Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-09
News Items.
The Sultan is despond, OF.

ed IN crawford county.
A Lawrence county turkey, weigh
ing fifty pounds.
The temperance movement makes
but little headway III Bcrks.
An eye and ear hospital has been or
ganized at Baltimore under Presby-
terian auspices.
Liver pudding boiled in a copper
kettle, has poisoned twenty three per-
sons at White Haven, New York.
Silk stockings, with lace medallious
on the instep, are $50 pair.
A young prodigal at the Black Hills
telegraphs his father, "Fatted calf for
one ~
The "Big Injun" we'll, in Bullion,
Warren county. started off at 5000
barrels. Now it yields but forty.
Two Jersey City children have been
poisoned by eating fancy confectionery.
A young minister Of Ebensburg for
sock the pulpit for clerkship in a shoe
store.
After making 800, 700 in the segar
business IN San Francisco, Ben yon
has returned to China
A New York Judge has decided that
wedding presents belong to the bride,
If they are given before the marriage
cermony.
A congress Of the railroad president
Of the United States and Canada is to
be held in New York city during April.
Chicago has run nearly mad over the
silver question.
Sitting Bull and bis band have worn
cut their welcome in Canada, and are
coming back. Why don't they ever
imagine they have worn out their well
come here1
An Erie woman has been arrested as
a common scold.
JohrstowD young men are kned for
loafing around church doors.
1t has been discovered tina. some of
the Schuylkill county tax collectors,
who sIe heavily in arrears gave forged
bonds.
Four persons were bitten by a mad
dog in Coatesville and vicinity recently.
The father and not the husband of a
Russian woman has supreme authority
over her. In all but the upper classes
wife beating is allowed.
Scarlet candies fastened in red rows
OF wax are the newest tapers.
A Hartford, Connecticut, newspaper
proposes bachelor show, the prizes to
be waried by ladies.
A Texas dog, which was taken to
Missouri, found his way back, eight
hundred miles, to his old masters
home.
Kentucky farmers are still harvest
ing their corn. The crops of hay, to-
bacco and cereals have been larger this
season than any other since the war.
A fashionable London dressmaker re-
Gently kept her eigh, girls at work from
8 o'clock one morning until FIVE the
next. She was fined g for each em-
ployee.
Four buffalo hunters have contracted
with a firm in Comanche, Texas, for
the delivery within the mex. six months
of 10000 buffalo hides.
At Cincinnati, Louisa Weber, wife
of Oscar Weber, cut the throat of her
infant, thirteen months old, and then
cut her own throat, IN a fit of insanity
The infant will die, but the mother Is
expected to recover.
On Saturday forenoon a prize fight
was commenced at Pottsville by Billy
Madden and Mart Frazer. After
twenty FIVE rounds had been fought
the police arrived, broke up the fight
and made about twenty five arrests.
Pittsburg is agltated about the re-
moval of her oil re6ineries to Baltimore
We hate to see industries moved from
this State, but then Pittsburg is 10
cality Pensylvanians have not been
proud of for the last few months.
Four persons were burned to death
by an inceDdiary fire near Central City,
Cal, last Friday.
Ann M'Culium, arrested at Boston on
Monday for brutally maltreating little
girl named Emily Z. Harmon, who af-
terwad died has been held in 100000
bail
John Desmond was murdered by
William Powers during a drunken
quarrel in an Albany saloon on Christ
mas morning. Powers has been jailed.
Cincinnati is trying to raise a fund
of one hundred thousand dollars for a
grand exposition next year.
"Murder will out. Facts cannot be
concealed" A man named Sharp has
been arrested in Wanamie, Luzerne
county, Pa, for a murder committed
fourteen years ago.
A farm hand in Central Italy gets
seven cents a day for harvesting, and is
glad to find employment even at that
rate.
NJ, Du Chaillu concluded lecture
with description of how the cannlbals
cooked human flesh. He said they
preferred to eat women Of about l6 to
"a years of age, aud invariably roasted
that delicacy, but people over so were
generally boiled.
Two deer have been chased into Le-
high river by hounds and stoned to
death by citizens at Penn Haven juno
tiOn within two weeks. Three others
were killed in the same manner this
season.
In Washington, on Friday, youth of
sixteen put pistol to his head, sup
posing it to be unloaded and pulled the
trigger, saying he " wondered how it
would feel" He pulled the trigger,
second time, and fel! dead with bull
let in his brain.
John Fl. Nissly Harrisburg man, is
reported to be on bis farm near lriquois,
Illinois. His accounts, as clerk Of the
Treasurer of Dauphin county, are found