Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-09
News Items.
The Pope has a bad cold.

Spurgeon suffers much from gout.
The POpe's only remaining relative
is nun.
Stanley's African explorations cost
Sl5O,O00o.
The war patty seems to be gaining
ground in England.
The snow is proving very formid-
able foe to the Russians.
Two breweries in England consume
as much water daily as would supply a
of 45 900 inhabitants.
The last bridge across the Danube
has gone the Russians cannot conveni-
emily take the back track nou.
They are getting ready at the u,ints
to produce She Dollar of the Dads as
fast as they are needed.
A cloth made from the down of all
kinds of domestic fowls aud sea birds
is quite the rage in Paris.
The Modocs are developing into
good citizens on the reservation to
which they have been sent.
Pi,tsburg's fire department last year
cost over $4,000.
Very li:tle strong drink was set be-
fore Chicago callers on New Year day.
There are ten men to one woman in
southern California. Female servants
there get $40 per month.
Forty prominent citizens Of Lexing
ton, KY, have been indicted for card
playing. They are all married men.
Fifteen years were consumed and
$500 expended in deciding the own
ership of yoke of oxen, in Oregon.
S. V. Van Inuegen, tax collector
IN Pike county, has been sentenced 20
eighteen months at hard labor and sosi-
tary confinement, On the charge Of en-
bezzlement.
Mrs. Mary Adams, who died in Pitts
burgh last week, left George +. Bur-
dett, newsboy on the Pennsylvania
road, 81, 500 in money, and farm Of
l25 acres in Ohio.
Mr.. Gladstone is fond of chopping
wood and Sheffield firm has sent him
fine axe of the American pattern re-
ceIving IN return note commencing Its
work.
About one hundred and fifty men
employed at chopping wood on the
Pine Grove estate. They receive %
cents per cord.-BiOomtsid Times.
"The Lutheran Church in Beaver
City, Pa, has oil well on its premises,
and the flow i. sufficient to pay all the
church's expenses.
An Epglishmau recently arrived in
Boston has distinguished himself by
biting a mans thumb off
A recent assessment of taxables IN
New York city shows decline Of 49,
eco as compared with last year.
Hereafter no person can vote In
Main unless he has paid a poll tax
within two years of the time when he
offers his ballot.
The colored school teachers of Mis-
souri, held convention in st Louis
last week. They demand the same ed
ucatlonal facilities that the whites have.
John Grubber, aged 20 years, son
Richard M.Grubber, of North Heidel-
berg. Berks county, disappeared from
his home Christmas day and has not
since been heard of.
Three men entered the house of
George Mingle, near Africa, n. y,
on Monday morning week, knocked
him down, dragged out his wife, aged
56 years, and brutally murdered her.
Two men have been arrested on suspi-
cion.
Ali BOYS under eighteen years of age
except apprentices in skilled labor, are
to be discharged from the employ Of
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. This action is regarded as re-
suit of the loss of a suit brought against
the Company recently by boy in its
employ, who was hurt, and gained $40
600 damages.
Two men boarded the through train
on the Fort Wayne Railroad, near
Pittsburg, recently, knocked down the
porter OF the Pullman car and attempt
ed to rob the passengers The alarm
being given, the thieves pulled the bell
rope, the train slowed up aud they es-
capped.
A son Of Abraham Mayer, proprietor
of the Delmouico hotel, of Auburn,
Schuylklll county, while celebrating the
last of the old year, shot part of his
face and head away by the accidental
discharge of gnn. Strange tc say the
boy still lives, though suffering terrible
agony The case battles scientific abil-
ity, and the spectacle it presented of a
human being living with half head.
Mr.. Henry RosenGeld, proprietor of
the Rising Sun Hotel, in Lancaster,
was found hanging by the neck, In the
garrett of the hotel, on Thursday after
noon. Domestic troubles doubtless
caused him to take bis life. His wife
left him some time ago, and an action
for divorce was pending.
A callithumpian party in Monroeville,
Indiana, met with very unpleasant
reception. They were serenading a
man named Martz, who had been new
ly married, when some one from the
house fred into them with gun Nine
persons were wounded three of whom
were dangerously hurt The punish
ment was severe, but the provOeation
was severe also.
Mr. Peter Ritner came near losing his
house by fire on Tuesday morning
week about 9 o'clock. 1t is supposed
piece of meat fell down upon the Goals
in the smoke house attached to the
dwelling house in a few moments the
smoke honse was consumed By the
wisdom and energy of the ladies of the
house aided By the proximity of the
cistern, dreadful confagration was
avoided.-CGrlisie Toiuntesr.
Information cor,oS 20 ,s fro,o Tnnor