Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-14
News Items.

for . year. -
Lshieb county, we're poisoned last wseI
by ss,iug apple butter which had been
kept in an inperfectly glazed pot.
Sebastian Bsxler, his brother and an
other person, Of Conemaugh borough,
we're poisoned last week by eating Wild
p.rsnlps 10 mistake for horse radlsh.
a deposit Of fine marble has been
discovered iu York county.
Mrs. Wolf, aged 80 years, commit
ted suicide in Dsnville on the 4th inst,
while the family we're At church.
There is an eighty barrel oil we'll IN
Butler county.
Over five thousand persons have
Joined the Murphy temperance move
ment ip Lasrshce county.
The law of Missouri requires that
when a msu is to be arrested, the war
rant shall be read to him. While Dep
uty Marshal Hughes, Of Jackson coun
ty, was reading warrant to Frank NIL
ler and Richard Green, whom be found
while they were chopping wood in the
Little Blue Bottom, Green shot him
through the beart, killing him instant.
ly. Both men fed, but were captured
last week in Lafayette county.
A nan iu the top story Of a Chicago
hotel attracted crowd o. pedestrian
100 feet below by waving pillo" case
and shouting, "Some Of you fellows 60
TO the Office and tell them to send me
up cocktail" His bell was broken.
In . moment of inspirationai elo-
aueuce . Pennsylvania Minister e1-
claimed from bis pulpit: "a hat Is
riches Thsnk God Pm poor, and 1
pray He may ever keep ne co." Tax
ing him at bis word, aud wishing TO
demonstrate the efficacy Of prayer, the
deacous met together the same week
and reduced the pastors salary from
$500 to $500 year.
Ii is stated that there are 81 ,OOO
priests in France.
81, i,co nsiu's muskrat tra6c amounts to
$50 900 skins a year, making quite
dIs-st,nk-tive industry.
A daughter OF Charles Messenger, of
Huntingdon county, on the morning OF
the I'd inst, was laying with candle,
when its clothes caught fire and 1t was
30 badly burned that 1t soon died.
j. ) Mower, q member of the bar Of
Bedford county, was recently dismissed
from the cour; for having committed =
series of forgeries and with having col
Iccred monies for clients which he ap-
piled to his own use.
A boy FAMED Gants, Of Dauphin
county, while bunting rabbits recently
III the hills, found . pack of paper un
der rock, which upon being opened
proved to contain q number Of United
States Treasury notes in . mutilsted
CONDITION, which had evidently been de-
posted there for several years. They
have been pronounced genuine, and the
value will be about si52.
John Kerr wss caught in the cable
on the Messiuer we'll, Barnheart farm,
near Buena Vista Saturday morning.
and wound around the shaft three times,
the rope eneirellug his body each time.
! The third coil went round his neck,
killing him a: once. He leaves Q wife
and several children.
Mr. Ezra u Griesmer, of Oley town
ship Berks county, recently performed,
with four assistants, the feat Of thresh-
ing 1000 sheaves Of oats in one hour
and thirty five minutes including two
s,oppages. The machine used was an
old Cne built by MIR. Griesemer's IA
ther about forty years ago, and used to
thresh the annual crops of the farm
ever since.
The Buffalo & jamestown road is
bankrupt. 1t cost S2,S00,00O. The
earnings the past year we're $4,000
and the interest in default is about
100000.
Some one writing Of pastors wives
said the wife of the late Dr. j. C. Lord
was of Indian blood, aud prefsrred
bunting to prayer meetings. The Buff
falo .7drert,ser sayes the story is false.
Mrs Lord, still living, is the daughter
of the first Mayor of Buffalo, and an es-
timable Christian woman.
A Lebanon grocer advertises the re-
csipt of an invoice Of strasburg saui
kraut, fresh from Germany.
A prominent shouter at . temper
ance railroad meeting in Allegheny,
took up a collection and ran Of with the
contribution box. He was afterward.
arrested.
A young man Was arrested in Reading
for wInking at two girls.
Two young women cowhided q man
in the street in Lexington, Ind, and be
lspsing from pollteness, nearly killed
Que OF bis assailants with a club.
A red ribbon worn in the button hole
or on the coat Is the badge of the con-
verts TO temperance 10 Western Penn
sy lvania and the Western States, and
Is worn by thousands. The saloon men
al first wore it IN derision, but soon be-
came tired of the fun.
The two horses and sleigh belonging
to Turnbach Il Hess, of Bloomsbury,
which br"ke through the ice on the
Susequebanna river, between Cattawissa
and Rupert, in the latter part Of Jauu-
ary, were found on Tuesday by three
men, who succeeded in taking thee har.
ness off the horses. The bor-es we're
still bitcbed to the sleigh when discov-
cred. but the sleigh was broken quite
badly.
The body of Daniel b. Roberts, of
Catawisss, was found drowned in the
mouth of Catawissa creek. He was
subject to fits. and it is supposed he
was attacked while crossing the creek
bridge and fell into the water.
A tramp was discovered in . car At
CAtawissa, and said he wanted to 20 10
Boston and that be had haan il ,h..