Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-03-12
CEyEHsL ITEMS.

vi more thar S,OOJ bills ntr0duc-
ed In the last session of Congress
less than 10o have become laws.
Great excitement exists in Man
chester, Ky. occasioned by the bru-
tai treatment and subsequent murder
of a girl of ten years by her step
mother.
The girl found in trunk at Lynn
has at last been identified as Fanny
McConologne, of Woburn, whose
family left for California on the 5th
of February. The girl accompanied
the family little way and returned
to this vicinity. The seducer of the
girl is known under the alias of Ted
dy S. Spencer, reported to be prom
inent business man of Boston
Marriageable women are SO scarce
in Iowa and other Western States
that numerous letters are received
from that section by the superinten-
dent of immigration at New York,
requesting him to secure for the
writers wives from among the women
of the East. There are hundreds of
well-to-do men in the West who are
prevented from marrying and enjoy
ing home comforts by the great
scarcity of women for wives. 1t looks
unwomanlike, at first glance, for mem
bers of the gentler sex to deliberate
ly set out to hunt husbands, even
when the latter are willing and anx-
ious to be found but it is certainly
better to do so than to live life of
lonely single blessedness, perhaps in
want and misery.
A Vermont man has advertised a
card in the paper in his town which
reads: Some people have the vul-
gar habit of calling me Bill: that is
not my name, nor any part Of it. My
name is William Palmer. l forgive
all past offenses. but if any person
ever calls me Bill after the publica-
4 ton of this letter, | shall take it 2s
downright insult, and Just as much OF
an insult as though he had called me
by any other hateful name that is not
my own.
Ira Cook was to have been married
in Northampton, Mass, at the age OF
&c. He started for the TowR Clerk 5
Office to get license, and doubtless
was excited and nervous, for he fell
while climbing over fence, caught
one foot between the piekets, and
hung head downward Tntil he was
dead.
On Saturday night week party
of masked men demanded admittance
TO the cabin Of an old negro named
Wooten, living eight miles from Man
chester, Coffee county, Tennessee.
Being refused adInittance, they set
fire to the building, and when the old
man rushed out they seized him and
riddled his body with hullets. His
family after wards found it about one
hundred yards from the building
when they fed from the flames.
By the explosion of boiler N a
saw-mill near Sullivan, Illinois, on
Wednesday, the mill and machinery
were demolished, John Baugber v5ss
blown into atoms, and two other men
were severely injured.
W. J. Stowell, postal clerk on the
Washington and New York route, has
been held in s3, 800 bail to await the
action of Baltimore grand jury.
He is charged with opening mail
matter, and has confessed.
A herd of camels were driven to
Arizona about two years ago. Find
n.g 10 profitable work for them, their
owners turned them loose among the
Gila. L, .he eastward of Yuma There
they hav, been living and breeding,
looking fat aud sleek all the time
Slippers of sai;n embroidered with
seed pearls, are worn by brides.
Although women are now allowed to
practice law in all the courts of Ohio,
not one is permitted to act as a notary
public.
Mrs. Caulsin locked her three cbil-
dren in her home at Coalville, Iowa one
evening while she visited neighbor.
During her absence the house was burn
ed and the children perlshed in the
flames.
Two sons of Secretary Evarts, Pres
colt and Sherman Exarts, are now edit
ing the two leading college mazazines
Harvard and Yale respectively.
In an effort to remove James Ken
nedy, teacbe. FROM public school in
Shelbyville, Indianna., on Monday a
week general melee ensued between
the teacher and his friends aud the
trustees. One of the latter named
Mupson was knocked down with club
by a woman, and several others were
more or less injured. The effort was
not successful.
The once famous country residence Of
Boss Tweed, at Greenwich, Conn, has
just been sold by his family to Joseph
MilIbank, 4 rich New Yorker.
The treasurer of the town Of Gambia,
n. H., was robbed of $500, public
funds, on Mondy night week.
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