Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-04-25

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Oats are beginning to head out in
southern Georgia.
An Akron man asks for diverse be-
cause his wife kicked him for not
stealing chickens.
Twenty eight million feet of logs
floated into the boom at Wllliamsport
OH Tuesday a week.
Annie L Relner, of Bethlehem,
aged IL years, fell from a see-saw a
few days since and was instantly
killed.
At Wilmot, Ohio, a woman was
burned to death through spark from
her tobacco pipe and set fire to her
clothing.
An old judge told young lawyer
he would do we'll to pick some of the
fethers from the wings of his imagins-
tim, and stick them into the tail of his
judgment.
George and Edmund Craveley are
twin brothers 95 years old residing in
Henry county, Va, and claim to be
the oldest twins living.
Thomas +. Franklin, ex-Attorney
General of Pennsylvania, was stricken
with paralysis at his home, in Lancas-
ter, on Tuesday week, and lies in a
critical condition.
After the wheat came up on Ken
lucky farm a sleet storm covered the
field with ice. Before this melted
food swept over and the ice, rising to
the surface of the water, pulled every
blade of wheat out of the ground and
carried 1t away.
f. &. Mack, who about four weeks
ago, at Morgan City, attempted to
pass one of the new pickels, which had
been plated, as FIVE dollar gold piece,
was convicted on Tuesday the 18th
inst in the U. S. Court at New Orleans,
the jury strongly recommending him to
mercy. Judge Billings sentenced
Mack to year at hard labor in the
Chester Ills. penitentiary and q fine
of $1,000.
A pretty girl out west told ber beau
that she was a mind reader. "You
don't say so," be exclaimed. "Yes,"
she said, "you have it in your mind to
ask me to be your wife, but you are
Just a little scared at the idea" Their
wedding cards are out
Tennessee presents a novelty in
temperance legislation. BY law just
passed, it is provided that liquor shall
not be sold TO miners or to husbands
who are habitual drunkards without
the written consent ofparents or guard
ians or of wives.
The up-bound freight train on the
North Carolina division of Richmond
and Danville Railroad ran over a COW
near High Point, n. c. last Wednes-
day. The engine and tender were
thrown from the track, drawing with
them Is cars, which were piled up in
cut. The engineer, John Gayle,
was killed instantly. William Wilson,
the fireman, and brakeman, name not
known, were seriously injured.
LONDON, April l7.-In the house
of Lords last evening the Duke of
Richmond aud Gordon, Conservative.
moved that the papers concerning the
foot and mouth disease among cattle
be presented to the House and asked
why the importatior of cattle from the
United States, as we'll from France,
was not prohibited. He said the di-
sease was more prevalent IN the form er
county than IN France. Lord Car
lnpford, Psesident of the Couacil and
Minister of Agriculture, denied that
the disease was prevalent to a large
extent in America. He said although
i. existed there, Wholesale prohibition
of the importation of America cattle
was not justified.
CALABAZAs, Arizona, April Is.
A prospector was chased to within
8 miles of this place last evening
The town is surrounded by camp fire:
and signaling has been going on from
the surrounding mountains. The cit
liens mounted aud awaiting an attack
!. from the Indians A special trair
from Camp Huaihuca is on its way
with troops. Captain Black and BIZ
rangers traced the Indians who killed
: the Sic cComas family into the Sierr'
Madre Mountains in chihuahua. Two
scouts who got in sight of their CAM
, in q deep canyon counted 62 warriors
and observed large amount Of plum
der and a great many arrivals. They
) reported this discovery to Captain
{ Black, but as the rangers numbered
only 90 they feared TO attack them.