Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-05

ment from the coal region has caused
the miners there to rejoice.
There are eleven hundred and fifty
vacant houses in Pittsburg and Ale
gheny City.
The ffty-sixth anniversary Of Odd
Fellowship was celebrated at Elmyra,
N Y, on the 2Sth ult. Schuyler Col
fax delivered the Grafton.
| In Hudson, \. Y, court, on the
2St5 ult-, Charles Harris was indicted
for setting fire to Shake, building at
Mount Lebanon on the 9th of Febiu-
airy, ard a verdict of arson in the Sec
ond degree returned.
A boy aged about fifteen years met a
! horrible death IN a wooden and blanket
mill at West Mana unk on Tuesday a
week. He was eudeavoring to adjust
a belt on the main shaft. His left leg
became entangled in the belt, and in a
twinkling he was drawn around the
shaft feet foremost, bis body striking
the ceiling and his brains being dashed
out and his body horribly mangled.
A New York dispatch of the 2Sth
ult. tells of the depravity of youth
of l6 years of age as follows: Peter
Smith, alias Breckenridge, was tried in
the Court of General Sessions to day
on an indictment for robbery in the
first degree. lie is a hard-looking
youth, aged sixteen. On Monday last
at Eighteenth street and Sixth avenue
he assaulted Mrs. Ellen Bishop, who
was on shopping expedition. The
daring young robber Knocked her down,
seized her portemannaie and ran away.
1t was about noon and the sidewalk
was crowded, and the situation Of Mrs.
Bishop, who was stunned, drew the at
tention of the people, preeluding OBJ
servation of the movements of the rob-
Der. But a policeman who was in
civilians dress, pursued Smith and ar
rested him in shanty in Nineteenth
street, preventing a rescue by present.
ing revolver. He found Mrs. Bishops
purse in searching the prisoner, thus
securing proof and the culprit together.
The prisoner tried to get of with plea
of guilty of an attempt at robbery, but
finally he pleaded guilty of the full
offcnse charged. Recorder Hackett
sentenced him to eighteen years in the
State Prison.
The Indiana and Illinois Central
Railroad was sold on the 9th ult, un-
der an execution purchased by ii. Z.
Farenstock and others 70! S54, 400.
Colored people held spelling match
in Zion Church, Blocker street, New
York city, on the 2Sth uit.
Heie is an item from the New York
Tribune of the 18th ult. An interest,"
ing little case was tried before Recorder
Hackett yesterday in the Court of Gen.
eral Sessions. Ellen Lucy, alias Ellen
Lucy Cunning, alias Ellen Lucy Young,
was charged with stealing over $4,000
from Martin Cunning, who swore to
seeing her take the money from his
boot while they were at hotel In Bos-
ton. She testified in her own behalf
that she met Cunning on Tenth avenue,
and they went together to Boston and
then got married by Protestant cler
gyuan that be gave her the money to
keep, intending to open tin shop with
it in this city. lie claimed that she
followed him to Boston, and that he
must have been druggei while at break
fast. He did not absolutely Geny the
marriage, a certificate Of which she
produced. 1t turned out, also, that
Cunning already has wife, who sued
him for abandonment after he made
this trip to Boston, and secured Sis a
week from him. Recorder Hackett's
charge bore severely on the woman,
who is nearly so, on account of her
entrapping of the complainant, who was
an old man aud feeble in mind. The
jury found her guilty, and she was sen-
tenced to three years IN the State
Prison.
On the afternoon of the 2Sth ult.,
the Allegheny county workhouse, situ-
ated at Claremont, nine miles from
Pittsburg, was partially destroyed by
fire. 1t was one of the most complete
institutions Of the kind in the country.
Oub Vi tuC tuICC anu MY
prisoners, it is thought but few escaped
from custody. The total loss is esti
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000
The insurance applicable to the burned
portion amounts to $4,000, of which
$4,000 is on the building and $4,000
on contents, and is divided among ten
local companies. The exact origin of
the fire is az yet unknown.
Miss Ida Greeley, eldest daughter of
the late Horace Greeley, will be mar
ried on Saturday next at the residence
of her aunt, Mrs. Cleveland, to Colonel
Nicholas Smith, of Leavenwo,th, Kan
sas. The expected bridegroom is
young lawyer and q native of Shelby