Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

tODj MTs. Mira DrauWeli, eultOr OF tDe
Chicago Legal .Ners. Miss Phoebe
Cozzens, of Missouri: Mrs. Foster of
Iowa; Miss Goodell, of Wisconsin. and
Mrs. Foltz, of San Francisco.
Among the effects of an old lady
who recently died in Maine were found
lo2 pairs of stockings which she had
knitted and stored away.
twenty-five families of Mennonites
in Manitoba cultiva'es l0,400 acres.
Mrs. Haines, aged eighty six, of Old
Waleseoro, Ind, vas fatally burned
recently in consequence Of placing a
lighted pipe in her pocket.
George w. Dupre, State printer of
Louisiana, has been indicted by the
grand jury for perjury.
Ou the 18th inst sixteen tramps took
possession of Fort Wayne, Jackson
and Saginaw railroad engine house
driving out the employees. The police
captured the entire gang.
The English are sending troops for
ward into Africa to overcome the de-
feat of the Zulus.
Moves, the founder OF the Oneida
Community, is cousin of President
Hayes, and he was the first person to
present Rutherford B Hayes name for
the Presidency.
Senator Howlao, of Prince Edward
Island, Province of Ottawa, while dis
injecting ship which had the small
pox on board short time ago, acci
dentally splashed some of the disinfec-
ting fluid into his eyes and destroyed
the sight.
William Conrad, aged sixteen years
Of Decatur, lndianna, fell from a hay
loft, on Monday a week in such man
ner that his ncctie caught on a hook
and he was slraDgled to death.
Miss Allie Robinson of Indiana aged
only IA years and 8 months, committed
suicide by taking morphine. After her
mothers death she was placed in
charge of her Uncle, Mr.. Rink, who
objected to her keeping the company
of Mr. Lamb. and for this she took
away her own life.
Mrs Elizabeth Leopold died in
Graniteville, South Carolina, a few
days ago, at the age of I07 years.
Around her grave stood the only sur
viving son, a white haired bent old man
Of four score a grand child of ffty-six
years, several great-grand children over
forty years of age, a number of great
great grandchildren more than twenty
FIVE years old and some toddlers, great
great great grandchildren-fve gener-
ations in all.
As long ago as the summer of 1852
Zeb Ward, Sheriff of Kenton county,
enticed Henrietta Wood, free colored
woman, to leave her home in C,nciDns-
ii and make Aying visit across the
Ohio into Kentucky. Once over, the
whip wbistled about Heprietta's ears
and the poor woman was sold as slave
and taken into the heart of Texas.
When the war was over Henrietta re-
turned to Cincinnati aud brought suit
against v ard for damages The case
was in litigation until las. April, when
the Court awarded her claim of = 900.
Last December a motion tor new trial
was filed. Last Saturday Judge Bax-
ter read au elaborate opinion in the Gin
cinnati Court overruling the motion
for new trial and giving Henrietta
her 81, 500.
Sam Hall, Columbus (Ga.) negro
was sentenced TO be hung, the other
day, for the murder of man named
Holmes in November, 1876. The evi-
dence upon which his conviction was
based appeared of the strongest char
acter, but be now states that he was in
the penitent;ary throughout the year
1876, and could not have done the deed
He escaped from the penitentiary in
1877. The records show, sure enough
that in 1872 the same Sam was sem
fenced for fifteen years for horse steal
ing, and that be escaped in February,
1877. His neck is saved.
Six members of the family of "
Cox got up from the table a. Worches-
ter, Massachusetts, the other day, with
their lends across their stomachs.
They had been eating chicken. The
doctors relieved all Gut one, a boy OF
four years old. A investigator as to
what could be the matter was made.
1t was decided that the poison came
from the chicken. The freezing and
thaxing of the fowl had lmpregnated it
with poisonous gases.
One Eli WaDgers entered suit at
Ostrander, Ohio, on Saturday week
to recover FIVE thousand dollars from
J. Z. Faulkner and others, 'sfor dam
ages sustained BY receiving dose of
Croton oil, administered in cider, at a
sociable in the house of a young lady
acquaintance.
A special dispatch on the 18th says
that Isaac Newland, a country mer-
chant living near Fort Wayne, Ind,
started home from Fort Wayne one
evening in September, 1876, getting
off the cars at New Haven, the Learest
station to his home. His body was
found next morning in lonely piece
of woods near New Haven. He had
been brutally murdered for the money
known to have been on his person when
he left Fort Wayne. No trace of the
murderer was found until last night,
when a courtezan named Mary Durrer
confessed that Perry Tracy, John Gar
meyer and herself murdered Newland
and robbed his body of fifty one dol
lars. They drove out in carriage
and beaded him off after he left the
train. Garmeyer is dead and Tracey
Is serving out life sentence for muir
dering one James O'Brien. Mary al
so states that the same persons murder
ed a woman named Lizzie Early four
years ago, she having incurred their
wrath.
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