Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03


few nights ago. The VILLAIN vas try
ing to effect an entrance 1t the large
front window, when their big New
foandland dog quietly walked up to the
window inside, and, making = leap
through the glass, caught the fellow BY
the leg and then let him 60. The rob-
Der was seen limpiug sway, and the dog
returned tc the store through the bio-
ken window.
Some of the farmers of Bucks coun-
ty have been badly swindled in the pur-
chase of guano. 1t came in the origi-
nal packages, and was bought from the
agents of the Peruvian Government in
New York The larger part of it
proved to be coarse sand and gravel.
1t appears that the source of supply
has run out and adulteration is being
resorted 10.
A few days ago an eagle carried off
lamb from the premises of q farmer
in North Coventry, Chester county
The next day it returned aud was shot
in the act of swooping down upon an
other lamb. 1t measured seven feet
two inches from tip to tip of its wings
Davis, the Toronto abortionist, who,
with bis wife. is to be hanged in De-
cember, threatens unless his sentence
is committed to publish full list of his
patrons and all particulars as TO his
diabolical business.
They tell of a widow, of Leesport,
Pa, who got the best of sewing ma
chine agent. Her husband, some time
previous to his death, had purchased a
machine, promising to pay for it in
monthly installments. He had paid
nearly the entire sum when be died, and
the widow was unable to make up the
balance. The agent called for the ma
chine, and the widow demanded a Dor
tion of the money that had been paid.
This was refused in surly way. Then
the widow locked the doors of the
house, putting the key in her pocket,
and told the agent be could have the
machine when he returned the money,
and not before. :" She took hold of
him." says the account, {" and a severe
tussle ensued, while the children
screamed and cried. The widow threw
the agent over the hot kitchen stove,
and finally succeeded in sitting him
down on the top of it, and held him
while be begged piteously for mercy,
''For Gods sake, let me 60, and I'll
pay you back every cent your husband
paid me- Being satisfied that he was
severely scorched, she pulled him off
the stove, but held on to him until he
had paid back every cent of the INSTALL
ments, and then she gave him two min
utes' time to take the machine and
clear out with it,
The tramps, it is said, have a way Of
conveying intelligence to each other by
marking gate-posts. A gentleman in
New Haven, Conn.,, annoyed by the fre-
quent calls of these vagabonds, OBJ
served that they inspected the gate
post before entering, and, upon exami-
naticn, found there a mark, which he
rubbed out. He has not since been
troubled
A colored man was hanged on the
22d ult., at St. Louis for murder. The
execution is narrated as follows: Hen
ry Brown, a negro, who killed Philip
Pfarr, a German living a few miles
from the city, then outraged and rob-
bed his wife, on the night Of the 25th
Of last May, was hanged in the yard of
the Jail at the Four Courts at l:30
o'clock to-day. In brief speech made
on the scaffold he admitted having
struck Pfarr the blow which caused his
death, but denied outraging Mrs. Pfarr.
Nearly 2,000 persons were present in
the Jail yard, and the windows and
roofs Of all the houses in the vicinity,
and even the roof Of the jail itself, as
we'll as the streets in the neighborhood,
we're ttronged with people. The crowd
must have numbered nearly 5000. At
exactly half-past one O'Clock the trap
sprung, and the wretched culprlt hung
dangling in the air. He fell FIVE feet,
and never moved a muscle. At the
end OF eight minutes life was declared
extinct, aud the body was cut down and
placed in a coffin for burial.
VIM. Murphy, an Irish laborer of
Louisville, was found dead in the mouth
of sewer on Monday a week. He
was seen lying near the sewer the pre-
vious night, but was not molested. the
observers prcferring to let the effects
of liquor wear of. During the night
he rolled over and was suffocated in
the mud.
There is not drunkard among the
1900 people who live on Rock Island,
and the nearest approach to bar-room
is place where pop beer is sold By a
Freewill Baptist.