Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

On Monday night week at South
Byfeld, Mass, John II. Caldwell, !
respectable farmer, while kneeling Al
family prayer, was instantly killed by
mis- insane wife, who struck him on the
head with an axe.
DR.. Luke X. Blair was las, Wednes-
day sentenced to ten years in the Mas
sachusetts State prison for procuring
an abortion upon Mrs Wilson of Peck
ham, Mass, two years ago.
Robert Downing, a wood chopper,
living near Dallas, Texas, got Christ
mas present OF Sll, ,430. HIS grand
father, New York merchant, had will
ed that sum to Downing and the at;orn-
ey happened to forward the money SO
that it reached Dallas on Christmas
Day.
Ten couvicts who wers at work on
the James river and Canal, near Lex
ington, Va, made their escape op the
lst of January.
A young lady of Richland, S. c.,
exhibited at the fair few days ago
a suit of clothes of her own make.
She sheared the wool, spun the yearn
wove and dyed the cloth, cut and Gted
clothes to her brother and sewed them,
making as handsome an outfit as the
back of man could desire.
At Somerset (Ohio), on Sunday a
week a disturbance took place between
two sections of the members of Luth-
eran congregation, one party attempt
ing to lake the party by storm and drive
out the insiders. The riot was quelIed
by the civil authorities.
An Euglish duchess has not changed
the shape of her bonnet for eight years.
A Glen Sutton (Vt.) correspondent
relates that while a young man named
Pelkle was out hunting few days ago
he chaDced to espy fox industriously
digging for mice about decayed
stump. Between himself and the mice
hunter, reclining upon the ground quiet
ly chewing his cud, was u. d. Wilson's
bull. Cautiously advancing, our hero
reached the unsuspecting bovine; drop
ping upon his knees and carefully rest
ing his gun upon the animals back be
pulled the trigger. The aim was true,
and sly Reynard fell dead; but wasn't
the bull as,onished thought Springiug
to his feet with roar, he ran over Pei
kie about forty times and rushed away
snorting with terror. The first thing
our friend saw opening his eyes was the
bull tail, clcaving the air like a meteor,
about a mile away, aud the dead fox
lying upon the ground hard by. The
sight of the latter reasured him, and,
securing it, he limped homeward, re-
solved that, though great the tribuls-
ton, he would never again use a live
bull for breastw0rk.
Charles K. Callahan, in a match a.
Newburg, N. Y, yesterday walked 65
miles in 81 hours. His competitor,
George l.. Wilson, in the same time,
covered few feet more than So miles,
and fell exhausted.
Lieutenant Flipper, the colored
youth who attracted some attention a
year or two ago, is about to write a
book detailing his sufferings on account
of bis color at the West Point military
academy. This is really too bad. The
young man undoubtedly underwent
many diguities, and the pigment of his
skin was very likely the groundwork of
all his troubles: but why should he
write book Has he graduated from
a school where the art Of war is taught
only to give fresh illustration of the
old adags about the pen being more po-
tent than the sword