Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-27
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
4 France has bad BOG Secretaries OF
State since 1880.
The trank of q tree 300 feet high
or section OF it-from Mississippi, is
4 TO be among the wonders of the Paris
Exhibition.
In Washington, d. c., nearly ten
per cent. of the population are without
employment or means of support.
A dog about the size of red squir-
rel was recently sold in Toronto, Can :,
for $4,000.
! John Mccoy died in Boston recent
ly at the age of 100 years and 9 months.
Three neighbor. in North Carolina
are the fathers of forty children.
Efforts are being made to establish
the whipping-post in Kentucky.
A snow slide at Bingham, Utah, on
the Goth inst, killed two men.
Daniel Youmsns fred a barn at
Mount Hope, N. j., whereby forty
horses and mules and quantity Of ma
terial we're destroyed. He has been
sentenced to five years. Imprisonment.
At Portage, Wis, while digging a
well, farmer heard rumbling noise
below, as of rushing water, which grew
louder as he went down. He finally
struck a bed of gravel, through which
a strong current of intensely cold air
rushed up, and on going through the
bed he came to water, which congeals
as fast as it comes into the we'll.
Charles A. Hartman, of Haverhill,
Mass, completed his walk of 100 miles
ID Is hours, 4S minutes and 80 seconds
on the 2lst inst. This is said to the
shortest time on record.
Twenty-one thousand dollars worth
of dried apples we're exported from
Somerset, KY, last autumn.
The candle used in Alaska is a fish
eight inches long, almost transparent
and very fat, the fat being pure white
and very sweet. The Indians dry the
fish, then light it at the tail, and it
burns with clear, sparkling fame,
which the wind will not extingulsh.
At trial of criminal case in the
Maine Supreme Court recently the
prisoner entered plea of''not guilty."
when one of the jurymen put on his
hat and started for the door. The
Judge called him back and informed
him that be could not leave until the
case was tried. "Tried % queried the
juror, "Why he acknowledged that be
is not guilty.
Mrs. Catherine Jarvis, of Diglcy, N.
s., died recently at the age of ITO
years. She was born in slavery in the
United States, and brought to Halifax
by loyalist in 1872.
Professor Riley, Chairman o: the
Grasshopper Commission, reports that
| there will be no devastation from grass
hopers during the present year.
Joseph p Wall, who kicked his
wife to death in New York recently,
has been sentenced to fifteen years IN
the State prison. He was advised by
the Judge to bring civil suit against
the parties who sold him the liquer, aud
sue for damages for the support of his
children.
Miss Jennie Moore, of Bellville, n.
j., was missing from her home on
Christmas evening. and last Sunday af-
ternoon a week her body was found in
the, Passiac river, near the Erie rail-
road bridge at Newark. The face was
SWOLLEN beyond recognition, but the
dress and articles of jewelry left no
doubt of her identity.
A tramp entered house in Athol,
Mass, the other day, when only a
woman and her child were present, and
catching up the latter threatened to
kill 1t if he was not given something to
eat at once. The mother went into
another room, but instead of bringing
back food presented a pistol. The
tramp dropped the child and made bis
exit backward.
A pair of oxen weighing 5l5O pounds
we're driven into Claremont, n. H., re-
Gently. They were raised BY Secretary
Evarts on his farm at Windsor, VT,
and President Hayes was promised lib
eral slice when they should be slaught-
cred.
Michiganders recently enjoyed the
novel sight of a locomotive running
through the pine forests on a common
dir road. The engine was built for
the Film, and Pere Marquette Rail-
road Company, to haul logs, on their
railroad north Of Farewell, to the
Muskegon river. 1t vas taken to
Farewell by rail, but how to get from
there to its destination, a distance of
fifteen miles, was question not quick |
ly TO be solved. Finally it was decid-
ed to attempt to run it over the dirt
roads by its own power, which feat was
triumphantly achieved
A tooth the size of small ham, and /
and similar in shape, weighing twelve
pounds, was extracted from the jaw of
a white elephant ID Ceylon while the
animal was under the influence of chlo-
ro.orm. The dental operation was per
formed to relieve the beast of the great
pain caused by exposure of the nerve
owing to the decay of portion of the
bone.
The most eloquent man in the Vir-
ginia Senate is said to be Mr.. w. N.
Stevens, Colored. He was born a
slave, and is now about thirty years old.
He has been graduated by two colleges,
one at Richmond and the other in
Philadelphia.
A gentleman of Providence, r. l.,
MIR. John II. Lonsdale, after a careful
and thorough search of the scriptures,
places the crucifxion of our Savior at
three o'clock in tne afternoon of March
24.h, A. D. ga Wednesday. The
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