Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-19

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church accepts no male candidate for
membership duless he will give such
pledge.
Kentucky is a comparatively happy
State. Its debt amounts to only $751;
394, of which only $l0,340 is due for
about seventy years. The Governor
says that the State is able to pay 1t
many times over whenever it is called
for. Wha: is more, the United States
government owes it more than the
amount Of its debt.
Senator Oglesby, of Illinois, had his
infant son bapi,zed last Saturday a
week in water which the Senator
brought from the River Jordan twenty
years ago.
y hat tale of romance and wrong
underlies this paragraph Jesse Spen-
Ger. a venerable coIored residen: of
Shasta, Cal has been placed iu COM
munication with his wife and family,
from whom he was separated in the old
plantation days, long years before the
war They we're discovered csmtorta-
bly, settled at Quincy, H., by means
of travelling newspaper item.
A party of smart Missouri jokers
tied bunch of hay to their friend s
dogs tail, and then set it on FIRE. The
dog ''put" for home, but the loker'
couldn't put out the fire in the hay
stack.
1t is a Colorado girl who is speaking
in the Laramie Sun to her bashful low
er ''Nobby, you've bin foolin' round
this claim for mighty near year, an
hev never yit shot off yer mouth on the
marrain' biz. I've cottoned to ser On
the ,quare clean through, an hev stood
off every other galoot that has tried to
chip in; an now l want yer to come
down ter business or leave the ranch.
If yer on the marry, AN want pard
that'll stick rite to ye till ye pass III
yer checks, an the good Lord calls ye
over the range, jist squeal an well
hitch but eff that amt yer game draw
out an give some other felIef show
for his pile. Now,sssipg yer seng oI
pkip out" You bet he sang.
A despatch from Memphis, Tenn,
on Monday the 18th, says: Four ne
groes, all confessed cottongin and boust
burners, we're forcibly taken from the
Coahoma county Miss. ja,.., at Friar''
Point, before sundown last Saturday
and shot dead by a masked mob. These
men admitted to having-se fire to ant
destroyed cotton-gin.houses in that vi
cinity also to having fred the store
houses in Friar's Point, whereby sever
al stores and their contents were de-
stroyed a. couple offmouths. ago.
Intelligence from Ohio on Monday
says; Edward Ricbardson,ra promi
; nent citizen of Massillop, Ohio, and ,
! me ber OF the City Council, was sho
and instantly killedsby'his wife on Sun
! day the 10th. She says that Der ac
was in self defense, as he was approach
ing with the avowej urpose Of cuttin,
her throat with razor. The Coroner
Jury to day rendered verdict to th'
effect that Richardson was killed by
pistol shot fred by his wife.
A dispatch from Wilmington, Del.
on Monday Gays; On Saturday William
Sohnson, colored, was captured after {
hard fight with policemen, aud upon 1
hearing yesterday was held to avail
the result,ofsinjurics inflicted on jane
Stroup,..a farmer. .living'near this city
last Thursday night. On that even
ing Stroup heard noise in. his hen
bouse, and going out found there was
man iuslde, whereupon he fastened tn
man in, got his gun, ,.and with hi
daughter returned ito the.hen- house
His daughter unfasteneds' the doc
while Stroup stood ready to shoot, bu
johnson burst out, and with brick-b ba
felled the farmer to the ground, frac
turing his skull, and ran. Miss Stroul
seized the gun and fred, but be escap
ed. Stroup has lain unconscious since
and his injuries are dangerous, if no
fatal.
Late information from Hampstead
Texas, says: Tom Hooper, an escapes
convict and noted horse-thief, has beeI
lurking in this vicinity for three days
Last night a.deputy sheriff and poss
of seven or eight men surrounded tn
house where Hopper was and demand
J ed his surrender. A lady appeare'
at the door crying and wringing he
hands and passed to the yard. On
} Of the party, suspesting somethin
wrong, commanded her to halt, but tn
weeping lady showed her red balmora
and sped away to the forest. Nineteel
Intellectual shots were fred at the pet
ticoats, but Tom Hooper roams th
prairies to-day seeking good horses
In the melee one of the party got HI
thumb shot off.
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