Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-19
GENERAL ITEMS.

William Eaves, q farmer, living NJ
the foot of Garther Mountain, in New
ton county, Ark, was asssssinate6 BY
shooting on Monday night by unknown
persons for an unexplained cause.
A Mrs. Ladosch, at Milwaukee, found
her grandchild, named Gage', eating q
white powder. She tasted Of it to see
what it was, when it proved to be a
patent rat poison and both persons
died.
Christina Taylor, an old colored wo-
man, was yesterday at Washington, d.
C., convicted of the murder of two
small children, named Miller, on the
farm of Joseph Fisher, near that city,
in August last.
A despatch from little rock Ark, on
the llth inst, says-A letter from
Perryville, Perry county announces the
assassination on Friday evening. eight
miles from that towr, of j. NJ. Butler.
school teacher who came from Indiana
three years ago. 1t was reported in
the neighborhood that Butler intended
marrying Mrs Brazil, widow. On
Friday evening, when on the porch of
her house, he saw mau toss a note
over the fence. Butler called TO the
man, who at once discharged both bar
rels of shot gun at his victim, who
died in a few moments. The note,
which was afterwards picked up, read;
ave warn you in plain words to leave.
Billy Brazil worked hard for what he
had, and we can't stand to see it squan
dered by you. II that is not enough.
We will make it all right with you.
ISignedl. j. NJ. Goodshoot"
Alexander K. FaIconer, the young
man who was arrested recently at
Brooklyn, N. Y, for sending annoying
love letters to Miss Kate Louisa Hall,
of that city, whose acquaintance he
claimed to have made at the Plymouth
Church Sabbath School. has been in
dicted BY the Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury at Brooklyn n. Y,
returned an indictment against ex Gov
ernor Franklin j. Moses, of South
Carolina, for false preteuces in having
obtained S175 from Freeborn q. Smith
under the pretence that he was the
brother of Governor Colquit.
Edward McClosky was fatally shot
by Adolph Hayes on Monday night a
week at Mingo. three miles south of
Steubenville, Ohio. in bar-room quar-
rel.
An investigation has just resulted in
making known the fact that 742 clerks
are now employed in the Office of the
Commissioner of Pensions at an annual
cost of $sS5,O0O.
Patsey Devine has been sentenced
70 be banged at Clinton. H.. or May
II. This is his second sentence for
the murder OF Aaron GOoGiellow in Is
70.
Thomas Carr, residing near Hudson,
Wis, went into Illinois to buy horses,
and falling iu with sharpers, had Sl2,-
600 stolen from him.
Mrs. Nicholas Smith Ida Greely) J,
the eldest daughter of the late Horace
Greely died of dipbtheria at Chsppsqua
N. Y. on the llth. She leaves three
children, the youngest an infant 4 weeks
old.
The Dundee sealing steamer Arctic
has arrived at St. John, N. +. with
q, 900 seals, old and young, which is
regarded as very heavy catch. 1t re-
ports favorably of nearly all the feet.
London World is good enough to
call the attention of Its readers to the
fact that American girls do not JOIN
the ranks of the polygamists, but that
the demand is fed from the most ignor-
an, districts of EDgland, Wales and
Scandinavian.