Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-12-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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!Litchfeld, of Scituate, Mass.
Schools in Spain undergo medical
inspection once q week as preven-
tive against cholera and smallpox.
A singular epizootic has attacked
horses in Westown township, Ches-
ter county. It's feature is paralysis.
A leading Raleigh physician is so
careful that he will not sit before an
open window the hottest night in Ju-
II.
Chief Justice Waite is stated to
have worn out five satin robes since
he took his position on the Supreme
bench.
Common prairie grass is turned in
to paper at Quincy. No, null hav
ing been established there for that
purpose.
In Western Massachusetts, thou
san'ls of barrels of apples are rotting
on the ground, though an enormous
quantity of cider was made.
Rosa Gross. pretty and vivacious,
and 26 years of age, has been award
ed dana res in Reading against Ja-
cob Dankel, aged CD years, for breach
Of promise.
A man in Nicholas county, West
/ Virginia, has seven wild bears in u
pen, and is fattening them for mar
ket- One of them already weighs
seven hundred pounds.
Two farmers daughters. in Seneca
county, \. Y, husked eighty bushels
of corn.or forty bushels esch, between
the hours of seven IN the morning
and four in the afternoon.
Mss Laura Braden, who is treas
urer of the Waynesburg and Wash
ington (Pa.) Raiiroad. enjoys the dis
tinction uf beiug the only woman
railroad official in this country.
George Wolf. a farmer of Melrose,
Lear Llnsingburg, \. Y. recently
sold his wife to An gn~tus Ham, his
hired man. for 81 30. The lady
weighs over two hundred pounds.
One of several pigs that John S.
Murphv was taking to market at
York, escaped and SO frightened the
horse that the latter ran away and
Murphy was thrown out and killed
British Minister Vests eldest
daughter, now twenty two years OF
age. has had entire charge of the
household OF the Legation at Wash
ington since she left school four years
ago.
A mushroom described by a ply
sician OF Portland, Oregon, as having
sprung up in single night near his
doorstep, measured twenty four inch
es in circumference and weighed II
pounds
The petr;fed skeleton of a whsle |
over thirty feet long has been discoy
cred by an offiJer O. the Coast Sur
vcy on a range of N Iuntains 10 Mon
tery county, Cal, over $500 feet |
above sea level.
A bright mulatto girl WAS among
the preachers ordained 20 the minis
try on Tuesday by Bishop Turner of
the African Methodist Episcopa! |
church III North Carolina She is
D- Me- Hnnbac
Four or five persons have been ar
rested at Buffalo Mills, Bedford Co,
and held to answer the charge of
steaiipg coal from off the cars. One
man arrested lad as many as fifteen
tons of coal stored in his cellar.
Abraham Hendricks, the late Vice
Presidents grandfather, bore the
commission of Justice of the Peace
signed by Governor Thomas Mexican
at Lancaster in 1904. He built a
stone house near West Fairfield, in
the Lignnier Valley, that is still
standing.
A husking match in Waubaunsee
county, Kan, the other night, for a
purse OF one hundred dollars, WAS
won 10y john Tai, who hnsked forty
five bushels twelve pounds in three
hours, against forty two bushels five
pounds by his competitor. The con
test took place in field.
A Mr.. Forker, of Montgomery
county, recently passed part of
night in bed with the corpse of his
wife. Having occasion to awaken
her near morning To attend to child
and receiving no response, he made
an examiuation and found that his
wife was dead, having died Of paraly-
sis.
In the mountains above Chico the
residents along a lumber fpme have
a novel WAY of getting their mail. 1t
is started on raft from the head of
the fIme at regular dates, and the
people below watch for it, take out
what belongs to them and then send
the raft with its precious cargo on
the way.
A Chinese sheep herder employed
by Mr.. johnson, whose place is on
the north fork of John Days river,
had rough fight with bear lately.
Bruin was hungry and visited Mr..
Johusons corral for asupply of fresh
mutton. John did not believe IN
such pilfering. and tried to slay his
visitor with an axe The bear had
too much Sullivan-like science for
the Chinaman, and knocked him out
with an upper cut. Not being fond
of Chinese meat, he left John for