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

! Wendell Phillips never goes to church
and take. no part in religious worship
anywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson keeps COWS
and sells milk to Concord bousekeep-
ers.
White stock thieves, disguised as
Indians on the Doth instant killed
John Deffenback and drove of $50
head oil horses from the lnyan Kara
mountain, fifty miles west of DeadwoOd
d. T. Deffenbech was one of the heav
lest stock men in the West. He leaves
a wife and FIVE eeildren.
A farmer at Rochester, Mo, told
his wife that $500, which they had
saved by many years of industry and
economy, had been stolen. He was
mistaken, for within an hour be found
the treasure where he had mislaij it;
but the wife had already died of heart
disease, in consequence Of the shock.
Work on the tunnel under the Hud-
son river, between New York aud New
Jersey, is progressing satisfactorily.
the tunnel has been excavated twenty
feet under the river, aud progresses at
the rate of Eve feet per day. No be
ginning has yet been made on the New
York side of the river.
Whenever tax collector visits the
house of Julia Still, who lives alone in
Orange county, New York, she bolts
the doors and refuses to respond to the
calls. She has had no 6rc in her house
for the last eight years, buying food al
ready cooked. She is a woman of ed
ucation and likes to read
A Montreal butcher pleaded guilty
to having sold woman food that was
unfit for human food, but the court dis
charged him upon the plea of his coun-
sci that according to the existing law
the court has not the power to punish
man for selling bad meat, but only
for 'exposing for sale" such meat.
A .News' special from Austin, Tex.
as, says Mrs. Houston, living in the
country, yesterday, in fit of insanity,
attempted to murder her five children
by driving knitting needles into their
brain through through their cars.
One was killed, and two others are
seriously injured.
A fisherman at Dover bridge, on the
Choptank river, down the Peninsula,
brought up in his seine the other day
cannon ball weighing eight and half
pounds, and stamped with the date I6-
OF. Near the spot was found an old
cannon lying in shallow, and q few
hundred yards from there another can
non, which has for many years served
as landmark The ball fitted both
of these cannons. The Norfolk times
thinks it is a relic of Captain John
Smith, who explored the Cbesapeak in
1893.
As a Missoula, Montana, stage was
passing the Marshall Grade at midnight
two weeks ago the leader missed his
footing and fell into the abyss. The
borse's weight threw the others of the
team sideways, and in turn the coach
followed. Horses and vehicle made
three complete revolutions in the sheer
down fall, but neither of the two pas
sengers we're killed. The driver essap-
cd by leaping from his seat to the road.
bed while the coach yet hung on the
verge of the precipice. The horses were
all killed and the wounds of the pas
seDgers we're severe.
Henry Long vas on Mondays week
undergoing an examination before a
Magistrate IN Blue Rock township,
Harrison county, Iud., on the charge
of having murdered John c. Drinke-
laker, who had mysteriously disappear
ed after some trouble with Long
During the the examination a mob of
100 masked men made their appear
ance On horseback and attempted to
secure Long, whereupon he shot and
killed the leader Of the gang, Henry
l.. Otte. The mob fred on Long, but
the latter escaped to the woods, and
the only.trace of him since discovered
are drops of blood: bat it is believed
that.the mob overlook and murdered
him and threw his body into the river.
His wife and a number of neighbors
have been notified TO leave.