Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-09-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
The Russian harvest is the worst since
1873.
A gentleman Just arrived from In
diana says the Republicans will carry
that State by 5000 majority.
The county jails and poor houses Of
the north are being emptied of their
vagabond inmates. The exodus of the
tramps now runs southwark.
Horace Jarvis was killed on farm
near Haysvllle, Ohio, en- Wednesday,
by falling upon threshing machine
while it was in operation.
There were but 4, $50 dogs drowned
BY the New York city authorities dur
ing the summer.
Two sisters, while waltzing on the
deck of a canal boat opposite Cornwall
n. Y, on Wednesday night, stumbled
on coil of rope, fell overheard and
were drowned
Three children of Antoine McCarty
we're thrown from a wagon at Memphis
Tenn, on Wednesday, by the horse be-
coming frightened and running away
while they we're playing in the vehicle.
One child was unhurt, another only
stunned and the third was killed.
Over three hundred houses wrecked,
with many vessels, and several lives
lost, we're the aggregate results of the
recent storm in Texas.
Charles Richmond, conductor on
the Northern Pacific Railroad, shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide at Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday
week. They had been separated for
eight years, and she had recently sued
for divorce.
On Saturday evening an engineer on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railway, named Emanuel Curran, died
on his engine between Peoria and Gales
burg, with his hand on the throttle and
the engine going at full speed. The
fireman noticed that, while he was sit
ting as usual with his head leaning out
of the cab, he passed station without
blowing a whistle. He called to him,
but received no awnswer. He then
went TO shaking him, thinking he had
gone to sleep, when to his horror he
found him dead.
Three lndiap runners from the South
ern Ute Agency report that Chief Ouray
is dangerously ill and not expected to
live. Ouray went to that point to as
sist the commissioner in prevailing up
on the Ute3 TO sign the treaty. If Ouray
dies the treaty will never be signed by
the Southern and White River Utes.
VIM. Neal, colored, who was to be
hanged in Wilmington, Del, last
Thursday, for an outrage on Mrs. Mar
garet Gosser, in April last, has been
granted respite BY Governor Hall uu-
til February %. Meals counsel claim
ed that the trial was unconstitutional,
owing to the fact that colored men were
not permitted to act as jurors, and the
respite is granted to allow the Supreme
Court to decide whether Neal is enti-
tied to a new trial by mixed jury or
not.
A young man from Texas married a
girl in North Carolina and then propos-
ed to leave her while he worked bis
way back to his Texas home, in the hope
of there earning money enough to send
for her. She said, however, that she
would rather accompany him afoot
They therefore made the journey Of
1000 miles as tramps; but their good
appearance gained for them consider
able help along the way, and for the
last fifty miles they rode triumphantly
in carriage, provided by an enthusias-
tic adinirer of their pluck.
The Union Democrat, of Sonora,
Tuolumne county, Cal, says; "a few
days since an Indian near Majors ranch
was suffering pain from rheumatism in
one Of his legs. Concluding he could
bear the loss of mis- leg better than suti
er any longer, he laid the leg across a
log, and with an axe chopped it entire
ly off little below the knee, bleeding
to death in Few minutes. Each time
he struck the leg be yelled, which at
tracted attention, or thu facts would
never have been known. And thus
went another aborigiue to the happy
bunting grounds"
The colored people of Halifax, Va,
recently held religious assembly, and
a large number of them gathered daily
IN close proximity to a fine watermelon
patch owned by a white man. 1t wa:
noticed By the owner that his melons
we're rapidly disappearing, and he con-
nected their absence with the presence
Of the negroes. ThereupOn he put NJ
a large placard with the warning
"Look out These watermelons are
poisoned ~ Naturally enough the col
ored people thought this sign was in
tended merely to frighten them, and .
number of them did not hesitate to at.
tack the melons The result was fata
to one negro, and left four or five other,
in critical condition. The melon:
contained strychnine, introduced into
them through punctures in the rind 81