Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-02-21
NEWS ITEMS.

CuUa > euSai 0ioP "AA o iaTSer than
usual this yea-.
nsn. Perry county, has instructed her
delegate In favor Of John ". Geary for
Governor.
General Jackson's motto "Think be.
fore you act, but when the time Comes for
acting, stop thinking"
Look out for counterfeit fves on the
Union Bank of Haverkiil, and counter
felt tens on the Essex Bank, alsoat Hav-
erhill. Mass.
From all parts of the South coaes a
cry for change, and 5000 900 of fractional
currency has been sent there t. supply
the deficiency.
A hotel, covering al acre aud a half of
ground, surprising ang in the country, is
to be erected at the Suth End in Bos-
ton ; cost 81 500, 900.
Warrants against TIN Government un-
der ten thousand dollars, and quarter
masters checks under fire thousand dol
lars, will be paid e%ntirel in cash.
At Brownsville, Texas, it is a common
remark at the breakfast table, "Well, who
was killed last night" O., "Were there
any bodies found floating n the river yes
terday?"
The cattle disease is Spreading in all
parts Of Holland, notwithstanding the pre-
cautions taken by the authorities to pre-
vent the admission of diseased cattle into
the country.
A report has obtained currency tina:
Brigham Young has purchased, or obtain
ed the refusal of two of the Sandwich
Islands, to which he intends removing the
~po!igamous Paradise, when compelled to
make his hegira from Utah.
a pair Of lovers, fleeing from stern
and cruel parents, were married in the
ears near st. Louis the other day. Papa
te~!caraphed to the conductor to send his
daughter back, but he telegraphed back:
Never return a .jau on this road"
The Swiss are highly gratifed at the
result Of our late war, and all Switzerland
seems to be clarifying America. They
are going te send au arts. over here for
the portraits Of Lincoln, johnson, Sew.
ard, Grant aDd Sherman, to place in their
n%ationa! capitol.
Gen. Dyer, of the United States Ar
mory at Springfield, has ordered the re-
modelling of FIVE thousand of the Spring
field rifles, with Albin's breech- loading
Improvement. The alteration does not
materially change the appearance, or af-
feet the range, hut provides for the dis,
charge of eighteen cartridges il a minute.
Some of the Oil companies of this
State make a ~deplorable exhibit to the
Auditor General. The law requires
them to assess their stock at a valuation
so that the tax can be adjusted. The
same stock which a few months ago was
represented by the directors to be cheap
at ten dollars per share; is now valued
by the same directors at ire cents per
skare, and at this last assessment many of
the taxes are computed and paid,
We tiL1 the marvellous story in an Eas-
tern paper that on Sunday night last some
body snatchers at Norwalk, Conn, dug up
the body Of a young lady who had been
buried that afternoon, aud succeeded be-
yond their an~ticipations. She had been
buried while in a cataleptic fit, and upon
being exposed to the night air, animation
was restored. The resurrectionists fled,
and she walked home. Her parents re-
fused to admit her, believing her to be a
ghost. She then went to the house of a
young man to whom she was engaged
He took her in, and on Monday morning
they were married.