Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-08

NSNANAy y VI s~S<-eS-
A MAN in a cemetery on Wards
Island, New York State, committed
suicide by shooting himself while he
sat on his wife's grave on last Tues
day. February 2S. Not many wild
overs do that. Most of them are
naughty enough Immediately upon
the death of wife to have another
one sslooked out" about the time the
funeral is over
CYCLONES are manifesting them
selves early in the season. A dis
patch from Valley Malls. Texas, says
that at o'clock on the evening of
February %, a cyclone struck that
place, "almost completely destroying
the town, only one business house
being left standing. Rrinkmans no
tel, a two-story building, was carried
some distance and hurled into a con-
fused heap. Ten persons were in the
hotel at the time of the accident, all
OF whom were injured, but none Sc
riously. There was no loss of life,
but the damage to property will
amount to $4,000"
LAST Thursday a grocery store
clerk named MacLean shot at the
Queen of England just as she had
taken her seat in her carriage to be
driven from the railroad station to
Windsor Castle. The shot did not
frighten the Queen. She was driven
to her destination, and once there
she speedily dispatched messenger
to learn if any one had been hurt.
Meanwhile the would-be murderer
was with diffiulcy saved from being
lynched. Officers hurried him away
to prison. He said that hunger ac-
tuated the crime, but he did not ex-
plain how the killing of the Queen
would obtain victuals for him. Ii he
desired to be put TO prison to obtain
something to eat, it was not neces-
sary to shoot the Queen to get there.
The excuse is bad mans excuse; it
is about on par with Guiteaus ex-
cuse. Long live the Queen.
The floods in the rivers of the Mis-
sissippi Valley last week were de-
structive to life and property. The
bottom lands were nearly all covered
with water. People were living in
the second story of their houses, and
cattle and other live stock on the
farms located on the flats were
drowned. A dispatch. summing up
the situation, says: Many negroes
are starving; others are feeding on
the putrid carcasses of drowned cat
tie and such game as can be procured.
Whole families are subsisting on hall
a peck of meal per week. People in
this section are offering mich cows
for twenty five cents per head, as the
poor beasts are dying from "water
starvation.
A PENNSYLVANIA exchange paper
says: Our corn crop being failure
last year, many OF our farmers are
said to be getting corn and corn meal
from the westesn grangers "at dis
CONT of at least % per cent, since
shipments are direct and without In
tervention. 1t is proposed now b!
the western grangers to enter into an
exchange with the south to obtain
sugar, molasses. rice, oranges, etc.
for -four, pork, hay and apples, and
it is thought that great savings car
be made Whether the farmers are
competent to deal in such a variety
OF products, whether they can gel
low rates from railroads, and whether
they can trace up losses and irregu
larities remains vet to be seem
The North .4mer1can of last We'd
nesday says: The Free Quaker So
ciety held business meeting at Fifth
and Arch streets yesterday. The
members of the Society hold to the
same view now as their predecessor:
in that faith did during the struggle
for the independence of the Amer
can colonies, that war is sinful. The
followers of George Fox, however
maintained opposite views, and thi:
led to the secession of the peaceably
inclined from the fighting Quakers.
The former erected the building al
Fifth and Arch streets, now used q.
the Apprentices Library, but aftel
the surrender of Lord Cornwallis the
two sects were reunited.
"WHAT is heros reward?" asks
the poet. He should ask Genera
Grant. In the course OF time Il
is to be called "the national beg
gar" "the champion gift taker,
,.the free lunch fiend," 1.-The champion
pauper," and other pet names by edi
tors and public speakers, whose wasi
bills are probably two months il
arrears. 1t must be confessed thai
it doesn't seem worth while to risl
ones life for such a reward.-.Norris
fown Herald