Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-14

Some days ago IN old vsuan in Ian
caster. was knocked down, run over and
killed BY q runaway horse.
A druggist in New Hampshire threat
ems the local paper with a suit for put
ting an "i' in the place Of an "a" it hi
advertisement of grape pills.
The New Orleans Picayune neatly
says: "Ws don't have any Kuklux ii
Louisiana. but lhe sugar planters rais'
cane with the negroes ever year."
A Rutland barber has juet bought q
pound and half of lead for S75. HI
procured it through q New York coun'
terfeit money firm.
1t has been announced that q couple
at Danbury, Ct, having carefully con
sidered the question twenty-five years
have recently decided to get married.
A Reader writes that he takes no
stock in the "new woman's club" He
says the '.oId woman's club" is enough
for him, and unfrequently too much.
The editor of religious paper, which
had one months precarious existence in
Chicago, says that it is good city for q
religious paper, provided satan has three
pages of it and the other page is mixed
A man in jersey City. who had raw.
ished kiss from school girl. was fined
by the magistrate, horsewhipped by the
big brother. and snatched bald headed
by his own wife. And it was not much
of kiss after all.
Some drunken brutes entered the of
fee of the Greenville Argus few days
ago, and threatened the life of the editor,
who is a disabled soldier. He warns
the rowdies that repetition of their
brutal action will be dangerous to their
health.
On Thursday morning of last week
Mr. Nathaniel George. of North Hunt
ipgdon township. Westmoreland county.
while driving home from Irwintown,
where he had been buying stove, was
thrown from his wagon, the horses hav-
ing taking fright and run the vehicle on
to an embankment. The cooking stove
was thrown on to Mr.. G-orge's head.
breaking his neck and killing him in.
stantly.
Mr. John Hancock, an old and highly
citizen of Woodcock town
ship. Crawford county, committed sui
dide on Tuesday of last week by hang
ing himself in his barn. He was a we'll
to-do farmer. a member of the Meth.
odist church, and stood well in the COM
munity. No cause can be assigned for
the rash act, except that he had been in
poor health for few days previous
He leaves a wife aud seven children.
Mr.. Michael, of Meadville, with his
wife, child and neighbor's child were
poisoned on Monday of last week. by
eating chicken and chicken broth, at
their morning meal. The fowl was
bought in the market. and upon investi-
cation it was ascertained that the party
who sold it to the market man, had used
arsenic on his premises, for the purpose
IF killing rats. The poisoned persons
will recover.
Last Monday night week ago about
;wenty men visited the Jail, in owens
oorro, Ky, for the purpose. as it is sup
posed, of lynching one Cain. who is in
iurance vile there, on charge of mur.
Ter. A warm reception was given them
~ the jailer and his assistants. during
which about thirty shots were fired,
lone of which, however as far as was
Known, took effect. The party finally
etired without accomplishing their OBJ.
ect. @
The Clearfeld journal says: "On
Monday evening Of last week. just a.
lark. four prisoners escaped from Jail in
his place. Their names are Stigert, Dali
ey, Lovejoy. aud Jillison. They by
ome means succeeded in unlocking the
,itchen door that communicates with the
lall of the Jail and from thence made
heir exit into the street. They had no
lificulty in getting away under cover of
he darkness. Stigert has since been re-
aptured.
Gen. Grants son Fred, who graduates
t West Point this year. has all the OBJ
tinacy. smoking propensities and nom
balance of his father, developed in un-
diminished intensity. Some time ago he
'itched into a brother cadet who had
nade a sarcastic allusion to his father,
nd was 80 badly whipped as to be laid
p for several days. A second and third
ime he tried it, with the same result, but
enturing upon fourth encounter, he
anne off victorious.
A Mississippi Kaklu1 band lately
ragged negro named Jordan from his
ome. beat him until he was nearly
and then hung him up to a
rec just high enough for his toes to
ouch the ground. When he was nearly