Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-03-19
GENERAL ITEMS.


pany's pond, at Mantle Conn, on
Thursday. The children went for a
pail of water aud fell in. Mrs Taylor
bearing their cries, ran to their sssis-
tance aud was also drowned.
A bill passed the New Jersey House
imposing fine of $1,000 and imprison-
ment for two years on pools and other
gambling.
A committee of the Boston School
Board has reported in favor of reduc-
ing teachers salaries, and discontinu-
ing some of the ornamental branches of
education.
James Larkin, one of the masked
burglars who robbed Mr., Perry's resi-
dence at Jamaica, l.. l., was sentenced
last Wednesday to teI years at hard la
bo. in Sing Sing Prison
Ajax Griefeld died in Brooklyn re-
Gently after eating raw ham. A coron-
er's jury On Thursday returned yer
dict that death resulted from embolism
of the pulmonary arteries. due to trich-
inocis. Another member of the fam
lily is now lying at the point of death.
The case of Mrs. Mary s. Oliver
against Hon. Simon Cameron for breach
of PROMISE, in which damages are laid
at $50, 900, was on the calendar for
trial on Thursday in the Circuit Court
in Washington city, but did not come
up, there being several other cases
ahead Of it.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee on
Thursday decided that sleeping cars
running through the State are taxable.
An appeal will be taken to the Supreme
Court.
Ex Mayor Haser, a prominent brew
er OF Galena, lii, is on trial, charged
with using internal revenue stamps
more than once, thereby defrauding the
Government.
Aunt Phillis, an old negro woman,
living at Biggus Powell's SIX miles be
low Yanceyville, on the Yanceyville
and Milton road, has just given birth to
twins Philis is sixty years of age
The funniest is the old woman stoutly
persists that they had no father. There
is an excellent mineral spring on MIR
PoweiPs land, and the old woman in
sists that it came from drinking Mr..
Powell's mineral -ReidsrHie On.
CD Times.
Minister Foster writes that the In-
ternatioDai Exhibition in the City of
Mexico will open on January Is. 49,
80, and continue three mopths Goods
for exhibition may be entered free of
duty.
Charles Herbeck, residing ten miles
west of L,ncoln, Ills, who has been
separated from his wife for the past ten
days, owing to domestic quarrel, call
ing on Tuesday a week where his wife
was engaged in ironing and shot her
through the body. When the neigh
Dor sattempted to arrest him be placed
his pistol to his own head and fred q,
killing dead. The wife is dangerously
injured.
A young woman married an old wild
ever in Tannerviile, Ca, aud soon fell
in love with his son, who was about
her own age. The matter was fully
discussed by the trio, and all agreed
that it would be better for her to be
come the wife of the son. The trans
fer was amicably made By means of a
divorce. Since then the old man has
married his ex-wife's mother, and the
rearanged family is harmonious and
happy.-Troy Times.
Rev. j. b. Heroy, pastor of the
Methodist church at Hancock, Della
ware county, n. Y, is in trouble.
Some ti:ue ago A. j. Edwards, prom
inent furniture dealer of that village,
whose wife was a member of Mr.. Her
oy's church, discovered letter writ
ten by him in his wife's writing desk
that seemed to prove the in6delity Of
his wife and the guilt of her pastor.
Mrs Edwards afterwar6 made a full
confession, made out in legal form and
sworn to tefore a Justice of the Peace,
in which she acknowledged that she bad
committed great sin, aud implicated
DIR. Heroy as her paramour, giving a
full history of the origin and progress
of her intimacy with him.
On the highlands, back of New
port, KY, tramp called at the house
of Mr. Truesdale, a well-to-do farmer,
and finding Mrs. Truesda,e alone,
knocked hel down and tearing a sheet
into strips bound her firmly to
bench with her hands tied under it.
and feet lashed to a peg in the wall.
He robbed the house of small sum
of money and some valuables. The
woman remained five hours in this
condition till the return of her hus-
band and in the meantime had become
ID mother. The tramp left, but
force OF iU-ty men started in pursuit
of him. He was caught, lodged IN
jail, and on Saturday taken out to
the woods and hung on a tree. Mrs.
Truesdsle's condition is very preca
rious
On Saturday night week party
of fifteen masked men called at the
residence of William Moore, brother
of Ben. Groom, the "cattle king" at
Winchester, Ky, and told him unless
he made an immediate settlement of
his debts he must leave the country
Moore procured a shotgun and fired
into the crowd. The latter fired a
volley in answer, three shots taking
effect in Moore's body, inficting Sc
we're wounds. Two men suspected of
being implicated in the affair were
afterwards arrested and jailed. On
the following Monday their confed-
crates overpowered the guard and lib
Grated them.
A dispatch last Thursday from St.
Louis says: Two of the most promi-
nent lawyers of this city had a quarrel
in a JUSTICES court to-day, which cul-
minated IN one of them stabbing the
other four times, infictiDg serious
wounds. The person stabbed was Wm
NJ. kccles; his assailant was ex-Circuit
Judge j. NJ. Krum, a man who has
been Mayor of st. Louis. and is ranked