Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-22


BY the matrimonial record Of Z woman
in Hartford who has been married four
times, all of her husbands being yet
alive. She changed her maiden uzme
for that of her FIRST husband, got dr.
vorce and married second LEFT him
on account OF his attentions to pretty
sewing machine girl, now prominent
actress at a New York thestre, and, as
soon as divorced, remarked No. l I;
lived with him . short time, got an
other divorce, and has now married for
a fourth time, man who bas been d.
vorcrd from two wives.
A mischievous young belle of Belle
foLte dressed in gentlemsns clothing
one day las. week, and taking female
friend to a 'Squire's efice, was duly
married. After the ceremony she re-
moved the whiskers.
Mr.. Coltax tells good story of Pres
ident Lincoln; that when he was at
tackled With small pox, be said to his
attendants Send up all the Office
seekers, and tell them Pve got some
thing l can give each of them"
On Thursday \ week lunatic named
Hele, at the county hospital at Gettys-
burg, Pa, killed a woman named
Beatty, who went into the room to clean
it. He chokci her until insensible,
and then drove the small end Of a
broomstick into her brain.
A man named Richardson, residing
near Norquett, Mass, killed bis wife
last Friday, and then to avoid an arrest,
killed himself. 1t was perhaps well
enough that he saved the community
the trouble of hanging him, but whet
satisfaction it was to him, OF men ol
his class, to murder and then commit
suicide, is one of the things not ex-
planned torsople generally.
The South Carolina Legislature re-
Gently elected number of Judges Of
Courts in that State. The Legislature
is denounced bitterly for its choice.
Prof. Proctor. thinks that Jupter
mus. have a life ten times as long as
the earth's. Before Jupiter will 6uish
her sunlike, her uudimmed, burning
stage, the earth will already be as the
moon Is now. The earth will lose life
before Jupiter begins it. The moon
he said, is dead planet, having nei.
ther air nor moisture. Our earth must
some time present the appearance ot
the moon and when all the planet:
have lived and died, the sun may ther
take on life aud when our sun Is dead
that greater sun, around which our sys
TEN rolls, may begin to live.
In Warrington township, Buck:
county, on Sunday night, the barn Of
CT aries Reidmiller and its contents
including five cows and two horses
were destroyed by fire.
The great $4,000 horse race, tc
take place at San Francisco, has been
postponed until the 22d Of February.
Burglars stole $3.50 from the honse
of Richard MelcAer, in Brunswick,
Maine, on Sunday night, after des-
perate struggle with Melcher.
A party out west, who had missed a
train and bad not time to wait for an
other, hired hand car, and hoisting a
sail, improvised from canvass tent,
ratified along at the rate of nearly
twelve miles an hour, accomplishing
their journey of two hundred miles in
seventeen hours and half.
A Memphis, Tenn, paper says; The
following account of the origin of the
riot at Rolling Fork, in Issaquera
county, Miss, mentioned in these col
umns, is obtained from a gentleman
just from there. who was present at the
time: On Sat urday night, November
81, party of negroes had assembled
at the village, and we're drinking and
carousing One of them pushed d
youth whom he met in the street to one
side, using rough language. At the
same time the youth responded with a
pocket knife, iuficting scalp wound
on the negro, and then fed to store
for safety. The remaining negroes be-
came very much excited and vowed
vengeance, and to prevent this a wat-
rant was obtained for the youth, charg
ing him with assault with intent to kill,
but before it could be served the Ne
groes broke into the store and teat the
young lad severely with an iron bar,
and 6nanlly one of them shot him in
the thigh. At the report of the pistol
the negroes ran, but the whites had
begun to assemble, fearing genera
riot, pursued them, and captured ter oI
them, and taking them to the village
placed them ln a store house and put a
guard over them. During the night
one of the guards on duty came cut on
a porch with gun on his shoulder and
was ordered away BY the sentinel on
duty. As he turned his gun, which