Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-05
NEWS ITEMS.
Texas is milling new wheat


Texas is milling new wheat
They are growing silk in Tennessee.
They are eating new green corn in
Texas.
Illinois whea. is being damaged BY
Hes-ian fiy.
New York has Just had her first col
ored jury man.
The garden beet is native Of the
shores of the Mediterranean.
The introduction of bells into Christ
ian churches occurred in the year 400
A. d.
Railroad ties in England last from
.weaty to thirty years, owing to pre-
psration put on them.
Organ grinders are excluded from
Lynn, Mass, BY q stringent ordinance.
The sixth wife of Elder Dunf,rd, of
Salt Lake, has obtained q divorce, in
order to become the tenth wife of Bish-
op McAllister.
Cslifornia used to produce fine pota-
toes, but for several years the blight
has almost ruined the crop. This years
crop is SAID to be affected worse than
ever.
L, Is estimated that $4,000 people
have emigranted from Pennsylvania
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to Kansas,
taking with them Sc 600 900 in capit-
al.
Wheat harvesting is now in progress
in all the southeastern counties of Mis-
souri,, which is an extraordinary specta-
Gle for that section in May, where grain
cutting generally begins about the 2Oth
of June.
The Potter committee couldn't
stand the pressure. They have so far
modified their order for secret sessions
that newspaper men and counsel for
individuals who may be sssailed by the
witnesses, can be present.
Packard. a widower, in Milton, VT,
ha. been publicly horsewhipped by
one woman and sued by another for
$4,000. Both charge him with
breach of promise to marry.
A Mrs Davis has recovered from
Mr.. John Daniell, New York mer-
ohsnt, a .Serdict of $3.50 for subjectIng
her to the indignity of being searched.
on a charge of stealing in his store.
1t is stated that H. Dusseault lately
accomplished the feat of walking upon
water st Taunton Mass. He walked a
quarter of mile on Taunton river in
six minutes. He wears pair of pat
ent shoes made Of tin, about one foot
wide and three feet long. which air
is confined, and he makes bis way in a
kind of skating gait.
Recently, in Illinois, swarm of bees
attacked a farmer with a team Of
horses. The horses laid down under
the torture, and both died from the
effects of the stings received, while the
man was at last accounts lying in a
very precarious condition. Moral
when you intend hauling bees in
hires on wagon fiA the "Tarmints" SO
that they cannot got out to sting you.
JEFF Davis has won the long 5end
ing suit in the Mississippi Court of
Appeals, for the possession Of his
fine plantation at Briersfeld, In that
State. 1t seems the decision Of this |
court is final, 60 there is nothing to |
prevent the old arch traitor from end !
ing his days in the spot where be plot
ted his treason. 1t is to be hoped he
will retire to his farm and hide himself |
from the world, which remembers him
only to regret that he ever existed.
Helen Wise, daughter of Rabbi VI.
Wise, of Cincinnati, has produced a
sensation in Jewish society there BY |
elOping with a young Irish lawyer,
named James Mallory, who had been
the house by the family
They we're married by a Unitarian
preacher and went to q hotel.
Brooklyn has another sensation. A
thrifty citizen has brought suit against
q young lady's mother in that city for
seventy dollars commission for having
obtained handsome husband for her
daughter. This Is Q ridiculous sum
for good looking young fellow.
The auditors of the various counties
Of Ohio met at CINCINNATI on Friday,
and decided to tax all Pullman cars
running through the State according to
the distance run in the State as com
pared with the entire length of line
run over. The tax in each county will
be pro rated according to the length of
line in the counties compared with the
States line of road.
Mrs. Thompson, a widow about fifty
years old, highly connected and respect
ID, killed her daughter Nettie, about
sixteen years old with a razor, while
'leeplng in bed, at Springfield, Mo-, on
Wednesday night last. and then cut ner
,wn throat. Temporary insanity oc-
'asioned BY sickness il assigned as the
cause for the act.