Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-18
News Items,
Ths grape crop will be immense in
Crawford county.

me grape crop VIII pc Immense IN
Crawford county.
Squirrels are SO numerous in Greene
county that acres of young CORP are
being destroyed by them.
A planter near Ssvansh, Georgia,
sold his cucumbers on three acres OF
vines for Sl20.
F. j. WLipple, of Cussewago, Craw-
ford county, was killed by a falling
tree on Thursday.
The ShiIliuger bsnd of thieves in ie-
high county has been broken up by the
arrest of nearly all the parties, who
are now in Jail.
Mr George A. Fister, of Mahony City,
died of bydrophobis, after two days aud
nights Of seony.
In Tioga county it is asserted that
thirty out Of forty thousand of the pop
ulation have signed the Murphy pledge.
In one town there are only nine anti
Murphyites left.
A woman in blJomer costume ap-
peared on the street in Reading, few
evenings ago, and created much excit-
ment.
The New York oyster trade employs
10000.
A son of Abram Bailey, Of Pike
township, Cieardeld county, last week
fell into a moving machine and bad one
of his hands cut of.
1t is affirmed that sixty-three per
cent. of all tile persons whs applied for
assistance at the various benevolent in
stitu,ions in New York last winter we're
impostors, and that many were profess
sionai burglars.
A young lady named Martha Heron
committed suicide near Belle Centre,
D., few nights since, because her
father refused to buy her new pair of
shoes.
Three carrier pigeons let loose in
Reading by an Easton eentlemas ar
rived In Eastou in Easton in forty five
miuutes-distance fifty four miles.
A shower of toads fell in East Not
Ttingham the other day, and millions of
them were hopping over the fields.
In Harrisburg, on a wager, a man
caught and killed large rat with his
teeth, his hands being tied behind his
back.
There we're six instant deaths and
twenty-five other accidents in the Lu-
zerne mining districts last month.
Tel thousand dollars worth of va
nilla beans we're recently stolen from
stores in New York.
Joseph s. Carey, wealthy farmer of
Selbyville, Sussex county, Del, was
found dead in his barn on Sabbath
morning, having shot himself In the
head
At Rome. Ca. the other day, seven
brothers named Hill were indicted for
couuterfeiting.
Mr.. James Tucker, of Grayson coun-
ty, KY, was recently killed by hogs
head of tobacco falling on him.
A Norristown man, after being idle
for months, broke his collar bone the
first day be got work.
A lad named John Hoff, while work
ing in the harvest field, near Limerick
Square, Montgomery county, last week,
wds struck by lightning aud instantly
killed. George Bisder, Who was in
company, received severe shock from
the same stroke.
A youth iu Humme!stown. eleven !
years old, and named George Zerfors,
missed but one bail out of thirty-one |
thrown from a sprlag- trap at distance
of thirty yards.
A man in Santa Clara county, Cal
two weeks ago sawed off a limb of a
tree TO secure a swarm of bees which I
had settled upon it. The branch in
falling knocked him down and killed
him.
As boy, connected with the circus
which exhibited at Easton a few DAYS
ago, was getting down from one of the
cages, a leopard caught him by the left
leg, lacerating the flesh near the hip
JOINT very badly.
Elias Staudt, of South Bernville, on
the Sth inst, tbreshed seventy-two
sheaves of rye, which yielded nearly
six bushels. This rye averaged seven
feet six inches in height.
Jacob Walter, OF Allegheny City,
tied himself with a cord aud jumped
into the river last Saturday.
The jury in the United States Dis
trict Court in Chicago, on the 10th In
slant, award Rev. j. A. Ray, of Buff
falo, $40 900 damages against the Penn
sylvsnia Railroad Company for injuries
sustained about a year ago in a sleeping
car on the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne
road.
Waterfowl, N. Y, is ahead on hail
stones. They come there nine inches
in circumference.
Parker City, in the oil region, was
visited by destructive water spout at
the close of June.
The Nollie Magures still post I" oof-
6u notices" on the premises of their
enemies, hold meetings, and bid def
ance to the law.
There is Mexican vine in Lebanon
which grew twenty eight inches in three
nights last week.
Joseph Stroup, of Parker, was struck
BY lightning on Saturday a week. The
heel of his boot was tors of, and the
hair on his right arm burned of. After
three hours Mr.. S. was able to walk
around again. Some pennies in his
pockets bore the appearance Of having
been silver plated by the action of the
electricy.
A county commissioner in Montana,
while hunting, recently, found three