Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-17

JOHN hONARD fA1NE, JuS huJnOT ol
Home Sweet Home, is dead.
ELECTRIC light, in some places is
manufactured by steam power.
THE debt of the United States,
was reduced SIS, 100000, during De
cember 1882.
PEyxsYLvaSIA, has more Post
Offices thar any other State, in the
United States.
TIE average number of applica-
tons for pensions at Washington per
month is $500.
During the year 1882, eleven thou
sand railroads have been built, with
in the United States.
4 RECENT decison of the Supreme
Court, gives any man the privilege,
to work out his road tax
IT IS believed that Europe, viii
need 200 million bushels Of
wheat before next spring
THE Supreme Court, at Washing
ton, viii take a recess Of one month,
after the 5th Of February.
/ foot Of snow fell in Richmond
on the 9th. 1t is the heaviest SHOW
storm seen in Virginia for years.
IT Is belie7ed that Dakota terit'y,
viii not be admitted as a State, by
the present session of Congress.
TIE special election for Mayor Of
Buffalo. y. Y, passed off quietly.
theDemocratic candidate was elected.
Is Germany, it il believed the
peace of Europe is more insured
since the death Of Gambetta of
France
GEoRGE ". PEBEXs, New York's
Youngest bank President, died last
wees. Aged 80. dc was worth 3d.
100000
TX the state Of Ky, the Democrats
propose to enter the field early, hav-
ing called their state convention to
meet MAY IS.
TIE French Government, viii give
% thousand frances toward the fu
neral OF Gambetta, which took place
some days ago.
TRE seventy-second anniversary OF
Hickory Jackson's victory at New
Orleans, was appropriately observed
at Boston Mass-, last week.
JoHs g. LE,rxox, a California bot
snist, during the past summer found
TIE potsto growing in the unnhabIt-
ed mountain meadows of Arizona
TIE United States Senate, last
Thursday. voted to remove the Off
cial disgrace that had been put upon
Fitz John Porter, for conduct at 2nd
Bull Run.
TIE Bosler-Wagner Senatorial
contest has progressed so far as to a
decision, that Judge Barnett Is the
proper Judge to try the contested
election case.
Il is reported that Mrs. Langtry
was received very coolly at Chicago,
her performances were not well at
tended. and she has been utterly ig-
nored by society.
TIE Pilgrims, landed in America,
December 22nd 1920. The people
of Massachusetts, celebrated the 262d
anniversary of their landing with IN
usual enthusiasm, last Dec. %
TEE winter Is severe in Russia.
dispatches. report, that It is \ com
mon sight almost every morning to
find people frozen dead, laying on
the pavement, in The city Of Moscow:
M. T. Polk. Tennassee's abscond-
ing Treasurer, was captured on the
Sth inst at Webb Station, in Texas,
IS miles from the Mexican border.
He viii be brought back to Tennes-
see foi trial.
THE waters Of the Rhine are now
falling and the danger is now over.
it is reported that the German resi-
dents Of this country, arc raising
money to help those VINO were bereft
OF homes by the waters.
F.vr men were killed by the ez-
plosion of boiler IN the Bethlehem
Iron Works. al Bethlehem The
boiler was thrown a distance Of over
three hundred feet. The cause oI
tho explosion is not known.
JUICE WHsrr, OF Pittsburg has re
Gently given his opinion from the
bench. that stock sales. ION margines
are nothing, but gambling trsnsac
tious. immoral in their character
and exceedingly pernicious in THEN
tendency.
MISS Mary ALICE ALMoYT LIvING
STONE, Of New York, brought suit
against Mr.. H. Fleming, President
of the New York Refunding Com
pany to recover S75,00O for betray
al and breach ofpromise of marriage
The girl won the suit.
4 SUIT 10 recover $4,000 damages
agains the Philadelphia Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Co, brough
by the wife and children OF mai
Who was killed on the above railroad
was decided in ElktOn, Maryland Il
favor Of the railroad company.
II is said that the lamented Hor
ace Greely would speak profanel,,
when any one m his Office woul,
spell the word, burg, burgh- H
could not endure a silent h, at tn
end of a word. The P. II. General
to prevent people from misdirectinl
letters. aud other things has ordere
that the name Of the town of Middle
burg. Snyder county shall hereafte
be spelled Niddleburgh. 1t is goo
for tae P. N. General, that Horac
is no longer among the living
ENGLAND is not in pleasant fran
OF mind toward this people, on th
question of the surrender OF crimir
ais that escape from one country
tbe other. There is a treaty tha