Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-10-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

utatiOn was excellent. Becoming 10
fatuated with the game, be neglecte
his patients to play it, borrowed all To
money be could to meet his losses, an
iualIy forged checks, amounting :
81, 600, for which be is now IN jail
His church loses 5000.
The convicts in the Ohio Penitentiar
have sent $10O to the Michigan suffer
ers. They raised this sum By denying
themselves the luxury of tobacco, AMI
BY the sale OF trinkets which they ha'
made.
Four African expeditions are abou
to be undertaken simultaneously
Their explorations will be conducted
upon separate lines, but the four par
ties expect to meet at the end Of thei
periIs. For the purpose of sending
news to Europe the expeditions vii
take with them about 5000 carrier pig
cons.
| A sentimental fellow at Wrights
town MIMI, wrote to girl that h'
would hang himself if she did not mar
~ him. As be was . stranger, she
took his queer missive as an insulting
Joke, and replied angrily that he would
please her greatly BY choosing the tree
which grew near the window of her
room. When she looked out nexi
morning there hung his lifeless body.
Reports from camps Thomas, Grant,
Bowie and vicinity, Arizona, say thai
the Indian excitement is dying out
The rancbers, stackmen and miners are
resuming :heir different vocations.
A burglar entered the bedroom OF q
lady at Wheeling, while its occupar,
was asleep, and cut of her hair, which
was of luxurisnt growth and carried II
away with him. That unfortunate lady
will doubtless mourn her loss during
the two years which are required for
the growth of a second crop of woman's
bair.
AT Hamilton, No., on Wednesday,
the family of Hiram Westfsll we're
poisoned by . dish of oatmeal prepared
by a colored servant. 1t is believed
that arsenic was used. Mrs. Westfa,l
is dead and hired man is not expected
to live. The girl left the house, but
has since been arrested. Mr.. Westfall
and a young LADY living in the house
suffered severely, but will probably re-
cover.
A prominent cotton dealer of Memphis
has made a wager with New York
man that the crop of 1882 will not
exceed million bales The proposition
was made by the New York man, and
as soon as it became known in Memphis
there was a rush to obtain an interest
10 the bet. The stakes are $4,000 q
side.
1t is said in official circles that all
that remains of the Sl5. 900 devoted to
the tea culture project of Commissioner
LIE Due is an iron safe valued at $400,
and a lot of tea plants Of no appreciable
value.
Glendive, Montana, is an evidence
of the rapid growth of towns IN the far
west. Six months ago there was not
house on the present site of the town,
and now there are 1900. There are
nine graves IN the cemetery, five being
filed By men killed in fights, two by
female suicides and the other two By
persons who died natural death.
Adam Foster and James Thomas
agreed to settle an old feud near Vicks-
burg, Miss, on Thursday with double
barrelIed shot guns in cornfeld. Fos-
ter was killed and Thomas escaped.
John Arnold was shot dead by Basil
McLane on Tuesday near Csmpbells-
burg, Ind, Arnold was working on his
farm at the time. NcLane, who is an
old man, fed to Hitchcock Station, and
posse came to arrest him fred on the
Sheriff. The posse returned the fire,
killing McLans.
The statement is boldly made that
among the mummies recently discover
ed at Thebes is that of the identical
"Pharaoh's daughter" who rescued the
infant Moses from bis dangerous hiding
place in the cradle among the bulrush-
es. The body is that of q lady of rare
beauty, and is so perfectly preserved
by the embalUers' art that it appears
as if only recently laid away. The
coffin is decorated with mosaic work of
costly stones, some of which has been
Clipped of BY curiosity seekers. Ram
eses the Second. the father of this lady,
is said to have had many wives, and to
have been the father of more than I50
children. 1t is supposed that many of
bis other cons and daughters are simil-
arly embalmed, and that their mummi-
fed bodies will be found among the
treasures of this description which are
now being brought to light.
A rumor prevails in New York that
Mr. j. r. Keene, the owner of Foxhall,
has challenged Mr.. LorlIlard, the own
er of lroquois, to run their horses eth
er in England, or this country, for
So, 600, and that the challenge has
been accepted.
Sir. Garnet Wolseley, one of Eng
and's most skillfui and experienced
generals, has published a letter, 10
which be deprecates the construction
'f the proposed tunnel under the Eng
ish channel, because it would be
astlng source of danger to England.
such warning from such source will
lot be lost on the English people.
Their island home is now almost as Sc.
'ure against invasion as powerful fort
md they would not think of doing that
which would render them less secure
rom outside enemies.
An old man lost his balance by
ticking at his wife, in Louisville, and
vas killed by the fall
Chicago is about to begin a new
'eform. An ordinance is about to be
to prohibit the smoking
If tobacco on the streets by boys.