Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-09-10
GENERAL ITEMS

GEN lEE;AE ITEMS.
4 Kansas mau hasu't been dveing
his gray wbiskers, but they are turning
black from bis babitual use of iron As
medicine.
Joseph w. Hunt, president of Tole
do. Delphos and Burlington railroad,
while attempting to cross side track
while an engine was shifting cars, at
Delphos, on the lst inst, was caught
between the bumpers and crushed IN
to unseusIbllity. lie tell to the ground
and several cars run over him, causing
instant death. The deceased vas quite
prominent in railroad circles.
Miss Walker, aged l6, living with
her father, 5. G. Walker, eight miles
from Jacksboro, Texas, retired to bed
aud slept all night with ratriesnake
several feet ioug. which bad crept INTO
her bed About daylight Miss Walker
turned upon ber pillow, wheu the snake
struck her on the forehead with Us
ian.s and instantaneou>iy coi!ed around
her throat. She screamed and tainted
The reptile was finally killed, but j, Is
belIevei that Miss Walker csunct live.
General GraUt once had a special car
in a Virginia train The other cars
we're packed with soldiers, aad staff
officer Invited q tad. into the special
The General at once flung 70 thirds of
a fne Havana uut of the wind .. A.
every station Sc t.a> -ecn 70 look arcrnd
10 see whether the lady bad got cut.
aud not until she was oIt DID he scratch
a match tor light. III ia ,iieace, too.
as usual, and OF the twenty old smok-
ing staff officers, not one smoked till the
General djG.
An English professor and a young
lady. from Baltimore were recently
wrecked in a rocky cave near Mount
Desert at nigh;fali They had gone IN
20 the cave M a small boat, aud were
sitting on the rocks talking about min
eralogy. Suddenly big wave broke
into the cavern and swamped the boat
The EpgIIshman plunged into the boil
ing surf, endeayoring with the tenzy OF
I despair tn collect the remnants Of the
trail bark. Useless for the purpose Of
navigation, the shattered craft might
still serve as fuel, for the cave Was COO.
aud damp, and the shades of night re
coming on. The professor had lucIler
matches and he built 2 fire, aud thare
they remained until morning, when
some fishermen, amazed a, the unwont
ed spectacle Of smoke emerging from
| cleft IN the rocks OF an unIuhabited Is
land, ventured in to the rescue of the
imprisoned couple, and With the aid OF
ropes drew them from their periIous
1 position.
A French farmer carrying pitchfork
was struck by lightning. The fork was
wrenched from his grasp and carried
through the air to the distance OF fifty
or sixty yards. The prongs were bent
and twisted with we,-high mathemali-
cal accuracy, into the shape of cork
screws, sulphate OF iron being formed
on the surface he man wasn't hurt.
Gen. Sherman says the air March
ing Through Georgia" was never sung
in the army, and did no; become pOpu
lar till after the war. The General was
in Dublin once, when a street baud ap-
preached playing the tune. He thought
be was going to be serenaded. but the
band passed on, and he asked 4 by
stander what that tune was. He learned
that the air was really of Irish birth.
and had been popular in ireland for
over century.
Two heroes, who had met, suffered
and n..rly died in the Andersonville
prison pen encvcrctered each other in a
street car in Peoria Ill OrC d'yv last
week. "Is your name Joneslr asked a
stranger who had just mounted the
platform. seizing the driver by the arm
.Yes," sand the driver. 81 though
so," exclaimed veteran January 81
knew you at Andersonville." As the
the two men stood and looked at each
other after fifteen years, there we're
tears in their eyes. No wonder :
When they were in the prison they
suffered all the agonies of the damned.
January had no clothing save a thin
cotton shirt and his feet were fostering
with gangrene He begged the surgeon
TO ampurate them. But no attention
was paid to his appeals. The wreiched
prisoner finaily performed the surgical
operation himself with pair of old
scissors, backing off both feet at the
ankles, binding up the wounds with his
cotton shirt and exposing his body to
the sun. Jones,s wardrobe consisted
of pair of ragged psntaIoons and
when his wrist was attacked with gan
creme he was sent to,the hospital. where
be met January. The two men lay at
deaths door together for weeks, but
finally recovered. Cie of them broke
away aud aided by Southern women
escaped to the Union lines. The other
made bis way North at the close of the
Ear.