Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-19

AON 6bt "omau oscc-tcu uet iu1t,Su
able right to ride ib' a smoking ear and
enjoy her cigar like man. Last Fri
day = lady, we'll dressed aud not COARSE
hooking got on the river train, between
St. Paul and Hastings, amt marched
into the smoking ear The editor of
the Rochester Heraid courfe6nsly sug
gested tina; she might fiud it unpleasant
to ride in the gentlemen's car. "uow
selfish these men are" was the Ietort.
"They never want lady to enjoy what
they do themselves" Then seating
herself at her ease at an open window,
she drew from a neat little case cigar
aud soon was putting away with tran
quill expression on her face. A man
who had been drinking considerable
beer sat down beside her, rolled up his
coat sleeves bit of tie end of . cigar,
aud asked her for a light. She gave
him a match, and interested herself in
the scenery. Her fellow traveller now
sought to entertain her with few re-
marks on the weather, brands of cigars,
business prospects, and other matters.
Lovely woman fell back in good order
upon her dignity. You are getting
i,npertinent, sir. II is none of your
business where | am from, or where l
am going to-. have the same right to
sit here that you have, and if you don't
behave yourself / shall speak to the
conductor"
The San Francisco (Cal Bee says:
Some few days ago, as the Freeport
ferry was taking load of passengers
across the river, and when about half
way over, the rope broke. Consterna-
tion reigned among the passengers;
none of The men could swim; the fiat
was drifting down there was nothing
on board by which it could be padded
or its movements directed. For few
s, couds silence and inactivity igned !;
then strong and healthy locking Can
adian woman, seeing that the men could
do nothing. proceeded calmly to take
of her shoes and stockings. Modesty
forbade the removal of much more,
and arrayed as weighrly as Horatius
Coolies was when the bridge fell and he
jumped into the yellow Tiber with his
harness on his back, she caught rope
in her teeth, plunged into the muddy
current, aud swan for the shore. There
we're no exultau, Romans on the bank
to greet her with loud plaudits, but the
suddenly cheerful faces Of the ''lords of
creation" on the boat were beaming
upon her with ewes Of admiration She
reached the bank, tied the rope to a
strong tree, and the men hauled the
boat ashore.
The Aroostook county Me. Pioneer,
in noticing the death of W. Delevan, a
''deaf mute," III San Francisco, states
that the man was neither deaf Eor dumb,
but representing himself as such ln
1893 he was at Pre>que Isle, as mute
artist, representing that he was sketch
ing scenery tor a panorama of Aroos-
took. He was made much of, aud Was ad-
mItted to every house as We CONT guest,
and consequently became the pn-sesSnr
OF many family secrets He ran Of with
biscksmirh's daughter, to whum he
had revealed the fact that he was an
imPostur, but the enraeed father over
took them aud they went back. They
were finally married, however, and he
subsequently, deserted his wife and ran
away with another woman. He was at
ter ward turned up in the Lake Superior
copper mines as deaf mute by Gov
eminent detective.
The panvilie Record says Informs
tiOn has reached us of an outrage com-
mitted IN Valley township, this county,
a few days ago. As Mrs. Beck was
going from her grand fathers to her
uncle's she crossed corn field to save
time. and was followed by several
tramps who outraged her, and then
made their escape. Search was made,
bat the efforts to capture them were
fruitless.
In Mercer county a few davs ago
Henry Fisher was murdered while living
in his bed. a shot fired from the outside
taking effect in his head. While re.
turning from the funeral the wife of
the murdered man and son, the latter
aged about sixteen years. were arrest
ed for the crime. Nr Fisher was ex-
tensively known as farmer and a stock
dealer and had family of eight or nine
children.