Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
NEWS IFEMS.

70 JEFF Davis silence is golden, bat
speech is lead.
Fhe agitation of the new county pro-
ject In Luzerne county is intensely
lively.
TIE English still complain of the
dullness of business, especially the ex-
port trade.
There are said to be $50 practicing
female physicians in the United States
AZ dentists, 5 lawyers and 68 ministers.
A South Carolina planter has col
lected statistics to show that the ne.
gro race in the South is not dying out.
Last week st. Louis suffered terri
bly, by heat, hundreds OF her citizens
we're sun struck aud died. Now she
suffers by yellow fever.
At Peoria lii on the 23rd inst, an
aeronaut named l.. d. Atchison fell a
distance of 200 feet, while making an
ascension at Eimwood, and was instant
iy killed.
A dispatch from Milwaukee says the
wheat erop has been damaged by the
storms and hot weather of the past
three weeks 27 per cent. in Wisconsin,
Iowa, aud Minnesota.
Mayor Pillsbury, of New Orleans, in
view of the action of the Ice ring in
raising the price of ice to sixty dollars
per ton, has negotiated for supplies by
rail, to be sold at cost to consumers.
The washouts of the past fortnight
on the Illinois Central viii. cost the
road fully quarter of million.
Two girls were drowned at Damaris-
Gotta, Me-, on Thursday, by the upset.
ting of boat.
At picnlc in Louis county, KY. :, on
Thursday, two men were fatally stab
bed in a melee which took place. A
number Of others were wounded.
The grasshoppers have arrived in
Central America. They are reported
to be SO plenty there that they darken
the sky ike black cloud, and have IN
single day eaten crops covering sew
eral thousand acres.
A bill Cor the punishment Of tramps
passed the New Hampshire House of
Representatives on the oath inst. 1t
provides for punishment By imprlson-
ment of from fifteen months up to FIVE
years, the former penalty being p-ovid-
ed for any person proved tramp.
A dispatch reports that farmer near
Fari5ault, Mimi, shot and instantly
killed two tramps, whom he caught set
ting fire to the harvesting machine in
his wheat field. He gave himself up,
but was instantly released.
A young woman, named Amelia Hen
derson, was stopped Oa the road near
Sunfish, W. Va, yesterday By tramp
who drew a pistol and placed it at her
head, saying he would kill her if she
resisted. tie then committed felon-
ious assault upon her, and left her in-
sensible.
A woman, calling herself Mrs. Fair
burn, living in Roam county, ". Va.
killed her four year old illIgitimate
child on the 18th. She was recover
ing from an attack of sickness, and the
child was playing by her bedside when
she suddenly sprang up, seized it by
the feet and dashed its head across
the beadboard Of the bed, killing it in
stantly.
On the 22ad, inst, a secret orgaui
zation called "Red Men," who have
become famous for their numerous
lyuchings and similar violent deeds,
destroyed a saloon in Warrington, W
Va, tearing the building all to pieces.
1t was owned by man named Cart
wright, whose son Carl was recently
accused of murder and is generally
believed to be guilty. The mob horse
whipped man named Bestly, who was
q witness in the murder case, and gave
him forty-eight hours to leave the
county. Another witness bas been giv-
en- six weeks to settle up his business
and leave.