Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

| The State OF massachusetts, fofoi0S
pigeor-sIooting within IT'S borders.
A little boy il Montreal, s years Old,
old, has erieved to death At the loss OF
bis mother.
Attorney General Devens has decid
ed that white man cannot legally be
enlisted IN . colored regiment.
English spaniels and other dogs 10
Bucks county are making havoc With
the poultry. Seventy-fve fowl we're
killed In little while At one place the
other night.
The body of MISS Ca,harine Keith.
who became lost in snow storm week
ago, was found on the 2nd inst, on an
unfrequented country road six miles
from Acton, Ont, buried IN sno"
drift.
The butter annually made ty farmers
and carried to market in many OF the
eastern markets is now being manufac-
tured by incorporated companies which
establish creameries in the rural d's-
tricts. to winch farmers sell their cream.
TINS is just putting the butter business
into the hands of companies which know
how to keep up its price and control It's
supply and demand
The returns Of two other Chesterheld
township, Burlington coun'y n. j,
competitors for the Taylor prize for
the best 90 hogs killed on the LIST "f
March have been received. Joseph
Carter killed SO hogs. the highest weight
beng 926 and the lowest 6i4 pounds
the largest 20 averaged 767 pounds.
Isaac Harrison killed 27 hogs, :he high
est weight being l0lS pounds and the
lowest 626 pounds; the largest ~
averaged 763 pounds. Isaac Southard's
crop remains TO be reported
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon,
saws: "A farmers convention, held
at Salem, to consider the wheat ques-
ton in all its bearings, adopted
resolution condemning the law which
prohibits the purchase of foreign
built ships 1t is estimated that the
wheat now stored for export In the
willamette Valley is $4,000 tons
President Garfield received about
10000 letters since the Chicago Con
vention, according to the count OF
the post master at Mentor.
California sent to the Eastern
States S1,O00,000 worth OF fresh fruit
last year.
Two Senators and six Congressman
were found by the police in a gam
bling house raided at Washington re
Gently.
1t is predicted that this will be a
poor year for fish.
A stone pitcher used by John
Brown during his imprisonment IN
| Charlestown, Va, was sold ut auction
in Baltimore recently for S5.
Two unknown tramps were found
on Sunday morning week on the
hot Stag near the rolling mill at Pat
terson, n j.. where they had gone to
sleep. One was dead. and the other
was carried to the hospital in dying
condition and insensibie. Both were
terribly burned. The Stag is favor
ite sleeping place for tramps in cold
weather, the surface being warm. but
the fumes and occasional heat arising
are deadly
The Ohio Medical College at Gin
cinnati last week graduated 203 stu
dents. The Ohio Dental College on
Wednesday night of last week issued
diplomas to twenty-nine graduates.
The College of Medicine and surgery
graduated thirty, and the Pulte Med
Zeal College Homeopathy sent out
forty graduates
On Monday week George B. Sui
livan, aged 80, respected lawyer of
Bowagene. Mich, argued a case IN
Niles, and left for home, supposed,
but nothing more was heard of him
until the following Wednesday, when
his dead body was found in a field
adjoining the Central Railroad. near
Paaagon. His death is shrowded in
mystery.
john 4 Williamson. who robbed
the safe of the City Auditor at Pc
tersburg, Va, of $1,000 worth OF can
celled coupon bonds, has been ad-
judged insane.
A trunk containing $3.50 in gold
was stolen one night recently from
the Jones House in Tarport.
The Indiana Legislature has killed
local option bill.
George Chick. travelling scissor
grinder. has been sent TO the Cum
berland Jail for kissing a little lame
girl in Miilville, n. ).
Twenty-one of the thirty eight
States of the Union limit their Leg
islatures to sessions of ninety days
or less, while thirty States have
biennial sessions.
E. p Smith, a member of the Chi
cago Board of Trade, was chloro-
formed in his bed on Sunday night
week, and robbed of $4,000 in bills
and $3.50 diamond pin which he had
concealed beneath hs pillow.
Intelligence has been received at
Baltimore Of the hanging by Judge
LynSh in Colorado of a citizen OF
Westminster, Maryland, together
with his servant The aryiander,
lawyer of ability and integrity, bought
some mules for travelling purposes.
The mules happened to have been
stolen, and the lynchers finding them
in possession of the Maryland man,
strung him up without giving him a
chance to explain, and his servant, a
Coloradoan, shared his fate.