Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-16
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
The town of Walnut, Iowa, has beer
destroyed by FIRE.
Ths baby elephant is i'll at Bridge
port, Conn, from the effects Of quinn.
administered to its mother.
| Cincinnati will have an industris
exposition this year, beginning Septem
ber 7 and closing October 8.
Rev. De ~ lit Talmage has been elect
ed to and has accepted the Chaplaincy
of the Brooklyn Twenty-third Regi'
ment.
The earnings of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company for January sggre
gated 81 .49S, 900, being an increase o.
S297, 1856 as compared with the same
month last year.
At Warren, Rhode Island, on Tues
day night a week, Christopher Mcken-
zle was drawing Alice Coyle, aged l6
on sled on the river when both broke
through. The young man was taker
out and resuscitated, but the girl wa
drowned.
The iron bridge on the Canal Rail
road over the Farmingfun river, shorI
distance north Of Pisinville, Conn, fell
last Thursday while freight train was
passing over it, The caboose went
down with boy who was In it. No life
was lost.
The roof of the railroad depot at
Buffalo, n. Y, fell on the morning OF
the Sth inst, crushing a railroad
train and killing four persons. A de-
fective wall and the weight of snow
on the roof is supposed to have
caused the accident.
Sidi Muley Hassan, the Sultan oi
Morocco, being pressed for money,
com bined business and economy by dis
missing two hundred Of his wives, be-
slowing them on distinguished officers
IN bis army, whose salaries he at the
same time cut down one-fourth. A sin
euIar and not unsuspicious feature oi
this retrenchment and reform is the fact
that the wives thus disposed of were
the veterans of his barem, the younger
wives being retained to cheer the Sui
tan's hearth and home.
Advices in regard to the California
deluge state that in the Sacramento
valley the waters are falling and. the
worst is thought to be over. Many
steamers are plying over the submerg-
ed plains, taking off the people and
stock, the latter congregated on levees
and knolls, and in many instances
standing IN shallow water A number
of people and many cattle have been
drowned.
The Missouri Legislature has defeat
ed bill establishing the whipping post
for the punishment for WIFE besters.
Ungallant law makers
Hear the words of a Kansas swain
who yearneih for a wife, at fifty cents a
yearn, in the advertising columns Of
the ST. Joseph Herald: "Wanted a
correspondent | am % years old hav
one hundred aud sixty l60 ackars of
Kansas land worth 1900 dollars tolaberi
fair lookIn comm chool educaroon eny
lady fairly educated will oblige me by
rigbting | will send my Photograph BY
return male. William lemons
John Johnston was killed, at Lead
vile, Col on Monday a week, by fall
ing out ofa bucket $50 feet down mire.
The iron bridge on the Csral Rail
road over the Pennington River, short
distance north of Plainville, Conn, fell
on ednesday while q height train
was passing over it, The caboose went
down with boy who was in it. No
life was lost. -
At Warren. r. l., on Tuesday mig -,
Christopher Mckenzie was drsw}hg
Alice Coyie, aged l6. on sled on ithe
river when both broke through. The
onng man was taken out and resusci
tated, but the girl VS. drowned.
Two collections were taken up lately
in a Brooklyn Catholic Church, the
pastor announcing that no pennies
be received at one Of them. A female
worshipper, who either didn't hear him
or had nothing else. put penny 10 the
plate. The usher who was passing the
plate took up the penny between bis
finger and thumb and held it high up
so that the whole congregation could
see it. Tnen he handed it hack to the
lady and told her to keep it for the
other collection. She was very much
humiliated and embarrassed, anG told
her husband, who came to the very
next mass, and when that usher came
out into the vestibule to get the plate
the husband gave hin good tbras,.ing
AMI when fined S25 for it in the police
court, said he would willingly do it
again at that price if the circumstances
were repeated