Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-04-28

when bis comrani,us awoke sight mel
their ysse such as they shall nsver for
get, De..h had entered their very
tcom aud taken one. How powerful .
saFningl Will its warning voice be
needed { The deceased s.s taken ic
lis home, in the lower part of the city,
the next mocning.
A draft Of constitution fot the pro-
posed confederation of al. the Presby-
terian churches has been completed,
ard will be considered at the meeting
reAt July in London.
Bostun's City Councils have voted
$50, 900 to celebrate the Centennial Of
Bunker Hill on June Il.
Hod carriers in Brooklyn are On a
strike, and that has tbtosn The brick
layers out Of employment.
The sdyer.!sts OF Millerites Of Chi :
cago assembled before midnight or
Monday, the 18th inst, with their
white robes on, all ready for departure.
After waiting until near daylight they
quietly dispersed, having come to the
conclusion that the time to 90 up had
not yet come.
Westmorcland county, in this State,
will have a grand Ceutennia. cctebra
ton on May ID, IN houor of the Declar-
aticn Of Independence BY the citizens
Of that county. -a.s
A gang of thieves have been arrested
at Logansport, Ind, who have for
months been engaged in robbing the
ears OF the Pittsburg, Cincinnati aud
Ct. Louis Railroad at that point. Among
them we're railroad employees, a farmer,
and one merctau., who had been selling
the stolen goods from his store. A
large quantity of the stolen afticles
we're recovered.
A Mrs. Van Buren,, aged about sixty
Yeas. a resident OF Kingston, New
York. died from the effects of taking
two ounces Of laudanum on the night
Of the 2lst i,ist. She va. spiritdsl-
ist, and on the day proceeding the sui
eide told her friends tia. the spirits
said she shot,ld kill herself. She wa.
out of mind.
An ex treasurer Of South Carolina is
charged With The embezzlement of S2s,.
600 of the Sinking Fund Of that State.
He is in Jail and waits bail.
The following relative to wheat and
fruit has been published within the pas.
few days extensively, showing the cou-
dition of the fruit aud wheat crops
from sixty-onc towns in Ohio and thirty
one in Indiana. In OHIO the peach
crop will be a complete failure; the
apples are but slightly injured. In re-
gard TO other fruit one town reports a
good crop. twelve report half crop,
forty-eight report no crop at all. As
TO wheat, tweuty-four towns report .he
crop uuiDjured tventy-t=o report |
half crop tSelve no crop. In Indiana
thirteen towns report the crop unin-
jured, eight half crop; aid nine no
crop. Is to fruit, thfee report good
crop, seven half crop, and twenty
one no crop. Advices from ten towns
iu western Pennsylvania indicate about
half crop each in fruit and wheat
y special from Detroit, Mich, states
that reports from all parts Of Michigan
Indicate that the drought Gnd cold
weather bave greatly injured the wheat
crop, killed off the peaches rety sener-
ally. end seriously damaged small fruits.
apples promise good yield. Plen,i-
full rains may improve the wheat crop
very materially.
The Norwalk Gazette tells the follow
. ing good stoIy about Grant: There is
one family that will never forget our
President, despite these tendencies of
Political pas,ies or partissns The
story we give was furnished Us by one
who knows its truth, and a. it has never
got into print, we narrate it, as evinc.
ing the fact that General Grant has 60.
a heart, a: all events. The wife of a
6efaulting officer called upon President
Grant last December to impIore the
release Of her husband from the Albany
penitentiary. She told the President
that, crushing as the sorrow was to her
self, she would try to bear it, but that
every morning, without an exception,
since her husbands incarceration, her
four little children had come to her
bedside With the fearful inquiry "Will
dear Papa come home to-day y "Thi,
plea Of INV children will, l know, ere
long drive me into insanity. Aud now,"
said she, s'my little ones have varied
that agonizing questioning, with pathos
that is maddenlng, to Won't pa come
home Christmas =" "Msdam, l will
consult the Attorney General and do
whatever | can :cr your husband with
his approval" F" 81 know that will all
be useless" said the grief-strickeu wife.
"lIis decision will only re adverse, anu
may as well 60 home aud tell my
children at once that their mana can't