Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
News Items

made IN Reading.
A Kentucky farmer poisoned some
xaternelons to kill thieves; and then
sold them by mistake to his customers.
Several persons were taken sick and
one died. The farmer fed.
1t is estimated that the apple crop of
Chautauqua county, New York, this
year will bring Sl50,000. The crop
is an immense one and prices good.
C,earfield county has 64S1'NIur-
phyites
Six hundred applications for posi-
tions as teachers in Berks county
schools.
A York county hopeful tried to
ride Il young bull. He was still un-
conscious at last accounts.
There are about IS, 600 colored Bap-
lists in Mississippi.
Four sets of ,riplets were born in
Massachusetts, last year.
Lebanon county manufactured 5O6,-
$50 cigars during August and sold 4ls
O5O.
jacob PETER, of Smoketuwn, Ian
caster county, has raised pumpkin
which weighs lis pounds.
A Georgia woman is reported to have
given birth to triplets three successive
times.
A Lancaster man found pocke,book
cont tanning $2500 and returned it to
the owner, and was not even thanked
for his trouble.
pancing was inaugurated ID the
White House in Madison's time, by a
delegation of Indian chiefs.
Eighty thousand cattle are to be
shipped in one lot from Taylor, Texas.
Russell T. Smith has been sentenced
to four years Imprisonment in Luzerne
county, for attempting to poison his
wife and daughter.
There are seventeen counties in Ohio
in which th County Treasurers have
lately proved defaulters, and the de-
faulter' IN every instance, is Democrat.
The Harrisburg Telegraph reports
that large number of meteorIc stones
have lately been picked up on a farm
IN Dauphin county, and that others yet
feHa:n IN abundance there.
"Two Bears" the Sioux Indian who
visited the prison at Baltimore the
other day. was very mitch amazed at
the unreasonableuess Of imprisouing
people for stealing horses. When
shown the cells be was very emphatic
in the opinion that they were "No good,
no good no place for Indian. Good
eat, but no good sleep. Ugh !"
John Perry, residing three miles
from Hydeville, VT, after quarreliDg
with bis wife on Wednesday, and agree
ing to leave her for two hundred dol
lars, returned at night, set fire to the
house, and afterward shot himself
through the heart.
fhIrty-fve years ago lady now re-
siding at Hollidaysburg, had a gold
chain stolen while attending school. 1t
was returned by mail few days since.
There is a married couple in Bedford
county who we're joined in wedlock in
1914. The husband is ninety one years
old, and the wife eighty one years.
The Rutland iVt) Globe says A dog
in this place recently, when his master
neglected to feed him, went to the de-
pot restaurant where his master often
ea.s, sat on one of the stools awhile,
and as no one paid any attention to HIM,
reached over and helped himself to a
fried pie and walked out.
A specimen Of the reported counter
fel, Fifty dollar legal tender soto, which
has been so largely circulated in Chi
csgo, has been carefully examined by
the Chief of the Secret Service Divi-
sion of the Treasury, found to be print
ed en- fibre paper, aab pronounced gen.
nine.
The township of East Union, Schuyl-
kill county has not assessed any school
or road taxes for the years 1876 and
1877. The schools are we'll kept and
the roads are lie good condition. With
in the year two new brIck school houses
have been built and the township is not
one cent IN debt. The citizens are
naturally proud OF this:
The Presbyterian Synod of Harris
burg, comprising the Presbyteries of
Carlisle, Huntingdon, Northumber-
land ard Wellsboro. with 139 minis
tiers, will meet at Harrisburg, Octo-
Der Is.
A well-known young lady of Sawyer
City, a town in the oil regions, on a
wager, the other day, climbed to the
top of an eighty-four feet oil derrick
and waved her handkerchief to her
friends below. The terms of the
wager was that she was to receive a
lew silk dress and a ten dollar green
back.
Jacob Norris, the broker who mys-
terIously shot himself 10 Baltimore, is
found 10 be defaulter in SAC, 900.
He bad charge of the money of his
money Of his mother in-law, some S35-
900, aud lost it all in speculation by
forging her signature. HIS mother and
sister in law lost $4,000 each, aud
like his mother in-law, are left desti-
tute.
The long expected paragraph English
Bible, prepared by Canon Girdleston, is
passing through the press of the Brit
ish and Foreign Bible Society The
prose portions are paragraphed accord
ing to the sense. The poetic parts are
arranged in the same manner as modern
poetry. The Psalms are divided into
strophes or sianzas, and where they are
acrostic or alphabetical the fact is ihdi-
Gated by the Hebrew initials.
The whole Haverstick family at |
Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland coun-
ty, Pa, has been arrested and held
to answer the charge of poisoning
Mo1lie CamnhaIl a LITTLE orirl Evinor