Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-11-20
GENERAL ITEMS.

From the Dallas Intelligencer.
Mr.. Samuel Myers is now lying bed.
fast at his home In this place, afflicted
with that terribly malady, the screw
worm. Mr.. Myers has been sick of
late with fever, and on Monday last
while resting in bed one Of the flies al
lighted near his nostril. 1t requires
but q few moments for one of these flies
to deposit hundreds of eggs, which are
hatched and grown inside of an hour,
many of the them as much as ene-half
an inch in length. Mr.. Myers, upon
awakening, felt sight tickling III the
nose, and it was not until bis eyes aud
face had become fearfully swollen tha,
the physician discovered the presence
OF the worms. The only known reme-
dy was applied-calomel and and car
holic acid-by injection into the nos
trils. At first few would drop their
bold and force themselves out. Appli-
cation after application was made with
like results up to last night, when one
hundred and fifty two was the number
passed. The patient is in a critical
condition, with but slight hopes of his
recovery. The fy is much dreaded by
our stockmen, and is represented as a
dark-colored and fuzzy insect, which
generally attacks cattle or any other
animal that Is unfortunate enough to
have blood upon which they can alight.
In the fall of 1877 a man named
Clay ton left Lock Haven for the Far
West. He located on Sapper creek,
Decatur county, Kansas where be erec-
ted cabin and laid the foundation of
what be supposed would, some time in
the future, be home for his family
consisting Of wife, son and daughter.
Last Spring these latter joined hun in
his prairie home, and toiled with bim
until recently to make the "wilderness
blossom as the rose All progressed
promi.ingly with them until about a
month ago, when the savages of the
plains made q raid upon the homestead,
numbering the father aud husband, the
wife and the daughter, nine years old.
The cabin was burned, and the re-
mains of the father consumed therein !;
the mother was shot through the shoul-
der aud the daughter in the back. The
sou, Henry II. Clayton, aged Is years,
was absent at the time of the massacre,
working fer a farmer, and thus escap-
ed like horrible fate. When he re-
turned home the next day after the ter
rible tragedy he was horrified at the
fearful work of the savages, found HE
mother and sister some distance from
the dreadful scene and buried them
with the charred bones Of his father.
The place had no further charms for
him and be resolved to return to the
home of bis childhood. Yesterday be
passed through this city enfoute TO
Lock Haven, where he intends to make
his home with an uncle.-.7lioona 7ri-
6,sne November IA 1873.
4 special dispatch reports the hang
ing of Floyd Smith and his wife Maria
tcolored) by an armed mob on Noyem-
Der 4, near fernando, Miss. They
were charged with numbering a little
white girl six years old, which bad
been left in in the care of its mother
Suicide for disappointed love is be-
coming more the rare with each pass
ing year. Hearts ache and break as OF
yore, doubtless, aud IN this respect the
lapse of time works no improvement;
but the tendency Of the time is to dis
play of fortitude and stoicism in the
struggle with the unavoidable.
Diphtheria is playing havoc among
the hogs of Illinois. 1t is estimated
that in some counties the loss from
this disease is not less than fifty ,hous-
sand dollars.