Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-05
GENERAL ITEMS.

The berry pickers through New Jer-
sey have been rendered destitute BY the
forest fires.
The gold fever is spreading ID Georgia
A gale passed over Macon, Miss. =,
destroying 100000 worth of property
and killing II persons.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has been invit-
ed to give 4 memorial address on the
Confederate Decoration pay at Macon
Miss,
The gift presented to Mrs. Heister
Clymer on her marriage, BY the House
Committee on Appropriations. was a
silver ice cream set lined with gold.
Mr.. Cough says ths: when he told
5000 people in Exeter Hall of Mrs.
Hayes great moral courage in refusing
to offer wine to her guests at the
White House, they instantly gave
three cheers.
A boy was bitten or the wrist by a
black spider in Columbus county, s.
c., the other day and died in few
minutes from the effects OF the poison.
A negro has been arrested at Mill
ersburg, Ky. for playing on French
harp in church during service. His
defence is that king David played the
harp.
A Yale College man who used to
lead in affairs of hazlng. and who was
considered "immense," is now selling
pork and PAPER muslin IN a country
store, and gets angry when a washer
woman tries to beat him down on the
price Of bar Of soap.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature making the
teaching of sewing compulsory in the
public schools Of that State.
A Western minister put to flight a
crowd of curbstone loafers on a recent
Sunday by sending the deacons ou'
with the contribution box.
Farmers in Delaware contemplate
making au attempt to cultivate sugar
beets Hundreds of,thousands of ton.
of beet sugar are manufactured every
year in France, aud there is no reason
why that country should enjoy mon
opoly of this saccharine industry.
Did you ever see bird with a wood
en- leg. One has been caught in En-
gland-a pheasant. They have just
heard how it got the aforesaid wooden
leg. 1t was put on By London sur.
geon, who while out hunting during BIZ
vacation. found the pheasant caught BY
one leg in trap. The bones were
completely smashed, and the leg bleed
ing. Taking out his case of pocke in.
struments, the surgeon carefully ampu
1 tated the leg, and then made a nea
little artificial leg, fastened it to th,
stump and released the bird.
One of the latest contrivances is /,
self leveling berth, for use on ship.
board 10 prevent seasickness. These
bertbs are of the ordinary size
They are attached both above and be-
low to universal joints and are weight
ed underneath BY crescent shaped cyl
inders of iron. This arrangement is de-
| signed to keep the berths perpetually
Level, DO matter what angle the vesse
herself may take, and consequently tc
do away with sea-sickness entirely
To further maintain the berths Ia theiI
orbit and prevent sudden changes oi
position they are provided with spiraI
springs.
1t is estimated that the great lliff
estate now owns $4,000 head of cattle.
1t includes 8 ranches, the principal one
being a hundred aud sixty miles in
length by sixty miles in width. They
are situated between the Union Pacific
Railroad and the South Platte river,
and reach westward to the foot hills, in
Guiding portions OF Colorado, Wyoming,
and Nebraska. Within the past two
years there have been added to the herd
By purchases IL, 900 cattle from Texas,
while the calves branded within that
time number about 5000 head. With
IN the same period 25,02l have been
marketed for beef aud 1900 will be
marketed this year. The value of the
estate is estimated at 81 100000.
The following dreadful crime is re-
ported from Waterbury VT, under date
of April 9th. At Duxbury, VT, yes
terday, Almun Meeker, about twenty
years of age. was arrested on suspicion
of being connected with the disappear
ance of his cousin, young girl whom
his parents had charge of. He made =
confession duplicating bis mother, who
be said had administered strychnine,
after getting the girl out walking iu the
Waterbury River Valley He admitted
being with his mother, and helped bury
the body in swamp. He afterward
went with an officer to the spot, and the
body was recovered. There we're ne
marks of violence, so the contents of
the stomach will be analyzed. The
girl and a seven year old brother were
left paupers on the town of Charlo lotte,
which gave their uncle S400 to assume
charge of them. 1t is not supposed
that the uncle, Samuel Meeker, knew
anything of the crime. Mrs. Meeker
and her son were locked up, although
the young man now says his mother
was not with him. His first statement
was that the girl vas cross, and they
wanted to get rid of her.
THE JUNIATA FARMFRS'