SENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFFLINTOWN.
WedueNday, Maj 4. IS 81.
B. F. SUIIWEIER,
XDITOB ASD FB0FB1ET0B.
The temperance question is s lively
qnestion in the Southern States.
The prospect for a full grain crop
in Europe are said to be first-rate.
Rick city people are moving to the
jea-oliore, to live there during the
summer.
More election officers in Philadel
phia have been sent to prison for
making faine returns.
It is not every one that can fast
40 days. A woman in Waupaca, Wis
consin, got only 17 of the 40 days
fasted when sue died.
These is a bill before the Legisla
ture that prohibits the sale of deadly
weapons, gunpowder and explosive
snbstances to persons under 1( years
of age.
Parties in this State that are inter
ested in silk culture are asking that
the Legislature appropriate money to
develope the business of the culture
of silk.
Oveb one hundred indictments were
found in a St Louis, Missouri, court
against R. L. Lindsav, for engaginj
iu the business of selling fraudulent
land titles.
iHEew lork Worlds fair pro
ject for 1883, seems to have been
abandoned. No encouragement was
extended to the people that were try
ing to get it up.
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O. X. Wobdes. aged 65 years, died
at Lewisburff, Union countv, last
'Wednesday. Mr. Worden had been
a journalist all his life till in 1868,
when he retired from the business.
The conspiracy against the Russian
Czar seems to le animated by the
nobility. People closely related to
the reigning family have been im
prisoned for Laving engaged in the
conspiracy.
A Scraxtos paper of week before
last says : In the trial of Win Burk,
for murder, at Scranton, it was dis
covered that one of the jurors named
Iloban was suffering from delirium
tremens. The trial was continued to
June term."
Turkey has issued an order pro
hibiting the importation of American
jxrk. All the scare about people
being eaten up by worms has arisen
from the stories that the eating of
uncooked pork fills the human body
with worms that eat a man to death.
The worm story gets a back-set in the
offer of the Frenchman to live three
days on a diet of pork that has
trichinae in it
The Jorth -Imerican remarks: Ye
have heard a great many tjueer and
crooked things about South Carolina,
but the statement by a c "temporary
that the guards and convicts of the
enitentiary of that State are an or
ganized gang of counterfeiters, car
rying on their nefarious operations
behind the iron bars, rather goes
ahead of anything yet recorded."
There has been suh a great
deal said about diseased pork, that
people are becoming somewhat shy
of it As an offset to the almost gen
ual denunciation of certain people
against pork diet a "skeptical i rench
man writes to the Prefect of Police
at Paris that all the asserted discov
eries in regard to triehinre are mere
inventions of vegetarians, and he
offers to prove it by living thiee days
on nothing but pork that Ls alleged
to be diseased, if the Prefect will
supply the meat"
The advocates of women's rights
are delighted iu mentioning the in
ventive genius of Mrs. Mary E. Wal
ton, of New York city. Mrs. Wal
ton's genius, they say, demonstrates
that women can accomplish. They
relate that "she invented the plan for
deadening the noise on the New York
Elevated Railway, for which 6he re
ceived $10,000. She now chums to
Lave invented a contrivance which
will d- away with smoke in the at
mosphere, and enable cities like Pitts
burg and Allegheny to bask in the
geniid sunshine to their satisfaction.
The machine works like a charm, and
Mrs. WaLon has been offered $25,000
for the right for four States."
The Democracy will never get over
the threshing that Grant administer
ed to the leaders of their party. Ever
since Grant put down tLe rebellion
they pretend to be alarmed lest he
turn his attention against the liberty
of the country. The General is now
iu Mexico, and the Democratic lead
ers are unhappy on that account
They pretend to believe that he is
there to engage in a conspiracy to
overtlirow the Mexican government
and have himself set up as a King.
If Grant and his friends had such a
project in view, his son. Fred Grant,
would not have retired from the army
and engaged in the peaceful pursuit
of railroading 1 the establishment
of a Graut dynasty in Mexico be the
object tbe succession would be of
such imwrtAiice, that the son must
needs We a soldi.ra Iunu wuo nu
maintain himself j,y the power of the
swore The D.mlcrary are
puis -d for twothings, namely, firlit
ing for slavery mj tight ing phantoms-
They fJtught for slavery when
t- ey sympathised ,ith, and engaged
? l r-beliion ; yjjev now fight a phan
7 ;oro A hor. 4V Gont as a king.
Ecbops seems to be the country
from whence to bring Mormon colo
nies. The first company of converts
to Mormcrpsm to arrire from Europe
this year were landed in this country
last Wednesday. A dispatch relative
thereto says, they are under the di
rection of Elders D. C" Dunbar, Hun
ter, Low, Jack, Spencer, Christ naon,
Rosenbaum, Turner, Willey, Jones
and Jackson, of whom Mr. Dunbar
is the chief. The party consisted of
one hundred and ninety-seven men,
women and children. The young
cluldren formed about one-sixth of
the entire party, while the adults and
youths were about equally divided.
They are an exceedingly healthy,
cleanly-looking lot, among whom are
counted several farmers and mechan
ics. Some of them will go to Ogden,
others to Salt Lake and others to
colonies in Arizona and Wyoming.
Elder Dunbar said s "I and my ten
brother elders are returning after a
two-years' stay in different parte of
Europe. We have been located prin
cipally in England and Scotland, as
that vt our largest field for converts,
but of course some of us visited Nor
way, Sweden, Germany and Switzer
land as welL The greater portion of
our party are recent converts and the
majority come from the southwest of
England and Scotland. There are a
few Germans as well as Scandina
vians and Swiss among us. Some of
them are well-to-do, while others have
little or no money. We have got a
great manv elders laboring in differ
ent parts of Europe at present and I
expect that this year the Alormon
immigration will reach 10,000 and
perhaps even go beyond that figure.'
STATE ITEMS.
Mayor Lyon, of ritteburg, has five
colored men on his police lorce.
The people of Bellefonte are ar
ranging for a grand demonstration
on the Fourth of July.
The streets of Easton are kept
clean by every householder scraping
m front of his own door, the oorougn
removinar the dirt heaps.
Westmoreland county has fifty-one
convicts in the eetern Penitentiary
one to every one thousand of its
inhabitants.
Mrs. James Mount, of Buffalo town
ship, Washington Co., gathered twenty
five dozen of egg in five dajg from six
ty hens, exclusive of what was used in
the faniily.
The Harrisburg Patriot says that it
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is a notorious met inai ooys sent
from that city to the House of Refuge
at Philadelphia always return as well
trained thieves.
A Johnstown, Cambria county, man
in going home late the other night
found a stranger under the faniily
lounge. He was a burglar and made
his escape with several articles of
value.
A pair of horses belonging to Geo.
Merrill, worth S;H), fell over a log
bank in Cleartield county seventy
feet high, and were instantly killed.
A horse thief named J. C liidihe.
escaped from the Clarion county jail
a few days ago, by crawling through
the hot-pipe of the heater to the cel
lar, and thence out of the loal win-
low.
A rhiladelpliia boy aged eleven
years has made complaint to the po
lice that his father has frequently
knocked him down and kicked him,
after beating him severely. He says
his father compelled him to take off
all his clothing and he on a bed while
he was beaten severely with a cow
hide. The Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children has taken
charge of the case.
Thomas Phillips, who was watch
man at the railroad bridge over the
Juniata at Lewistown some years ago,
died at Selinsgrove on the 15th of
April, aged about 70 years. He had
been in the service of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad in various capacities on
the line above for perhaps 30 years,
received an injury on a hand-car which
partly disabled him and has since
then been employed as watchman at
Manayunk, Selinsgrove bridge, Lew
istown bridge, and lastly again at
Selinsgrove. He was really unfit for
night watchman and could have done
little more than give an alarm in case
of accident He was a native of
England and was much esteemed as
an exemplary and Christian man. He
was step-father so T. M. Uttley, Esq.,
of Lewistown, and leaves two chil
dren by his first wife who reside at
Cincinnati
The Harrisburg Telegraph of April
28th last says : On Sunday night of
the 14th of November, 1S80, at Union-
town. D.uiphin county, an old man
named Daniel Troutnuin and his wife
were awakened from their slumbers
by two men who siood br their bed
side. The men ordered the olu man
to get np, and after he had complied
he asked them what they wanted.
They told him they knew he had been
settling up an estate and had a large
sum of money in the house, and they
wanted him to hand over the funds.
The old man seemingly agreed to
give them what they wanted, and pre
tended to make search for it While
doing so, and when the robbers were
off their guard, he seized a shotgun
and prepared to defend himself. The
robbers, seeing this action, ran out
of the house, followed by the cour
ageous veteran. They ran around a
corner of the house, the old man in
pursuit and disappeared in the dark
ness. 1 routman returned to the door
and as he was about to enter the
Louse he turned and looked back,
when one of the villians fired, the
ball stoking the old man in the left
breast mating a fatal wound. He
dropped in the doorway and was as
Pted into the chouse hy his wife, who
gave the alarm. VTromman lived but
halt "an hour, and Was conscious part
of the time. In thut time he re
putedly declared thaKthe man who
tuvd the shot was named Roiuberger,
- be Uth1 at Tfcwer City,
uvlkul connty. In porwiance of
statement of Trotman.
"w -as arrested. Af-"c-nry
Romrrgermj!Lle
aung rrnk Ron?
" w cousin. A.
men bef o:
STATE ITEM.
He caromes of the Pennsylvania
.;ir..l fnr March show a net Inereaae
of $400,000.
Greene county farmers report an
unfavorable outlook for the grain crop
in that neighborhood.
Forty four Mormon missionaries are
en route for Wales, wnere mej w...
work among the miners and ironworkers.
Congressman Henry Walker, of Wil-
liamsport, bas erected a conuj
ment over the grave of pot dog at that
nlaoe.
In Bethlehem, Northampton oonnty,
the people have mutually pledged each
other not to giye a tramp anything to
mi until he has earned it Mos of the
gardens in the village have been Cog
in this way.
A (Li-lisle woman informs the people
of that region of perpetual bliss that
she is prepared to do wnuewasuiui;,
ealsomining, carpet-cleaning, garden
Baking, boose cleaning, trimming trees,
ranairino hnD and boiliOS SOSD,
John Morrow, of Easton, eaught his
left band in a oircular saw on Thurs
j.. MV m ennseaueoce of which
Vmj m " .
three fingers had to be amputated.
William Folmer, a Gerican, resid
ing not far from Lancaster, obtained
more liquor than was good for bim in
tbst eity on Friday afternoon. On his
way home he fell oot of his wsgon,
striking upon his head, and the wheels
passed over bis back. He died imme
diately, bis lieck havirg been broken
by the fall.
Mrs. Igo, aged 60, died at Shenan
doah a few days ago, very poor, yet
she bad the grandest funeral ever seen
in the region. It turns out that the
deceased was insured for $100,000,
that the casket bad been donated by
policy holders, that the beautiful floral
deoorations bad been furnished by pol
icy holders, and that the mourners
were policy holders.
As the Harrisburg accommodation
was about one-fourth of a mile west of
Mouotville on Friday evening a week
some miscreants threw a number of
stones at the train, two of which crash
ed through the car windows, narrowly
missing some of the passengers.
A Mrs. Doctor Norton got a number
of ladies in Franklin, Venugo county
interested in the "Little Alice Mining
Company" and as soon as $500 had
been paid in tbe Doctor left for parts
unknown with the money.
Georce Dougherty, a horse thief es
caped from the Sunbury jsil by soaping
his body and squeexing tnrougn a nar
row window.
Judge H. W. Williams says Potter
county (which is a portion ol Lis judicial
district ) is the most moral spot in Penn-
sylvsnia tbe people have no crime to
contend with, no paupers, no taxes no
county debt, no railroads, and bunt the
deer and wild fowl in forests which
have never resounded to the woodman's
axe.
There ic a teamster in Philadelphia
who during tbe last fifteen years, has
taken ten drinks at the same store dai
ly. This makes a low average of three
thousand a year or forty-five thousand
drinks in fifteen years, and tbe proprie
tor of the store vouches for the truth
of the statement. At five cents a
a drink, wholesale be bas consumed
$2,250 worth of whisky in that time.
The Franklin Repository of last week
says: An accident of a most terrible
character occurred sometime Sunday
morning at the Conewago furnace, near
Middletown. Eli Gibson, a colored
mao, aged probably between thirty and
thirty five years, bas been employed as
a filler at tbe furnace. He went to work
as usual. At noon his daughter arriv
ed with ber father's dinner. She as
cended to the cupola where be was em
ployed, but be was not there. Some
thing impelled ber to look down tbe
stack, when she was horrified to see tbe
body of a man burned to a crisp, which
she supposed to be that of her father.
She ran and summoned assistance. Tbe
body was taken out and it proved to be
that of the unfortunate Gibson. He had
in some unaccountable way fallen into
the stack and met a horrible fate. How
the accident could bays occurred is not
known as no one was near at tbe time
it happened. Gibson was a very re
spectable colored man and leaves a
wife and several children.
A case of suicide is reported from
ellsboro, Pa., under date of the
2 1 tii nit, as follows : 1 ne tacts oi a
remarkable suicide have just come to
light On bun day evening last a
young lady named Sophia Showers,
of this place, about eighteen years
old, returned from church, as usual,
and leaving her hat and cloak on the
side porch went around to the cis
tern, in the rear of the house. She
removed the cover of the "man-hole,"
let herself down through the open
ing, which was only seventeen inches
square, and dropped into the cold
water below. hen the family were
alxmt to retire for the night the
young av was nussea ana search
was at once instituted, ller nat and
cloak were found where she left them
and suspicions of disaster were at
once aroused. After a thorough ex
animation of the premises she was
discovered in the bottom of the cis
tern. Physicians were summoned
and every possible effort made for
her resuscitation, but without suc
cess. She had been in the water
nearly two hours when found. Sh
must have experienced considerable
difficulty in getting into the cistern,
as it was found almost impossible to
remove her from it and Boine' of the
planking bad to be displaced in order
to do so. Evidently she had a de
termined pun x) Be to destroy herself,
although no reason is known why she
should have desired to terminate her
existence She was always bright
and cheerful and seemed happy. The
affair remains shrouded in mystery,
and the coroner's inquest threw no
light upon the matter.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Lief, the Norseman, who discover
ed New England, is to have a monu
ment in Boston.
Mrs, vT indom, wife of the Secre
tary of the Treasury, cares little for
socifcty. The same may be said of
Mrs. Kirkwood, wife of the Secretary
i luc interior.
Mrs. Wayne McYeagh, wife of the
torney General, is tall and graee
- md a good deal of a politician,
-jo.. employe in a Wisconsin plow
tory had a good thing of it in
aling plows and selling them, till
, was discovered. 'At his house
""rs found $2,000 worth of plows
ready for shipment He had
. v them off piece by piece.
CE1ER1L ITEMS.
A twelve-vear-old girl of Sit Gil
ead, Ohio, has just died from the ef
fects of over-exertion in jumping
roTh fcridWroom at a Muscatine
irx.:- i i;r nut on his hat un-
mediately after the ceremony, said
"Good by" to his wife, explained to
the guests that he had no intention
of Uving with her, and cooly de-
PaAteLouisvilK Ky., last Thursday
afternoon, during a storm of had and
lightning four boys, ranging in years
from 12 to 14, were struck by light
ning and killed. They were engaged
in plaving base ball, during recess at
school, at the time of the sad acci
dent rri,.AA maul-nl men forcibly enter-
ed the dwelling of John Baker, an old
man, near Mannington, W. Va., on
Tuesday night a week, beat Baker
severely and robbed him of W
with which they escaped.
Tv;iKom nmimmond. aired 50, a
curbstone broker, was burned to death
on the morning of the 28th ttlt, in a
room of a building on Sixth Avenue,
New York, which he occupied as a
anartinent The fire was
caused by brummond smoking while
in bed.
Forty robbers, mostly Mexicans,
have raided a settlement near Farm
ington, New Mexico, plundering
houses and driving the people away.
A hot fire was kept up during the
raid, four settlers were killed and
the robbers carried off one hundred
head of cattle.
A terrible case of sickness is re
ported from Cresco, Mich. A desti
tute family named Weaver, eight in
number, living on an island in the
center of a large marsh, Were found
nearly all down with a malignant
form of scarlet fever. Three of the
children died in twenty-four hours.
A horse of William Stradcr fell
into a mine-hole forty feet deep, near
Washington, Warren county, N. J.,
on Saturday a week. A derrick was
rigged and he was extricated a few
hours afterward apparently but little
hurt
A Cincinnati dispatch states that
on Sunday night a week, the wife of
ex representative J. D. Thompson, of
Lewis county, Ky., was drowned by
the upsetting of a row-boat in a swol
len stream. Mr. Thompson, a deli
cate man, supported his wife for
nearly half an hour, but when help
arrived and they were brought ashore,
the lady was dead and Mr. Thomp
son so much exhausted that his re
covery is deemed doubtful.
A woman named islynn called on a
dentist in North Yineland, N. J., re
cently, for the purpose of having
some teeth extracted, and fearing to
take chloroform, resolved to test the
anesthetic properties of whisky and
applejack She drank a half-pint of
each of the beverages ana oecanie
unconscious. She never recovered
from the effect of the liquor, and died
in a few hours.
Owing to the severity of the past
winter in Japan, the deer have in some
parts descended from the mountains
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to the neighborhood oi tne seasnore,
where they have been slaughtered by
thousands, without any apparent
effect upon their number. Venison
is, of course, at a discount under such
circumstances, and a deer's carcass,
worth from twelve to fifteen yen as
ordinary rule, may now be purchased
in Hakodate for a yen and a half
equal to $1.56. .
Roval S. Carr, convicted of mur
dering W. W. Murcommock on the
11th of December, 1878, was hanged
on the 2'Jth of April, at Windsor, Vt,
in the State Prison. Carr wished to
marry Murcommock's wife, and in
duced the former to go hunting with
him, when he deliberately shot him
from behind. He had served a ten
years term for killing Mary E. Looiuis
at Worcester. He was a brutal, ig
norant fellow, and manifested no
concern after receiving his sentence.
A striking example of canine fidel
ity and sagacity was witnessed in
Boston a few days ago. Attention
was attracted to a dog who was
making some singular demonstrations,
and on approaching him, a man was
found lying dead in the road. On
attempting to make a closer examina
tion, the dog grew furious and would
allow no one to touch his dead mas
ter. He was lassoed, and the man
was removed to an undertaker's, but
the dog slipped the noose and fol
lowed. Ou forcing his way into the
room, he lay down by the body, moan
ing as if in the deepest anguish, oc
casionally trying to rouBe the dead
man by putting his paw on the body.
The man's residence was discovered,
and the body was taken home, the
dog following closely.
A wedding took place in Connecti
cut a few evenings ago tinder pecu
liar circumstances, showing the ex
tent to which parties matrimonially
inclined will submit to inconvenience
rather than be disappointed. The
happy couple, unacquainted with the
marriage laws, had obtained a certifi
cate in one county and engaged a
parson to perform the ceremony who
resided in another. On making their
appearance at the appointed hour,
the reverend gentleman informed
them that they could not be married
there, and proposed to accompany
them across the Una They wanted
to be married, and a team was pro
cured to convey them to the point
designated. Alter a drive of several
miles through the mud, the party
halted under a large tree, and with
the clouds ebove them, the wet soil
beneath, and an old lantern for illu
ruinating, they were pronounced man
and wife.
According to the Paris papers an
epidemic of crime is raging in the French
capital, the severity of which is without
parallel in any city of Europe. I: ig
estimated by persons who have had ac
cess to criminal statistics that between
70,000 bd 80,000 professional law
breakers are now at liberty within tbe
city limits while tbe number of resident
criminals bas largely increased of late
years tneir average age bas diminished,
and it is youthful desperadoes under
twenty tears of are who are now ren-
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denng the gay capital the most danger
ous piace oi residence m the civihxed
world.
Beinrich, the Sew Jersey musio
teacher who ran away with a nnnil and
abandoned a wife and several children,
bas been sentenced to four years' im
prisonment at hard labor for atealing
his viotim's clothes. He is ir tbe last
GEMERAL ITEMS.
A lady named Mamma, aged ninetj
four years, living in Shelby township,
Indiana, banged herself.
An order bas been issued declaring
postal cards unmailable with anything
but the direction on tbe address side.
Lota Dai ling is a clairvoyant at Law
rence, Mass., but her sight was not
strong enough to disoern tbe approach
of ber husband while another man was
kissing her, or a fight might have been
prevented".
Peter Lemen, of Detroit, is strange
ly afflicted by a liurd which be swal
lowed when it was very small two years
ago. He has dwindled from 160 to
75 pounds in weight
In Stone county, Ark., a fire in the
woods surrounded an immigrant named
Dement and family, and tbe mother
and two children were burned to death.
On Sunday a week Mrs. Ren'xel, the
wife of a farmer living three miles
from Weatherford Texas, while in front
of a fire, fainted and fell face foremost
into tbe flames. There is little hope
of ber recovery.
Forty robbers, mostly Mexicans,
have raided i settlement near Farm
ington, N. M., plundering houses and
driving tbe people away. A hot fire
was kept np during tbe raid. Four
settlers were killed and - the robbers
carried off one hundred bead of cattle.
A terrible ease of sickness is report
ed from Cresco, Mich. A destitute
family named Weaver, eight in number
living on an island in tbe centre of a
large marsh, were found nearly all
down with a malignant form of scarlet
fever. Three of tbe children died in
twenty-four hours.
Koyal S. Carr eonvioted of mcrder
ing W. W. Murcommock on tbe 11th
of December 1379, was hanged on
the 29th alt at Windsor, Vt., in the
State prison. Carr wished to marry
Maroommock a wire and induced tne
former to go hunting with him when he
deliberately shot him from behind.
He bad served a ten years term for
killing Mary . Looniis at Woreester.
He was a brutal, ignorant fellow, and
has manifested do concern since his
sentence.
A man who had been Committed to
the Jersey City jail on the charge of
robbing a saloon called at tbe house of
tbe man be bad robbed a few days be
fore tbe time fixed for tbe trial j and
coolly informed bim tbat he Would not
be on hand for trial. When asked bow
be had got out of jail, tbe fellow re
plied that Le had walked out with a
party of visitors without being noticed.
On inquiry at tbe jail some days after,
it was discovered by tbe keeper tbat
one of his guepts bad really departed
without bis knowledge, and his absence
bad not been noticed.
During a dispute on Saturday be
tween John J. M'Lean, mayor of East
St Louis and Marcel Mouebereon in
regard to tbe title of a piece of land
upon which tbey were stauding, Moueb
ereon became enrsged and fired one bar
rel of a shot gun in tbe mayor's face,
putting out cne of his eyes. 1 olicemen
Williams rushed to the mayor's assis
tance and Mouebereon discharged the
other barrel at him, nearly tearing one
of bis arms off. A bystander then drew
a pistol and shot at the Freocbman,
lodging a bullet in his neck, producing
a dangerous wound. Tbe mayor and
Moucherecn now clinched, whereupon
Mrs. Mouebereon. first driving the dis
abled policeman and citizen with a pis
tol from the field, took bold on the
mayor and gave him the completcst
thrashing any man iu St Louis ever got.
Five Children Drowned In a
Well.
Tbe Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette bas
the following from a reliable corresnoc-
dent at Stover, Dallas county, this
slate : "One of tbe most terrible trag
edies occurred near this place on yes
terday ever known in tbe annals of this
couutry. The wife of a Mr. Nutt, a
well-to-do planter, residing some six
miles from this dace, in the northern
portion of Calbouo oounty, during tbe
aDsenoe oi ner nusoand tnrew all ber
children, five in number, into a well,
and to make sure of their drowning let
the backet into the well and suspend
ed herself in the well by tbe tope and
kept them pushed under water with ber
feot nntil she was satisfied that life was
extinct The husband returned just at
nightfall, and on being told by bis wife
tbat their children were in the well
hastened to the residence of a neighbor
near by, a Mr. Clemoos, and informed
him of what bad occurred, requesting
bim to have the bodies drawn out He
(Nutt) then went to his father's, a few
miles distant, and has not returned to
bis home, where his five children lay
wrapped in the icy embrace of death.
The eldest child, a boy, was twelve
years of age and plowed tbe forenoon
before bis death. Dr. Holderness, of
Chambereville, and Dr. Robberson
were summoned this morning and pro
nouneed Mrs. Nutt insane."
Tue Miafortanea ofCblo.
Cbio or Scio, tbe scene of the recent
disasterons earthquake, causing the
death of hundreds of people, is tbe an
oient Chios, one of tbe numerous cities
that claimed to be the birthplace of
Homer. Tbe island belongs to Turkey,
and lies on the west coast of Asia Mi
nor. It is 32 miles loog, 18 wide, and
has an area of 400 square miles. Tbe
inhabitants are mostly Turks, and num
ber abont 50,000. Chio, tbe chief city
is on the east eoaat It has a fine har
bor defended by a castle, and manu
factures silk, velvet, and cotton. The
population of the city ia about 15,000.
The island of Chios, one of tbe most
fertile in the Levant, bas been visited
by many misfortunes. It was invaded
and devastated by the Persians !n 494
B. C, and became a member of tbe
Athenian league. In 858 it became in
dependent, and 150 years later became
subject to Rome. lo the Fourteenth
Century tbe Turks Captured tbe town
of Chios and kiiled the inhabitants.
Then for 200 years tbe Genoese held
possession until the Turks again seized
it In 1822, during tbe Greek revolu
tion, the island rose against the Turks.
Tbe Turks invaded the country in great
force, massacred 23,000 Sciotes and
sold 43,000 into slavery. Thonsands
of others fled from tbe country, and in
a few months only 2'000 of 104,000
Sciotes tbat had inhabited tbe country
remained on it. No previous earthquakes
are recorded in the history of the island.
Tbe surface of the country is rocky and
unevsn. Only a small part of the land
is arable. Tbe soil is irrigated chiefly
by means of wells. Gum mastic ia tbe
staple Produot. thnnah fina in.i
produoed and fruit and wool are arti-
eies oi export. ,
J. S. Graybill's Advertisement.
If, while cleaning house this
Spring, you find you need a
NtfW CARPET,
Call on JOHN S. QBATBUL,
(Cor. Bridge and Water Streets,)
MlFFtlNTOWX, - - - PENS'A,
And you will find the finest
line of
BRUSSELS,
THREE-PLY,
EXTRA-SUPER,
MEDIUM,
and low grade
INGRAIN, RAG,
HEMP and STAlR
CARPETS.
P. S. A good Ingrain Carpet for
25 Cents.
HT" Carpets cut and matched
when desired.
If you need any Floor
OIL, CLOTHS
For Halla or Kitchens, we have
them:
W 1 1
8
9 AM Yrds Wide.
o 4
Alto OIL CLOTn RUGS,
all sizes.
o
If you need new
Window Shades,
this Spring, this is the place to
look for them. We have the
SHADING
In All Colors,
And if you bring us the size of
your windows we will make!
the Shade for you ready
to hang on your
windows.-
If you want a nice
Looking Glass,
this is the place to get it.
CT-Also All kinds of
CLOCKS,
HANGING BRACKETS,
Hall Table and Hand
LAMPS,
PICTURE FRAMES AND
PICTURES.
And if you want any
FURNITURE,
Don't forget to take a look at
our
PARLOR SUITES In Raw
Silk, Rep and Hair Cloth,
CHAMBER SUITES Walnut,
Ash and Paiited,
TABLES, CHAIRS,
BEDSTEADS, SIDEB0ABDS,
SINKS, LOUNGES,
and almost anything you can ask
for in that line. In
BEDDING
We can supply you with
MATTRESSES,
BOLSTERS,
PILLOWS,
And
FEATHERS.
Don't forget the place,
JOHN S. GRAYBILL,
Cor. Bridge and Water Sts.
Mifflin town, - - Penn'a.
Thx following, from the address of
Judge Pearson, against Speculative
Insurance, as delivered lost week to
the Grand Jury of Dauphin county,
is reproduced in the columns of the
Sentinel mnd Republican at the request
of a number of citizens. Ed.
" I am well satisfied that a large
portion of the insurance companies
supported for the purpose of insur
ing lives are publi 3 nuisances and that
those carrying them on, those acting
as agents, and those acting as in
specting physicians for them ought
to be indicted and convicted for a
misdemeanor and that they enter into
a conspiracy in establishing such in
stitutions and in conducting them in
the manner they da We know, not
merely by public report in the news
papers, but by what has been tried
frequently in the courts, that these,
the men interested in these insur
ance offices, are sometimes perfectly
honest Generally speaking, they
know what is going on. And they
sometimes know that what is going
on is neither honest nor safe. The
physician who certifies to a man being
a good and suitable subject, a proper
penon to have his life insured, knows
perfectly well he is over 8.5 years of
age, feeble and miserable, and at tbe
Same time hardly expects to live a
year, and yet they will insure him for
twenty, thirty or forty thousand dol
lars on his life, not in favor of his
relatives, but in favor of some per
son or other who hires him to use
his name to have the insurance taken.
Those things unquestionably are a
high misdemeanor. They are a con
spiracy td cheat- It is an evidence
to cheat on the part of those who
manage the company if they knew
what is done. It is a conspiracy to
cheat on the part of the physician,
the party who cerWieH to cases of
that kind on those who take the in
surance. They cannot recover a pen
ny on them if they only knew it but
at the same time they are misleading
many. In a neighboring county it
led to a case of murder, where men
were hanged for a crime of this kind.
They conspired to get a man's life
insured, which they did. in a consid
erable sum of money. They found
that he would not die quick enough
and they put him to death. The
whole thing is a nuisance, deceiving
those who enter into them. A man
goes there he imagines he can take
insurance on the life of a man whom
he would not venture to trust with
25. He takes an insurance on his
life for 5,000 and pays the insurance
for a year or two and calls that a fciir
business transaction. It is such a
transaction that could not be recov
erable in any court. llie man is
cheating himself as well as the com
munity. I have long intended to call
the attention of the Grand Jury in
this comity to offenses of this kind
that have not been committed here,
but in' the neighboring counties of
Lebanon, Lancaster and Uerka they
have become very coimnon. But
they are becoming common here and
will lead to great evil uples "topped,
and the effectual' waj to Stop tbaa is
to indict the Insurance Coin pvnes
and to indict those who act as their
agents. They have no interest in the
lives of the persons. A man can
effect insurance where thnre rs an in
snrance interest; as a relative, but
when insurable is in favor of a total
stranger it is strong evidence of an
intention to defraud, and such would
disable them from ever recovering a
penny or the policy. Let it go oti
for a little while longer and it will
lead to murder. These persons will
get tired of paving orf . the policy.
Here is a person who don't own a
penny one whom ria one would trust
with a penny and nobody expects to
lve srx montbs. Yet they w2l take
insurance on his life for fifty or sixty
thousand dollars. This is done by
strangers. It is practiced daily and
is in violation of the law. I should
have no hesitation in convicting any
agent of a company who took insur
ance of that kind no hesitation in
convicting for conspiracy. Only a
few days ago an old man complained
of them having insured his life for
$30,000, and they were to give him
$25, but only paid him $5. This is
a species of the worst kind of gam
bling. If the Legislature will pass
no laws to put a stop to sut-h busi
ness the Courts of Justice, who have
the morals and interest of the com
munity in their keeping, will endea
vor to look after it I should never
hesitate a moment to convict any per
son who should take insurance in that
way and under those circumstances."
SESERAL ITEMS.
P. M. Pomeroy, Postmaster at Heb
ron, Indiana, waa arrested oa Tuesday
at that place on a charge of riling reg
istered letters. His bail Was fixed at
$2000.
Five prisoners escaped from jail in
Lawrence, Slab., By sawing off the
bars of tbe workshop window. Among
them is a burglar named Kennedy,
serving a three years's sentence. The
entire poliee force are on their track.
Their names are John Doberty, Pat
rick Pox, John Kennedy, Frank S.
Bryant, and Charlea VYilby.
Some boys who were digging in the
mud on the New Jersey flats near Bar
rison nneartbd seven glass jars, each
containing the dead body of ao infant
preserved in alcohol. The bodies in
dicate tbat the infants were two or
three days old when they died. The
jars were taken to Newark, and an in
vestigation will ba beld.
A Texas woman, thought to be in
sane, deliberately stretched herself on
tbe track of tbe Texas Pacifio railway,
the other day, and was shockingly in
jured by being thrown from the track
by a locomotive. Before doing this
the unfortunate woman tried to kill a
child whose parents were at ehurob.
Gambling is said to be indulged in
to an alarming extent in Canada, tbe
stakes at Card parties of ladies and
geatieaen sometimes running into
largo amounts, as high as $600 occas
ionally being seen in the pooL As is
usual in such eases, the ladies manage
to carry off the lion's share of the win
nings. Mrs. Augusta Gedelga. aged 21),
wife of a eigar maker in New York,
jumped from the roof of a five-story
tenement bouse on tbe 12th inst, and
was so dreadfully mangled that death
ensued m a few hours. Her arms, legs
and skull were broken. Brooding ov
er tbe danger of ber three children
being exposed to small-pox, whioh had
broken oat in the neighbor hood, caused
tbe sot.
TravtUn,' Gmule.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
TIME-TABLE
' .... ... .
Taaccoa ahi Local Fuinon Tni
Brrircss Uabkikbpio akb Altooxa.
IIAV ISATt
WESTWARD. EASTWARD
HlO!IS. Uti3
III ? ? -5 15
5 a r I i o x -
fjt
T. W. A.. 1A.M. lA.M. r.UA
1200:1230 731. fhi!del'a 4 15: 630i
r. u. a. a. .r.M.'r.m.t
4 30 8 00! -iOO'Harrisb'a
4 48 816! 21.RockTHIe
4 56; 8 22: Z21 MarTsvi'e
5 06' 8 30, 227j Cove.
5 15' 8 40! 2 38 Dnncan'n
5 65 8 48i 2 41 Aqncicct
6 IB 8 02!
30l 914
6 451 9 271 8 IS Millerst'n
7 14 9 40! 3 25 Thomp'n
7 40! g5.t 344l Mexic()
p. a. a .
7 30 130. 900
717. lie; 44
711 109 8 35
7 05! 101 8 24
8 58 1252' 812
B4'.M-11 BM
2 55; Baily'j. I g) 12 33! 747
S 05; Newport 6 80i 2 22 7 32
6 18 1212: 71?
6Hl2 0i: 700
654 11471 4'J
7 45 100U! 348 Pemrsv'e! 651 11421 63S
8 00 10 16)354: Mifflin S 40 1 1 36 6"'
110 4 4 20 Lewisto'n: 5 17 11 IS:
11100 4 35 Anderson ! 605 1100
til 17 4 50 XcVevfn 4 52 1048'
11128! 5 07 Mnaj'nk' 4 39 10 37'
111 43 5 23 N Harait'n 4 27 10 27'
111 50! 6 32 MU Union; 4 2D 10 20
111 58' 6 40 Mnpleton.! 4 12 10 l.j-
112 0: 5 47 Mill Creek, 4 05 1008
11218' 6 05 Hantinfr'n 3 52 9 55
:i2 3o 6 18 fetereb'g 8 38
(12 44 6 28, Barree 3 31
12 51 6 38 Spr'ceCk 3 25.
1 04 6 52 Birmgn'm 3 13,
1 16i 7 01; Tyrone 3 08
124 7 13: Tipton 259
1 30' 7 19 Fontoria 251
134 7 24 Bells Mills; 2 52
1 65' 7 46 Altooo I 2 35
r.u. r. m.I
j 6 50 1 15 Pittsburg.
941;
934
9 271
912
907!
8 39:
8 34!
831!
8 15
A.M.' A.M.:
7 20: j
tf MTWABt) Fast TaAas.
Pacific Express leaves Philadelphia 11 6J
p m ; Harrutburg- 4 20 a m j Duncnnon 4
48 am; Newport 6 11 am; Mifflin 550
m ; Lewistown 6 12 a in ; McTeytown 6 33
a in; Mt. Union 7 00 am; Huntingdon 7
22 a in j Petersburg 7 35 s m ; Sprnce Crei-K
7 49am; Tyrone 8" 12 a m ) Bell's Mil!
8 81 a m j Altoona 8 50 a m ; Pittsbuif
115 pm.
PitLiburt; Express leaves Philadelphia at
6 25 p m 1 Hjrrwlnrg' 10 25 p m; Rockvilla
10 S p m ; Miulin lUipnij Lewistowi.
12 09 a m ; Huntinrdn 1 13 a m ; Tyrona
193am; Altoona 2 25 a m ; Pittsburg 7 U0
am.,
Fast Line leaves Philadelphia at 12 10 a
m ; Harrisburg 4 05 p m ; Militia 5 25 p m '
Lewistown 5 48 p a ; Huntingdon 6 50 p m ;
Tyrone 7 30 p ra ; Attooa 8 W p m : Pittl
barg 12 01 p m.
Cfcicaco Express leaves Philadelphia it P
00 a m j Harnsbnrg 12 25 p m ; Mifflin 1 40
pro; Lewistown 157 pm; Huntingdon 2
64 pm; Tyrone 3 31 p ra ; Altoona 4 05 p
m ; arrives at Pittsburg 7 30 p m.
Fast Zi'ss Wnt, en Sunduyi, ri stop ml
Dacaon, Stirport, Mct'tylow, Mt. Union,
Ptttrttmrg and BtlVi Mill; vhex Flag fid.
Eastward Fast Tiaiss.
Cincinnati Express leaves PitNbnrg at
4 20pm; Altoona 9 20 p m ; Bell's Mills
936 p m ; Tyrone 9 52 p ra ; Petersbnrg It'
21 pm; Huntingdon 10 34 pm ; Mt Uoion
10 59 p m ; MeVevtown 11 30 p m ; Lewis
town 11 63 p m; Mifflin 12 15am; arrives
at Harrisburg at 1 40 a m, and Philadelphia
at 15 a m.
Pacific Express leaves Pittsburg at 4 20 a
m ; A ltoona 8 30 am; Tyrone 857 am,
Huntingdon 930a m; Lewistown 10 32 am;
Mifflin 10 51 am; Duncannon 11 47 a in ;
Harrisburg 12 15 p m; arrives in PhiUdet
phia 3 45 p m.
Pacific Kzprtm East o Sunday will stop
at Bell's Mills, Spnct Cretk, Ptttrsbwf,
Mill Creek, Mt. ('mom, Mci'tytown ami Aeu
port, wkem t'larged. . .
LEWISTW3 MVISIOX.
Trains leave LwiJtown Junction tor Mit
my at 7 00. 1 ri, n 06 a m, 4 33 p m ; for
Snobwy at 7 25 a m, 2 C5 p m.
. Trails arrive at Lewistown Jnnctioa from
Milroy at 9 30 a m, 3 00 pm, 5 50 p d ; from
Suniury at 10 25 a m, 5 10 p m.
TTRONE DIVISION.
Trains leave Tyrone for Bellefonte as!
Lock Haven at 8 20 a m, 7 08 p m. Leave
Tyrone for Czrwenavilie and Cleartield at
9 05 a m, 7 50 p m.
Trains arrive at Tyrene fr-?ia Bellefonte
and Lock Msvea at 8 48 a m, and 7 32 p m..
Arrive at Tyrone from Curwensville anu
Cleartield at 7 45 a m, and 6 00 p m.
PiiladelpEia & Reading Railroad.
Arrangement of Passenger Train?.
November 15th, 1880.
Trams Uavt Htrrisbmrg as follvms :
For New York via Allentewn, at 05 a. m.,
and 1 45 p. m.
For 5ew York via Pr-Haelrt-.ia acJ "Bourn!
Brook Route," 6 35, 8 05 a m, and 1 45
p m.
For Philadelphia, 6 35, 8 05 (through car,
950 am, 145 and 4 00 pm.
For Reading at 5 45, 6 35, 8 05, 9 50 a m,'
. 1 45, 4 00 and 8 00 p m.
For Pottsville al 5 4-5, 8 05, 9 50 a m, and
4 00 p. m. and via Schuylkill Susque
hanna Branch at 2 40 p m. For Auburn,
6 30 a m.
For Altaitown at 6 45, 8 05, 50 a m, 1 45
and 4 0Opm.
The 8 05 a nr, and 1 45 p m trains have
through cars for New York via Allen
town. SUltDJYS.
For Atlentown and way stations at 6 00 a nr.
For Reading, Philadelphia and way stations
at 1 45 p m.
Trains or HamSbwrg leave as follows :
Leave New York via A lien town at 8 45 a m,
1 00 ard 690 p m.
Leave New York via "Bound Brook Route"
and Philadelphia 7 45 a m, 1 30, 4 00 an j
6 30 pm, arriving it HarrTnttlrg 1 50, 8 20,
9 10 p m, and" 12 35 a m.
Leave Philadelphia at 9 45 a m., 4 00, 6 SO
and 7 45 p m.
Leave Pottsville at 7 00, 9 10 a. m. and 443
p m.
Leave Reading at 4 60, 8 00, 1 1 60 a m,
1 30, 6 15, 7 60 and 10 35 p m.
Leave Pottsville via Schuylkill and Susqua
hanna Branch, 8 30 a m.
Leave A lien town at 6 35, 9 00 a m., 72 10,
4 80 and 9 05 p m.
SUZDJYS.
Leave New York at 5 30 p. m.
Leav? Philadelphia at 7 4-5 p ra.
Leave Reading at 8 00 a m and 10 35 p ra.
Leave Allentown at 9 05 p m.
BALDTTIX BRAKH.
Le"e HARRISBURG for Paxton, Loch-'
iel, and Steelton daily, except Sunday, 6 25,
6 40, 9 35 a m, 2 00 p m ; daily, except Sat
urday and Sunday, 5 45 p m, and on Saturday
only, 4 45,610, 9 30 vm.
Returning, leave STEELTON daily, ex
cept Sunday, 6 10,7 00, 10 00 a m, 2 20 pm
dairy, except Saturday and Sunday, 6 W
p m, and on Saturday only, 5 10, 6 80, 9 50
p m.
C. G. HANCOCK
General Pass'r Ticket Jg'tnt.
J. E. WOOTTEN,
General Manager.
Valuable inn, pbopebu
FOR SALE I
THE undersigned Bas for sale e valu
able property, known aa the
CUBA MILLS,
located about two miles' north of Mifflin
town, Juniata county, Pa. The advan
tages of this property are nneaualled in tbe
county.
Parties interested in the Milling business
would to well give this notica prompt at
tention. Apply to -
DAVID D. STONE,
Attorney at Law,
July 28, 1880. KifflinWwa, Tat.