Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

q r is estimated at 350, 900 bushels.
he Pennsylvania Dairymen's Asso-
, Etion meets in Meadville on January
: y aud %.
The Pennsylvania MiIlers' State As
scia,ion will meet in Lancaster on the
|, 2'h inst.
Tramps in Montgomery county steal
r nd secrete children, join in the search,
ind them and claim a reward.
Hunter will be hung on q gallows
'rec'rd in the court room Of the Cam
. len, n. j., building.
A resident of Cuttingville, VT. saw
. khat he took to be burglar in his
-.s2at night, and jumping out of bed
,,hrottled with an iron grasp the big
bass vial which stood 10 tue corner.
Judge Waller, of Pike county, SEN
fenced William Appleman tea years to
the penten,iary for train wrecking.
Lancaster has girl l3 ears OF age,
Who keeps house for her father, doing
the baking, washing, et,., to perfection.
A man was found in East St Louis,
Illinois, ore day last week frozen into
solid cake of ice, having fallen in.o =
small pond and been drowned
Because she ihonght be used too
much tobacco a woman Of Melrcs, Mas
.achusetts, locked her husband up il a
hen house and horseuhipped him.
The snow storm of the 2lst uls g, ex
tended itself over all the Northern
States and as far South as Washington,
aud IN many places cbstructed railroad
travel.
DIR. Heyl, found guilty OF grave-rob-
lbing At Zanesville, Ohio, has been SEN
tensed to pay fine of 81 900 and to
undergo one years imprisonment. Ea-
ton, convicted a, his accomplice, was
sentenced to four months imprison-
msnt and 3l0O fine.
4 fifteen years courtship in New
England town resulted in a wedding
the other dag, and the town was so de-
I lighted that salutes were fred, bon6res
(iyhted. bu,lding. illuminated, the stars
a.d stripes hoisted on the hotel, and a
rsaI Fourth of July induiged in.
Wade Hampton received eleven
wounds during the war, one Of them a
.sbre-ihrus,.
Indiana has a prohibition law for Sun
day, the 4;h of July, the lat day of
January, the 25rh day of December,
Thanksgiving day, or upon the day OF
sny State, county, township, primary or
municipal election.
William j. Brown, financial clerk Of
the Post Ofiice at Washington, drew
Sic, 800 a, the Treasury. de says be
placed the mooey package, which was
or the pay Of the employees, ID his
pocket, aud 5efore be reac5.d the
stree, it was gone. Detectives were
immediately put 10 work.
The Amer of Cahul says be knows
be is a savage. but 500 years ago tie
English were just as bad.
Senator Blaine is said 10 have aged
considerably within the past few years.
His hair is now as white a. snow.
Mrs. Mary S,enpsOn, one of Brick
Ponsroy's nothers-in-i.r, has become
dsranged. She live, in Sherman, Tex
as, and keeps rilIinerY establishment.
Mrs. Hayes will resume her official
receptions on January Ath.
Tn. local Indebtedness Of Illinois,
amounts 20 $5l. .9i2. .6Sl.
T The New Englsbd's Soci.tJ's ban
quet, few night, ago, 10 New York,
a, which Secretary Sherman and Svna-
tor Blaine we're distinguished guests,
cost $40 per plats.
Katie Punch, aged sisteen, commit
ted suicide on R.ndaIrs Island Thurs
day night, by hanging
+! On the Pacific coast the average at
tendance of Chinese boys and girls
upon the Protestant Sunday schools i.
1900
! During the Chinese famine $4,000
we're forwarded from this country to
Shanghai, and of This S4,5i9 went
through the Presb yteriau Board of For
eign Missions.
A woman got drunk while cooking at
+. Portsmouth, Va, and fell head fore
most into q tub of water near the stove.
FER head was drowned aud the remain
der - Ser burued TO death, her clothes
taking ne.
The irre,. .ressible conflict between the
school mistress and the big boy has
broken out for the season OF lI1S 0 at
Staubridge, Quebec, where he attacked
her with a clasp knife an,i she bad to
fiy for her life. The school n, 'stress at
Walden, VT, prac,ises revolver. Shoot
ing at recess.
!. 4 dispatch from Victoria, British
Columbia, says: L" On the 18Th inst.
John BOYD killed Thomas O'Brien in a
coward!y manner at Fort Wrsngel.
Alaska. The citizens tfied him by a
jury of his own selection, which found
him guilty; and be was hung the next
day"
Mrs. William A. RICHTER was struck
By train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
roa 1 while crossing the track at North
Elizabeth last July. Mr.. William \.
Fighter sued the company for $4,000
damages done to his wife and carn"ge.
A svmpathizing jury gave him $4,000
for his carriage and $4,000 for his wife's
sufferings.
The sui. against the Government,
brought By the heirs of Stephen A.
Douglas tor certain cotton captured By
the United States Government IN Mis-
siss:ppi during the war and sold as aban-
doned property, was settled finally IN
the Court Of Claims on the 9th ult.,
By q Judgment IN favor of the claim
ants. This case has been pending for
years, and has been the subject Of much
controversy, investigation and li'iga-
tion. The heirs are Robert NJ. Dou-
glas, United States Marshal for the
Western District os North Carolina,
and Stephen A. Douglas, jr.
An Indianapolis BARRIERS overcoat