Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-04-13
oENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Fro,, il reported throughout the
northern part Of Texas on Friday n'en'
. week. The fruit crop was greatly
Ar midnight on Wednesday the
shock of an earthquake was felt at ot.
Paul's Bay, Quebec. The shock was
suficiensIy strong to awaken people
from sleep.
A dispatch from Fairfield, Iowa.
saws the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc Railroad bridge over the SKUNK
river, near Brighton, was swept away
by ice on Saturday, and all trains have
been abandoned =,
Heavy frost and. ice are reported
throughout the New Orleans section
on Friday night . week. Early veget.
.bles in North Louisiana, MISSISSIPPI
and Alabama are badly damaged, and
it is feared the peach crop has been
entirely cut of. -
A Denver (Col.) dispatch says;
"Tbe skeleton of Joseph McLane, who
was killed BY Utes IN July, 1878, WAS
found on . prairie, thirty miles from
Wallace, . few days ago. There was
. bullet hole through the skull. The
remsins we're identified by . revolver
which was found with the body"
Mary King, daughter of John King,
. farmer living in the township Of Kep
pei. Out, died on Wednesday from tho
effects of oil of cedar taken to produce
an abortion. Her brother James, who
bought the medicine for her, has been
arrested.
A party Of cowboys who were Great
ing disturbance at O'Neiil City, Holt
county. Nebraska, on Tuesday week,
we're partially disarmed by Sheriff Perm
ard Kesrns and went away. They soon
returned, however, and one OF the party,
named Harry Deans, shot the Sheriff
through the heart. A deputy sheriff
also was wounded.
During the winter very many arrests
were made Of young people charged
with disturbing religious meetings, the
greater portion of whom are girls. The
penalties for this offence are very Sc
we're.
The entire Foster family were down
with the small pox, at Lexington, Iii.
The house was burned in the night.
Rather than seek refuge with any Of
their neighbors, and thus spread the
disease, they walked eight miles in the
cold to pest house, and imperilled
their lives by the exertion and expos
ure.
Mr.. Edward Richardson. Of Mississ-
lppi, Is said to be the largest cotton
planter IN the world. He has many
plantations, factories and mills, and al
so . great many country stores. He is
. man of 62 He has q peculiar habit
of rising at 2 O'Clock in the morning
waking his secretary, and dispatching
all his business before bis o'clock
breakfast.
A dispatch from Sidney, Neb., states
that Reddy Mcdonald was taken from
Jail at an early hour yesterday morning
BY vigilants and hung 20 tree in the
Courthouse yard. He was head mu-
sic,an of dance house, a noted cut
throat and one of sixteen despersjoes
Who had held the town in terror for
several years 1t is understood that
two more prisoners will be lynched.
A special to the Times Star from
Little Rock, Ark under date Of the
llth inst says: "a party of masked
men yesterday rode into Toledo, q
county town sixty miles south of here.
Ooe half surrounded the court house
while the others entered the treasury.
blew open the safes and stole from
5000 to $4,000 They all escsp-
ed"
James M'Cloy and Annie Christian
son were to have been married Sunday
night at Waupaca, Wisconsin. Agrand
feast was prepared, including beer and
whisky. The guests aud officiating
justice we're freely treated as they ar
rived, and they also fell to work upon
the eatables. The whole crowd be-
came so gloriously full and happy that
the wedding was entirely forgotten,
and the company dispersed at an early
hour Monday morning without having
seen the knot tied. Jim and Annie
discovered the mistake sDd invited the
guests again on Monday night but re-
served refreshments until after they
had been married.
At Nice, France, the other Sunday
three men-a professional aerouaut, an
editor and an army officer stepped in
to balloon aud shot upward for one
and halt miles. When they left the
earth the wind was blowing in from the
sea. Having passed through astratum
oi clouds the voyagers lost sight of
ti,iUg, terrestrial for an hour or uore
Then, the clouds breaking beneath
them they saw that they we're being
born swiftly over the sea. As night
was approaching the frightened aeron-
su,s made up their minds to descend
among some fishing boats, but the bal
loon struck the waves ten miles from
the fishermen. For four hours the
balloon was dragged about the sea,
sometimes plunged in the waves and
aometimes lifted above them. In des-
peration the men elung to the rigging
until they we're rescued by a steamer
that had been sent from Nice to search
for them.
MllliOnalres Learning to be
Tanners.