Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-08
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ly conduct and locked up in a cell in
the station house. On Sunday morn
ing be was found dead, having taken of
his scarf, tied one of it to the grating
of his cell window and with the other
end naoe noose which be slipped over
his head and around his neck. The
window grating being too low to sus-
pend him he appears to have deliber-
ately set down and in this position
strangled himself. When discovered
life was extinct, though the body was
yet warm, showing that the suicide had
been committed only 4 short time pre-
viously. Coroner Bair being notified,
visited the station house and held an
inquest on Luding's remains, the jury
returning verdict of suicide by hang
ing Luding was a married man, and
leaves vile and four daughters, resid-
ing at the corner Of Pearl and Chris
tiau streets. He was weaver by
trade and an excellent workman, but
was much given to dissipation, and had
been several times before in the lookup.
When there on a former occasion he
declared that he would commit suicide
if ,ver again locked up, but his threat
was thought to be only the vaporing Of
drunken man. Immediately after bis
dead body had been discovered his fam
ily was notified and requested to take
charge of the remains, but they de-
chne6 to do so by reason of their ex-
treme poverty. Coroner Bair then had
the body conveyed to the county aims
house and buried it in the cemetery
attached to that institution.
The farmers along the Columbia rail-
road are having their cattle stolen by
droves. The other night Isaac Eby
turned out all OF his live stock, and on
the following morning it was found that
eleven of the finest, weighing each from
1000 to 100 pounds, haG been stolen,
and no traces Of the direction in which
they we're taken left behind. Since
that time no tidipgs have been heard of
the missing stock. The entire affair is
surrounded with circumstances of such
a mysterious nature that the people in
that section are exercising more than
ordinary care in keeping their live stock
in places of safety.
A whipping was preferred to impris-
onment BY judy Flood, a Lynchburg
drunkard, and she received thirty nine
lashes.
Ii is stated that there will not be
single dollar in the Tennessee treasury
at the erd of the year. The tax co..
lectors will have to sell property for
unpaid taxes, and the State will be
compelled to buy it in. A "glorious
Democratic tidal wave" swept over that
State few years ago, if We recollect
rightly
A steamer running between Troy and
New York, was sunk by large cake of
ice on the lst inst, and ii persons on
her were drowned.
Oregon has a new cereal, which
looks like wheat, rye and barley, and
isn't either of them. The story is that
four years ago farmer of Tillamook
county killed wild goose, in whose
crop be found peculiar looking grain
He planted 1t; 1t multiplied wonder
fully, and he subsequently raised forty
bushels on half an acre Of land. Its
growth is peculiar, from seven to ten
stalks springing from one root. The
kernel is very thin and compact, of
bright straw color, and extremely hard.
The convention of breeders OF short
horned cattle opened at Toronto on the
lst inst. in the Music Hall. This is the
fourth annual meeting. Representa-
tiyes were present from all parts of the
Dominion and the United States.
There is nothing half so funny as
practical joke, and this, as told by an
Eastern paper, is regular rIb-tickler
"Frederick Walker and Peter KohIer,
of Gutenberg, n. j., stuffed an old
suit of clothes with straw, on Tuesday
night, and carried it to HulI's Ferry
road and Herman avenue, where they
placed it against lamp post. About
midnight they began an imaginary quar-
rel in a loud tone, and continued it un-
til number ct people we're aroused
from their beds. Then they shot the
Imaginary man. The body fell down,
ard the young men ran away. The
neighbors, thinking murder had been
committed, chased the young men, and
Kohler was shot in the leg before the
deception was explained" Think what
solid enjoyment Mr. Kohler will have
laughing at that for six weeks while he
nurses bis leg; and what a screaming
farce it would have been for his whole
family if be had been shot in the head.
Evangelists are multiplying. Long
and interesting meetings have teen
held under the management and preach
,oo aud sinoin1 nf Pav T. Q,~-ood