Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-24
NEWS ITEMS.

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The Earl of Flies life is insured for
s2,500,OO0.
General Sherman's son is to become
q priest.
Missouri reports more cases Of sun
stroke than any other state.
Peru has population of over two
and half millions, the sexes being
about equal.
JEFF Davis brother, General Reu-
ben Davis, is candidate for Congress
in Mississippi.
The village of Lenk, Switzerland,
has been almost entirely destroyed by
fire. 1t has a population of $500.
Governor "Biue Jeans" Williams
has been visiting Chicago, and has hon
ored the people of that city by allow
ing them to weigh and measure him.
He turned the scale at 100 pounds,
aud registered height OF 6 feet 4 inch
es. However, he created much disap-
pointment by not wearing his "blue
jeans" suit.
John l.. Simmons, a farmer of Poes-
tenkiIl, New York, was burned to death
on the 10th while trying to save q
horse from burning barn.
Famine is reported to prevail in the
States of Sonora aud Souaios, Mexico.
At Mazailan there was absolutely no
-four and the people were emigrating.
Live cattle to England are being
shipped instead OF dressed beef.
Thomas G.. A. Sphinx farmer, OF
Quidnesset, r. L., seventy-two years
old, fell from load of hay on the 18th
inst, breaking his neck.
A boat containing eleven boys
swamped on Watappa pond, Mass, on
Sunday a week and two of them named
White and William Kelly, we're drown
, ed.
A number of personal alterations
and minor conflicts between Orsngemen
and Catholics are reported from differ
ent points IN Canada as having taken
place on the 18th inst, but no disturb
ance of significant character has taken
place.
Mary Belle 10y, Kansas girl of
fourteen, rau down a large gray wolf
and killed it in a fair fight.
Robert NJ. Lowe white man, was
shot and killed BY Calvin Anderson
(colored) near Bell Bucket, Tenn, on
the 18th while Lowe and fifteen others
in disguise were engaged in breaking
down Auderson's door.
A Jew married 4 widow in Jefferson
Texas, and when Fifty boys serenaded
him discordantly he peppered eight Of
them with bird shot.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
''There is lady living at Fort Jeffer-
son who recently gave birth to triplets.
Two OF them are as white as the moth
er and one is as black as any negro"
Perhaps the mother herself is black.
Tilden wears q white hat, gray
trousers, and a black coat, as he
promenadss along the beach at the
Branch.
Edward Nye, a native OF Holland,
vas swindled out Of thirty-ons thousand
frsncs in a game of draw-poker on
board the boat from New York on her
passage to Troy. Nye was given four
kings, while the sharper kept four aces.
The gang three in number were arrest
ed at Troy, and twenty-five thousand
francs recovered
General Grant is said to have i'm
proved in appearance during his jour
neying.. He is much thinner, and the
change is becoming to him.
The failures in the United States
for the first six months of 1878 are
5,S25, with liabilities of $l3O, ,OOO, 900,
against 4, ,749 during the same period
of 1877, with liabilities Of S9O, ,OOO, 900.
Di Murska, the Hungarian songstress
has not had six husbands, but only two
The first she married on his death bed,
to crafty a dying mans request,
After his death she married her present
husband, Mr.. Hill, whom she loves,
and with whom she lives very happily.
In recent divorce case at Nor
wich, Conn it was shown that the
young wife got drunk day or two af-
ter the wedding and remained SO for
three months. The divorce was grant,
ed.
Owen Brown, son Of old John Brown
lives on Gibraltar islet, Lake Erie.
He is tall and muscular, with tawny
and white over grown beard and blue
eyes, a check shirt and torn chip hat.
He is said to resemble Edwin Adams
as Enoch Arden.
A large lot of counterfeit trade dol
lars, dangerously we'll executed, have
been found in Cincinnati. They have
nearly the standard weight, and are OF
the exact color and. ring of the gen
uine coin. They are composed OF
block tin, bismuth and pulverized glass
A good way to detect them is to press
them between the teeth. when the
glass in them emits = cracking sound.