Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-01-25
GENERAL ITEMS.


At Corning, O., On Wednesday night.
Harold Robinson aud Malcolm Bsi6e,
both coIored. iuueht . duel with pistols
to settle . quarrel about . sweetheart.
Two .hors were fired. BsI6e, escaped
untouched, but Robinson was struck
twice and fatally wounded.
A despatch from Richmond Va.
last Thursday says, Gregory S'erno"',
an Italian merchant Of this city, was
convicted in the Hastings Court to-day
for receiving end selling manufactured
tobacco knowing the same to have been
stolen. The jury found the accused
guilty, and the Court sentenced him to
receive twenty stripes al the public
whipping post. He was ably defended.
There is a pleasing interest il not
manifest moral iu the story ofa newly
hired grocery clerk IN Peoria. ILL.,, who
vas presently called upon for quart
of vinegar. He weot to . barrel aud
filed the measure. That afternoon the
merchant was surprised to find that all
his customers 10 the nelgbborhood we're
makirg . run on vinegar. At the last
moment, when it Was too late, he found
that the new clerk was selling vinegar
from the whisky barrel.
A full blooded negro was among the
Cinnamon who lately arrived in Denver
but he wore the clothes, spoke only the
language, and bad sll the ways Of bis
Chinese companions. He bad lived
twenty seven years in China, having
been captured IL youth BY pirates.
A poilt,cian lost $500 IN faro room
at Columbus, Quo, and then asked the
gamtler to lend him 50 TO get supper
and lodging. This WAS refused The
angry man then brought in the police,
who obligingly championed his cause BY
presenting the alternative OF $3 or .
general arrest. The money was loaned
and the officers Withdrew.
Michael Rawlings, juror in the case
of cooper, convicted at Troy, N. Y, Of
burglary, was never ua:urslized.
Judge Forsyth rebukt d him and dis
missed him frou the panel. Rawlings
had atrested that be was qualified.
James Il. WiImut, \ we'll t"-do far
mer aged about 60 years, living n-sr
Lancaster, Gsrrsrd county. Ky. with
su axe on the lIrh inst Durdr'ed h''
,u"tber, sg-d SO, his ~" dangh'er.
Matte aud Mar. }. aged 10 and Is, aud
bis wife, Elizabeth, and then hanged
himself. Wilu,o,, It is supposed Lad
become insane in hrooding over . BE-
cuf,,y debt o, $3.50 wh,Ih he had to
pay for brother in-.aw.
A bigam,st, b,med Edward N. Rar-
ick, a traveller for New York 6rm,
turned up on the l7rh lust at Montreal
under the name of RnmaIn. The faith
er of the secosd wife, a native Of Skow-
began, Me, traced them to Montreal,
where the fellow made . clean breast
Of the affair. He has wife and three
children Irving at Plsir6eld, N. Y.
There is q Charley Rpss case .. o.
or:o. Wis, the kidnappers secreting .
little son of Capt. D,,keuson, and de.
maudiag $1,000. A search was At
last accounts being made for the boy.
The father, though wealthy and not
penur,ous, positively refused to pay
the blackmail.
The Sheriff has placed in Jail st
Richmond, Ind, Airs. Smith aud her
two sons. the wife and children respect
lively of David Smith, whose desd body
was found in we'll Or Saturday last .
week. On the way to Jail Daniel
Smith confessed that he had committed
the murder alone during "a quarrel
about horse, and thar his morber and
brother bad no part in it and knew
nothing about it.
At Wilmington, Ohio, child died
a few days ago from what was supposed
at the time to be chicken pax, and the
funeral was largely attended. As a
consequence there are over fifty cases
Of v,rulent small pox in the town.
Not single busbel Of American
gralu was transported to Europe from
the port of New York during the past
year in an American vessel, while L.
| 3U2 steamers and 554 sailing vessels
carried Il, ,276,3l2 bushels under for
eigD fags.
There we're 2l5 divorces granted in
France last year, 4l6 10 England. and
shout 200 each in Austria and SPAN.
The report from the United States is
not yet in, but we doubtless take the
lead in this IS in nearly everything else.
Six thousand pounds o! butter were
shipped from Bradford county during
the holidays to New York.
Reid johnson, q colured farmer re.
siding near jackson. Miss, while BIT
tirg at bis freside was shot aud killed
by Anderson Hunter colored. On &C
count Of Hunters intimacy With Mrs
johnson from q distant section of the
State short time ago. Hunter fol.
lowed and murdered him. Hunter and
Mrs johnson are now in Jail.
Charles Martin, the young man wbc
while drunk few Sundays sgo at De
troit, Mich, wanrooly assaulted an OLD
man named Christian Turner, knnckiue
him down and stamping his head TO .
jelly, was sentenced to State prison
for life
Mrs. George Messenger, q widow
> aged seventy FIVE, living alone deal
Easton, va. found dead in bed on Sun
dsy morning. Her sou went 10 v'si
her aud fnd,ng the house locked be-
came alarmed, and IN bursting "pei
y door discovered his Iuoth-r dead.
. IT seems to satisfy a family want