Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-19
GENERAL ITEMS.

| lneIe Is III hlnneSOta man VINO
can jump up from the ground and hit
his heels together three times before he
comes down. He is only ninety y-eight
years old.
Mr.. Woodward, of Indiana, a news
paper correspondent, has been sum-
moned to appear before the Potter COM
mittee. 1t is claimed be was offered a
batch of cipher dispatches for $500.
The average salary of clergymen in
the United States is five hundred dol
lars year This is small sum for a
clergymen to get through on and make
both ends meet. but in England the
average salary is smaller still.
Martha Mccartney, wife of a noto-
rioDs counterfeiter, now in the Michi-
gan penitentiary, has been arrested at
Neoga, ILL.,, and taken to Springfield
for trial. She had 10 her possession
plates for the manufacture of counter
felt money and $4,000 in counterfeit
legal tender notes
!; The village of Silver Creek, Chau-
tauqua county, n. Y, is greatly ex-
cited over the arrest of one Gideon
iIsines, a stage driver, charged with
elc ping with Mrs. Nagle, the wife of
a ruminent citizen of that place. Mr..
Nagle has brought suit for $4,000
damages. Threats of lynching Haines
have been freely INDUCED.
Two little children went to church
alone IN West.ield, Mass. They be-
coming tired during the long sermon,
and the elder one. supposing the school
rules held good in churches, led his
sister up in front of the preacher and
said; "Please sir, may We 60 bonnet"
He said YES" and they soberly
walked out.
An iucendiary who attempted to
burn down a tenement house IN New
York was sentenced. the other day at
ter conviction, to imprisonment for life.
Three hundred and fifty tons of coal
per day are mined at Stoneboro, Pa,
mines.
An alarming disease is prevalent
among the cattle Of Long Island, and
reports from different quarters show
that hundred milch cows have died
within ten days. 1t is believed to be
pneumonia. Swine are reported dying
in many parts Of Jamaica and Hemp
stead. One farmer at Fosters Meadow
has lost ten pigs in three days. Scarce
ly farmer has escaped the loss of one
or more. The first symptom of dis
ease is the refusal of food, then the
flesh turns black, a seeming paralysis
follows, and death occurs almost in
staDtly.
There are twenty-five Mennonite vii
lagos in Manitoba, with 4S0 dwellings
and 2,SiI residents. The immigrants
from Russia have lU,470 acres under
cultivation, 362 horses and some $500
COWS and oxen, aud have already large
stores of grain and other produce. They
are growing rich rapidly, and prove the
very best of citizens, settling all their
disputes among themselves and having
in their colony neither constable nor
lock up.
From the Bryn Mawr Hons News, 18th.
On the death CT the late Joseph |
Strauer, of DoylestowD, about eighteen
months ago. his son Clayton who had
been for many years among the islands
of the Pacific Coast, came home to re
ceive his patrimOpy out Of his fathers
estate. Then he returned to his old |
haunts in The Sandwich Islands. Soon
after his arrival there it was discovered |
that he was afflicted with that loath-
some malady, leprosy, and had been
put away for life IN one of the hospitals
on the island where .he disease is treat
ed. In letter to Mr. Albert Slower,
at KitnerviIle, the unfortunate man
writes that be is we'll and kindly cared
for, has buggy to ride out in but Is
confined to certain limits and will have
to remain there as long as he lives.