Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-16
GENERAL ITEMS.


Virginia, weighs oniy about ninety
pounds. and is a mere skeleton.
The Delaware Legislature has refus-
ed to strike the word ''male" from the
Constitution of the State.
The farmers 10 the southern part oi
New Jersey are making preparations to
cultivate sugar beets on an extensive
scale. An offer of from SO 90 to IS oO
DER ton, according to quality, for all
they can raise, has been made BY the
Delaware Beet Sugar Company.
A very strange story is related OF
two men who recently died in North
Carolins, which, if true, is probably
without a parallel in history. They
bore the same name, although rot re-
lated BY blood. we're born on the same
day, married twin sisters on the same
day, and died the same day, having
lived within five miles of each other eli
their lives.
An inquest was held in Washington,
D c., on Tuesday week, on the body
of Harry Freeburn. the engineer who
lost his life by the collision on the Bal
timore aud Potomac Railroad, near Sew
eru, Md, on Saturday a week. John
Ray, the conductor OF the extra train,
testeed and said 10 his evidence: "Free-
burn and l bad the orders read over to
us twice by the dispatcherin Baltimore,
and the accident was due to our care
lessness. Harry is dead now, and L
alone am responsible" The verdict
of the jury embodied finding that the
collision was caused by the negligence
of said Freeburn and John Ray, con-
ductor Of the south bound train.
A Lynchipg transaction is reported
from Little Rock under date Of last
Friday the llth inst, as follows: ln-
formation has been received of the
lynchipg of Green Harris. Giles Peck,
j ohm Woods and Burt Hoskins, four
negroes implicated in the murder of
Miss Matte Isbmael, near Jonesboro,
Craighead county, by gang of mask
ed men, variousiy estimated at from two
to three hundred The iynchers sprang
out of The woods surrounding the build
ing where the negroes had been ten
ForsiIly placed, overpowerec the guards,
and takipg the prisoners hanged them
to tree near by and dispersed as ST.
lently and as quickly as they bad gath
cred. 1t is claimed that prior to the
execution the negroes made full con-
confession, giving detailed account of
the crime, alleging that Miss Isbmsel
was killed for refusing to disclose the
hiding place of large sum OF money
which her father had received few
days before the tragedy occurred. The
lynchiug has intensified the excitement
in the neighbo.hood of the crime
During the past season the Kansas
State Agricultural College has kept an
exact account of the cost of raising
corn, winter wheat. oats and millet;
Corn. 221 acres, AZ bushels per acre,
costing IA cents per bushel. " heat,
II acres, IL bushels per acre. costing
54 cents per busbel. Oats. l6 acres,
yielding 20 bushels per acre, costing %
cents per bushet. Millet, III acres
Welding c9 100 tone per acre, costing
S2l3 per Ton The account includes
the cost OF seeds, planting, cultivsting,
harvesting and marketing, the item of
labor being charged at the average
price The amount of per acre was
very light.
A wedding assembly at Columbus,
Ohio, after waiting half an hour be-
yond the appointed time for the osre
mony, was astounded BY the entrance
of the bridegroom with the brides sisIer
on his arm and their announcement that
they bad just been married by clergy
man around the corner This trick
threw the outraged glrl into brain fe-
yer. from which she Is likely to die:
but the welded couple nave gone on a
bridal tour.
The champion bee keeper lives, very
appropriately, in Beeton, CAL, ana
bears The not unfamiliar name of Jones
In the year 1879 rom 300 colonies of
bees he obtained Is, 900 pousds of hon
ey, and IN 1880 from 400 colonies he
obtained 10000 pounds, worth $1,000,
and the latter was a bad year for hon
ey. During the latter year be obtain
ed 500 new colonies from the 400, and
commences 1881 with 1000 colonies Of
bees, valued at $1,000 independent of
the cost of the hives. MIR. Jones says
be will clear at least $4,000 this year
unless some unforseen accident occurs.
A singular accident is reported from
Chicago under date of the 18th inst as
follows; A large stone weighing two
thousand six hundred pounds, in the
Touring mill of August Fisher, few in-
to fragments on Thursday evening with
loud noise, and four persons we're
more or less seriously injured by the
flying. pieces. 1t was OF imported ma
terials, four feet 10 diameter and about
a foo, thick, and was making about
two hundred aud seventy FIVE revolu
tious per minute. The iron band which
surrounded it was broken in only one
place, but the cover was demolished.
John Berthberger, a stone dresser, eu
gagged at work on a neiehborlng stone,
had both his legs broken. Mr Fischer
standing ten feet from the stone, had
bis left leg broken In three places above
the knee Theodore Blokele, stono
dresser, had his face terribly dis6gured
and his front teeth knocked out Mr..
Taylor, a commission merchant, who
was IN the mill on business, was lifted
from the floor and thrown twenty feet,
but was not seriously injured. 1t is
supposed there was flaw in the iron
band, which gave-way wien the speed
OF the stone was accelerated By the ab-
sence OF corn in the hopper.
A woman case is reported from St
Louis, between Michael J. Reilly and
Albert G. Hatch. The dispatch rels-
tive to the affair says: From acquain-