Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-15
NEWS ITEMS.

WHICH thtIt were 1OsO Cdrts
last year the wool crop OF Washing
ton county sold for 4 cents per pound.
This year the price is %
Highwsymen inies, Mercer Lawrence
and Warren counties.
Owing TO The siringeDcy Of the tunes
the saleri-s of Methodist and Baptis,
ministers III Huntingdon have been re
duced twenty five per cent.
Schuy ylklll county has calico hops.
There are more brass bands in Pen.
nsylvsnia thsp we ever had, not even
excepting the war period.
The Keystone Glass Works Pitts
burg are now working on large order
from South Ansriea. Tue present
order Is for 1000 tozen cblmneys.
James Durkin and Patrick Steele.
of PLGnixvi!le, while stealing ride
on the top of box car. on the Read
ing Railroad on Saturday. were srrues
by bridge near Limerick Station and
inst anily killed.
The Great Western Gun Works Of
P'trsburg have received al order from
Norway for lot Of cartridges.
Sanders Mccullough. a wealthy res
ident of Oxford borough, Chester couu-
t,, shot his wife in mistake for burg
lar on FRIDAY night. The wound is
tho ughr to be fatal.
Twelve farmers have been arrested
10 Lancaster county for violating the
reveRne laws in regard to the mIuuiac-
turing of cigars.
Two men named jacobs and Gold
msn, of Crawford county, have been
convicted of arson, burning buildings to
obtain the Insurance.
The pret,Iest girl in Paris this year
is an American, according to the New
York Herald.
Forty-six horses were carried out BY
the steamer State Of Louisiana from
New York on Friday in stalls butt
upon the upper deck between the fore
aud mainmas:s
joe Coburn, the pugilist is laying
brick IN Auburn State Prison. Here
is smother proof that no useless To inr
has been created
Robert Letcher when young man
worked upua the Executive Mansion of
Kentucky a brickiayer, aud in 1870
occupied il a, Governor.
Twenty five horses were stolen from
stables in Lawrence county from De
cenlber until Aprii last.
Thee are four boys, from Northuio-
5erlaud, IN jail, their sges ranging
from 9 to l3 years, who have besr
committed on ;he charge Of larceny.
Wm Lewis, alias Thon,s, . uotor:ous
incendlar, of Snlnerse, county, was ar
rested last FridAy, AMI lodged ia .he
4 estmorelaud couaty jail. lie De
longs to = notorious gsug which has
been oper.tin: IN Sosers-t snl West
nOrei.nG counties during ls,t winter
The Proihouotar, Of Scau, ikii.
county has served 32J rrjnuetians fuT
the present June term of court.
gThs g:ani chOru- to tnrm part o.
the Valley Forge Csa'enuial Cri-hr,
tion exercises viii be reud-rsi By 20o
voices
\ counterfeit 500 note on the Sec
md National Bank ot W,ike-harre, Ps..
sss discovered at the Treasur, ,esr-r
1aT. The c"untsrfeI, ID veil .Ieruted,
and will easily deceive al ortiaary Il
pert
! repair hand on the Cumberland
aud Pesu>ylviuis railroad, while a
work. uesr Midland, was bitten j.,
The right hand by a coPperh. al snake
\ large dose of whisky was imue,iiaI"-
ly administered aad probably saved ,h'
mans life
Two men we're whipped in the priso,
At Dover, Delaware, one day last week
Zach Receiving twenty iasbes. Th'
police of tLai State seems 10 be that
tue Only avenue tor justice IS ths, OF
tue nflpplng post.
|, has lately been discovered that man,
II this ysar ; sLal are Infested Wiz.
,rachIna.
There Is a cat IN Mariette which l
iursiug two muskrs,s. Having bad
four kittens, two died, about which
ume two muskrats We're captured ana
placed in box with the rem ,inisg X,
Gus, which the old cat adopted auo
iOw nurses.
The Baltimore Gazette says; 4 ca
ole dispatch brIng, the gIlm aunounce-
oeut that Eugisud Ess ordered one
niiiIon puuads oi lint. Fms enormous
preparation for the dressing of sabre
oay cnet aud gun-shut wounds, suggests
fearful Carnage. A pound OF lint Is
'nOugh TO dress twenty gistly wounds
'nd The prudent iorethough' OF Mr.
Jisraeli IN thus preparing Tor twenty
million Of wounded men cAnoot ls too
much admired.
A pair of burly lrishmeu attempted
to get up prize fight near Shenaud. al
las week, when Father MLough il
una ie his APPEARANCE aud stopped th,
anil coureiiing the bruiser who was
irs on the field to promise not to 6ghi
and tlen 90 home. There we're tree
hundred people presen, to witness the
affair, whom the priest took occasion to
reprove and put to shame.
A msn who spent four years of his
life In the Iowa Pennitentiary under
= wrongful conviction has Just been
awarded 81, 500 by the Legislature OF
The State. Not many men would sub
init to be thus deprived of their lloe,.
ty for the sum of 81 per day.
d. e. Gregg. of Brady township,
Lycoming county, died last week, cause