Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

Oaanoiu uoJ"Aity ~ 'No'uS 10 4, AVs' :
A Greek soldier gets three cents q
day.
Switzerland gave IS per cent, Of its
total emigration to this country last
yeaI.
Wyoming has 467.sS4 cattle and
632, ,56S sheep on her PLAINS. while the
human population is 2O,S04.
1t is said warts will soon disappear
if touched daily with nitric acid.
The rice crop of Louisiana this year
is estimated at 250, 900 barrels. Last
years crop amounted to 100000 bar
rels-
Sheep manure is much richer than
that of cows. Practically it is estima-
ted at nearly double the value of that
of cattle.
A farmer in Hill county, Texas, har-
vested 600 acres of broom corn, the
past season, which netted $4,000.
A young Micbigander recently COM
mit,ed suicide to be rid of toothacbe.
He was q good bit ofa goose.
A band of cattle thieves in Grant
county, Arizona, were pursued by cit
izeus and overtaken. A fight ensued
and the ringleader Of the robbers nam
ed King, and one of the band, William
Smith, we're seriously wounded. Most
of the stock was recaptured.
News has reached Dallas Texas from
the Indian Territory of an encounter
between ten cowboys and fifteen IT,
dams on the Comanche reservation.
Seven persous were killed and wound
ed. The cowboys abandoned the
wounded, and escaped into the Pan
Handle.
The Bridgeport (Conn Standard,
published where Barnum lives, says
that the forged Morey letter was known
and boasted of in bridgeport fully five
days before its publication, and that
the great revolution which il was ex-
pec.ed to create in the aspect of polit-
ical affairs was fully commented on and
discussed.
Auna Swanger, belonging to the
wealthiest family in Butlerville, Ind,
was known to have rejected three white
suitors, yet she eloped with middle
aged negro widower, and refuses to par,
from him.
A ten year old boy was overtaken By
q train on q railroad bridge at Port
land, Ore. There was no room to
stand aside, and the gorge below was
very deep. Seeing crossbeam fifteen
feet underneath, be leaped for it, grasp
ed it with his arms, and hung there
until rescued with . noosed rope.
At reception rendered Joel Hem
bree aud wife at the residence Of the
BRIDES father, Colonel Dali, near King
ston, Roane county, Tenn, arsenic was
used in mistake. The arsenic was in
tended for crows, but was put in the
edibles as seasoning instead Of salt.
Twenty seven of the guests were poi
soned, aud six are now dead. Three
more will probably die.
Ellen Powell publicly taxed Albert
Green, her lover, with his per6dy as be
was going to church with his new sweet
heart, III Cleburne county Texas Thai
night Green and companion disguised
themselves and dragged Ellen out of heI
bed, intending TO whip her for what she
had done. She vas armed with pistol,
having anticipated some such outrage
AMI with it ste shot Green dead.
Nicholas B9pitas' wife deserted bin
and vent to San Francisco, where she
married again. He followed and beg
ged her to return to him aud their Chi
dren. She refused. He shot her four
times. Neighbors ran IN and asked
who had shot her. 81 don't know"
she replied she was a stranger
never saw him before" But her effOrI
10 shield the murderer was useless, fol
his body was soon found in the back
yard, where be had killed himself.
Samuel Eagle harness maker, while
entering the house of his divorced wife
at Union City, Ind, on wednesday
night to visit bis children, was shot
aud fell On the doorstep. His wife re-
fused to let his body be brought in.
He did not die immediately, but began
to sink rapidly in few hours. The
shot was fred by Henry Pierce, who
fed. Pierce has been iu the habit Of
visiting Mrs. Eagle.
George Bates, a St. Louis negro
gave his bride a gold watch as q we'd
ding present. He had stolen it and
when it was found on her, she was ar
rested. She would not betray her hus
band, and consequently went to prison
for two years as the thief. Bates did
nothing to help her, and his neglect
turned her love to hatred. She spent
her odd moments in sharpening q file
and when she was discharged it was q:
keen as razor She returned to hel
old baunts, waited until her husband
presented himself, and stabbed him to
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