Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-09-05
NEWS ITEMS.

estimated to be worth S750,0O0-a good
return for ''ten years of the HE Of an
actress"
SwARMs ofsquirIcls are passing through
Michigan, southwark bound, stripping the
country of whatever serves them tor food.
Cold weather coming.
THE policemen OF Memphis have sued
the city for $50, 900, the loss in the iif-
ference between the scrip paid them and
the value in greenbacks.
THE British ship Fairlight, from Hong
Kong to San Francisco, was wrecked near
Island Pochung Hian, June II, and one
hundred and forty-thrce passengers were
drowned.
THE Bedford Inquirer notices the
death of Mr.. Eisihurt, who died in that
county, last month, aged one hundred
and eleven years, FIVE months, and twenty
days.
A Boy fourteen years old, ate forty
nine green pears, and then feasttd on
green apples and raw turnips, at Fair lla-
ven, Conn, the other day and then died
of cholera.
ONE of the conductors of Toledo
railroad train found an evercoat last week
in the depot. In one Of the pockets OF
the coat was $50 900 in counterfeit IL oney.
The owner has not called for it.
AN American citizen, residing at Shelf
field, England, has sent one hundred and
forty gross Of knives and forks to aid the
Portland, Me, families that were burned
out in resuming housekeeping.
NOTWITHSTANDING the Presidents re-
cent proclamation Of peace, the guard Of
soldiers that has been stationed around
Mr. Secretary Stewards residence since
the assassination of the President has not
vet been removed.
A taking novelty is colored starch. 1t
is made in pink, buff, nauve, blue and a
delicate green. Any musiI2 startcbeG
with the new preparation is completely
colored but it washes out, and the gar
ment that was pink to-day may be green
to morrow and buff afterwards
A young man was arrested and taken
before justice of the peace, at Oxford,
Chester county, the other day, for splitting
tobacco juice on The floor OF the NJ. +
Church at that place. He was fired c,st Of
prosecution. \ warning to persons who
use the weed.
Major Joseph Stephens, the celebrated
dwarf, died of apoplexy at his residence,
IN Lyman, Mo on the l4th, aged sixty
one years He was thirty six inches high
and weighed at the time of his death
forty FIVE pounds.
Attorney General Stransbury is pre-
pairing a decision in reference to the lie
sality of the Presidents removing per
sons from public Offices and appointing
others in their stead without the advice
and consent of the Senate.
A COUPLE of capitalists are building a
tenement house in New York city which
will accommodate no less than one hun
dred and sixty eight families. 1t will be
1870 by 500 feet, and six stories high.
A PLOT has been discovered in New
Orleans to assassinate General Sheridan,
commaud-r of the Gulf Department. 1t
was designed to accomplish his death by
the explosion of a shell made for the oc
casion.
Gov. CURTIN has signed the death
warrant Of Richard Thairwell, convicted
of the murder of Houseman, iu Fayette
county, some time ago. His execution
will take place on Monday the first day
of October next. In this case, it will be
noticed, that for the first time the custom
of hanging men on Friday-popularly
known as ''hangman's day"-has been