Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-03-05
GENERAL ITEMS,

Susan b. Anthony Is going to Texas
TO lecture.
The shipment Of american oysters TO
England Is now carried on to the extent
Of 200 to l 800 barrels day.
Bishop Foley,s last words were "l
have tired to do my duty-l bow to
the will of the Almighty God"
A fireman Oh tue Baltimore and Ohio
railroad the other day dropped his
watch on a shovel full of coal, but be-
fore he could stop the swing of his arm,
watch and coal went into the fire.
1t is understood that the Court OF
Inquiry into the conduct of Major Reno
at The battle OF the Little Big Horn,
will report that the inquiry has not de-
duced evidence against him which would
warrant trial BY court-Dartial.
| A daughter Of the late Brigham
Young was asked in recent interview
in Washington how::she had been treated
at the Capital. Her reply was; By
members Of Congress and,the press very
we'll, but by Christians badly"
| A Fort " or,h lTezas) dispatch says
at six o'clock on Sunday morning, the
stage for Fort Yuma, Arizona, was
halted inside the city limits at Fort
Worth, by three masked biehwaymen,
aud the two passengers we're compelled
to give up their money. The mail bags
were robbed of fourteen registered
packages.
While Rev F. Hamlin, pastor of
st. Johns Methodist church, was
holding service, on Sunday evening a
week, in his church in Newburg,
n. Y, the other members Of his fam
lily being ct church. burglars entered
the parsonage adjoining and carried
off pocket books, containing 800
and gold watch and other iewelry.
The Mexican Minister at Washing
ton gave reception a few evenings
ago, which is reported to have been
the most costly entertainment of the
kind ever given at Washington. 1t
was also an uncommon entertainment,
in this that it was given in honor oi
Secretary Evarts. 1t is not known
that foreign Minister has ever given
an entertainment of tie character oi
the one mentioned in honor Of a mem
ber of the Cabinet of the Unite ]
States.
A despatch from the Indian country
DIT. Ter, few DAYS ago says. 4
courier arrived at Fort Meade bringing
the news that two freight wagon trains
had been attacked by Indians a few
miles from Rapid City. He stated
,ba, the Indians fred several volieys
into the town TO prevent the citizens
from going to the rescue of tie team
s:ers. Another band Of Indians at
tackled the sulpher Springs Station, on
she Bismark road, killing one man and
running off four horse. Two compa-
nies OF the Seventh cavalry, un,ler the
command of Captain French, started
yesterday from Fort Meade in pursuit
of the maraudirg ssvages. The gen
eral opinion is that the present depre
dations were made by Little Woli's
band of Cheyennes, which is making its
way to Sitting Bulls camp.
On Friday forenoon, at North An
dover, Mass, George Rexsiraw, IN q
drunken frenzy. strack his daughter,
Mrs. Smith, with poker, knocking her
10 the floor, and she has since remained
insensible. Immediately after ne dc,
iiyered the blow he fell to the floor a
ecrpse. 1t is thought the daughter will
recover.
On the 26,h ult, at jacksonville,
Fla, the puval Savings Bank vas rob-
bed Of So 600. \ Iuan drove up in
front Of the bank aud called ont Presi-
dent Abbott, ,he only person iu the
bank. The stranger engaged Mr. Alb
bott few minutes in conversation
while confederate entered by side
door and took the money from drawer.
Chief of Police Rawson arrested a man
on suspicion, and found $500 on bis
person. The prisoner has made ron
fessiun. Two other arrests have been
made.
Morris Fitzgerald, of College Point,
l.. L., died on the night Of the Doth
ult., from a wound received the day
previous under singular circumstances.
He was walking past James Mahle,
while the latter was in the act Of throw
ing 4 p!ichiork full of manure into Q
wagon, and was stabbed in the eye by
Que of the prong, Of the pitchfork.
/ James G. Slocum died in the Bry an
(Ohiol county jill, few days since,
where be was confined for getting money
under false pretences. He bad been
lately brought there from Hannibal
Missouri, where he had been undergo.
ing Imprisonment fol, ,blgamy. AT one
time Slocum was aAarge railroad con
tractor, and is supposed BY his FIRST wife
to have been insane.
Girls are advised BY Chicago ply
siciau to always sleep on their backs il
they wish to keep crows feet from the
corners of their eyes. These biem-
ishes," he says "are the result of sleep
ing on the sides. The pressure upon
the temple and cheeks leaves wrinkle:
at the corners and underneath the eyes