Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

The New York Senate is considering
bill fixing six per cent. as the legal
rate of interest.
Colonel Thomas a. Scott has left
Paris and gone to the East, a trip up
the Nile being on the programme. His
physicians do not advise his return un-
til next spring or summer.
The Rev VIM. j Ross. Baptist
preacher, at Chelteham, Missouri, was
so carried away by anger on Saturday
a week that he seized knife and in-
stantly killed L. Montgomery, a parish
oner
The Senate of West Virginia has
passed joint resolution directing the
Attorney General to proceed against
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad COM
pany by quo warranto for alleged vio-
lation of its charter ia the matter Of
excursion charges.
At noon last Thursday, in Crawford
county, Ca, John Humber waylaid Z.
VI. Robertson while he was riding on
horseback and shot a load oil bucksho,
into his treast, killing him almost in
stantly. Humber fed. He claims that
Robertson called his wife liar.
TIE Springfield Republican prints the
following in its correspondence from
Holyck Mass. Z" In trying to save
Big Pete Aubrcy's leg, now in dan
gerous condition from a wound received
in the late war. the doctors have re-
course to this curious remedy: A cat is
securely muffied, as to its head and
claws, cut open, the viscera quickly re-
moved, and the warm. live body wrsp
ped around the wounded i.g; the life re-
manning abont ten minutes. This j.
rather rough on the cats, but it may
save Aubrey's leg"
Rev. Joshua V. Hines, of Nebraska,
formerly well-known Millerite preach
er and editor in Boston, has joined the
Episcopal Church, and is now a candi-
date for orders. He is 73 years old.
Mrs. Clara S. Fol,z, of San Fran
cisco, who was recently admitted to
practice as an attorney-at-law in the
District Court of that city, has applied
for a writ of mandamus against j. Z.
Hoge and the other trustees of the
Hastings Law College to compel them
to admit her as a student. Laura De
Force Gordon has applied to the Su-
preme Court for similar writ.
The communication for which the
Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, has
been exiled to Orenburg was a pamph-
let in favor of the speedy construction
of the Orenburg and Tasbkend railway
IN order to force England to abandon
her resistance to Russia's Eastern pol
icy.
A despatch from Ohio under date of
the 10Th says; Mrs. Marion West, of
indianapolis, was arrested at Washing
ton Court House, Ohio, yesterday for
forgery, having raised check of twen-
dollars to two thousand dollars. The
check was given by farmer whom she
had in her tolls.
a despatch from Elmira, N. Y, un-
der date of the Doth says; DR.. William
B. Pierce, we'll known physician, re-
siding uear Waverly, N. Y, ran away
about a week ago with the wife jour
neyman carpenter named Riggs, Of
Fsctoryville. Pierce was a married
man, deserting his lovely and accom-
plished wife, the daughter of Abram
Thomas, one of the wealthIest residents
of Sayre, Penn, Previous to his
fight Pierce induced his wife to sign a
check purporting to be for $50 it was
drawn, however, for 1880, which
money he procured FROM the bank and
fed, it Is believed, to California, with
Mrs. Riggs, who took with her a
young child. The elopement created
much excitement at the time, which
has now been intensified by the sudden
death of the wife whom Pierce had de-
serted. Mrs. Pierce died Unexpectedly
a day or two ago, under circumstances
which seem TO indicate that her death
was from poison administered TO her by
her husband before he fed. She was
the possessor Of considerable property,
ard the opinion is expressed that
Pierce thought to get control of it in |
the event Of her death and bis return
lfterward. There is strong public
feeling against him, the people Of the
town being exasperated to such a de-
gree that should be return, hs might |
'uffer summary punishment. |