Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-06-18
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! Forty thousand camels belong'ns &c
fhe British transport service nave dieo
during the war in Afghanistan.
Hallstones weighing from i've 70
twelve ounces fell at Commonwealth
Kansas, on the 9th inst. The storm
passed over a large section in the re-
gion Of Topeka, killing hogs. chickens
and doing much damage to the crops.
Three hundred lodges of Indians are
encamped on the boundary line hunting
buffalo. Sitting Bull has gone nortn
with six lodges of bis immediate foi-
lowers.
A man named William Fitsgersld at
tempted to burglarize the house OF W.
L. Walsh 10 Brooklyn on Sunday q
week, and was fatally shot.
Squire Jones was killed by his wife
N Carter county, KY, rhe other night,
in q quarrel over a woman OF bad Guar
ac,er, whom be wanted 70 keep in the
house.
1t paws to be a good chemist with
enough business to keep one occupied
Professor Doremus received 81, ,SOU for
making the analyses in the Cobb pol
soning case at Norwich. Connecticut.
The farmers o! IlIiuoi, have begun
to harvest their wheat crop. The crop
is not heavy but of excellent quality.
The crop along the line Of the North.
ern Pacific railroad, in Minnesota and
Dakota, Is excellent. The immigra-
ton to this section continues large.
II seems that the eleven school chill
dren who died so suddenly at Jacobs
Mill, a village in northern Vermont,
we're not poisoned at the brook, as at
first supposed, but were the victims OF
dlphtberis, induced by foul pools and
sinks under and around the school
, house.
John q. McCabe was drowned in
Philadelphia several months ago. he
wore an oiiskin coat and high top boots.
A mans body similarly attired was
found floating off Woodbury., and Mrs.
McCabe, Identifying it as that of her
husband, lad it brought to Philadel-
phia and buried. The other day an-
other body in oilskin coat and bigh top
boots was taken out of the water 1t
" ilmington, and Mrs. McCabe, be-
lieving it 10 BE- her husbands has buried
IT by the side of the first one.
Several articles and letters have been
printed IN German papers of lsre laud-
ing the efficacy of the sting OF the com
mon bee as cure for guut. Here IL
one of the latest of these communica
tions which appeared recently in the
Augsburg Evening Gazette: 81 was
lying in bed," says the writer, "suffer-
Ing from heavy attack of gout, ac-
companied with violent pains in my left
foot, when chanced to read in a news
paper an article describing how gout
may be cured BY the sting of bees.
at once determined to try the remedy,
and soon contrived a small box by means
of which captured bee could be ap
piled TO the afflicted part. | then let
my foot be stung by three bees in sue
cessi0n, each bee leaving his sting be-
hind in my flesh. After few minutes
these stings were extracted and when
the pain caused by them had subsided
found that the gOuty pain had also
left me. On the same day left ms
bed, an6 on the morrow was able TO
walk about. For some little time my
foot was slightly inhamed, and l ex-
perlenced some burning sensation but
in four or five days this left me, and |
was completely recovered"
The speculative prices at which things
are sold at Leadsville is illustrated BY
the following, which is from paper
published at that fsmousSmining town :
A. Cohen was one of the Spectators
who went there to look for a silver mine.
His money dwindled rapidly until be
bad Only So 80 left. liz desperation be
went to a wholesale grocery and bought
a barrel of apples, paying his entire
capital on account, and remaiOing in
debt so. Then he set up stand at
busy street corner and offered his
apples for sale at ten cents apiece. Be-
fore sundowu be had sold out, and was
the possessor of nearly $50. The next
day he had larger stock in trade, and
did equally well. In fortnight he was
we'll to do man. HIS profits had been
immense. Now be has a large fruit,
nut, and candy business, and has store
full of assistants.
A dispatch from Savannah. Georgia,
on the 9.h, says: A riot took place this
afternoon a. Mcintosh, Liberty county,
station on the Atlantic and Gulf rail
road, between party of negro excur
siouists from Bryan county and negroes
belonging to Mcintosh. The trouble
began in fight between two negroes,
wtereupon John Randale, the cIptain
of negro militia company from Byran
county, which company formed a part
of the excursion party, ordered charge.
The company obeyed the order, bayo-
netting every body within reach, the cap
tain himself killing one man BY running
him through with his sword. There
was intense excitement at this outrage.
and ;he Mcletosh negroes rallied and
drove the military company into the
Cars, opened FIRE upon them, killed four,
wounded large number of others, and
ouly stopped shooting when the train
was drawn out Of range. They tried
to prevent the train from leaving By
tearing up the railroad track, but failed.
All the parties engaged were negroes.
A second cyclone rolled through
Kansas on Monday week. 1t came
upon Kansas City just before evening,
as black as Erebus. In a moment il
was over. About Z o'clock a riff, ap-
peared through the clouds in the west
and at sunset the edges of the clouds
we're bathed with border Of silver.
Thinking the danger past, boy in the
town of West Kansas went ou, under a
tree to milk a COW. He bad hardly
fixed his stool when a whirlwind tore
up the tree By the roots, killing both