Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-09-29
GENERAL ITEMS,

Robert Bonper's horses are treated
TO Turkish baths.
The late foods have considerably
damaged the wheat crop of England.
An Illinois woman gave birth to five
babies on Saturday, and they are all
alive.
At the School Commissioners cleo
ton last Thursday, at Binghampron,
n. Y, l46 women voted.
Jay Gould paid the travelling expen-
ses of sixteen young Indian girls from
the Indian Territory to Mr. Moody's
seminary at Mortified, Mass, where
they will be educated at Government
expense.
The vote on the amendment in Name
is thus stated To elect Governor by
plurality 5s,s72 for and 37,l53 against;
to extend the term of Senators and
Representatives to two years, 81, ,76l
for and is. lS4 against.
The Boston horses are suffering from
distemper, which resembles the epizoot-
ic which prevailed among our shcrses
some years ago.
"How under heavens am | to get
along now!" was the regretful remark
of Sbiftless Hank Munroe, of Lebanon,
Mo-, after he had in moment of an
ger, killed the wife who had long sup
ported him.
"Amateur."-"I have 500 i'll coun
terfeit money. What can | get for it,"
Answer-"Ten years" ."-.NeU York
Dispatch.
OF the 29S Congregational churches
in Connecticut, l52 are In debt, owing
amounts varying from ten dollars to
$25, 600
Ten thousand English miners are
annually injured by accidents and $50
of these die. In Prussia the mortality
is much higher, life being sacrificed
fo. every 70,45l tons OF coal raised,
while In England the proportion is only
one in every S9,4lO.
Strange as it may seem, barrels for
sugar, kerosene oil, lard, and even gun
powder, are now made out of paper
pulp.
Thomas Foote, the Mayor of Macon,
Miss, gives notice that be will strictly
enforce the law of the State against
profane swearing in public. The pen
atty is $40 for each offence.
MIR. and Mrs. Ames, of San Francis
CO, agreed that they were unsuited to
each other, and that a separation was
desirable, but how to obtain a divorce
was puzzling, because neither had =
grievance that would stand the test of
the law. Their conclusion was that the
husband should give the wife ground
for complaint by whipping her; so be
amiably knocked her down and she got
the divorce.
A bank burglar recently died in
Philadelphia, leaving S5, 900. He made
no will, and his natural heirs refused
to touch the money because it was the
proceeds of robberies The legal ques-
tion now arises whether, there being no
heirs, the State can take the money.
At the wedding reception of DR.. 81
neon Denton and bride, of Hancock
county, ILL.,, on the 24th, some of the
invited guests we're dangerously poi
soned The theory is that the drug
was introduced into water of which they
drank freely. Medical aid was sum
moned and antidotes we're administered.
Some were aiarmingly i'll and vomited
blood, but no deaths have as yet oc-
CURED.
DEs MONIES, Iowa, Sept. 24.-Levi
johnson, of Norton county, Kansas, is
here soliciting aid for the people in
Phillips, Sherman, Decatur, Sheridan,
Rawlins and other counties. In Nor
ton county 1880 people are in abso-
lutte want of food The wheat crop in
all the above named counties failed,
and in June was ploughed up and plant
ed in corn, which has been destroyed
by the web worm. johnson says one
family lived eleven weeks on wheat
bran, another three weeks on corn meal
He says that the local State papers
suppress these facts, as their publica-
tion would injure the State. A public
meeting was held here last evening to
procure supplies for these people.