Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

| SIX pairs OF brass apAiets a"u
;uo sets of gold earrings and a nun,
ber of toe-rings belonging to oeJe"eiie'
persons whom it had devoured-
Leonard Immel and Sai!ie Keller
both eighty seven years Of age, wer'
recently married at Mt. Etua, Berk'
county.
From the Chicago Tribune, Dec. 81.
Will Myers. with four other rougn
disturbed the church services at oton'
Ledge Friday night, and were ordered
out By Jacob Crow and Charles " ade
A terrible fight took place. Gro" re-
cerved several stabs in the bowels, ana
Wade was cut badly in the shoulders an'
lungs. Neither can recover
Moline (Ill) Special to the Inter-ocean.
About twenty five persons here were
taken violently and suddenly sick FIJI
day night from the effects OF eating
head cheese made from hogs supposed
to have been fed with arsenic. Inel
are all out of danger now.
A dispatch fIsm Ismid says thirty
eight ton gun burst during practice Oh
the British man Of war Taunoerer
The vessels turret was destroyed, sew
en- men killed and forty wounded.
General Sherman expects to call the
next reunion Of the Army of Tennessee
to NEE, in Chicago, in November, Is
70, and one of the features Of the Ieun'
ion is expected to be the reception ol
General Grant, whom General Sherman
has asked to be on hand at that time.
Mrs. Myra Games has very simple
habits and taste. Her wardrobe, she
says does not cost her $50 year.
Christopher Meister a thrifty old
German farmer. living near ROssvIlle,
Long Island, had to put his turniPs in
a pit on Christmas day to prevent their
spelling. aud, not fretting about his in
ability to keep The day like other, be
set about digging a hole. A lusty
thrust of the shovel into ;he yielding
soil overturned an iron pot, which upon
being opened was found to contain
about a peck Spanish dollars These
are supposed to have been buried dur
ing the Revolution to conceal them
from Tories. 1t is not necessary TO
remark that Mr.. Meister rejoices that
the exigencies of the case were such as
to compel him to dig that hole on
Christmas day.
William Wallace, of Chicopee Falls,
Mass, is in jail for recently shooting at
Mrs. David Tiley in house of bad re-
pute with intent to kill her. The bull
let was stopped By the heavy cotton bat
ting which the woman used to pad ont
her form, and she is unhurt.
1t is nearly three month now that
the Rev. II. II. Hayden, of South Mad
ison, Conn.,, has been IN jail, charged
with the murder of Marry STANDARD.
His second trial will take place in JAN
uary.
The late Governor Geary is said to
bave had curious pleasure in saving
all paragraphs and articles written
about him. He had large number of
scrap-books filed with these things.
The late Samuel J. Tllden for se,efal
years employed a clerk expressly for
this dnty He filed a complete library
and for several of the last months of
his life fled the Tribune unmutilated
therein.
Two men we're lodged in Jail at Nc
Minnville, Tenn, on Tuesday a week
charged with murder committed dur
ing the war. TIE son of the murdered
man, who was a child when the crime
was committed is now endeavoring to
have the culprits punished.
Miss Matilda Hindman, Of Denver
Col, pronounces untrue the statement
that female suffrage is a failure in Wy
oming Territory, and says that the wom-
en- vote in nicely carpeted room in a
hotel, where the judges are three bright
and intelligent women and two dignifi-
eG and pleasing men that there is no
electioneering that they vote in TWEEN
ty- eight seconds on ar average; that
men keep quiet and do not spit on the
along which the women voters
pass. and that mothers trundIe their
baby-carriages up to the polling place.
vote and move on.
Muskrat farming is rural industry
in Iowa. A good pond or marsh we'll
stocked is said to yield a profitable re-
turn after two years, the trapping being
lone in winter, when there is plenty of
leisure, and affording much amusement
to the younger members of the family
Ga the third inst, between eleven and
,ne o'clock theft entered the Govern
nent printing Office, at Washington, and
his opportunity, took from the
safe of the disburseing clerk package
's currency. containing S,400, Intended
for paying off the employees and for the
purchase of material, and made his es-
APE without observation. Detectives
we're Immediately put to work, and it is
thought the money will soon be recov-
cred.
The quiet little village of Bridge
vile, Obio,, was thrown into an unusual
state of excitement Christmas evening
BY singular elopement. William
a young man of about twenty
years, eloped with his uncle's wife,
dashing young woman of twenty-five.
hired a sleigh and drove to
BrIdgeville, where, under the pretense
of taking his aunt to church, brought
ner to Newcomerstown in time to take
the 9,2T evening train for Kansas
Mrs. Mitchell is very pretty, and has
heretofore bore a very fair reputation.
She has succeeded in purlo:ning from
her husband the past year about S 900.
Her husband, Mr.. Alexander Mitchell
is merchant, aud is considered to be
very wealthy, but this strange freak of
his un,aithful wife has driven him about
with grief. What induced
Mrs Mitchell to leave a dutifuI hus-
band and a pleasant home to link her
fate with that of beardless and pen
uilsss youth is entirely too deep to be