Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-02
ITEMS.
Jay Gould is ~ years old.


Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt is now
81.
Blaekberries were sold last week in
Florida at fifteen cts basket.
More than 200 dead bodies have
been picked up in the track of the late
cyclone.
A man in Pittsburg has invented .
potato digger which, it is claimed, will
do the work of 90 men.
The Prince of Wales will be one of
the principal exhibitors in the grea.
dog show in Berlin. He is Que of the
greatest dog fanciers in England.
A l0-months old child of John
Nessley, living near ut. Joy, Lsncas-
ter county, fell from a lounge and
broke it's neck.
A murderer who was banged by =
mob at jacksonville, ILL.,, turns out to
have been q son Of Qusntrell, the Mis-
souri, guerilla.
Two hundred persons started from
Berue, Switzerland, on april IS for
America, on account os the agricult-
ural distress prevailing there.
& young married woman named
Snooge, of Altoona shot herself with
suicidal intent because her husband
would not 1--we vita hsr She is danger
ous!y injured.
The ownership OF tho land upon
whicL Fort Washington, opposite Har-
risburg, vas bull. gi,i enter suit ag-
ainst the Government for damages to
property during the time tho fort was
occupied.
Sheep that have already been shorn
have had hard time of it this week.
A Washington coun ty drovcr states
that twenty-five Of his have died from
cold.
DR.. G. Beech va, murdered while
sleeping beside bis wife in Lamps,
Texas. The woman was no, harmed,
but Is crszed over the tragedy she was
compelled to witnesi.
Bx Governor H0rauo SEYMOUR will
&c l3 years old on the 3lst of May.
His home is farm house in Desrfeld,
z miles nerth of Utica, whence ia de
rived the term "The DeeEfeld Sage"
Have used Parker's Ginger Tonic for my
bad cough and hemorrhage had twenty-five
years. l feel like another man since used
i. Am 90 years past. Believe It sure TO
cure younger persons. a. Orner, High
5p!re, Pa.
Mrs Susan Louther, the wife Of a
prominent physician at StOyestown,
Somerset cou nty, committed suicide re
gently by taking laudanum The
JohnstoWn Tribune which chronicles
The items, says she vas prompted to
he act by jerIOusy.
Captain R. II. Pratt, superintend-
ent of the training-school for Iudian
youth at Carlisle, Pa, has collected
about $1,000 for the extension of tho
81 900 OF which was sub
scribed by the pastor of a church in
The vicinity.
General Crooks Is in command OF
the Mexican and American troops
which are to fight the border Indians.
He has already started for Mexico in
pursuit of the Apaohes. He says that
the stories about the Indians raid into
Arizona have been greatly exaggerated.
Ia law mare is not horse. Judge
n hite, of Allegheny county, laid
down that rule recently when he quash-
ed the indictment In case in which
man was charged with stealing horse,
whereas the animal was 9 mare.
Senator Anthony and Sherman are
the only two men now in active polit-
icsl life who participated in the session
of Congress in 1861, called together
By Pfesijen; Lincoln, after the storm
ing OF Sumter The others are either
dead or retired.
a york county farmer named Hem
~ Dellinger has 2 apples that be took
from tree in Lover Windsor town
ship, tina; county, 80 years ago. They
were kept in tin box il good state
of preservation for many year. They
are now dried, but not rotten.