount Of fresh beef export
ed to Great Britain from this country
between January | and August Ii was
6S,906,6l0 pounds.
Women are said to oe earning fair
competency by farming on the plains of
Nebraska.
Weddings on horseback are becom-
ing fashionable in some parts Of the
west
The grain prospects in England are
stated to be considerably below the av-
crage of last year.
A man named Durch, living near
Shamokin, failed in his efforts to bor
row SI00 and committed suicide.
Out of six or seven pieces of proper
ty sold under the sherff's hammer IN
" ilmington all were bought in by loan
associations.
A mad dog was killed in Dover las,
week. Ii had bitten a cow and calf,
both of which became mad au1 had to
be killed also.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
has adopted rule requiring passengers
to enter the rear and leave at the front
door of passenger car.
There are at present three counties
IN California where ladies hold the
position of Superintendent of Common
Schools, Wis Mono, Trinity aud Tuo-
lumne.
The cattle fever has broken out
among some Texas cattle purchased by
Abram audCaleb Marshal, of North
brook, Chester county.
The army worm has appeared in large
numbers in De Soto county, Miss
Fayette county, Tenn, and Lee county
Ark, and serious damage to cotton is
feared.
A beet sugar manufactOry is to be
built at New Brunswick. Nj 1t will
employ some $50 hands and have cap
ital of $3.50 900.
Three men we're found hanging from
a tree in Texas, aud one Of them was
placarded: "They stole horses, here is
where We found them, and here is where
We left them"
A man in Berks county found tramp
hanging to tree by the roadside and
cut him down. When able to speak
the tramp roundly cursed him for inter-
ferlng.
Edward Hawthorne, aged %, has
been committed to Jill, in Pittsburg. on
charge Of having three wives more
than the law allows. This young man
had better be elected to succeed Brig
ham Young.
The Dauphin Deposit Bank at Har-
isburg, received on deposit on Thurs
dav seventy dollars in silver half dol
lars that had been buried in a cellar on
south Second street for nearly forty
years. Many of the coins are dated
1929 and some of them as far back as
1924.
Five young gentleman in Columbus,
Ohio, thought it would be good joke |
10 drive off with team which friend |
had procured to give some young la
dies ride. Afterward they we're ia
ken into custody on the charge OF
horse stealing, and we're greatly sur
prised at the turn the joke had taken.