Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-02
GENERAL ITEMS.


farmer named Wallace, with his wife,
a son and dsaghter, travelled from Scar
~ county, more than hundred miles,
to see the show. The girl was seven
teen years old and the bog only fifteen,
and they became SO fascinated with the
glIttering tinsel Of the performers tina,
they plotted together to run away and
join the circus. The girl, fearing her
sex would interfere with her securing
employment, douned shabby suit be-
longing to her brother, and the show
vent South, taking them both along.
The aged parents, distracted with grief,
returned to their desolste home after
searching in vain for several days.
On Saturday the runaways reached
Little Rock, having experienced hard
ships enough to last them for the re-
msiLder of their lives. They we're hir-
ed at 81 per week, and took part in the
concerts that followed the regular cir
Gus. They travelled through the great
er part of Texas, the glitter aud tinsei
Of the business fading away at every
step. Finally, when at Galveston, the
manager grew weary Of them and set
them adrift. They we're thus left
without q friend and with only five
dollars in money. This was in Decem-
Der last. The girl had kept the secret
of her sex so well that no one except
her brother took her to be other than q
comely youth. They shipped-on trig
at Galveston bound to New Orleans,
but we're treated SO badly that they ran
away on reaching the latter city, for
feitlDg their wages. The boy was tax
en- sick, and their situation was indeed
critical, when the girl encountered a
Sister of Charity, to whom she told her
story. The Sister proved Good Sam
aritan, and removing the sick boy to a
charitable institution, where be was
nursed back to health, she provided
the girl with female garments, and en-
listed wealthy lady of New Orleans,
who furnished them with q comfortable
outfit and funds sufficient to carry them
home. They left Little Rock for the
old home amid the mountains, where
their parents are, no doubt, grieving
over their disappearance, and where
they will be welcomed as having risen
from toe dead.
Robert K. Scott, Ex-Governor of
South Carolina, is on trial at Napoleon,
OHIO, for the murder of Warren G.
Drury on January "a, 1880. He was
indicted for murder in the second de-
gree, and has been on bail. Drury
was a drug clerk in Kneeland's drug
store, and on the evening Of the murder
was taking care of young son Of
Governor Scott, who was drunk.
The Governor won't to get his son, and
says that Drury refused to ADMIT him
to the bedroom, and made movement
to draw a weapon, whereupon the Gov
ernor drew and fred the fatal shot
The defence is that the shooting was
accidental. A jury was obtained easily,
and the testimony is progressing, but
so far nothing has been elected to throw
new light on the case
After circus performance at Cart
ersville, Georgia, on Tuesday Difficult
ty occurred between the circus men, a
deputy Marshal and others, in the
course of which negro was shot and
killed and others were badly beaten.
During the affrsy lion aud bear es-
capped from the cages. The bear was
killed, but the lion is still at large,
and much excitement prevails.
The boom in confederate bonds is daily
increasing in proportions. There is
continued active demand for those ex-
tiuct obligations. AS an instance of
this fact the banking house of Thomas
Branch & Co, of Richmond, Virginia,
bought over 81 100000 of them, and
are still buying. Other dealers report
a lively business IN the same bonds.
At Portland, Maine, Captain Charles
E. Shaw, of the schooner Uncle Sam,
accidentally shot his brother Edmund
with musket, causing bis death in
three minutes.
On Tuesday night, at 6 o'clock, the
mail coach from GatesvilIe, Texas, was
stopped 20 miles east of Henrietta and
he driver was compelled to cut open
The mail sacks, when the registered
packages we're distributed and the
coach allowed to proceed. This is the
iourth time the mail coach has been
stopped by robbers on this route in two
months.
A shocking piece of intelligence is
'eported from Ohio as follows; At st.
Evansville, Ohio, on Saturday week,
)ames Weir struck his father, General
James Weir, in the face and knocked
hin down. The refusal of the old
gentleman to sign a paper giving the
guardianship Of his only daughter to
ady caused the quarrel When inform
d that his father would die the son
disappeared. The General remained
unconscious until yesterday morning,
yhen be died. Deceased was for a
ong time member of the Bar in Bel
mont county, Ohio, and served three
erms in the State Legislature.
The Huntingdon MONITOR says /;
Hrs. John Leister, of Huntingdon, was
obbed of her pocket book BY a pick
rocket while in Baltimore week before
asst. She was in a street car when she
Dissed it, and she accused a dandified
with being the thief. This
Ie denied, and saying that be would
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