Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-22
NEWS ITEMS.

I Ltfmber men 50, that riDre spcr raftl
hate been taken down the river tin
season than have been foated to mark
ct for ten years previous.
There were 1000 people refused ad
mittanse at Plymouth church wht
wanted to see how Beecher would lool
with his regimental uniform on.
Columbia College turned out 18!
new aedged lawyers on the 18th inst.
A tramp saved night train on the
Kentucky Central railroad from de
structicn, BY signaling it With his shir
that he bad stripped from off his bach
aud set on fire. He had discovered ,
large tree that had blown across the
track, and adopted this method to pre-.
vent accident.
Dispatches from various points in
New York state that there has beer
very heavy frost, and its effect upon
the growing crops has been very disas
trous. Peaches, pears and grapes, il
Is feared, are almost entirely destroyed
The gardens will have to be replanted.
Ice formed IN many localities. DIS.
patches from the fruit region in Michi-
gan and from almost every section OF
North.rn Indiana. Illinois, Iowa and
Wisconsin state that grapes, cherries,
berries and all small fruits, tender gar
den vegetables, and, in some localities
wheat and corn, were badly damaged,
if not entirely destroyed, by the frost.
The National Convention of the An
cient Order of HIbernians couver ed in
Boston on the l4th inst, One hun
dred and twenty FIVE delegates we're
present. The Order exists in twenty
seven States aud has a total member
ship of 100000.
A great invasion of kangaroos recent
ly occurred 10 various settled parts of
Australia, especially Queensland, the
animals being, no doubt driven from the
interior by the drought and is effects
in search of food. They came in thou
sands, devouring everything in the
shape of herbs or grain, SO that the
sheep and cattle were often reduced to
dry leaves for fodder. The colonists
promptly met the attack, IN some cases
driving the kangaroos into an inclosure
and shooting them. In one battle
more than four thousand kangaroos we're
killed in four days.
1t has been found By chemical anal
ysis that the evenings milk is richer
than the mornings Professor Boedeker
has analyzed the milk of healthy COW
at different periods of the day, and
found that the solids of the evenings
milk l3 per cent. exceeded those of
the mornings milk 10 per cent J while
the water contained IN the fluid was
diminished from SO per cent. to sc per
cent.
DIR. Dio Lewis, being convinced that
outdoor life in the mountains is an ex-
ceedingly healthful thing, has organized
in California a camping party of fifty or
sixty ladies and gentlemen. They all
live iu tents, aud will remain outdoors
four and q half months.
ID. W. Sherwood OF Conn ecticut, pro-
poses to raise 800 camels year on
0,0U0 acres of land in Southern Colo
rado. Those located IN Texas some
years ago a:e said to be doing we'll.
Woman member of Q BROOKLYN
church has sued the church corporotion
for $4,000 damages, caused by their
neglect to clear the pavement of Ice
and snow, through which neglect she
fell and broke her leg.
The commissioner of agriculture re
Gently received from Japan a shipment
of silk worms, which are now being
hatched for distribution in different
sections of the country where people
are beginning to take an interest in the
industry. Silk worms are raised sue
cessfully in Alabama and Utah, also at
Silkville in Kansas, where a. French
colony carry on the industry and ship
large quantities. of eggs to foreign coup
tries.
Vague rumors are afoat OF a raid
on Canada by the Irish in case of war
between Russia and England. 1t is
stated that three companies of Irish
patriots are armed and equipped at
Buffalo read for service, aud one thou
sand Western Irishmen have been no
tilted, so that they can be there in
twenty-four hours, while there are three
thousand more IN that vicinity that
will rendezvous for a raid within three
days after orders are Issued, bat moth
ing authentic eau be obtained to sub
stantiate these rumors.
The reputed highest point in the State
of Pennsylvania is The Rocks" sit
uate about one mile from Hazelton,
and midway between Scranton and
GAINESVILLE, short distance from the
turnpike. 1t is a beautiful spot, and
when on "The Rocks" with the aid of
= spy glass, the outlines of WIlkesbarre
twenty miles distant, can be clearly
seen.