Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-09-22
GENERAL ITEMS.

II - II 1IIlSs
Iowa dairies torn out 50,OOO,000
pounds Of butter per annum.
Texas cowboys perfume their hand
kerchiefs with mustang liniment.
A Chicago girl tried to run away with
a base ball catcher. Her father became
short stop.
General Bushrod johnson, a we'll
known Confederate Brigadier, died at
his farm at Brighton, Macoupin county,
illinois, last Saturday.
Mr.. Moody told the ministers at
Mortified that one of the prime evils
of Christian life in this day is telling
stories to raise laugh.
10 a few months Illinois bonded
debt will be wiped out completely. In
1868 this debt amounted to Sl2, $780,
900, and was much larger subsequently
in consequence Of war expenditures.
1t is needless to add, that Illinois is
Republican State
Livingston, the Brooklyn faster, has
stopped his attempt to refrain. from
food for forty two days. HIS wife
forced him to take to food again, by
making him believe she had taken poi
son because be refused to eat.
For year, Tom Mcdonald has been
the terror Of Pickaway county, Ohio
FROM his propensity to shoot and carve
his fellow men on slight provocation.
The other night q vigilance committee
took him out and hung him.
An elephant travelling through 1ndi-
ana in car next to the engine got his
trunk out of window opened the ten
der tank, drank all the water and COM
pelled the stoppage of the train.
Ii the South Carolina census returns
are correct, between 800, 900 and 400,-
900 are living out of doors, for the
number OF dwelling houses is much less
than it was ten years ago, and real es-
tate has decreased $4,000, 900 in
value.
Robert f. Culbrish, editor Of the
Weekly Argus, of San Francisco, was
pummelled on the street oyJ c. Flood
Jr., on Tuesday, for publishing au ar
ticle in his paper relative to the alleged
rupture of the engagement between
Miss Jessie Flood ard U. s. Grant Jr.
One of the larges, apple orchards in
the world-perhaps the largest-is sit
uated upon the Hudson River near the
city of Hudson. and is owned and oper-
ated by Mr. Robert McKinstry, and
contains 800 acres In this orchard
there are about $4,000 bearing apple
trees in good, thrifty condition. The
crop this year cannot well be estimated
yet but will be immense. Some OF the
oldest trees are twenty yea.s of age;
:he most are much younger. In 1873,
the total apple product was 10000
barrels large share of which was ex-
ported to Liverpool and Glasgow.
The yield will be much greater this
season. This is enough to tempt Pom
ona to return to earth again.
1t sometimes looks as if some people
have an epidemic of bad luck. A sea
captain from Gloucester, Mass, thinks
be is such q victim, aud we don't blame
him. Last spring be concluded TO give
up his life on the ocean wave sell his
little home i'll Gloucester, with the pro-
ceeds go to Booth Bay, Maine, and live
quietly. He got as far as Portland,
and had new dory stolen from his yes
sci. Arrived at Gloucester, he acci-
den.ally lost his right index fuger
He lifted the mortgage by selling hi:
house and S233 so left. This money
he put in an envelope, and the enve-
lope in an inside breast pocket He
set sail for Booth Bay, Name with his
family in his vessel, and leaned over
the side Of the vessel to pull IN rope
As he leaned over the envelope fell
from his pocket INTO the water. and a:
81 % of the money was In silver, il
sank in deep water and was lost
Dispatches from Springfield, Ky
state that at three o'clock A. VI. on tht
18th inst, masked party of fifty men
, broke into the jail there, shot Joe Ram
sey, a negro, who murdered Miss Holt
and took away, securely tied, Arct
Jamison and Jack Bell, two negroes
, imprisoned on suspicion of being con
cerned in the murder Of an old man
named Lee La Prade. They went west
on the Clarksville road, and they were
hanged seven miles from Springfield
Their bodies were found and cut dowE
yesterday morning. The five Others
accused of completely in the Laprade
murder are under guard at Sadlersville
One Of them, named Higgens, made q
confession duplicating the others, and
giving sickening details of the torture
of Laprade to make him reveal where
his money was kept. The excitement
at Sadlerville is very great, and lynch
ing of the remaining prisoners is appre
hendado