Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-07

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They pried mp several logs and enter
ed. Dyeon saw them and shot ant
killed Wildfire. The others then At.
tempted to get out of the smoke-house
but in so doing knocked down the proE
which they had placed under the logs
they had pried up to gain an entrance,
and the logs fell on them, crushing
them to death.
Mrs. Liona Howell, Wilmington,
Del, was shot by the accidental dis
charge of a pistol. Her uncle fell in-
to the water and got his clothes 40 wet
that be sent to the house for q change.
Mrs. Howell was getting . pair OF pan
falcons for him when revolver IN the
hip pocket fell out, and striking On the
floor, was discharged. The bullet pass
ed through the calf of her leg, infict-
ing a very painful wound.
The wheat crop of Arkansas this
season is said to be the best for ten
years.
The following is a fresh fish story
from Virginia City, Enferprise "Among
the most peculiar aud least known fish
of Nevada is the couewee, native Of
aud found only in Pyramid aud Wirne-
mucca Lakes. One of the most srrik-
ing pecuiiarities is q name extending
along the back from head to tail, which
renders the creature so unsightly that
1t is always sheared by the fisherman
before being sent to market. They
swim at the surface Of the water, and
in the early days ascended the river IN
immease schools that filed the river
from bank to bank. They make great
uoise when thus going up the river aud
can be heard at considerable distance
from the stream. In the spring of 1860,
a. the time of the Indian war, they
stampeded the horses Of company OF
soldiers canPed on the bank of the
srream and came near causing panic.
it being supposed that the Piutes were
charging upon the camp"
A St. Louis dog, recently deceased,
was property holder. His estate con-
sisted of house and lot left to him By
his deceased master. There was
trustee, of course: but the income was
conscientiously spent in paying for the
animals food, lodging and attendance
He was handsome spaniel, and was
not made vain by his wealth, but as
socIated freely with common dogs. At
his death, few days ago. tho trustee
had him buried in a costly coffio. a
hearse conveying the remains quite
tremendously to the family cemetery.
Eddie Lee, one of the recent gradu-
stes of the Hartford high school, sup
ported himself during the term by
work as Office boy, and saved two bun
dred dollars over, with which to enter
Harvard next fell. This will win him
three hundred dollars a year 10 Har
ward scholarships and keep him inde-
pendant throughout the course.
Susie Green might have had her pick
among the young men of Lexington,
KY, for she was handsome aud rich;
but she preferred a gambler of the
fashiest kind. He was known to her
for a month as a stock broker, aud at
tae end OF that briet courtship she mar
ried bim- They stopped at a Louis
VILE hotel on their bridal tour. He
brought her lemonade in her room.
aud she found it bitter. He had pu;
an op,ate in it. When she was uucun-
scious be stole her purse and $4,000
worth of diamonds, aud deserted her.
A man who csmped out two weeks
and ate balf-cooked meat, smoke flavor
ed and sooty fish, stale bread and cof-
fee as palatable as an "ague cure"
commenced to grumble at his xife's
cooking as soon as he got home and
cut down to the supper table.
A few nights ago Dooly county Ga.
farmer, whose place is on the river,
was walking around near bis stock
yard, when he heard ssquealing nng
his hogs. He looked over the fence to
TO learn the cause, when he found
large alligator had dead hog, which
it bad killed, and was trying to make
its way to tue river. He ran to the
house for his guu and called to several
of his hands to 60 with him to kill the
Gu arriving at the lot the
hogs had disappeared and SO bad the
water monster. They followed to the
river bauk, aud, Iustead of alligator
tracks, discovered those of two persons
who had the skin of an alligator and had
used tito accomplish the purpose OF
stealing hogs and making the owner, II
he SHOULD discover them, believe 1t was
an alligator. The rowiUg of boat
down the river could be distinctly heart
but there was Do,hiug to pursue IL, so
the matter was dropped until a better
opportunity was offered tor catching up
with the perpetrators.
From the Yazoo City Sentinel.
The most distressing death Of the
HobtiOStios "iSs-s " CiopC was tuot VI
Mrs. Carroll, because OF the manner in
which 1t was brought about. Hearing
the storm approaching, Mrs. Carroll,
with her baby 10 her arms, rushed to
her husband, Dr. Carroll, who threw
his arm about her Eeck. At the same
moment the wind blew the timbers of
the house down upon them and crushed
them to the floor, the mother with the
infant in her arms, the husband with
his arm around his wife's neck, aud
there he choked her to death. The
falling timbers did not seem TO hurt her
but locked the DOCTORS arm so closely
a bout her neck that be could not move
it. He was conscious that he was
killing her, but all his efforts to throw
off the the timbers we're futile. As
sistance came in two hours-too late
Tue spirit Of bis beautiful and loving