Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-01-14
GENERAL HTEMs.


Wonder who this is? A common
vagrant and drunkard, now IN the
chain gang of Leadville, under the
assumed name of Stormont, is said
TO have been formerly United States
Senator from an eastern State.
At funeral in Scotland, recently,
the mourners got "high," and when
the coffin was being lowered into the
grave one of those assisting in that
last sad office fell into the tomb along
with the remains, becoming so firmly
trimmed between the coffin and the
side of the gave as to be extricated
with difficulty.
1t is fashionable in Massachusetts,,
this winter, to ride in the oldest
sleighs that can be obtained. A
wealthy Pittsfield man proudly uses
one that is over a hundred years old
as to body. while the leather wings
of the dash board are more ancient
by half century.
A man had tooth extracted by a
Chicago dentist, and expressed re-
gret at the loss. A girl. whose jaws
were overcrowded with teeth, enter
ed the office to have two of them
taken out The dentist suggest the
experiment of transferring one of
these sound teeth to the vacancy In
the mans mouth, and the operation
was performed with success, the
tooth growing fast and firm in ten
days.
4 Jersey negro was surprised the
other day. He was going along a
street Of Patterson by a photograph
gallery. An icicie from the roof
struck wooden frame standing in
the third-story window and contain
ing a negative, and knocked the frame
down 1t struck the negro's head,
and the frame fell around his neck.
He wasn't hurt, but thought some
body WAS trying to rob him from be
hind, and turned around and began
to fight the man walking nearest be
hind him. It was some time before
he could be made to understand the
situation.
A telegram from Brownsville. Ten
nesee, says that George Williams, a
negro, who WIS in Jail there for
stealing, Knocked down his keeper
on Sunday and escaped. He was re
captured, but while being handcuffed
he snatched the jaiior's pistol and
fired two shots at him, and reached
the head Of the stairs. where a negro
tripped him and he fell to the bot
tom, firing at his pursuers as he lay
there. Jumping up, he fired at Hen
~ Oppenheimer, who stood in his
way. Oppenheimer returned the
shot, the bail striking Williams near
the heart. He died shortly after.
Martin Bushner, saloon-keeper Of
Allegheny City, had reason to sus-
pect that certain customer was in
the habit of tapping his till. On
Sunday morning he bethought him
self to hop into his refrigerator and
watch the supposed thief. There was
a good-sized spigot in the box and
through this Mr.. Bushner thought
he would be able to get air, 50 he
closed the heavy lid of the box over
him. Thirty minutes passed away
and it began to get close. He en-
deavored to open the door again, but
!, imagine his horror when he found
that it was fastened down. He had
forgotten about the latch when he
shut it. After while the door of
the saloon opened and IN came this
same young fellow Through the
spigot Bdsllnel claims that ne saw
him extract the money from the
drawer. The man wGs nearly smoth-
cred and tried to attract the thiefs
attention by kicking against the side
OF the box, but the young man
thought that some one was coming
in and beat a hasty retreat. 1t was
fully three hours before Bushner was
released.
Mrs. Eng, Of New Albany, Ind. (no
relation of Mr. Eng of the late Sia-
mese firm OF Chang and Eng, re-
Gently lost her husband, and tempo
rarily put his body in the city vault,
till she bought a lot. 4 week after
ward everything was ready, and wish
ing TO take another look at the late
Mr. Eng, she had the coffin lid un-
screwed 1t was the same coffin and
grave clothes, but she declares right
up and down that 1t wasn't her hus-
bands face that she saw. She told
her daughter, who said she had no
ticed the same thing, and recognized
the lace as that OF Sam BorOff, n
drunkard, who died last summer and
WAS buried in The Potters' Field at
Jeffersonviile. She hired a colored
man, who knew her husband, to dig
up the body again, and he says: Il
knew Mr.. Eng well. His hair was
thick, coarse, and very black, and SO
were his whiskers. The head in that
coffin is not Mr.. Eng's head But l
know whose head it is. 1t is TIE head
of Mr.. Sam Boroff 1 knew Mr. Bo-
rolf as well as ] ever knew any man.
The hair ON the head III the coffin is
only small patch on the back of the
head, and it is gray, and the whis-
kers are also gray" The body was
buried again, and it is going to be
dug up once more, to prove that some
more of the resurrectionists have
been at work
In Louisiana you can see robins
tumbling around as if they were
drunk. That's what the negroes say
about them, and Louisiana hunter
says he used to catch them in great
numbers when he was boy, growing
up under the impression that they
were drunk, but when he was grown
he learned better, in this way: Il dis
covered one on the ground, seeming
| ly drunk, though he could fly. but