Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-02
GENERAL ITEMS.

In Vermont stone quarry 325
pound crowbars are used.
\ number of people have been poi
soned in Brooklyn By eating lemon pie
none fatally, however.
American rifsmen have been invited
to participate in a shooting contest at
Vienna in July.
The famine now prevailing at Mos
soul, in Asiatie Turkey, is said to be
infinitely worse than anything of the
kind in Ireland.
A dispatch from Kokomo, Ind, IN
der d, tie of last Saturday, says: The
rain storm of Tuesday left on the farm
of S. Carpenter, near here, thousands
Of live fish of all sizes. Mr.. Carpen-
ter picked up several dozen and brought
them TO town. Among them we're
three or four pike, five inches long.
The remainder we're bass, minnows, not
over quarter of an inch in length.
They are in an aquarium.'
English lumber dealers are rapidly
clearing the United States of black
walnut, this country now being their
chief source OF supply.
A ferocious bulldog broke his chain
at Wheeling, West Va, and attacked
a very old woman. She made all the
defense she could, but he threw her
down, bit her with savage fury and
finally killed her. Her son, maddened
by the sight. chopped the brute to
pieces.
4 young pastor, who recently had a
sou born to him, notifies brother pas
tor as follows "Unto US child is born;
unto US son is given.-ls. TX. g." 1t
was written Oh postal card. The re-
ceiver showed the message to a sister
IN the church. "Ah, yes" said the
woman, after reading 1t, sit weighed
nine pounds six ounces"
On tombstones you may frequently
read: "Death only could separate u.s.
On q monument in Paris cemetery is
the following inscription "Here lie NJ.
Paul Lenoir and Nine. J. Leblanc, his
mother-in-law. Death only could unite
them"
John Conrad, the old German who
vas arrested on Saturday a week at
Buffalo, n. Y, charged with the mur-
der of his son, near Port Washington,
Wis, appears to have pGen guilty of
peculiarly brutal crime. He had
bed-ridden son, % years old, who had
been cripple and mute from birth,
and few days since, IN fit Of drunk
en- anger, he seized his son and threw
him down stairs, breaking his neck.
Giving out the information that the
young man had died of apoplexy, the
burial took place in due time, and the
old man left for the East. A daugh-
ter, however, disclosed the true state G.
affairs, which was confirmed upon the
authorities exhuming and examining
the body, and hence the telegram which
caused Conrad's arrest and return for
trial.
In East Greenwich, r. l., on the 25th
ult., a. tramp entered the farm house of
Charles T. Hopkins, and when Mrs.
Hopkins returned, after brief alb
sence, she found gathering up the spoons
and other silver He turned on her,
threw her down, pounded her shocking
ly and stripped off her clothing, when
she told him he could have the money
which was in the house if he would let
her get up. Eager for the money, be
relaxed his hold, when she seized a
loaded gun. The tramp tried to wrest
it from her, but, unable to de so, he
sprang from window, when Mrs. Hop
kins fred. He gave ascream and fed,
and search is beng made for him. A
doctor was summoned for the woman,
who is dangerously hurt.