Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-01-16
NEWS ITEMS.

newspapers.
"A two year old colt in Maine was
sold for $4,000.
All the contribution boxes wer. stclen
from Reading Sunday school tn, other
day.
What is the difference betgeen a
tunnel and a speaking trumpet? Due is
followed out and the other is hollovedjn
One Steinmeter of Jersey City is oharg-
ed with stealinga lady's garter-BostoD
Post.
How did he do it?
The National Union, the late evening
johnson paper in Cincinnati was closed
out ly the sheriff on Monday. Only
! $500 were realized
The editor of an Alexandra (Va)
newspaper speaks of a iull-eiown LOUISE
anan sitting cross-legged, pla?ing seven
up with little "nigger" for ten cents a
game.
1t is a mistake to suppose that every.
body in Kentucky is running io- Governor
There are fifteen men who are not. They
are the candidates for LicuteIani Gov
ernor.
An elderly lady, in a neishboriug
city, who is extremely partial to bargain
hearing of a bankruptcy of an undertaken
thought she might buy coffin cheap BY
auction.
The Scientific -imericaa estimates
that twenty tons Of postage stamps were
used last year; or, by superficial measure
ment, forty eight ana half square miles
Of paper.
A Mandatory for making printers
type IRON yulcanzed india rubber has been
started at Dalston, England. The inven
tlon 10 -AihciiSdu, Jul 10 sait ~ Dc uiih III
progress in England.
"A California paper tells of lady at
Alma, who became grandmother on the
day she was 2l years old In this latitude
such cases are fure, but not in topical
countries where humanity comes TO matu
rity much sooner.
A spunkey New Haven woman dis
covered thief leaving her house with
an overcoat not his own, and promptly
rushing BY him fastened the door, detail-
ing him until assistance came, when he
was arrested
On Thanksgiving day Mr.. Winters,
late Democratic candidate for Governor
of Nevada, got drunk ahd announced his
ability and willingness to whip any Black
Republican, whereupon he was soundly
thrashed by State Comptroller Nightingale.
An aged woman who spent her time
in rag picking, has just died in Charision.
Mass, amids: scenes Of the greatest dis
tress, filth and poverty. Prior to her
disease a skirt was found in her appart-
ments, in which there was sewed ap several
thousand dollars in gold.
A woman drove up to one of the Balti-
more police stations few days since, and
delivered to the officer her husband.
William Rook, tied hand and foot She
stated that she had folowd the army for
three wears as "A washerwoman. had accu-
mulatcd $500, had purchased farm.
that her husband had become dissipated
and had attempted to kill her and her
children. Throwing him down, she said.
here he Is, and want him sent to Jail
Her request was complied with despite
the appeals Of her I" liege lord"
The Hon. Lewis Baker, Speaker Of
the Legislature of Maine, delivered thrill
ing speech upon his Inauguration We
Civ. few specimens Treason had
laire1 itself in the White House. and
standing behind its ba.,lements sayaeely
at bay, was Haunting its banners upon the
outward. From beneath glttering crown
that girt throbbing brow, the hot look of
a seepless eye was fixed upon the forest of
Maine. Right then it was our noble
Union army, some 10000 strong, came
marching out from among her pines with
thier elbows touching, and each bearing
in front his covering bough from Birnam
wood they moved on Dusinane, palsying
with dread the sceptered hand Of the
Tbane Of Cawdor."
ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 12-The Rebel Gen.
Sterling Price and family arrived here
yesterday from Mexico.
The Den1ocr1f's ST Josenh sro,;ol -: