Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-22
GENERAL IrE,,sl


Ernest A. ThoDalin, q stamp clerk
in the Internal Revenue Oaice at
Chicago, has abscoHded with nearly
| $4,000.
Dr.. Bliecter, of Fort Scott. Kansas.
sold farm for $3.50 cash. He start
ed for Eureka Springs aud met au old
friend at Joplin, and stayed there a
day. This was fortunate circun-
stance, as the coach he was booked for
was stopped and worked by highway
men.
John Eiler. Of Alden, Hardin coun-
ty, Iowa, while riding along the road
on horseback, saw ball of FIRE drop
directly upon him from the SKY. Rem
dered unconscious by the shock, be
found, with returning sense, that the
bolt had scared his horses head as with
red hot iron, killing it.
Fifty gallons of whisky aud rum,
smuggled from Minnesota In -four bar
rels, marked "sundrIes," have been
seized at Spruce Lake, Manitoba. ThiI-
tysix Illicit whisky peddlers have been
arrested on the Canadian Pacific line
in the same vicinity.
In Oakland Cal, Monday night a
week Miss Elizabeth Tyler was shot
dead accidentally by Seotchler, her at
fianced, who was carelessly handling a
( pistol
/ Mrs. james Jones, wife of a wealthy
farmer, near Independence, Mo, and
Der two little children were killed 5y
the explosion of a can of kerosene.
which the mother was filling lighted
lamp with on Monday night a week.
George Coiburn, lad of seventeen
years, from New York, has committed
suicide al Ami;yvilie, Il. L.
Gov St. John, of Kansas, predicts
that by the middle of January there
will not be distillery, rectifying es-
tablishment or saloon in that State.
Happy Kansas. But won't there be a
lively business done in the ''craythur"
just across the borderl
Il is definitely settled that two new
ocean teiegraphic cables, to be con-
trolled in this country aud not in Eng
land, will be'laid, and negotiations to
that effect have been made between the
American capitalists and Siemens
Brothers.
Oficiqis of fine Toledo, Cincinnati
and ST Louis Railroad. an extension
for $50 miles of the Toledo. Delphos
aud Burlington road-from Komima to
St. Louis--ssy the contracts are being
let on the entire line, aud the road will
be in operation by October, 1881.
"My address is Columbia, S. c."
aid not mean anything bordering on Il
challenge to duel, says Wade Hamp-
ton OF bis celebrated letter to Secre-
tary Sherman. lie merely wished to
save the Secretary the trouble of reply
ing to hIm at Charlottesville, from
which place be was then writing.
Edison said the ether day in answer
to visitors suggestion that he was
overburdened with work ; "Od, no; l
never sleep more than two or three
hours in tweury-four. l don't feel
we'll if do"
Mr. John O. Branner, who is to ex-
plore Brazil IN search of a pithitss
bamboo tor the carbon loops of Ed,SOn's
electric light, has sailed tor Brazil, ae-
companied by servant He will be
absent year, at Mr Edisou's expense,
and NIL his return the waiting nations
must continue to watch for The perfect
ed Edison electric light.
An old Mary land farmer lately got
$4,000 back pension money in a lump
lie was seventy years old, had been
po1r all his life, and having no rela-
tions to leave it to, be determined to
spend it all before be died. SO be got
married, taking pretty young woman,
gratified her extravagant wants IN the
way OF dress, bought a race horse, aud
kept expensive wines and pure whisky
ia the house. 10 three months after his
marriage ali his money was gone, his
wife had lelt him, bis horse died, and
be apparently isn't near dying.
4 naked uaD on his knees in the
snow, with thermometer at zero. was
so strange spectacle that the cOnduc-
tor on the Pan Handle railroad stop
ped his train. The man said that a
strange voice commanded him to hang
his clothes on limb and pray.
A woman aged 25 years, with do
Zen or more aliases, was arrested IN
Brooklyn, n. Y, recently, charged
with baviDg fourteen husbands. Ii is
SAID she married all of them for the
simple purpose CT robbing them.
NJ. de Lesseps states that l,3O0,0O
shares of the Panama canal have been
subscribed by 100000 persons. The
greatest subscriber is France: the next
is Spain.
A terrible racket has been heard
night and day recently in the Chinese
quarter in San Francisco 1t is the
beating of gongs In feng Chang Sung's
house to drive out an alleged devil that
is troubling his wife and that has green
ewes, red hair, blue skin and a yellow
tail. Temperance pledges are better
than gongs in this longitude.
4 confidence man who had played
game on train at 81 Louis, on the 10th
was pursued on the bridge by police
man, and falling through, distance oil
ninety feet was drowned.
One Cazad noted runner, was late
ly sbo, ID Denver by his backer, who
had $4,000 up on hin, Cazard having