Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-12-03
GENERAL, ITEMS,

iOooy ano oapKey are holding meet
ings in st. Louis.
James Kuecland had his head cut of
by derrick in New York on Tuesday
a week.
The Smith family takes up 10 pag-
es Of the record book iu the pension
There are enough Smiths there TO set
tie territory as big as Kansas.
The excess of imports of gold and
sliser into the country over the exports
thereof from July to November y
of this year amounted to about $685.
100000.
A dispatch from BelfOntaih, logan
county, Ohio says DR.. John A. Browu.
Of that city, died of heart disease while
out alone hunting on Monday evening.
He had gone with his dog and gun for
tramp through the woods. Net re-
turning, his wife and frieuds organized
a search, and after long hun, extend
ing into the night they came upon his
body. lie haG fallen upon his face,
grasping his loaded and cooked gun
with both hands, and died apparently
without struggle. His dog was keep
ing guard ovrr his corpse.
A queer Englisbman has built in
Paris house which is circular, has
neither door nor window externally,
aud the approach to it is from the
gTound to the roof by means of a lad
der, which Is moved DIP and down by
machinery. There is only one floor. bu;
eighteen apartments looking into the
the centre, which is lighted by cupols
A circular balcony, open to all the
rooms, surrounds the interior space.
The motive is obvious-immunity from
taxes on doors and windows, and Sc
curity from burglars.
About $50 horses we're lost BY the
burning of the eighth avenue car stables
in New York IN Tuesday 3 week.
A new secret society for colored
people has been formed in London, Ont.
1t is entitled "The Knights of Colum-
bians."
Shad, a saltwater fish have been land
locked aad domes,icated in fresh wa
ter, Lake Ontario.
Be patient. Wait. Don't fret over
last summers ice bill. Scientists tel
US that in 1900, 900 years ice sixteen
feet thick will entirely envelope this
planet, and then the ice mans extor-
lions will end.
Forty eight of the members of the
next New York Legislature are engsg-
ed in commercial business of one kind
or another; 43 are lawyers 26 are far
mers, IL are manufacturers or me-
chanics, 3 are physicians 2 are editors
4 are liquor dealers, l is an auctioneer
| Is lecturer, and the remaining 20
having no classified occupation may
without offence be called, we suppose
politicians.
A young man who held pistol to
his head and threatened to blow his
brains out unless the girl who had re-
fused him would consent to have him,
vas cody told BY the young lady be
would have to blow some brains into
his head first. He didn't blow.
Some men have TO go after their
cows, but the clerk of the circuit court
at Tampa, Fla, has an Alderney COW
that comes to the court house for him
whenever his business keeps him there
later than usual.
Tramps at Worchester Mass, get
red flags aud beg meals on the pre.ence
that they are hagman and forgot to
bring their dinner with them and
haven't time to 60 home for it.
On Wednesday morning while Mr.
Geo. D. Basehoar, of Littlestown. York
county, was cutting cornfodder in his
barn the cylender of the machine burs.
and knife struck Mr. BIS son who
was scraping away and cut through his
skull aud brain, laying the part cut of
over on the shoulder. Instant death
was the result. The boy was about
eight years old.
William II. Dingman, fish commiss-
ioner Of Monroe county; aud Obadiah
Beavans, fish commissioner of Sussex
county, n. j., are removing all eel
racks, fish baskets, fykes and nets IN
the Delaware They started Port Jer-
Wis, accompanied by two constables,
and removed ten racks between the
mouth of the Neversink river about q
half mile below that village and Nil
ford the county seat Of Pike county.
In the town of Vassar, Mich, the
Presbyterians prided themselves upon
their unostentatious surroundings. The
church was lighted by "a chandelier
which hung BY rope. 1t was very
economical arrangement until last Sun
day evening, when the rope snapped
and set the church on fire.
One bridge on the Jacksonville,
Madison and Indianapolis road, up to
the present date has killed eighteen
brakeman and MANNED for life q half
dozen men, and superintendent Sbaler
has ordered the bridge to be raised
sufficiently to allow trslnman to stand
on the roof Of the cars.
Sportsmen never carry a gun which,
in case of being discharged accidental
ly. would injure any one. They always
carry it with the muzzle pointing up or
down, and in crossing a fence or pass
ing through briars aud thickets always
bold it in front Of them.
From New Philadelphia, Ohio, comes
the best yarn of the week. A hugh
dog tried to scale high fence into q
yard, but slipped aud landed in the
bottom Of a we'll sixty feet deep. The
water tasted rather "riley," the family
thought. About noon on the following
dsy the hired girl, upon looking into
the we'll. saw a pair of cleaning eyes
staring at her from the bottom. Help
was obtained and the dog drawn up.
He had been in the we'll about fifteen
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