Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-03
GENERAL ITEMS.

| A Sacramento bride whipped hel
father because be induced her husband
to drink in bar room.
Some Of the aged fg-trees of Indis
are said to cover as much as two acre,
OF ground by the simple extension OF
their branches, and regiments of sol.
diers have taken refuge under the
shadow of . single tree.
The ePizootic disease has spread ali
over the country, and has proved fatal
in some instances. Wild onions are
being used with good effect as a cure.
1t is announced that Miss Parker,
the English female swimmer, who is
nineteen years old and weighs 210
pounds, will attempt sooa to swim the
English channel.
Kansas City has . Pirl dentist, and
she pulls ont tooth with such ravish-
ing sweetness that half the youths in
that place now live on Cruel.
Ob, what blessing is Sunday, in
terposed between the waves Of worldly
business, like the divine path of the
lsraelites through Jordan! There is
nothing in which I advise you to be
more strictly conscientious than In keep
ing the Sabbath day holy. / can truly
declare that to me the Sabbath has been
invaluable Wil6erforce.
Chief Brooks, of the Secret Service,
after an interview with the counterfeit
er Doyle. in Chicago states that be
thinks counterfeit United six per cent.
bonds Of the issue Of 1861, of the de-
nomination Of one thousand dollars,
I've been hypothecated by Doyle,
Brvckwsy ct al, and that some of them
are nov In the hau1ass of private lndi-
viduaIs or banking instituti62a in this
country, as collatera.s for loans; a.s".
that this class of bonds have been for
Warded to Europe, and have been or
will be hypothecated there.
William O'CoDnor, vlo arrived at
New York Oct. %, on the brig Richard |
Smith, was on Friday night sent to
Quarantine Hospital by order of the |
Health Officers. He was found sick at
lodging house, suffering apparently |
from yellew fever. 1t is stated that be |
had the disease in Savannah, but was
discharged from the hospital there sp-
parently cured.
There is woman in San Francisco
who makes money by pretence of cast.
ing oui devils with iBcantations. She
says that imps possess every body who is
insane. She says: 81 have expelled
and hundreds. One case /
bad last fall was gentleman living in
the country man of fine intellect
and cultivation, who was regarded by
his friends as on the road to the lunstic
asylum. He was impelled to 20 DAYS
and nights without any food /; to take
long tramps which his physical strength
would not have been sufficient for. He
would talk brilliantly, and IS If iuspir-
90, one moment, and the next use low
language. He came to see me six
times, and the last time sat with him
rom Eve O'Clock to eleven O'Clock, when
ny band of spirits effected his final
release. Another case is that Of .
Voung daughter Of one of the most
prominent and wealthy families of the
,ity. She is highly educated and re-
ined in her natural state, but under the
itrange control to which she is subjected
Will swear Or appear in the greatest
'gooy Of mind and body" Il
Altoona has been burglarised to such q
o such degree that citizens there declare
hat nc protection is found in the police
orce, and therefore they will fall back on
heir natural rights, and defend their prop
rty as best they can. The Altoona Tribune
ays that that means that some one will be
urt. J.,