Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-04-02
GENERAL ITEMS.


ed in Republic and Cloud counties,
Kansas. They extended over an area
ten miles long aud three miles wide, aud
swept everything before them. Abou,
one hundred homes were consumed.
A Texas farmer lately lost a vaiua-
bic horse and ofored a reward for him
Several days after be received from a
neighboring town the following nots
"The horse is here come and get him.
The thief has teen hung
The Annual Masonic conclave, which
will meet in Allentown in May next
will be one of the grandest dcmonstra-
tions ever witnessed in that city.
4 famine next year in Russia is pre-
d;cied b. Russian journals. Failure Of
crops, cattle plaques and the extraor.
dinary- drought OF the las, half year
are the causes given.
i convention of clergymen is to be
held in Springfield, Mass, on the 9Th
and 7th of Ma, next, for the consider
alton of the due Observable of the sab
bath
A report comes by way of San Fran
cisco that the revollt.rn in Sonora,
Mexico, is at an end. the forces under
Mariscal having disbandei.
A Berlin dispatch says upn ards oi
one hundred arrests have been made IN
Moscow in consequence of the assA SIN
alton Of government spy.
\ new and delightfully."- iunocen.
style of cock lighting has been lntroduc
ed in Brooklyn. The chickens spar, as
it were in gloves, having "buckskin
protectors over their spurs and leather
muzzles ever their beaks." They are
said to fght with great spirit, but a
cock-fght must lose mush OF its at
traction as refined aud manly spor.
if the birds do not suffer auy pain.
Horace Manchester went down to the
sunken mail PACKET Thomas j. Lynch,
off Port Judith, near Newport, on Mon
a week beng eighty feet under water.
He signaled at the end of three quar-
ters of an hour that he was all right /;
later that lie wanted .uore air, and still
later that be was getting too much.
Shortly afterwards something appeared
to be wrong, and Augustus Feliess, an
other diver. was sent down. Feliess
returned after an absence of twenty
minutes. He reported that Manches-
ter's dead body was suspended about
FIVE feet above the vessel, aud that the
airline had caught upon one of the
hooks abou: the rigging. The body
was fually recovered.
Peter Smith. farmer living near
Clear Creek, Ia, went into his smoke
house on Sunday and being absent su
unusual length of time his wife vent to
see what was the matter The door
bad been closed, and on opening it, sue
found her husband on the floor in the
agonies of death. 1t is supposed that
the door Of the smoke house suddenly
closed, and being unable to open it
soon enough Smith was overcome by
the dense smoke and fell to the floor,
where his wife found him.
The Jacksonville, Ala, "Republi-
can" says: Some years ago one Common
hired a man in Texas to murder an
enemy. The man who did the murder
vas condemned TO die, but the nigh.
before the execution bis wife brought
HIM poison in her mouth, and both
were dead when found next morning.
Cannon has jus; been captured and will
probably hang. This man Cauoon is
said to be the same one who lived near
Landiga in this county.
1t Is remarkable and creditable that
The preparations of the Grand Army of
he Republic for the observance Of de-
,oration never were IS extensive, so
oug prior to tae occasion, as they are
his year.