Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

The aruIy worm Infests the finest
farming districts Of Delaware.
The courts Of Europe will go into
mourning because of the death of the
Empress of Russia.
New York has bad an average of
three suicides day for a month past.
London beats this badly. ln that city,
recently, nine suicides were reported in
one day.
Mrs. Be!va Lockwood thinks that
:. before another decade women will be
voters all over the country" Look
out for bot campaigns when the dear
creatures get into politics.
The tipula grub ultimately develop
ing into the daddy long legs) is causing
great damage TO English crops. These
grubs consume the roots of every green
thing.
An enterprising member of the St
Louis dental association has discovered
that George Washington wore a set of
false teeth that cost him $500, though
a much better set can now be had tor
SIS. The teeth we're made Of ivory
blocks, set on a gold plate.
The dead body Of Miss Jennie Rey-
nolds, aged % years, sister of Council
man Reynolds of Columbus, Ohio, was
found in board yard in a prominent
part Of the city the other morning. The
supposition is that the young woman
was decoyed into the plsce and ehoked
to death, but that her murderer left
before outrsging the body.
Albert Victor, the eldest son of the
Prince of Wales, IS tall, slender, del
icate looking boy. slightly resembling
bis grandfather. His brother George
is short, stout and round beaded. The
Princes eldest daughter is rather plain,
but the other little girls are exceeding
ly pretty, especially the blooming and
spirited little Princess Maud.
The steamer American from the Cape
of Good Hope for Southampton, found
cred close to the equator, on the 9th of
April, after breaking ber main shaft.
The passengers and crew escaped in
eight boats. Three Of the boats, cen
tanning "a persons have been picked up
and their passengers landed at MADEIRA.
The five other boats, when last seen,
were making for Cape Palmas, Liberia.
The weather was 6ne. There was no
loss Of life.
A dispatch from Santa Cruz, Cal
under date of May oath, says: A train
on the South Pacific Coast railroad ran
of the track between here and Big Tree.
The people in the forward open cars
we're threwn out IN heap aud the cars
following ran over each as they lay
struggling on the track. Thirteen were
Killed and forty wounded. of whom
some will die. Every hotel has been
turLed into hospital to receive the
wounded, and everything is being done
To alleviate their sufferings. No ser
vices were held at The churches yes
terday.
A dispatch from Galveston, Texas,
under date Of June ID, says: A des-
perate attempt at robbery occurred
near Clear Lake, Collins county. A
farmer named Bradley left two hun
dred dollars, received for cattle, with
his wife for safe keeping. A stranger
asked to stay all night, and Was given
pallet on the gallery. At midnight
he was surprised to see two men, whom
supposed belonged to the family, enter,
and bearing cries of murder he peered
through the blinds and saw a woman Oh
the bed with her throat cut. Snatch
ing six shooter, the stranger spraag
toward the door and fired, killing both
parties. Mounting a horse, be rode to
the nearest neighborbood, and accom-
panied by . party of four returned.
Mrs. Bradley and both robbers we're
dead, one of whom was shot through
the beart,- and the other through the
head. The robbers proved to be Mrs.
Pruett and her daughter, the former
sixty years old and the owner of con-
siderable property and having an inde-
pendent inheritance Of $4,000.