Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-12-17
GENERAL ITEMS.

ried 80 0,OUO,UOU passengers in the last
twelve months.
When ao Indian slams his knife on
the f1or in highly dramatic manner
he means war.
Five thousand dollars reward is of
cred for the invention If stock car
capable of carrying live animals long
distance without needless suffering.
Miss Arua Walker. young girl
from Washington, Indiana, has disap-
peared quite mys'eriously. She had
been on a visit TO some friends In VIM
cennes, aud started on her return home
on Wednesday. Her non-arIival
caused inquiries, which was the hrst
Intimaiion tha, she was missing. She
is reported TO be well of.
Another one Of the Los Angeles Call
gang Of couDferfeiters has been captur-
ed, On his person was found shipp-
ing receipt for package which was in
tercepted and found 10 contain COM
piete kit Of counterfeiters's tools, dies
and molds for making spurious hye-dol-
lar gold pieces.
There is a division Of counsels among
the colored people on the subject of the
exodus from the South. Fred. Doug lass
is out in letter against the movement
while hback, the leader II the col
ored people in Louisiana, is in favor OF
making 1t general.
James l.. Moody, once an eminent
lawyer of st. Louis and then Circuit
Judge, was taken to the hospital 10
that city, the other day, as a charity
patient. After the war, when Genera
Grant visited St. Louis, Moody vas hi;
host, and it was intima,ed that wher
Grant became President Moody would
become an Associate Justice OF the Su
preme Court. But he took to drinl
and lost everything, being driven frou
the bench By impeachment.
Englaud's yield Of wheat this year Il
5000 900 bushels, which the LondOI
Economist calls a miserable yield
1t is estimated that the English vii
have to spend GAG. .000.000-say $3.50,
000. .00Q-this year for foreign whea
and flour. This suo Is over $4,000,
0C0 in excess of the usual expenditure
for this purpose.
James Longacre was shot and killed
4, Plano. H., on Wednesday. BY c. NJ
Bennett. Longasre bad been engaged
to Benefits sister, but The engagement
had been broken. Yesterday he wen
To Bennett's house with the avowed pur
pose OF marrying The girl anyway, bu
he was ei,cted. He then threatened +,
kill Bennett, wheu The latter shot hin
through the head, and the Coroner''
;ary justified the act.
M.s. Deal, while proceeding along
Jarvis street, Toronto, on wednesday
night, Was accosted BY two men, who
threw a shawl over her head and forci
bly, lifted ber into buggy and drove Of
to the outskirts OF the city, where Mrs
Deal, after desperate struggle. man
aged to escape, aud at midnight reached
the house Of John Nc Donald. Mrs
Deal is the m ,ther of the two young
men who recently kidnapped Mr.. JEFF
fray.
= very severe wind storm passed ovel
the town Of Renitk, Randolph county
No, on Tuesday evening a week. Th'
residence of Byrd Pyte was torn t.
pieces, every member OF the fsmil,
being more or less injured, and MIR
Pyte fatally. The house of JOSEPH
Patrick Sss blown down, and Mrs
Wright, visitor. received injuries from
which she died that night. The dwell
ling house of Noah Burkherd was de
molished, and Mrs. Burkherd serlOusl,
wounded. Several other houses wer,
considerably dam- ged, and fences, tree
&c, blown down.
\ passenger HON a southern rail
road conductor found without a ticket
said, "iIere's 500 bill, you cal
give me the change" The conductor
as usual. took 1t, and said be woult
soon COME back Tne purpose of rhes
DELAYS Is to make a quiet study Of the
bill in the baggage Car, and see if it i
all right. When he reached the bag
gage ear, the conductor .ound that wha
/ he had taken 10 be 500 was
bill FOR /. $1,000. He went back to the
passenger car, but the passenger has
gone, but was found in another seat
aud denied that he was the man, o
that he knew anything about It. III
also insisted, and was supported by
/ friends testimony, that he had a ticke
and that it had been taken up. Fiuall,
the conductor went off with the bill
and reported the affair TO the compan'
who gave 1t to him. Ii is supposet
that some bank burglars were on the
train tina. QUE of them carelessly tool
out the wrong bill. and that it was de
cided safer to lose $1,000 than to risl
being arrested.
A Missouri lawyer had COW killeJ
by Pacific Railroad locomotive. Ill
asked the company to pay the price o
The COW, but they wouldn't. So b.
muttered "reveDge,' and searched hi
musty aud dusty old law books till b.
found an absolete statute requiring th,
engineer of every train on the Pacl6
to ring the bell while crossing coun
try road, under penalty of $50 fo
each offence, one half of which goe
to the intormer. Then he watched th
passing trains til! he had seen all thr
particulars of thirty seven violations o
this law, aud fled in the Circuit Cour
of 81. Louis thirty y-seven seperate IN
formations against the company. Th,
jury found against the company, assess
ing $40, one half of which the smar
lawyer expected to get; but the judg,
threw 4 wet blanket on his hopes, BY
deciding that the thirty seven suit.
could have been embraced 10 one, and
the informant WAS liable for the cost.