Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-26
NEWS ITEMS.

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among North Carolina swine.
Wheat harvest began in Texas just
three weeks earlier than usual.
There ere 5000, 900 pupils in the
public schools of the United States.
Italy imported seven million dollars
worth of tobacco last year.
General Fremcnt's salary as Govern.
or o: ArizoDa viii be $2500 a year.
The ladies of the Rothchild family
are described as fat, practical, and con.
sequential.
The Mormons are for Grant in 1880
The Salt Lake Herald says he is the
only man worthy of the p,aoe.
Yupg Wing, who Is graduate Of
Yale College, has presented that insti-
tuition with 1900 Chinese books.
Thomas w. Finley, the theological
student who was hazed at Princeton
last March, has accepted $3.50 as dam
ages.
Thomas Wilkinson, of Locke, Cayu-
ga county, New York, murdered bis
wife on Sunday q week because she
would not live with him, aud then
committed suicide.
The twelve year old daughter Of Ja-
Sander, residing at Greentown, Stark
county, Ohio, was burned to death on
Saturday evening a week, her dress
catching fire from a stove.
A terrible runaway accident occur
red at Uniontown, few miles from
Akron, Ohio on Sunday a week by
Is year old son of Hiram Wise was
instantly killed. The forefeet of the
horse struck him in the breast and bis
body was terribly msngled.
! Herr Bersig, the great European To-
comotive manufacturer, died recently
10 Berlin. He was worth 100000
and employed 10000 Lands.
Daniel Stevens, tramp, was sents en-.
ced, at Buffalo, n. Y, on the 18th, to
twenty-years Imprisonment, for brutal
outrage on a girl eigh: years old.
Tie Governor of Indiana was com
PEELED to send troops to Fountain coun-
ty 70 suppress a riot last week.
The cashier of the wrecked bank al
Greenwich, N. Y, hanged himself on
the 10Th inst.
A Texas man has lived fifty year:
without speaking to any body save hi;
mother and sister.
There is a cabinet at Windsor Cast
lie which contains lock of the hair oI
Mary, Queen OF Scots. The lock oI
hair full tress of beautiful golden
hairs very fine in texture, like tina,
of glrl of sixteen.
A military spirit is rife among the
young men of southern cities and in
Memphis Charleston, Richmond, anC
many cities throught Georgia and Tex,
as, companies are forming and eombin-
ing into regiments. Competitive drill.
are held and the organizations are Civ
en- every encouragement.
Two of the three negroes hanged il
Goldsboro, N. C., expressed firm be
lief that they were goiug direct from
the scaffold to heaven but the THIRD
was equally sure that he was going tc
hell. 81 will breakfast with the devi
Tomorrow" he SAID.
The great Scottish giant William
Campbell, who recently died at the
age of twenty two, weighed 72S pounds
His body and coffin weighed ton, and
derrick was necessary to get the cof
fin and its contents out of the house.
Nearly every woman who has attain,
ed intellectual eminence was a tomboy
in her childhood and did not wear cor
sets. Charlotte Cushnan was that sor.
of little girl.
A large sale Of short horns took place
in Clark county, Kentucky, on the 19tt
the property of BIB. Groom. One
hundred and thirty head realized ovel
$60,O00. Many strangers we're pres
ent from Northern and Western States
and some from canada and England
The prices realized were considered
good, ranging as high as $4,000.
A Virginia City dispatch says: Fol
several days heavy blasts in the head
ing of the Suttro tunnel have ioosened
blocks of rock weighing as much as q
ton from the drift which the Savage
company is running to connect with th,
tunnel. The Savage men we're yester'
day Withdrawn from the face of the
drift The tunnel is believed not to bt
further away than so feet, and it may
be that connection will be made by
the 4th of July.
Two young lovers met near Clay
mount, Delaware county, one of whom
was Philadelph;an and the other /;
resident of the former place, and fought
duel for the possession of young
lady. The Eight after the duel til,
damsel left Claymount in company witt
a Boston man whom she had met for th,
first time only few days before anC
going to Chester were married, leaving
the two ardent duelists to congratulate,
each other on the escape they had mad'
from a tickle woman.
Pretty Melissa Smith, the belle o.
Hatteras Island, was the daughter of 4
lighthouse keeper, and was to have
been married on Wednesday last. Blu
on Sunday night just after she had lef
her lover AID was going to bed, she
opened the door of her room in the
lighthouse to enjoy the sea breeze, and
her pillow fell upon the stairway out
side. Attempting to recover it, she
slipped and fell, sinking into the wat
ter. She gave three piercing screams
and was carried away by the surf jus
as her father appeared in the doorway
Itis scarcely more tLan l2O year.
since Col. Francis Townley, Georg,
Fletcher, and seven other Jacobite
were hanged on Remington Common
London, cut down, disenbowelled, be
headed, quartered, their hearts tossed