Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-04-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

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The body of a man was found of Col.
lege point, Flushing, l.. l., Oh March
29ih. In pocket of the ciothirg was
found discharge paper from the regu-
lar arwy Bearing the name of Thomas
Robb. The body had apparently been
in water about week.
The court house of Licking county,
Ohio, at Newark was almost entirely
destroyed BY fire on Saturday a week
They repudiats half in Tennessee.
Governor Marks last week signed bill
providing for the settlement Of the
State debt at fifty cents on the dollar
and four per cent. interest.
A special dispatch to the Galveston
.Netrs from San Antonio, says Tom
Lemon, notorious horse theft, was
shot dead while resisting arrest. Lem
on, fred FIRST but missed the officer,
who then shot Lemon through the hear:
with rife.
Correspondence Of the London Times
dated Arment, Upper Egypt, February
"A, gives heart rending account of the
condition Of the population of the Nile
valley. The scenes described resem-
bic those in India during the recent
famine. In some Of the villages the
people are past help, sitting naked like
wild beasts, eating roots and suffering
with the endurance of despair. The
madness worked on by famine stamps
such brand on the starving fellahs
as cannot be easily described. 1n one
town women and children fought over
scraps of bread like wild animals. The
case is believed to be still worse in the
inland hamlcts, where the villagers are
said to be starving like dogs.
A Chicago dispatch states that
O'Leary says that be has engaged Gil
more's Garden for the whole mon th
of October, and that six-days match
will take place there some time In
that month. The contestants are to
run or walk. The winner is to have
$4,000 and the belt and challenge
Rowell for the Ashley belt. The sec
ond man $1,000, the third 1000 and
the fourth $500. The object of the
walk is to encourage running in this
country.
Mr.. Finney London dentist, claims
to have found FLIED tooth in the Jaw
of an Egyptian mummy Dentistry
was further advanced 1000 years aca
in Egypt than is supposed.
William Garrett, who was rescued
from the Indians by Custer, says be
was Mountain Meadow captive, bis
life being spared on account of LIS age
which was only ten years. His young
er sister. taken at the same time, af-
terward became the wife of Red Cloud,
the Sioux chief, and now refuses to for
sake him.
George Snyder, of Fort Wayne, In.
diana, was walking In his sleep and
was mistaken for a burglar by his sis
ter. She beat him with a club, aud,
it is feared, SO badly that he will die
from his injuries.
Wisconsin has a boy hero. He sur
priscd two horse thieves in a barn,
locked himself in with them and at
tempted a capture. They had to
wound him with knives before he would
let them out.
The report of the Englishman who
was sent by Mr.. Rivers " iisou to i1-
quire into the famine in Upper Egypt,
shows by statistics that ten thousand
persons have died by starvation alone
in Girgen, Kena and Esua. TIE fam
inc, which was really a money famine
caused by over-taxation has now ter
minated, but has left disastrous con-
sequences.
Mr.. Bussey had some set-hoops in the
river one night last week. During the
night trout went FOR the alluring bait
and was hooked. Afterwards an otter
came along and concluded to take in
the trout. The first pass be made fast
ened the hoop in his mouth, and there
he hung unit! morning. When Mr.. b.
came ani raised the pole the otter
plunged through the water at terrific
rate, but the hook and line we're strong
and held him for some time. At last
he came on land, aud before Mr.. b.
could kill him he ran around a tree,
broke the hook and made his escape.
The trout was not damaged much u
VaidOsta fla J Times.
A despatch from Galveston Texas
under date Of April 2ond says: A
spec,a, to the News from Fort Griffin
saws "On tn night ofth 10Th ultimo
nine disguised aud well armed men took
possession of HImburg's store, IN the
Tepee creek, near Staked Plain, cover |
ing the clerks and others with pistols
until they robbed the store of all mon |
ey, arms and ammunition. They then
attacked a camp party en- route to
Leadv!Ile. taking them BY surprise, and |
shooting Mr. Anderson, who attempted
resistance. They took about $500 and
all the live stock of the party. After
leaving this vicinity they went to Blan-
CO Canon and robbed the store of Con-
rad & Ra,h of $500 worth of provis-
ions, arms, &c. They are believed to
be the notorious Reeves gang, from
Lincoln county, New Mexico. Rang
ers will pursue them.
All the peasantry of Wratshero, in
in the government of Novgorod, Russia
believed that Agrafena 1gnatjeva, the
widow of soldier, was a witch and a
sorcerer. Many of the peasants attri-
buted the prevslency of epileptic cases
to the black power of Agfafena, one
girl who was afflicted with the disease
being particular bold i'll her denuncia-
tion She induced .he head men of the
villages to follow her to the hut of the
sorcerer. Two hundred persons soon
gathered about the place, which was
set on fire and burned amid the shrieks
and walls of Agrafena, who perished.
Twenty-one roubies we're offered to the
rural policeman as a bribe of silence
but he refused the money, and SO last
month the story reached the columns of
the 81. Petersburg Government .Nessen-
ger, from which this abstract is made,