Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-12
NEWS ITEMS.

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jackson Vile, Fla.
Indiana has cheaper pork now than
for the last eighteen years.
Peru annually exports lO0,OCO tons
of guano to the United States, It's
largest customer.
1t is estimated that the annual loss
TO agriculture in the United States
from insects is not less than Sl5O, ,OOO,-
900.
Nearly 1000 Mennonite immigrants
from Southern Russia arrived at the
Castle Garden depot n Y, on the 9th
inst.
President Hayes and son visited
Havre- de- Grace on the 5th inst to in
spect the operation of fish hatching.
At Dixon, Mo-, last Saturday, the
two daughters, aged FIVE and eight
years, of Mrs. Amelia March, we're
smothered to death in a trunk, into
which they had crawled, it is supposed,
for fun.
Dispatches received from General
Crook confirm the late news of she re
volt of the Bannock Indians, but doubts
the number of savages 6rst reported,
making their aggregate 400.
In Boston there are s55 lawyers and
LAWYERS firms to l67 merchants and
mercantile firms. The lawyers out
number even the liquor dealers.
A little green bug is destroying the
blue grass in Kentucky. Great fields
are said to be ravaged by it, the grass
looking as if it had suffered protract-
ed drought.
An old man named Waistner and
his daughter were struck by passing
train on Wednesday evening while
walking upon the track near koko-
mo, Ind, and were instantly killed.
1t is announced that the husband Of
Mrs. Kate Sothern goes with her to
prison, and that be says be will remain
with her until her sentence (of ten
yearsl has expired. If he had been
faithful to her before, she would not
have been goaded to the crime of kill
ing rival.
A San Antonio Texas dispatch says
Indians, supposed to be from Mexico,
are raiiing the western country. They
have killed or captured two little sons
of sheep-rai.er, and had fight with
their father, in which one Indian was
killed and several wounded. The SOL
dlers are on the trail.
A young man about nineteen years
old, named Thomas Kerns, while try
ing to rob the money drawer in the
store o! Bradford, st Wilmington
on Friday evening week was shot
twice by the watchman. One ball
took effect in his arm and another near
the temple, producing serious injuries.
A Boise City (IdahoJ dispatch says
Colonel Bernard's scouts have been in
formed by man that the body of a
murdered man and articles of woman's
clothing we're found near Owyhee early
Saturday morning, a week. Colonel
Bernard's command reached Big Cam
pas prairie on Sunday and entered the
Indians stronghold, the hostiies de-
camping in haste. About 300 Indians
remain in the lava beds.
The wife of Jesse Billings, Jr.. of
Bacon Hill, near Scbuylerville, n. Y,
was fatally shot in the head on Tuesday
evening a week, the shot being fired
through a window. Mrs. Billings has
for long period been jealous of her
husband, and there has been much
trouble between them in consequences.
Recently a woman living over Mr.. BILL
ings' Office commenced SANDER suit
against Mrs. Billings for certain alleged
slanderous words spoken.
A despatch from West Virginia, via.
Ohio on the 4th inst, says; /; Yesterday
about 700 miners from different mines
from Charleston, W. ", captured the
steamer Modock and went to Blacks
burg to make the miners there stop
work. They threatened to kill or
drown every one opposing them. They
succeeded in stopping the Blackburg
mines, after which they took possession
OF train on the Chesapeake and OHIO
railroad and returned making the train
stop when and where they pleased and
refusing to pay fare,
In an establishment at Oakland,
| Cal, the entrails of sheep are used fol
making very serviceable betting fol
machinery. First the entrails are
cleaned and soaked few days in brine.
The prepared material is then wound
on bobbins, when 1t is ready for work
ing up into ropes or fat belts. A
three-quarter inch rope of this mater
ial is capable of bearing strain of sew
en- tons. The material furthermore, i:
very durable-more than twice as dur
able as hemp.-Popuiar Science Month
iy.
A good deal of fear and stoppage
in the sale of shad in New Jersey and
New York has been occasioned by the
discovery of ascarld WORMS about al
inch ia length occurring in the fesl
and on the gills of these fish. On ex
animation of specimens sent us by Mr.
Apgar, of Trenton, we fnd that ths
worms belong to ascdris, or a closel.
allied genus. They are closely related
to the ordinary ascarid or round worm
which are abundant in the intestines ant
flesh of the cod hake and paddock, anC
which We have always supposed to b,
rarely if ever injurious Cases o.
sickness supposed to be due to th
shad worm have been reported in tn
papers, but it is doubtful whether any
disease would show itself in so shor
a time. Similar but much large
worms are common in the intestines o
man and the domestic animals.-.fmer
lean Naturalist.
A startling case of grave robber,
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