Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-05-26

Arthur E. Gait, clerk in tie LyAch-
burg National Bank, has abscondsd
xi,h $4,000 bsiOnging to tue baak.
Gen. Phil Sheridan has bid sdiss to
bsebelordom. -
Four burglars we're ar,estsd m Nss
York, few days ago, while boring INTO
a warehouse on Greenwich street. from
a room in 40 adjoining building, which
they Lac hired.
Accounts from Jackson and Clay
countless. Kansas, continue b note the
ravsgss of the grsssssppssss=Ths
grass bas been nearly destroyed, and
the wheat and oats have suffered terri
bly, The only hope to save the crops
is the departure of the pests. The
ground in many places Is covered with
the dead grasshoppers. Hai sif'Is E
A case Of so-ealled "mistaken sden
,ity" is reported, at which life iusur-
ance men will smile with Incredibly
A young man, sou of Dir. knowles.
of Princeton, N. j., suddenly dissp
peared, two years ago. His father ad-
vertised. A PhiIadclphian reported
the capsizing of boat in Chesapeake
Bay, and the drowning of young
Knowles, who was buried at Baltimore.
Old Knowles went on, had the body ex'
humed, and recognized it at once as his
lost boy. Then came an application tc
life insurance company to pay pol
icy of S2,O0q, but the companies are
not paying such peculiar losses in a
hurry. Time passed, and the bereaved
father heard nothing Of his BOY, or bis
$4,000, until few days since, wber
the wanderer returned, and said be had
never been at Chesapeake Bay or Bal.
timore, but had spen. his time "Out
West" All of which may be true
story, but is more likely to be shrewc
attempt at fraud on an insurance com.
pany. 80 ..5... ...... -r..i.
Chicago has been set back FIVE year.
in it's new custom house on account oi
its defective foundation. The Who'll,
building has got to come down, and tht
government loses over million.
1t is stated that of about 1,00t
horses which have died in New Yorl
city during the past winter, 800 dice
from rot and other diseases Of the hoof
caused by travelling in salted slush, anc
l27 from nails caught in their feet.
First cousins we're married In Otta
way county, Kansas, last week. Wkel
the relationship was discovered, the
Judge and minister waited on the par
ties, read the law to them, and In
formed them that they must conside
themselves unmarried.
On the night of the 18th the tele
graph Office and depot Of the Philadel
pbia and Reading Railroad Compan.
at Excelsior station, near Shamokln
was burned to the ground, supposed t.
be the work. Of incendiaries.
A Chicago dispatch of the 10Th says
In the county court the trial of tn
question of the sanity of Mrs. Mary L
Lincoln, widow of Abraham Lincoln
came u2 to-day. The proceedings wer
based upon petition filed by Rober
l.. Lincoln, setting forth that his moth
er, Mary l. Lincoln, has property ant
effects exceeding SO, 900, that she i
non compos menti, and incapable o
managing her estate, and praying th
issuance of an order for a warrant AL,
venire to test the question Of her san
ity. The petition was accompanied b,
the certificate Of the family ply ysic;al
{ Dr.. 1shsm) to the effect that he ha,
examined Mrs. Lincoln, aud was of tn
opinion that she was insane, and &
subject for hospital treatment. Severa
witnesses testified to eccentr;eities il
the conduct of Mrs. Lincoln, whicl
commenced at the time Of the assassin
alton of President Lincoln, and whicl
have become more marked as time pro
gressed. After short arguments tb'
case was given to the jury, who brough
in a verdict in accordance with th,
facts elected. Mrs. Lincoln will b,
removed to the hospital at Batavia, III
Her relatives and friends have DELAYED
this step as long as was considered pru
dent, but 6ually agreed that nothing
else would suffice. A. the announce
ment of the verdict, Robert LineolI
took the hand of his mother affection
ately, when she exclaimed with re-
proachful tone: "Ob, Robert to thinl
that nv son would ever have done
this 70 There we're but few spectator
in the court.
A Pittsbnrg man is in Jail on :Ls
charge of stealing locomotive.
A dispatch from Osceola, Clear6eld
county, under date of. the 18th, notice:
the trouble among the coal miners n
follows: "The strike in the Clear field
mining region is virtually ended. A
majority of the miners in their severa
districts voted to return to work at the
old rates, provided all of them were