Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-23
GENERAL ITEMS.

tOhu bdo
ordered an assessment Of all dogs.
Boys under fourteen are not admit
ted to New York iheafers
SmaIi- pox is epidemic at Cuba. Hin
OILS, aud panic prevails ir the village
Many Indians we're drowned by floods
in Dakota.
Corn is being burned as fuel in the
locomotives used on the St. Paul and
hicsgo road.
A prominen. lawyer of Northern
Ohio attempted to cowhide merchant
whom he accused Of sending him a val
entine. The irate disciple Of Black
was arrested charged with assault.
Three hundred thousand bags less
coffee was consumed in this country in
1880 than in 1879.
A Csnandaigus man put lighted
cigar into his pocket, aud soon had to
roll into the snow to exunguish his
burning clothing.
G.. K,mb.r, farmer, sixty years OF
age, living near Comber Ontario, quar-
relied with his wife On Monday week,
over a will he had made aud shot and
kl led her. He then shot himself fatally.
a "no license" board has been elect
ed in jamestown, N Y, aud every bar
in the town is closed.
An OHIO stage driver voted for Han
cock last fall. and when arrested for
theft turned out to be a woman in dis.
guise.
Two young ladies of Newark have
made charges against young man for
sending them comic. valentines couch
ed in improper language.
The sexton of the Michigan Avenue
Baptist church, Chicago, who is under
arrest on a charge of having fired the
church, which was burned down las,
Saturday night week has charged the
pas,or-Rev. Kerr b Tupp-r-wi'h
having set fire to the building The
Rev. Upper has been unable To explain
certain queer circumstances, but is
generally believed to be innocent.
A New York sporting paper, in be
half Of an unknown, has accepted the
challenge of Patrick Houllhan. of New
York. 10 fight aDv man in the world for
$4,000 against s., 800. Articles will
will oe drawn up on the 26th inst.
A colored woman died at Rolia, Mo,
January 9, who is supposed TO have
been at least l26 years old. She was
the mother of two children before the
revolutionary war. Her great graad-
sv;. in Rolla Is 80 years.
King Alfonso Of Spain had a narrow
escape from death recently. He broke
through the ice while skating and was
rescued with difficulty.
One Birmingham, who run over and
killed a man in New York some time
ago, was convicted on Friday and sen
fenced to year in the Penitenriary.
There is another snow blockade in
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. In Chi
cago the snow Is from eight to twelve
inches deep. Great delay was exper-
fenced on railroads. aud many freight
trains we're abandoned
A man living a short distance east Of
H0nesdale, arrived home on Wednes
day from Nebraska. He has walked
over halt OF the wav, earning his bread
BY saving wood aud dung other jobs.
Belle Nichols. keeper of a bagnio at
Muneie, Ind u, while defending her door
on this Wednesday night week against
Bill Writ ano Lon Sutton, both of
whom we're drunk, discharged seven
chambers OF 22-calibre pistol at her
assailants. Six balls took effect in SUIT |
ton'st face. He is probably mortally
wounded. Writ received one ball IN
the cheek. Most of the balls that
lodged in Sutton's head and face were |
shot through bis hands, which he held
up to shield his head.
One month ago to day a school girl
OF Hoboken, seventeen years old, the
daughter of well-to-do people, left
home to go to school in New York city |
where she was preparing herself to be
q teacher. Since that evening the girl |
has not been seen by any of her friends
aud although the police of New York,
jersey City and Hoboken have scour-
ed The three cities no clue o! her has
been obtained. The missing miss is
described as handsome and attractive |
blonde of pleasing and modest demean-
or. studicus sedatc and affectiopate,
and her parents are utterly at a loss to
explain her sudden dnappearancs-