Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22

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lamp, mounted q high step-hdder,
and, with wire in each hand, was
about to connect the circuit when
the current was turned on The
shock completely paralyzed him, and
he fell backward of the ladder. He
has brought a suit for. damages
against the company, and the trial
will be an interesting one. He claims
that the current was turned on be-
fore the usual time, which the COM
pany denies. One side of his face is
still paralyzed, and the doctors think
it will remain SO the rest of his life.
Abraham Burbaker, aged IS years,
. well.to-do farmer of Botetourt
county, Virginia was recently swim
died out of $1,000 by q young man
who claimed to be Judge " Jackson,
of Culpepper county. They met at
a circus, the young man ingratiated
himself into the old mans confidence,
said he was worth $4,000, and
agreed to purchase Rurbaker's farm
for S13,500 He then borrowed ST.
900 of the old man, to be paid with
the purchase on the land, since which
time the "junge" has not been seen
in Botetourt and will not, perhaps,
for . long time to come.
Yesterday several gentlemen were
speaking Of capital punishment, when
J. L. McNeely, one of the most pros
porous farmers in Pulaski county, re-
marked: Gentlemen, so far as the
punishment is concerned, hanging
does not amount to anything. Twas
hung once until was insensible, and
the feeling could scarcely be called
pain. / am in earnest, he continued.
I'm 1865, just at the close of the war,
robbers came to my house in search
of money. As a precaution against
such visitors / had given two watches
and $500 in gold to a trusty colored
woman to keep for me until times
improved. / was lying in bed, Grip
pied Several men entered the room,
and, without saying anything, put
rope around my neck and began to
pull. l told them that if they were
going to hang ME, to wait until 1
could walk to the hanging place.
They took me out on the gallery, and,
throwing the rope over a cross-beam,
asked me for my money. 1 told him
that had none. They drew me up.
For q moment 1 experienced slight
choking sensation, and then l became
insensibls. When 1 became con-
scious, after being taken down, / was
sitting on the steps. The sensations
while regaining consciousness were
very much like those experienced du-
ring q nightmare-Littie Rock Gazefte.
John Vanslyke, a wealthy and
prominent farmer near Ionia, Mich,
died on Sunday, and before dying he
said he had been poisoned. Foul
play is suspected.
Judge J. NJ Thurmond, an ex-
Mayor and attorney at Dallas, Texas,
was shot and killed in the court room
on Monday a week in a difficulty with
Robert Cowart, another attorney.
Arthur Graham, with his wife and
two children, were crossing the rail-
road track at Gibson, n. B., in a
sleigh on Monday night week, when
the sleigh was run into by train.
Graham was instantly killed, but his
wife and children jumped out and
were saved
This is what St. louis dispatch
last Thur .day. the 10th inst, said about
the overfowed lands along certain
streams in the western country: The
Globe Democrat dispatch boat was heard
from to day sixty miles above Memphis,
which point it will reach tonight. The
further south the explorer go the
greater the distress and ruin they find.
For fifty miles traversed yesterday not
tenantable house was found. The in-
haoitants have, for the most part, fed
TO the bluffs, leaving their stock lily
provided for. Several of the larger
Indian mounds in Southwestern Ken
lucky and Northern Arkansas are fairly
alive with cattle and small game driven
to the attitudes By the water. The
river extends from bluff to bluff, aud
that means forty miles. The best.in.
formed farmers fear that the water will
remain until the June rise comes, as
was the case in l744 and 1858. In
that contingency ruin widespread, of
which the present unparalleled deluge is
but forcible suggestion, will follow.
A large steamer arrived from the North
last night and is loading with $4,000
government rations and tons Of stores
contributed by the people Of St. Louis.
1t will be sent to the vicinity Of HeIeua.
A Denver aud Rio Grandc engine
became uncomfortable on Saturday q
week, and ran down the heavy grade
between Malta and Leadville at the
raie Of about fifty miles an hour. 1t
jumped the track about fifty feet from
tram full of passengers aud was
dashed to pieces. No one was hurt.
Wooden shoes are worn in the west,
and enough of them are sold to keep q
large manufactory going at Green Bay.
They are cut out of green bass wood,
smoked and dried like hams, and sold
at thirty -6v. cents a pair.
Iu Duvsl county, Florida, dwelIs q
poiygamis. with three wives. A negro
deemed it duty to prosecute him, and
after gathering the requisite proof
started for the court house to make
complaint. He had gone only q few
miles when the polygamous husband
overlook and shot bim.
A young woman got . free railroad
pass at jackson. Mich, BY telling the
poor master that she was . stranger in
distress. Next day she re-appeared
and said that she had lost the pass aud
wanted another. An investigation
shosed that she was q married woman