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8ENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFFLIXTOWN.
Wednesday, July 20, IS1.
B. F. SCHWEIEPv,
fcMtXB AXD riOPBIETOR.
Opium eating is on the increase in
this country.
Gev. Loxostkeet is United SUtes
Marshal of Georgia.
Tei ice in the arctic region is just
beginning to break np.
The crops in Germany are report
el at one-half to two-thirds full.
Obiscoji did not eat during a period
of 45 days, but he drank a quart of
water a day.
Cases of 6tin stroke are not con
fined to America ; the telegraph rc
jKjrts many coses from across the sea.
It was singular that l'ottstown,
IV, (should have two suicides in one
day, as was the cjikc on the 11th inst
One man hanged himself, the other
luaa cut bis own throat
A cibcus that was advertised to show
at Wilkesbarre, passed that town be
cause of the small-pox in the place.
The men became alarmed and refused
Iti stop there, feuriag the disease.
The New York Legislature in joint
convention elected a man nruned War
ner Miller, to the United States Sen
ate, to fill the long term made vacant
by the resignation of Thomas C Piatt
Mr. Conklings successor has not yet
been elected.
The Parisian agricultural journal.
Bulletin des Halles, sars : "The wheat
crop will be fair in the southeast of
Prance, poor in the south, good in
the west and center, fair in the eat-t
good in the northwest and north, and
poor in the northeast."
Geiscoji completed his fast of forty-five
days in Chicago, on Tuesday
a week. About two hundred people
were present to witness him break
the fast He delivered a little speech
n the good effects of fasting. The
first food taken was a glass of milk.
Last Friday night an astronomer
at Ann Arbor, Michigan, discovered
a comet It is not visible to the na
ked eye. It is believed to the comet
of 1812, or the Eneke comet, that
runs its orbit in a period of about
seventy years. If it is the Eureka
comet, it will become vuauie to tne
naked eve in October.
Goxco3 Chubceill, of Arkansas,
wit last Thursday apart as a day of
fasting and prayer for the recovery
of President (iarfield. The day
was closely observed. The business
of the State was almost entirely su
pended. The State offices were a'l
dosed, and meeting was hel.l in all
of the churches.
The Philadelphia Record says : The
sixth boy victim of the toy pistol in
Itnrhestcr, N. Y., died yesterday.
There have VxM-n six fat:d cases from
the Eanro deadly plaything in Balti
more and six in lii-ading. LVisi year
fifteen juvenile deaths ia this city
were the fearful fruits of celebrating
the Fourth of July with tliis weapon.
This year the toy pistol was sup
pressed Result : No cliildren dead
of lockjaw. Moral : Shut down on
it again next j-eur and every year.
We acknowledge the receipt of a
pamphlet copy of an address of
Franklin B. Gowen. 'On the Position
which the city of Philadelphia should
occupy to tho Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, to its Transportation
Lines, and to the Railway Problem,"
delivered upon the invitation of citi
zens of Philadelphia at the Academy
of Music, Thursday, June 16, 1881.
It is a document that contains a great
deal of information that is new to
the public.
Alkeakt certain mos are talking of the
efforts that w ill be ma le to acquit the mur
derer Guiteau. The country is in no mood
to endure a foolish hair-splitting scene oyer
G uiteau ia court. There is no doubt of his
guilt, and what the country demands is a
speedy trial and sentence: under the law. It
has a weakening effect upon popular gov-j
em merit that bad men bate the audacltv j
and deviltry to deliberately shoot the Chief j
Magistrate of the nation without provoca
tion having been given ; but it would be in
finitely more weakening in its effects upon
popular government if the murderer should
be taken into court and his case there be
wrangled over by a lot of lawyers.
Within the next ten years great
fortunes will le made in Mexico, by
the men that go there as skilled me
chanics, or with money. Jt is, how
over, not a profitable place for un
skilled labor, as hands are plenty and !
can be obtained at 12 to 40 cents a j
day. Skilled mechanics receive from
575 to $175 a month. A man with a
little nionev csu buy property cheap.
Luid can be bought at 20 cents per
acre to $2i) per acre the be6t of
laud. It would be a first-rate place
to bank in. as there are only one or
two banks in the country, and instead
f paying depositors, they charge for
taking care of the deposits.
A writer says that Guiteau should
le taken before a magistrate, where
all accused people have a right to be
t liken and heard, and further, that
ha may be released on a writ of ha
but corpus, all of which may do
juite well to talk about and act upon
in cases whore there is doubt of the
giii!t of the party imprisoned. A
man accused, is a different man from
1 lie nun that is a confessed assassin.
The spirit of au examination is in
tended for the lienetit of people that
have hee-sx cliarged with a crime,
as to-the commission of which there
i doubt There is ho doubt as to
who t.hot President Garfield. Exam
ination as to the guilt of Guiteau,
before a squire, would be a mockery
of ju-stice, and would be a natural
crime almost as great as the shoot
ing of the President As to the ha
beat corpus, there, too, the object and
tnrit is for the benefit of such peo
pte as raay be suffering by false im
prisonment Its provisions were
never intended to meet such clear
rases of natural crime as that which
Guiteau has committed. The great
pity is that there is no statuary law
tr met such a crime as that of which
biutuau is fjufllj.
A VEsmrso Presbyterian danced. Ha
ni SeMioned unfavorably. Be appealed
to Presbytery. That body decided against
him. In October lie expects to carry the
question up to the Synod of Erie. If t!e
Synod decides against him he proposes to
go the General Assembly in May with the
question. lie is right in carrying his ques
tion from one ecclesiastical body to another,
for in that way he will get a rule from the
church's ecclesiastical bodies on tba ques
tion. As the question now stands the Pres
byterian church has no rule on the subject
of dancing. The question is left to the
Session of each and every congregation.
If the Presbyterian Church Government all
the way through were so congregational as
to leave other general questions to the Ses
sions, it would seem like just the proper
thing to do to leave such a question as
dancing to the Session of each congrega
tion, to manage for itself. But the eccle-
sUstical bodies of the Presbyterian Church i
are not simply advisory bodies ; they bavej
the power to lay down rules and enforce
them upon their membership. With the
power to rule in favor oi a question or
against a question, it seems like begging a
point to say to the respective congregations,
your Session may settle the question as
I suits them. The Session of a church may
not bare more jealousy or unkind feeling
than is usually fonud among that number
of gentlemen any here else, but it may
happen that when some one of those to
wards whom they have not the kindest chris
tian feeling dances, they may rule against
the dance, not so much because of the
dance, but more because of
against the member that danced.
a feeling
A rule of
Presbytery, Synod, and General Assembly,
or a rule of General Assembly would settle
the question and save a great deal of con
tention among members down in the con
gregations. If the higher ecclesiastical
body say there is no sin in the dance, if
properly conducted, that will end it. II
the higher ecclesiastical body says there is
sin in the dance, no matter how conducted,
that wi'l end the contention down in the
congregations and prevent a great deal of
unpleasant feeling and scandalous talk
among the membership.
Societt in Washington, D. C, has had
a sensation within the past few days. The
wife of a well-knoan scientific gentleman
was told that her husband had rented one
of his houses to a captivating widow, and
that be almost daily cilled to see the widow.
To satisfy herself she called ; no one was
ia but a maid servant. She inquired of the
maid, Who owns this house" The an
swer was, Captain so and so." The wife
then walked in and searched the premises ;
she found letters that her husband had writ-
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no longer possesses the undivided heart of
bcr husband. Proceedings in divorce have
been brought by the wife.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
set apart July 14 as a day of prayer
for the rc-covery of President Gar
field. The day was quite well ob
served throughout the State. The
Yankee is scratching his head over
ths fact that the murderous attempt
on the life of the President should
be so publicly disapproved of by the
South, and that the chief men of that
portion of the country should be the
first to publicly officially ask the
people to pray for the recovery of the
stricken President
Ex-Senator Mebeimon, of North
Carolina, is reported to have said
recently in a speech at a prohibitory
meeting in Reidsville, that State : "I
have never meddled with liquor 1 I
have never drank it, have hardly kept
it as medicine in my family, and yet
it has meddled with me, has made
my boy a wandering vagabond, has
broken my wife's heart ; yes, when I
was asleep, thinking him at home in
the house, he was being made a drunk
ard in the bar-rooms of Raleigh."
" The English language dates back
to about A. D. 455. The term " Anglo-Saxon"
was not then known, but
is a later name, applied by historians,
because, at the time of the early con
quest of the island called Britain, the
conquerers were chiefly composed of
two tubes, the Angles and the Saxons.
The English, or " Anglo-Saxon," lan
guage must have been spoken in the
country whence the Angles and Sax
ons came, but no trace remains. The
early English was a simple language,
its words being all, or nearly all. of
one 6tock, now known as the Piatt
deutsch branch of the Teutonic stock.
It remained in this condition without
any material change for about COO
yeai'o or until the year of the Nor
man conqist A. D. 10CG. The lan
guage spoken or the Normans was
what is now called Noinian-French,
and the English tongue, by amalga
mation with the Norman-French, soon
lost its distinctive forms and nicer
inflections. It however, remained
Anglo Saxon in its essence and struc
ture. The English language of to-day is
composed of the following elements
(1) Pure English, or "Anglo Saxon ;"
(2) British, or Celtic: (3) Danish, or
Norse: (4) Norman-French ; (5) Lat
in; (G) Greek : (7) miscellaneous, or
words adopted from all languages,
including Arabic, Hebrew, and even
those of the savages of Africa and
America,"
General Grant has a new grand
son. RTATE ITEMS.
The farmers of Warren county de
sire to wage a war of extermination
against the English 6parrow, and
talk of petitioning the coining Leg
islature to repeal the law which im
poses a fine for killing them.
The Franklin Repository says : On
Wednesday last, as the Mont Alto
train under charge of conductor Sam
uel Horn was coming down the heavy
grade at Pond Bank, the engineer
noticed a little child trying to drive
a wayward hog from the track. The
whistle was sounded and the brakes
pulled with all the energy of men
trying to save an innocent life. Just
as t he engine was on the the point of
striking the child, the. hog dashed off
the line, currying the youngster with
it, and the train rolled by. All hands
drew a lyg iTeath of congratula
tion and passed a vote of thanks to
the porker for its timely action.
Mrs. Henry Berger, of Maple Hill,
Lycoming county, broke her neck on
the 18th wit, by an accidental falL
John Burn, of Pittsburg, was in
stantly killed at tht place by a man
running against him while running a
foot-race. i
Sally Boggs, of Masseysburg, Hunt-;
ingdon county, fell into a cistern on '
Saturday a week and was drowned. '
A Statement.
The following statement explains
itself :
Washtxctox, D. C. July 11 United
States District Attorney Corkhill has
furnished the following statement for
publication, in order to correct cer
tain erroneous assertions which have
been made relative to Guiteau, the
would-be assassin of President Gar
field: The interest felt by the public in
the details of the assassination, and
the many stories published, justify
me in stating that the following is a
correct and accurate statement con
cerning the points to which reference
is made : The assassin, Charles Gui
teau, came to Washington city on
Sunday evening, March 6, 1881, and
stopped tt the Ebbitt House, remain
in? only one dav. He then secured
a room in another part of the city,
and has boarded and roomed at va
rious places, the full details of which
I have.
On Wednesday, May IS, 1881, the
J ftsujn determined to Liurder the
j President. He Litd Neither U10Uy
nor pistol at the time. About the
last of May he went into U Aleara s
store, corner of Fifteenth and F
streets, in this city, and examined
some pistols, asking for the largest
calibre. He was shown two, similar
in calibre and only different in the
price. On Wednesday, June 8, he
purchased the pistol which he used.
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for which he paid 10, ho having in
i the meantime Ixirrowed Mo of a gen
tleman in this citj- on the plea that
he wanted 4o pay his board bill. On
the same evening about 7 o'clock he
took the pistol and went to the foot
of Seventeenth street and practised
firing at a board, firing ten shots. He
then returned to his boarding place
and wied the pistol dry and wrap
ped it in his coat and waited his op
portunity.
On Sunday morning, June 12, Gui
teau was fitting in Lafayette Fark
and saw the President leave for the
Christian Church on Vermont ave
nue, and he at once returned to his
room, obtained his pistol) put it in
his hip pocket, and followed the Pres
ident to church. He entered the
church, but found he could not kill
him there without danger of killing
some one else. He noticed that the
President sat near a window. After
church he made an examination of
the window, found he could reach it
Jfhon ? double, and that from
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em mrougu me nea.t wituout, kui
insr any one else. The following
Wednesday he went to the church,
examined the location and the win
dow, and became satisfied he could
accomplish his purpose, and he de
termined therefore to make the at
tempt at the church the following
Sunday.
Guiteau learned from the papers
that the President would leave the
city on Saturday, the 18th of June,
with Mi s. Garfield for Long Branch ;
he therefore determined to meet him
at the depot He left his boarding
house about 5 o'clock on Saturday
morning, June 18, and went down to
the river, at the foot of Seventeenth
street, and fired five shots to prac
tise his aim and be certain his pistol
was in good order. He then went to
the depot, and was in the ladies'
waiting room of the depot with his
pistol ready when the Presidential
party entered. He says Mrs. Gar
field looked so weak and frail that he
had not the heart to shoot the Pres
ident in her presence, and. as he knew
he Would have another opportunity,
he left the depot He had previous
ly engaged a carriage to take him to
jail.
On Wednesdny erening the Presi
dent and his son and, I think, United
States Marshal Henry went out for a
ride. The assassin took his pistol
and followed tkeiu, and watched them
for some time, in hopes ih carriage
would stop, but no opportunity was
giv.:.
Ou Friday ever, In. r. July 1. Gui
teau was sitting on the seat in the
park opposite the White House, when
he saw the President come out alone.
He followed him down the avenue to
Fifteenth street, and then kept on
the opposite site side of the street up
t uteentn until tne President entered
the residence of Secretary Blaine.
He waited at the corner of Mr. Mor
ton's late residence, corner of Fif
teenth and H, for some time ; and
then, as he was afraid he would at
tract attention, he went into the alley
in tiie rear of ilr. Morton s residence,
examined his pistol and waited. The
President and Secretary Blaine came
put together, and he followed them
over id the gate of the White House,
but could gei po opportunity to use
bis weapon.
On the morning of Saturday, J uly
2, he break fasted at the Rig"S fcfcnse
about 7 o'clock He then walked up
into the park and sat there for an
hour. He then took a one-horse car
and rode to Sixth street ; got out
and went into the depot and loitered
there ; had his shoes blacked ; en
gaged a hackman for $2 to take him
to the jail ; went into the water closet
and took his pistol out of his hip
pocket and unwrapped the paper
from around it which he had put
there for the purpose of preventing
the perspiration from the body damp
ening the powder ; examined his pis
tol carefully ; tried the trigger, and
then returned and took a seat in the
ladies' waiting room, and as soon as
the President entered advanced be
hind him and fired two shots. These
facts, I think, can be relied upon as
accurate, and I give them to the pub
lic to contradict certain false rumors
in connection with this most atrocious
of atrocious crimes.
GENERAL ITEMS.
The question of raising food fishes at
a profit bas been tested by a man in
Sonoma ennnty, California, who bas
sold over $700 worth of carp this year
from a pood covering less than an acre
of ground, and bas 20,000 fish of var
ious sizes remaining.
Tbe average yield of wheat per acre
ia England is eraduallv decreasing.
In 1849 it was 292 bushels per acre,
and in 1879 about 16 bushels. In
France, on the contrary, tbe reverse is
the ease, although the increase has
been very slow. Thus in 1815 the
yield in that country was 13 busbels
per acre, while in 1876 it was 16.4
bushels.
The editor of the Troy Telegram was
dismissed from his position for writing
an article approving of tbe abolishment
of the tfljee of Vice President.
It is the general belief that Char
lie Ross was stolen for the purpose
of extorting? money to nave him re
turned. The body of A. T. Stewart,
of New York, was stolen for the same
obiect Such fiendish methods of
makinsr money have not been much
practiced in this country. Indeed,
on every occasion where they have
been attempted they nave laiiea. xn
the old countries of Europe, however,
child stealinsr. and the stcalinj? of
crown people, is no uncommon oc
currence. The mountains of Italy
have been more of less used by people-thieves
ever since the Roman gov
ernment was broken up. To-day the
mountains contain certain bands of
robbers that frequently descend into
the populous valleys and carry off
neb people, and then demand a cer
tain sum for their releasa Some
months ago a band of people-thieves
made a raid on a road on which an
English preacher was traveling. The
preacher was caught and carried
away. Twenty-five thousand dollars
was demanded of his wife for his
restoration. Rev. Mr. Rose was his
name. Mrs. Rose could not give
that sum ; she did not have it ; but
before she sent an answer " the brig
ands wrote a second letter to the dis
tracted wife, threatening that if she
did not forward the money by return
mail they would cut off one of her
husband s ears and send it to her.
Her friends tried to cheer her and
laughed at such a threat She wrote,
refusing to pay the ransom, when the
brigands carried out their horrible
threat and the third letter she re
ceived enclosed the right ear of the
unfortunate clergyman. The same
letter also contained a threat that if
the money was not how sent a like
package would be sent to her con
taining hei" busbund'8 left ear. Soon
after the wife received her husband's
left ear and a letter telling her that
his nose would be sent nest, end
other parts of the body would follow.
Upon receipt of this letter Mrs. Rose
fell seriously ill and her friends, by
great efforts, at last raised the money,
which Was forwarded, whereupon the
clergyman was released and returned
to England, having suffered the loss
of bis ears only. When Mr. Rose
related his grievance to the home au
thorities the English Government at
once took the matter up, assuming
such a position that the Italian Gov
ernment sent out a strong military
force and thoroughly searched the
mountain retreats of the brigands.
In these raids, which were pursued
with vigor, many of the b?fiuits were
killed and a large number captured.'
Among the prisoners was the captain
of the band that stole Rev. Rosa
The bandit's name is Esposito. He
escaped and cane to tbe Vnited
States, and engaged in the fruit trade
at New Orleans. He was captured
and taken to New York on the 12th
of this month. He was arrested en
a warrant issued by Secretary of State
Blaine, and will be sent back to Italy
for trial. His personal appearance
is described by a correspondent of
the Philadelphia Times as follows:
" The brigand has a dark, piercing
eye, jet black curly hair, beard and
moustache, regular features and is
what might be called a handsome
man. His height is five feet seven
inches and weight one hundred and
forty pounds. Ho had on a peeper- j
and-saat colored suit well worn, a blue
check muslin shirt and a soiled and
broken Panama hat Ho looked like
the average street vender of fruit
There is nothing in his appearance
to indicate that he is a man of brutal
passions, whose hands have often
been dyed in human blood, and who,
as the leader of a band of banditti,
created terror throughout a large
pail of Italy."
The Painlessness of Death.
Dr. Thomas D. Spencer, in Popular Science
Monthlr for July.
At birth the babe nndergoes au
ordeal that were he conscious, would
be more trying than the most painful
death ; yet he feels it cot Born in
an unconscious state, the brain inca
pable of receiving conscious impres
sions, his entrance into this hitherto
unknown world is accomplished dur
ing a slate of oblivion, knowa as Na
ture's anesthesia :
"Painlessly we come, whence we know not
Painlessly wc go, whither we know not I"
From the earliest period of human
history death has been considered as
necessarily accompanied by pftin. So
general is this belief that the terms
death-agony," 'last struggle,' 'pangs
of death,' etc., have been in almost
universal use in every age and under
all conditions of society.
Nothing could be more erroneous.
The truth is, pain and death seldom
go together ; we mean in the last mo
ments of life. Of course, death may
be preceded by weeks or even months
cf extreme suffering, as occurs during
certain incurable diseases.
So exaggerated has been this no
tion that it has fceen considered an
act of humanity to anticipate the
"death struggle" by violence; for
ages it was customary among the
lower classes of Europe to hasten
death by suddenly jerking the pillow
from beneath the head of the dying,
thus throwing the head backward,
straining the pharyngeal and thoracic
muscles, rendering the respiration,
already difficult, shortly impo6sible.
A Venetian ambassador, in the time
of Queen Mary, asserted that it was
a common custom among the country
people to smother the dying by means
of a pillow placed over the face, upon
which leaned or sat the nearest rela
tive. This was founded upon the
pious belief that a short road was the
best one. The custom was handed
down from generation to generation,
parents performing it for their chil
dren, and vice versa. But perhaps
the saddest privilege ever allowed
the near friends of a dying man oc
casionally occurred during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, when through
executive clemency in executions by
hanging, they were permitted to
grasp the feet of the suspended crim
inal, and, by clinging to the extrem
ities, precipitate their additional
weight on the body, thereby hasten
ing strangulation. It is needless to
say that these theories are false in
both conception and practice. Death
is a physiological process, and, like
all other animal functions, should be
painless.
Michael Reiser, seed 66 years, a
farmer in Rapbo township, Lancaster
ooonty, committed suicide, by banging
on Thursday.
Two Great Storms in Minnesota,
A Benson, Minn., dispatch of July
14, says : The towuship of ?tayer, m
the immedicto vicinity of rairfield
post-office, was yisited by a terrible
wind storm or cyclone, about 9 o'clock
on Wednesday morning, the 13th.
The storm seemed to come from the
northwest, veering around southward
until it assumed an almcst easterly
direction, and leveled everything
movable in it course. The first
house in the track of the tempest was
that of Wesley Hanner, who lives on
the west bank of the Pemmede Terre
river, Mercer. It tore down over the
hill, leveling tbe trees around his
house, and prostrating it in an instant
throwing the man and his family out
of doors and leaving them bruised,
drenched, homeless, and bereft of
everything except the clothing on
their bodies. They have suffered
some very severe injuries, but none
of them are dangerous. Four out of
five horses were killed outright The
storm next took the bridges, one a
wagon bridge of a single span, about
forty feet in length, lifted it from its
foundation, turned it over and drop
ped it about four rods down the riven
where it now lies. On the north and
upper side of the bridge stood a small
blacksmith shop, which is utterly de
molished. The storm next struck
the blacksmith's house, which it tore
to pieces in its f uryt hurling the man's
wife and two chihlien quite a dis
tance from the building. The boy
and girl, about five and seven years
old, were insensible and in a danger
ous condition from their wounds
when last heard from, while the
mother was scarcely better off, owing
to her delicate condition. Next in
the course of destruction cade the
stone building of Mrs. George Tuin.
in which she lived and kept store and
the post-office. She and her chil
dren, and T. B. Boyle, her clerk,
stayed in the house until the win
dows blew in, when they ran out and
lay on the grass. They had scarcely
got out when the building was blown
to pieces and with all its contents
scattered over the prairie. MrS. Tuin
is a widow and is rendered destitute
by this misfortune. The next house
visited by the cyclone was that of
Henry Miller, which Was unroofed
and the upper part of it blown away
with all the clothingj leaving the in
mates to the mercy of the elements.
Mrs. Miller sustained a very severe
shock from fright and prostration.
Georo-e Kenner. the oldest resident
t - -who
lives just south of the bridge,
suffered mopt severely from the storm.
The house in which he lived and a
new one he was erecting were both
blown down ahd destroyed. The
frame of a carpet loom in an old
building which heM up the ailing
walls was all that prevented the death
of some of its inmates, as under this
rude but substantial shelter they
crouclied for shelter untd the storm
was over. Part of the floor was
blown awav and a cow bhmfi into
the cellar. The new church of the
United Brethren, standing close by,
vtcs na obstacle to the wrath cf the
tempest, but was blown to tbe ground;
These are all the houses damaged in
the vicinitv which the tornado visited.
but one or two bowses iii a north and
northwesterly direction were unroof
ed and further wet, and not far from
Carroll a houc had totally disap
peared. Two bves were lost It is
reported in Benson that a German
muiicd Vj'ifp. who liv s northwest of
Harenoisa a mile or so, and one child
were killed.
A dispatch from New Clin, Minnesota,
nailer date of the 17th inst., tells of a dread
ful tornado that swept over that y'tca on
Friday, tbe loth inst. Tbe city is situated
on the right bank of the Minnesota river,
and on the Winsha and St. Peter railroau.
It ia the county seat of Brown county, and
contained ".500 inhabitants. It possessed a
large number of fine buildings, aiooog them
two mills, five public schools, two a:ute
niies, three churches, costing from $-5,000
to $-5,000, and the finest public hall in tbe
Northwest.
Shortly before 5 o'clock on Friday after
noon a cyclone of most terrific violenco
struck the town, demolishing over 100
building and killing or wounding upwaid
of thirty persons. Though other towns in
the vcinity were visited by the storm to a
greater or less degree of violence, the fell
force of the cyclone vented itself here.
Two tornadoes met right over the place,
and tbe work of destruction was accom
plished in less than fifteen minutes. The
cyclone struck tbe town, almost destroying
it, and then disappeared as suddenly as it
came. Its effects' are almost indescribable.
Some houses vera struck by lightning,
others were lifted up bodily by the violence
of the wind, and others were demolished by
flying debris from other buildings. Tbe
storm was niort destructive in the north end
of the city, and whole blocks of frame
buildings were swept away. Hardly a barn
or a stable escaped, and it is estimated that
over one hundred horses and cattle have
been killed. J. G. Randolph, Mayor f the
city, estimates the total loss at $500,000,
and the lowest estimate is $350,000. Aside
from the loss of life tbe worst feature of
tho calamity is that none of tho property
destroyed is insured against accidents of
this kind. The large two-story brick meat
market of SI. Epple was entirely demolish
ed, and D. Weschecke's two-story brick
drug store and residence was leveled to tbe
ground. Tbe Methodist and Lutheran
churches, both substantial brick edifices,
have been swept away, and the steeples of
three Koman Catholic churches were blown
off and tbe buildings gutted. One side of
the brick dry goods store of Redman at
Schram was blown down and the stock
destroyed. The Dakota House, the lead
ing hotel, was partially destroyed. The
roof of the Court House was lifted bodily
into the air and has not been seen since.
The handsome residence of Tf iTliam Retch
der, ex-State Treasurer, which stands on a
bluff somewhat in the resr of the city, was
completely gstted, thongb all the inmates
escaped unhart. L. Jieringer's furniture
store, M. Mailer's hardware store, Poeser's
establishment and F. Back's machine shop
were all destroyed, besides- a number of
others. A sugar factory and two public
school buildings are m rains and the re
maining school house partly demolished.
The lightning struck the depot three times,
but made no iir pre union on it. Every liv
ery stable in town haa been destroyed. A
number of Buildings arrack by lightning
caught tire, and the town would have been
destroyed re this way bat for the rain, which
descended is torrents. The scene during
and immediately after tbe storm was fearful
to contemplate and beyond the descriptive
powers of the most graphic pen. As tbe
Tictims of Ibe sad cata.troj hy are scatter.
. nn,.rtivelv larse area it la im-
Ngmwr- -
possible to get an cl ' or the killed
and wounded, especially as the cyclone also
visited West Newton and caused several
deaths. The persons killed as lar as
is 13, and the number wounded is .5.
CESCRAL ITEMS. .
On last Friday night a passenger
triia of cars was entered by fieven
robbers at Vinston station on the
Rock Island EailroaJ. A dispatch
says: Seven men boardid the train
at Cameron stition. At Winston
when tbe train stopped they stood up
in tbe aisle of a car with drawn revol
vers. One of the bandits advanced
with a revolver in each hand toward
William Westfall, the conductor, and
ordered him to hold up his hands.
The conductor was 6low in comply
ing with his demands and was shot
through the heart by the desperado.
One of the other men shot through
the head John McCullough, a stone
cutter, of Wilton Junction, who turn
ed outward from his seat The men
then went through the train to the
express car and overpowered the
United States Express Messenger,
Charles Murray, who was iutinndated
into opening the safe, from which
$5,000 was taken. The desperadoes
then went to the engine and told the
engineer to start his train. This he
could not do on recount of the auto
matic lrake, and he was at once fired
upon by the robbers. The engineer
put out the light in the cab and
crawled along the footboard to the
pilot, and after extinguishing the
headlight laid down in the pilot The
robbers made no search for him, but
departed. No attempt was made to
rob the passengers. The populaco
about Winston rose en nanse and
armed men are now seeking the des
I peradoes.
Additional particulars are iimi iwo
of the robbers got on the front end
of the baggage-car nest to the en
gine, three more ou the smoking-car
and two on the platform between the
baggage-car and the smoker. There
were seven men in alL Conductor
Westfall had passed nearly through
the smoking-car when ho was shot,
one ball passing clear through his
body. He staggered out on the plat
form of the car and fell off into a
ditch. John McOulIough, the stone
cutter, who was shot through the
head, also fell off the car and was
found by the side of the dead con
ductor. When the robbers entered
the express car Charles Murray, the
messenger, was looking over some of
his papers, and Frank Stamper, bng-
gageman, was sitting in a chair near
the open door. Both men were im
mediately covered with fotir revol
vers, and when Murray objected to
handinsf over the keys of the safe he
was knocked down. It is thought
that about fifteen thousand dollars
was in the scfe. but the exact amount
is not known. The United States
Express Company handle all the ex
press matter on tii Rock Island Bail
road and a train tx ent out last night
with what miuo in from the Atchison
short run and also from Kansas City
and points east as f;ir as ilulfin.
After rifling the safe the robbers
jtunped from the train and escaped.
The train went on to the next side
track, where it waited for thepasscn
ger train, which took Wesifali's body
to Cameron. The Sheriff was noti
fied of tbe robbery as socu as possi
ble and he immediately started in
pursuit with about sixty men, but at
the present writing no tidings have
been received that he has overtaken
the robbers. Great excitement pre
vails in the neighborhood and the
who community is much agitated
0tr the event J. K. Creat, the ex
press agent at Kansas City, said this
morning that not much money went
from Kansas City, but the impression
seems to be that th robbers secured
several thousand dollars. The gen
erally aweptcd theory out on the
road is tliat tho robbers were pro
fessionals. One of theni, the tallest
one, was sen ii Cameron all day yes
terday, and could be identiied by
several persons. The men who have
been searching for tbe robbers to-day
found where they had their horses
tied in tho woods, and say that in
their hurry to get a-say they did not
untie them, but cirt the halters and
left them hanging to the trees.
Destruction by Floods ia Iowa.
Uahenoo, Iowa, July 14. The flood
in the Iowa river exceeds that of
1831. The water in the public square
is two feet deep and hub deen in tba
principal streets, where boats ere
running with ease. Scores of fami
lies have been driven out of their
houses, and great damage has been
done to dwellings. The bridges ap
proaching this city are gone and
travel is suspended. Thousands of
acres of land are flooded and tbe
crops ruined. The damage in the
town and to farms is not less than
$2,000,000. The mayor has issued a
proclamation warning all who are in
exposed situations to seek higher
ground. The Iowa river is from two
to three nule wide and is still rising.
Cedab Rapids, Iowa, July 14. The
destruction of railroad, farm and mtv
property immediately west of thisj
piace i)j me recent storms is unpar
alleled in the history of the region,
the railroads being the great suffer
ers. The damage to the Chicago and
Northwestern road by the blockade
last winter is yery small compared
with what the line is now under
going. At Borne points the waters
are subsiding, while at others they
continue to rise. A large number of
west-bound passengers arsr dt-laved
here, being unable to make any line
which reaches to Council Bluffs. The
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
ern road escaped damage by the first
storm, bat the stones and hrgb water
on that line on Tuesday night wafhed
away several hundred feet of track at
Fraerer, on the Pacific Division. The
main line of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Northern road is baaly
damaged and washed out south of
Laporte City. Several hundred ft
of track being gone and the water
suii rising, makes it impossible to
repair the break. South and east of
this place no damage is reported.
The Chicago. Milwaukee and St Pnnl
road has suffered yery little damage
and trains are running rpnmlarlr- "K.,
the grade of the new line is badly
Lijrhtninir struck the bons f Ttr-
Mish, about four miles from Cham
bersburg, recently, killing four of his
cuildrcn.
STATE ITEMS.
Whits rats are common in Waiting
county. Every bone ia the boJy cf Misa
Annie Kerr, tbe young lady who waa
killed by bghtninir at Loretto, Cam
bria county, oo Thursday last, wm
found it is said, to bave been of the
consistency of jelly when examined by
physicians soon after dcatb.
John Stewart, of Bellevernon,
WestCsoreland -comfy, accidentally
shot and killed Frank MeFall, of the
same place, aged 14 years, on Friday
last a week. MeFall, was up a tree,
and Stewart seeing, the leave move,
Ibnnght it was a squirrel.
Sotiie tbre9 jeirs ago Tbouias Scott
of Bethlehem, got into a difficulty with
a fellow employee and bit tbe end of
bis nose off SooU left Bethlehem and
did1 not return nntil last Saturday;
when he was arrested and is now in the
Lehigb concty jail awaiting a trial.
A lingular accident happened to a
(firl in Venango county a few dajs ago.
She wes gathering cherries, aod ibe
limb ou which she was standing broke.
She fell about five feot, when her bead
caught in the fork of a limb, leaving
her body daogiing in the air thirty feet
from the ground. She retained con
sciousness, and supported herself by the
bands until sbe was rescued.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Tennor is 41 years of age.
Mrs. General Sherman sajs that in
thirty-one years tbe Gsoeral bas been
bat once late for dinner.
A man bas just died in a prison at
Odessa, Russia, aged 96 years wbo
had tbe reputation of having in tbe
course of his long life committed eighty
murders.
A citizen of Clin too, Iowa, flogged a
teamster for flogging bis borse, and
received from bis admiring neighbors
a cane, suitably inscribed, io recogni
tion of bis '-hemane services."
Six hundred picnickers from War
rensbnrg, Mo., partook of lemonade
that had been poisoned. Many of
them died. The man that 9old the
lemonade has been arrested, and an
investigation is to take place.
A mob in Dodge county, Missouri,
celebrated the glorious Fourth by
taking three horse thieves out of jail
and ornamenting the tnta m the
court hcusS yard with their bodies,
hung up by the neck.
A novel wager was woo in Vermont
last week, when a man who bad made
a bet that be could baul his wife in a
wagon from Watcrbnrg to St. Johns
bury, a distance of fifty-seven miles,
io tbree days, trudged into the latter
plaoe, having won bis bet, with balf a
day to spare.
For nine days Dr. Bliss did not take
off bis clothe, aod was constantly at
the President's side, getting only oc
casional snatches of rest on a loange in
ao ante rocra.
A roof of a church at Sao .Mateo,
Mexico, fell in a few days since, killing
about city people. J he chorea was
being rebuilt, acd one of the workmen
fell from tbe roof; all the others rush
ed to get off, and tbe roof crashed in
npon some thirty worshippers, mostly
womn, wbo bad assembled an hour be
fore the regular hour of service. Tbese
were instantly killed, as were twenty
of tbe workmen.
A Smooth Complexion can be had
by every liJ.y who will use Parker's
Ginger Tonic. Regulating the iater
nal organs and purifying thu blood
it quickly removes pimples and gives
a healthy bloom to the cheek. See
notice.
LtS.nl JMJices.
CHARTER 30TICE.
TVTOT1CE is hereby given that an apphca
J. V tion will be made to lion. B. K. Jun
kin at his chambers in the borocgh of Blooin
fielri. connty of Perrv on THURSDAY,
AUOCST II. 1SSI, at 11 o'cloek A.M.,
nnder the Act of Assembly of the Cociiuoa
walh of Pennsylvania entitled "An Act to
provide for the Incorporation and Krgula
tiwn of Certain Corporations," approved
April 2?, 1874, and the supplements there
to, for the charter of an intended corpora
tion to be called "The Juniata Valley Mu
toal Aid S'Wiety for Unmarried Persons."
the character and otij-ct of which is to se
cure to its members pecuniary aid by the
rujintcnaive ot a society tor beneficial or
protective purposes from funds collected
therein, the benefits to be secured by aa
seisnienta upon the members of the corpo
ration in the event of marriage, and thes
begin their new relations with sufficient
means to insure saicess in business, and for
this purpose io have, possess and enjoy all
the rights, benefits and privileges conferred
by siid Act of Assembly and its supple
ments. MASON IRWIN',
Attorney for petitioners.
July 18, 1881-31
Administrator' Notice.
Etta It of David Woodward, dectaud.
LETTERS of Administration having been
granted to tbe undersigned on ihe r.
fate of David Woodward, deceased, late of
i uKarora townsnrp, Ju-nale cor.nty, all per
sons indebted to said estate are requested
to make immediate payment, and those hav
ing claims against the same will present
them without delav to
THOMAS CRKIGHTOS,
July 13, 1S81. Administrator.
Administrator's fottcf.
Eitatt of Sarah Stilzer, deceased.
LETTERS of Administration on the es
tate of Sarah Stitzer, late of Fayette
township, Juniata connty, Pa., deceased,
have been granted to J. H. McAlister, resid
ing in Mitllintown, Juniata connty, Penn'a.,
to whom all persons indebted to said estate
are requested to nuke payment, and those
having claims or demands, will make known
the same without delay. Address,
J. II. McALISTEK, Adm'r.,
Mitllintown, Juniata Co., Pa.
July 13, 1881.
ORPHANS' COURT SALE
OF VALUABLE
RE Air ESTATE.
THK undersigned, Administrator ot the
estate of Samuel S. Megaughy, late of
Tnscarora township, Juniata county. Pa.,
deceased, by virtue of an order of tbe Or
phans' Court of Juniata connty, win expose
to public sale, on the premises, at I o'clock'
r. ax ., oo
SATURDAY, AtGUST 20.1881.
the following described real estate, to wit-
& r i i . . .
" ' " siiuaiea in Tuvarora town
ship, bounded by lands of William Kidd,
Hngh R. Palm, John Woodward, James
Kidd, Jesse Rice and others, containing
10 Acres and SO Perches,
more or less, and having thereon erected a
LOU HOUSE. weather-hArrtl c...n
about 50 acres of which are clear, and tie
TEftMfl or Sai r si
- -"v-ivui ui vi iuv par
chase money to be pail on confirmation of
sale by tbe Coiirt - niu.riK .i
day of April, 188-i, when deeI will be de-
Z. K,K8'0 Riven; the balance
on tbe 1st dav of Anril ixua im s. .
from April 1st, 1882, and to be secured by
JOSIAH WATERS.
June:T!88T.0r0r5,W',S-nEh9J--
Specuii .Vorvet.
PIMPLEST
. I will mail (Free) tho recipe roc.
Tl'JrraBLS Balm that will teem..
FKECKLE?. PIMPLES and .. '.
leaving the skin aott, clear aul hZli
.1... i,.t,nori..n. r... .....i . '"S
growth of hair on a ball bead or to!!!1
face
Address, inclosing kc stanmi.
r l Co., 5 He. kmao St., X y
VasDrir
TO CONSUMPTIVES.
lueaiuniisiT naving oecn perma,
cured of that dread diiesxe. CoasaZT'
by a siitfyl" remedy, is anxions to Vl.
known to h! fe!!ow-utferers the nvjr"
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Knnv nf thH nreju'rtnfiiin naA
charge.) with the diret tiohj roT'Dr.
and asinjr the same, which they will Jm
srax Ccat for Co; itprios, A.tha,bW
chit!, fcc. Parties wishing the rnt
tion, will please sdt'ress,
Kev. h. A. WILSOV
1? Penn St., Willia:nD.:tg. X.'T
GKNTS
WASTES. Big PTLte
Steady Kn:p!..,meit. IT
1. Work.
cles free. Address. X.. L. BYKvVJj
A lr.i I i.r. iniierefl int r.
from Nervous BEBIUTY, PhfiMifrsJ
rvT.' ' , v ..wt .11 th. (?'..... ..r . . :
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discretion, will for the sake of suifer-it at
uiinitr. send free to all wbo next it tk.
cipe and directions for miking th nSBl
remedy by which he was cured. Suffer
waning io proui yy me auvernseri np,
.!. ttmn tilt in Ktf aiIrtpBwiri0 m ... ,
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connaence.
JOHN B.OGDE.V
4 i Cedar S t., New Tort
Jaa 26, 1881.
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JUNIATA VALLEY BANK
or jiirruiTOHn, pa.
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BRANCH AT PORT ROYAL
Stockholders Individually Liable.
J. NEVIS' POYESOV. Pr,-id.r.t.
T. VAN IliWIN, Co4irr.
DisKcroas :
J. Serin Pornerov. Josenb Kothrock.
(eorze Jacobs. Philip M. Keener.
Amos G. BonsaJI, I.nuis E. Atkinson.
W. C. Ponieroy,
ST"C&HoLir as
J. Nevin Pouieror R. E. Psrker,
Philip M. r- epuer,
Sd:n'l Hcrr's Heirs;
Joseph Rotbrock,
(Jeorge J.icubs,
L. E. Atkinson,
V. C. I'uieroy,
J.tr:s II. Irwin,
Mary Kurn.
Samuel X. Kurtz,
J. lloluiei Irwin,
T. V. irwitl.
F. B. Prow.
Joh.l iiertzler.
Amos fr. ?i..u-i!!,
Nojh flertzler,
Charlotte Snyder,
"C- Interest allowed at the rate of 2 pet
cent, on o months certificates, 3 per ceaLoe
u tuonms certificates.
f iaiiL'.j, 13T-tf
BSOXS OUT IN A NEW PLAGE
Tin and Sheet-Iron Manufactory,
Main Street, MiinUmn, Pa.
CLARK WRIGHT & SON,
Would most respectfully inform the p
lie that they bave started a branch of
Patterson Tin and Sheet-Ironware U
lUhment in the Thomas room, lormerly oc
cupied by M. L. Littletleld, where they v
prepared to manufacture and repair everj
thing in their line.
Their stock will be found to embracs
complete assortment of Tinware, Japaosed
ware, CooKing Utensils, &c, which will
kept fully up to the times in variety, arjle,
quality and price.
As one of the firm will be constantly st
work in the shop, the public mav depend os
having all kinds of JOBBING with 1
they may favor us, executed in the prompt
est and most workmanlike mtuner, aid st
the loKtst rates.
TIN KoOKISGand SPOUTING pat os
new and repaired in a workmanlike mam
and at lowest rates.
Manufacture of stove-pipe and fittings
of stoves a specialty.
By strict attention to business, f0
work and moderate charges, they bop"
merit and receive a fair share of public p4'"
ronage.
OJSTERS, FISH, Ac.
A3 Kinds of Oysters, Fresh Fi.-h, fcc
season, supplied to families on shorted
tice. All order left at tho 'hop U1
promptly attended to.
MUHintown, April 27, 18I-tf
KENEDY &1)0IY,
(Successors to Buyers 4. Kennedy,)
DEALERS I.N
COAL.
IsUMHEA
CEMENT.
Calcined Plaster, Land Plastflfr
SEEDS, SALT, C.
We buy Grain, to be delivered at Jti
town or Mexico.
We are prepared to furnish SalttolI!,
at reasonable rates.
KENNEDY VCR
April 21, 1879-tf
dC n tfirtfl per day at home. SampJ
$3 IU wortn j.-, free. Address
eoit A Co., Portland, Maine. 01 J,
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