Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERA ITEMS.
An injured woman in st. Louis has
sued her husband for divorce on the
ground that he has called her ian old
cow"
A wealthy citizen of Rockford, Hi
nois, has married his mother in-law,
and thus become the grandfather of his
own children.
The average cost of mile of rail
road In the United States is S52,774.
In England it is $l97,077.
At Yanceyville, Caswell County N.
c., Mrs. Gertrude New, wife of Mr..
Lewis New, prominent merchant of
that village, has been burned to death,
her clothing having ignited from fire
on the hearth o: her room where she
was kneeling beside her infant in pray
er preparatory to attending Church.
The lady had been married only year
and was not twenty.
w. NJ. Jenson, a resident of Wash.
ington, d. e., has been arrested and
taken to Baltimore under indictment
for having been concerned in stealing
the bodies of Mrs. Carter and Miss
Smith from the Baltimore Cemetery,
early in November, and disposing of
them to a medical college. Several
subordinates of the college have also
been indicted.
A lot Of tramps, who attempted to
enjoy the hospitalities Of the Mount
Holly New Jersey Jail, we're marched
off to the WorkhOuse, much to their
disgust. During the night eight effect
ed their escape BY pryiug off staple,
and will probably give Mount Holly q
wide berth hereafter.
One of party of hunters and camp
ers out, in Mich, who passed the sea-
son near Sbeboygap last year, was a
Mrs. Edwin May of Indianapolis, who
is an expert fish taker and good shot.
One Of her exploits was killing big
black bear. She lay in waite for him
thee hours one night and finally sent
a bail into his gizzard from her Win
chester rife, at about thirty yards
range. Next year she goes deer shoot
ing on the Au Sable.
John Callahan, aged %, was hanged
at Wooster, o., yesterday, for the mur-
der of Benjamin Tormie, October 2. IS
70. Callahan was one Of gang o:
roughs at an agricultural fair who Sc,
upon Frank Martin. Tormie went to
Martins rescue, when Callahan turned
on him and stabbed him in the back,
inficting mortal wounds. OF the
gang, James Ssddler mas been senten-
sed to the penitentiary for nineteen
years: Alexandra McGswn, senior and
junior, twelve years each and Michael
Burke and Michael Mulready were
never arrested, having fed
The first x-Presidential pension
fund founded by the New York Times
Is not so dead as it was several days
ago, if the Washington Stars ''au;hor-
itative source" of information is to be
trusted. According to it, the fund
promises to be success Over two
hundred thousand dollars has already
been raised. Jay Gould has subscrib-
ed S25,000; w. II. Vanderbilt, S25,
600; John NJ For bes and others in
Boston. $4,000. Mackey the Nevada
bonaza king. S25,000 ten contributors
give 5000 each, making $4,000 1t
is expected that within = few days the
announcement will be made that the
entire sum of 80, 900 has been raised
Ii is SAID, too, that the fund is to be
always subject to the management OF
those who make the contributions.
A half-dozen prospectors csmped one
night recently in the Sierra Nevada,
FL Dorado county, California. The
ground was covered with snow, and
when about midnight a grizzly bear ap-
preached the cruncbing Of his feet
aroused the whole camp. The bear
trotted boldly up to within few feet
OF the FIRE and sliced the nearest thing
tbdt bC Dok
ing a few such articles as bread and
sugar and demijohn of the hottest
whisky manufactured on the Pacific
coast. The prospectors fired a few
shots at the grizzly, which caused him
to sieze the bag in his teeth and scam
per off Relieved of the unwelcome
visitors's presence the party dropped
off to sleep again, to be aroused about
dawn by loud and long roars in neigh
boring ravine. The men approached
the Ta7iBe cautiously were delighted to
see the grizzly uproariously drunk and
rolling in the snow. The bear had bro
ken tie demijohn and Tapped up the
whisky witt: an appreciative tongue.
His antics were very funny-"as good
as a circus" one OF the prospeetors
says-and they we're kept uF till long
after sunrise. lie tried hard to climb
up the side of the ravine and made fe-
rocious dashes at the men. but every
time be rolled down. At last the
.nactafors shot him and moved on