Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-17
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NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Potato bugs have made their appeal
snoe in Dels wire.
In Maine there il one divorce to
every twelve marriages.
There are about lg 900 women Graz
gers among the Patrons, Of Husbandry
In Texas.
The four expected chimpsnzees and
an orang outang have arfissd at the
aquarium, New York.
Allen Craft, the worst man of all
Moonshiners in Kentucky; was captur-
ed on the Sth inst IN Morgan county.
Work at the Barthsgs N. Y blast
furnaces will shortly be resumed. La
borers Will receive ia cents . day.
Exactly four thousand Eve hundred
and eighty six emigrants arrived 81
New York during the month of March,
The Boston Traveller ravors the
erection of the whipping post in Mass,
for the special benefit of"wife beaters. %
1t is estimated that over 100, 900
persons in New England have signed
the total a5stiuence pledge since De-
cember l..
Boss Tweed, whose health has been
failing rapidly, took to his bed Lesrly 4
week ago is now dead. -s-
The great English surgeon, Jsuner,
says that female physicians have the
one fault of not being able to keep =
secret.
Seven dead bodies all Of men who
are supposed to have committed suicide
were found in the East and North
rivers at New York on Saturday u
week.
Long Branch will not tolerate the
dangerous Spitz dog the coming season
the municipal authorities having passed
a law authorizing any one to kill any OF
these animals found within the corpor-
alton limits.
An insane pauper fired one of the
buildings Of the Steuben county poor
house, near Bath, New York on Sstur-
day night week Fifteen inmates per-
i,hed.
A capital of 81, $50, 900, besides the
leather and hides, is invested in Eastern
Maine tanneries, which employ 800
men, use 90, 600 cords of bark, and
manufacture 5000 tons of leather an
nuslly.
The production of petroleum is at a
stand.till in the Butler and Clarion re.
gions. The rush Of operators is now to
Mexican county, in what is called the
Bradford district.
Hiram Weeks, of St. John,bury, VT,
former director of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank Of that town, is reported
to have absconded, taking S43, 900 OF
trust and borrowed funds.
Workmen on the Poughkeepsie
bridge are paid twenty Eve cents an
hour for working ''under pressure" in
the caissons being sunk In the bed OF
the river for the piers.
A. ID. Foskett, an orange merchant,
&c years Of age and married clipped from
Springfield, Mass, on the 9Th With
Miss Emma Jillson, q girl of Is years.
They we're traced to Troy. The young
lady's parents are almost distracted, and
the town is much excited over the sf,
fair.
Forty-one of the adult Indian prison.
ers recently released from confinement
at ST. Augustin, Fla have left that
point By steamer Cor Norfolk, Va,
whence they will 60 west BY rail and
will be distributed amongst the SOUTH
western agencies IN the Iudien Terri
tory.
A large gold brick was cast at Hell
ena, NJ. t., on the Sth inst. from the
product of the Penobscot Mine. and is
valued at over $4,000. The mine is
located about eighteen miles from Sill.
YER City, Montana. The brick is the
product Of $50 tons of ore, and the cost
Of production is $4,000.
A large vat on the top floor of the
Buffalo Grape Sugar works, containing
fifty tons of wet corn, burst on Satur-
day week carrying the corn and a
portion of the vat to the ground floor
through the hopper, instantly killing
Henry Bast, aged twenty-five years.
Two others narrowly escaped death
The vat was being tried for the FIRST
time.
The store of j. s. Jameson, at West
ernport, W. Va, was entered early on
Saturday morning a week, and the safe
blown open aud rifed of Its contents.
Among the articles stolen were two
registered government bonds of ten
thousand dollars each twenty FIVE
hundred dollars in cash, five hundred
of which were in gold certificates; four
thousand dollars worth of stock In the
National Bank of Piedmont, and a
pocket book containing between twenty
and thirty thousand dollars of promis
sorry notes. The latter were found in q
yard Q short distance from the store.