Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-02
GENERAL ITEMS.
Moody and SankeY are in California.
The average weight Of . skeleton Is

Moody and Sankey are in California.
The average weight Of skeleton IL
about IA pounds.
Smallpox has broken out in the Fort
Madison Pcuitentisry, Iowa, creating
great excitement. All the foremen OF
contrac, work have fed and work Is
generally abandoned.
On Saturday night week the wife
of Elias Cummings, colored, living near
Cranstcn, gave birth to four boys. Ihe
mother and children are doing we'll, aud
are visited by large numbers OF people
Engineer Williams was attacked oy
heart disease, while alone on his loco
motive, on a Virginia railroad, but 10
spite of the suddenness of bis death ne
wa. able to whistle down brakes ana
close the throttle, thus averting dis
aster.
W. H.F. Lee, General Robert f.
Lees Oldest son, is successful farmer
in Virginia.
An eighf-yesr old girl became a
bride in South Carolina yesterday, her
mother Witnessing the marriage cere-
mony. The whole party except the
child should be locked up as lunatics-
A preacher in Rook County, Kansas
had been for weeks conducting woun-
ierfully successful revival. Dear
brethren and sisters" he said one day,
..ta,s is the last meeting | shall hold.
1t Is Impossible to keep up a tervor on
corn bread aud mclasses for myself sud
an ear of corn day for my horse.
God bless you"
A small boy at Thomaston, Litch-
field County, Connecticut while coastine
the other day, encountered railroad
:rain; but with small boys luck, his
sled passed over the railroad track, be-
tween she trucks of a moving freight
car, without injuring him IN the least.
A betrothed couple at Fairfield, Iowa,
had quarrel, and broke their engage
ment Both attempted suicide the same
night, but their lives were saved. On the
following day, Convinced that they did
not desire to live apart. they had min
lister unite them.
Jim French, a brakeman en- the
Piedmont road, was killed near Sails
bury, n. g., Friday night. while dane
a jig on the top of moving freight
tram and kissing bis baod to some wo-
men who stood near the track. He
coll;ded with a bridge.
The workmen engaged in pulling
down an old house 10 Lancaster a few
days since found an old dress pocket
containing S25 iu money showed care
fully away beneath the roof 1t bad
evidently been there for a long time,
but who put it there or when it was
secreted is mystery which the finders
are not particularly anxious to have
solved.
The Methodist ministers of Cincir>
natl, IN formal meeting, denounced the
operate department of the College of
Music as "a feeder for the theaters
aud operas"
A burning dwelling house IN East
Hartford, Conn, was saved from de
suuctioD few days ago by the use of
cider, which happened I'd be more plen-
ti,ul than water IN that locality.
A white oak tree, believed TO be the
biggest in the State w<s cut near Fay
etfe, Mo, recently. 1t was 10 feet 3
inches across thes'ump, and the first
cut made ~ eight-lnch .--road ties
During the temporary absence .:
,sbomb from her home at Al
:. Y, on Tuesday evening, the
e caught fire, and four young chil-
N were burned to death.
Theodore Patrim. French farmer,
living four miles southwest of Assum-
ton, H., murdered his wife and then
attempted to commit suicide, because
she upbraIded him for loafng around
the village instead of gathering his
corn.