Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-25
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Rsyudldsvlyls, JsGssson eosssy h.d
tweuty-six stores last year, but Only
th,rteee have survived.
M'Kean county has new curiosity
aas we'll that emits immense voiu mes
Of water and FIRE alternately.
An Alabams negro has been sent 70
prison for two years for stealing bushel
! Of corn.
A woman in Philsdslphis is under
arrest for cowhiding = SCHOOL mistress
who ferruled her child. II don't say
the boy is a good boy" she says apollo
getically; "few of them arc; but I am
the one TO correct him"
The boxes placed in saloons and 10
hotels at Wilkesbarre have netted the
poor fund Of that town $5O4.sS within
the :hree past months.
Csndels surrounding oarPse In
house on Madison avenue, Allegheny
set FIRE 20 the drapery OF the dead ard
and an alarm followed. Lttle dam
age was done.
The mountain streams OF Csmbris
aud Blair Counties are being stocked
with salmon and trout
NJ. A B.rrtheissl, of Lsescoe,,
while handling torpedo lost hts two
hrst fingers aud thumb by the acciden-
tai discharge of the explosive.
Over in Orbisonis, Huntingdoa C. i,
on Friday the 9th, cabinet maker
named James Burkett met with ia
tsl mi.hap FROM fire. He was tryiug
TO warm a paint pot on stove, !a5a
the bottom came ont and the pal Mt
caught FIRE, setting FIRE to his cloth ss
turning him alive.
Ii is stated that there will be a large
excursion from Washington to the Get =
tysburg battle field sometime during
the approaching summer. lis expect
ed that President Hayes and other Gov
ernnen, bficia.s will participate in the
excursion.
Ornamental brick fronts are becom-
ing fashionable in fhiladelphls, aud
the brick makers are preparing moulds
TO make brick 10 ornamental forms and
of all colOrs, at very lii.'s increased
COS, over those Of the o-aioGry and uai-
form color, which restrict ina fancy o,
architects and builders.
4 horrible discoserr was male
by the workmen engaged in exhuuing
and removing the remains Of persons,
long since departed, from the old grave
yard in MesdvIlle. When the grave of
a certain well-known mau, who died
fifteen years ago, was opened, 1t was
found to be empty. nd;-a-ing ths
ravsges Of "body sna,ches."
Charles Carey, of No 1873 Washing
ton street, Boston, last Wednesday
morning purchased $1,000 10 United
States Bonds, and was followed 10 biz
store by three men, two of whom en-
gsged his attention while the third stole
the bonds from Garey's coat pocket,
whioh was hanging near ,ac oy. The-s
is no elew TO the thieves IS yet.
A number OF cattle belonging tc t;r.
Jeremiah Scbeafrr, OF Amity fowr-
ship, Bs-ks county, have within ne
past few days died with hydrophobia,
and number of others are suff-ri.
with the terrible malady. The circum-
stance j, creating considerable excite
rneut in that section of the couuiry.
The cattle we're bitten by tso dogs,
who were 6rst bitten By mad cat
Mr. James Abbott and wife. Of Nc.
$50 Lee street, Baltimore, while visit
ing relative, on Sunday night . week,
were suddenly called home by q mes-
sehger, who announced that their daush-
ter, eighteen yesfs old, was dying. Or
entering the foon the yo6ns lady Law
dead on lounge Mrs. AS5o,t was SO
shocked at the death Of ber daughter,
that she fell unconscious on the Gn5.,
and on being lifted up was found to Is
dead. Mrs.. Abbott was thirty eight
years old, and had previously been ir
good health Miss Abbott bad been
invalid all her life.
John McNamara, Ig yesrs of age,
who killed Ellen Callahan, his sweet
heart, on Easter SUNDAY a year ago, in
a jealous fit, in Corning, vas arrested
IN Chicago last week and bt,rght to
Steuben county. He plead not guilty.
He says be lay two nights IN the woods
not mile from Corning. just after ,ts
crime, and during the IL months has
wandered through Europe and all o7er
this country. He was arrested tho
second day after his arrival in Chicog4,
He claims to have 10 recollection Of
comIoitting the crime.
About noon oD Saturday = week q
miner, named William Hsrkins, from
Huntsville, Pa, supposed to have been
insane, approached 8 man named Hugh
Courtney on the streets at Altoona, and
without any provoeation whatever
stabbed him four times in the side and
once IN the leg With an ordinary knife.
Then he ran across the street to q crowd
Of men Who started to run. A man
oamed J. g. Knepp while running fell,
when Harkins stabbed him fatally in
the stomach. The physicisp saws he
cannot live. Hsrkios vas struck over
the head. his skull fractured twice, aud
bis left arm broken. He vas also shot
twice. His injuries are also consider
ej fatal.
Counterfeiters Arrestsd-A Penn