Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-04-07
GENERAL ITEMS.

ihS PioSCho SOitiSS haT bSOh
pronounced as the worst Congress
the country has ever had
The New York Woridis happy now.
The Obelisk is on its way to America.
The peach crop of Delaware was
not seriously injured by the cold
weather.
During General Grants reception
at Houston, Texas, on Monday night
week, the gas was turned off from
the street, and lamps and candles had
to be used On Sunday night the
guns of the artillery company to be
used to fire a salute on Gen. Grants
arrival were spiked, but the spikes
were removed in time for use. $500
reward was offered for the miscreant
who spiked the guns.
News has been received at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, by stockmen from the
cattle districts of Utah, Idaho and
Oregon, that the cattle have suffered
from the weather and for want of
food, and that the loss by disease has
been large beyond precedent. A let
ter received by stock trader of Coun
Gil Bluffs from Wasco county, Ore
gon, says the cattle have suffered the
past winter for the want of grass.
Fifty per cent. of some herds have
died, and the death rate is increasing.
Stock growers are discouraged, and
want to sell and get out Of the bust
ness.
During the procession in General
Grants honor in Houston, brat Of
youngster who had not smelled gun
powder on either side during the war
approached close te the Generals
carriage, and shouted at the top of
his lungs, " Hurrah fer jeff Davis =
A highly respectable Brooklyn lady
had an attack of nervous hysteria on
the street few days ago, and during
the continuance of the attack a po-
liceman pounced upon the suffer and
locked her up for drunkenness. Upon
her true condition becoming known,
she was promptly released.
One of the champion villains of
the period is, or rather was, church
organis.. who died the other day in
Russia. He confessed to having muir
dered farmer twenty years ago with
pistol stolen from his priest. When
he had finished the deed, he put the
pistol in the sacristy, to throw suspi-
cion on the priest, and then went and
confessed to the same priest, who
consequently couldn't testify against
him, according to church rules. Then
the murderer went out and denounc-
ed the priest as having committed
the murder. The priest protested
his innocence, but was convicted and
sentenced to hard labor in prison for
life On investigating the story of
the murderer on his deathbed, they
found that his last confession was
true, but too late to save the priest,
WHO had already died in prison.
Andrew Brown, farmer, living
near Comstock, Michigan, on We'd
nesday ordered his daughter-in-la law,
who had been deserted By her hus-
band, to leave his house, when her
father and some neighbors came and
asked that she be allowed to remove
some furniture with her. whereupon
fight ensued, in which Brown shot
John Dunbar twice, killing him. 4
mob then gathered and threatened to
lynch Brown, who, fearing them, bar
ricaded himself in the house. A
Deputy Sheriff finally effected an en-
trance and found Brown on bed
suffering from dose of nitrate of
silver which he had swallowed He
was removed to Jail and at latest ac-
counts physicians We're trying to save
his life in order that he may be tried
for murder.
On Friday evening about ] o'clock,
a storm struck Ottawa, Kansas, com
pletely deinolishing seven residences
on Elm Street and badly damaging FIVE
others in the same vicinity. The cy-
clone then passed over five or six blocks
and again struck the ground near the
river, where it destroyed several resi-
dences and barns, tore the roof off the
Kansa. City, Lawrence and Southern
Railroad freight houses and overturned
several freight cars. In North Ottawa
twelve or fifteen residences were total
ly destroyed or greatly damaged. The
evening train from Lawrence was caught
at the junction q mile north Of the
town, one passenger car and two freight
cars upset and one passenger seriously
injured The storm proceeded to the
northeast, destroying the Spencer and
Wilkinson houses and two farm houses
on its way. Among the persons seri-
ously injured are s. Benier and family,
j. Marshal, A. II. Baldwin, Mrs. Black,
Mrs. Harting and Mrs. Jones. A child
of Mrs. Black was killed and some
twenty others slightly wounded. Lum-
ber and furniture was scattered for
blocks around, and in some cases horses,
cattle, wagons, aud even persons were
hurled through the air.
A dispatch from Farmer City, ILL.,,
under date of April 2, says: This town
has been for day past in state Of
excitement over the arrest and mobbing
of man of so years, named Levi Cole
man, charged with committing a crimi-
nal assault on his sister-in-!aw, Mrs.
Olesan, the wife of German. Both
families lived in one house. When
Olesan came home from Clinton bis
wife complained af his brothcr-in-law,
and he had Coleman arrested and bound
over TO court. While Coleman was
lodged in ;he calaboose awaiting re-
moval to Jail, some men took him ou,
and gave him Goa, of tar and feathers,
and put him back into his cell. During
tie hight be dug his way out through
the prick wall and escaped, and has not
been heard from.