Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-02-05
News MiSCellaney.

Danu ulaly Wclt lSdu -oiu MdlCil'
lS7S-Belle drunk had to 90 to Mrs.
G's to take care of the children. oath
Belle drunk. 26th-Bele dra9k and
asleep; had to get in through the viii
dow. 2Tth-Bele drunk and rowdv ;
no dinner, no supper; lay with her
clothes on upon the bed. 2Sth-Belle
drunk ut 1P. II. No dinner and more
drunk to that day. April Srd-Belle
drunk at Hoffman's grocery. 4th-
Belle out from . tot, and got home
drunk. 7th-Belle drunk No dinner
or suppeI," and 80 on up to May 22nd
when the entry occurs: "A man In the
house who left his satchel on the table I,
and ram out of the back door when he
saw me; found the whiskey bottle.
May 24th-Moved myself and chill
dren." 1t certainly seemed about
time.
SELLING Ills RUNAWAY WIFE FOR
Sl5O.-Franklin, Pa, Jan. 26. Louis
Violet. 4 Frenchman, lived with his
young wife at OSceola, Clearfield cnun-
ty. He had a friend named Enos
James. Last Monday both James and
Mrs. Violet were missing. The hus-
band ascertained that they had ran IL
way together. He traced them to
Philipsburg, where he found them ut
hotel. He had them arrested. Pend
] ing further proceedings, friends of the
parties advised a settlement, James Of
fered Violet $3.50 for his wife. After a
consultation with his friends he accep-
ted the offer. James paid him the
money. Violet went. home happy, aud
James and Mrs. Violet have been living
! together ever since.
THERE is famine in Russia, there is
famine in Turkey and there is famine
in Ireland. The distress in Turkey
seems to be absolutely appalling. At
Adriaporle tie other morning fifteen
people were found in the streets deal
! from hunger. In the mouths of many
were found pieces Of wood from which
III their extremity they had evidently
endeavored to obtain a little nourish-
ment. Americans read these tales of
woe in one column of a ne Sspaper and
in the next read how the immense grain
elevators of Chicago and New York are
filed to OVERT wing with millions upon
millions of bushels of the golden gIain
that makes bread, for the want Of
which so many Door creatures in Ire
land and Turkey AID Russia are star
wing Patriot.
A man of 20 married q woman of 60
at Birmingham, Mich, and finds him.
self sued for breach of promise by
woman of 65. The giddy young
things are all i'll a tangle," says the
Birmingham newspaper
TERRIBLE CONDITION OF THE
FRANKFORT. KY. PRISON. The re
port of the Kentucky prison sanitary
commissioner says TIE prison is in 4
deplorable condition from numerous
causes, principally bad drainage and
sewerage There are eight cOnvicts
confined who cannot live longer than
few months. There are a. least Fifty
others, some Of whom are confined to
their beds, who in all probability can
not live longer than the lGtter part Of
spri z. There are about two hundred
others who are in state Of debility aud
weakness practically uniting them for
duty or work. The balance the con-
victs do not PRESENT a healthy appear
ance and seem affected by the Injurious
influences which have prostrAted the
others.
FRIENDS, NOT FoEs.-A farmer in
Bangor, Me-, noticing that wheat was
| being picked from the heads of stand
ing grain, and flUcks of yellow birds
flying about, shot some of them. On
opening their crops, he found only
three grains OF wheat, and, by actual
count $50 weevilS. 1t is better to
know whether they kill friends OF
| foes.
FATAL ACCIDENTAL young man
at CASTLE, Wyoming county, Pa,
while working on Il hay-mOw, threw
the fork, which had broken handle,
to the floor beneath, the implement
falling in an upright position, with the
tines FIRMLY imbedded in the floor. He
then jumped from the NOW. striking
on the handle of the fork, which pene-
trated his body to depth of - inches,
and caused his almost instant death.
A 20 year old maid, who Vas quite i'll
in Johnstvwn, told the doctor she had
never been hugged by a man In her life
and asked for one kiss, The gallant
doctor complied with the request, of
course and she got well. When the
doctor got home and tOldhis story to his
wife, he got-well, he is balder than he
was. This is true tale.
FIGURES cannot tell us, says an ex-
change, how many scaldlng tears the
wives of drunkards have shed, or how
many prayers of bitter anguish and
cries of agony God has heard them ut
ter. They cannot tell US how many
! mnthp have WOrc nut hodv and SOM