Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-11-30
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A catholic church fair just closed a
Reading realized SO 900.
Bear meat is cheaper than beef a
Omaha.
Virginia has the best crop Of cotton
ever grown in. that State.
San Francisco has street preachers in
the shape of Chinese converts.
A $4,000 organ is t" he put in the
English Lutheran Church at Allentown
In the list of coffee drinking nations
the United States ranks second.
Mrs. Durnin, of Coplay, Lehigh coun-
ty, has reached the astonishing age Of
lO3 years.
Forty-seven years ago the ice on the
2lst of November was thick enough in
central New England to bear adults.
Wheat straw is selling in West Ches-
ter at sl4 per ton. Prime timothy hay
worth about $40 per ton.
Thepeople of Chester county are flock
ing in crowds to Virginia, where they
invest in land largely.
Cows have been dying in the neigh
borhood of Intercourse, Lancaster coun-
ty, from milk fever.
A bridegroom of eighty and bride
of ninety-eight, have appeared in Row
ley, N. II.
The buffaloes have become disgusted
with the hideous bowling of the locomo.
tives on the Pacific Railroad, and. are
rarely seen along the line now.
There are manufactured in the United
States each year over ! 100000 scythcs.
at cost of about the same number
of dollars, employing not far from 1900
hands.
Three safe robbers were arrested in
Kentucky last week through the instru-
mentality of an old lady aud her daugh-
ter, to whom member of the gang had
made confession just before his death.
The Artesian salt well of Lincoln, Ne
braska, throws stream of brine six in
ches in diameter to height over fifty
feet. This stream has sufficient volume
and velocity to turn a mill wheel.
A young lady having read about
man having invented stove which con-
sumes its own smoke, hopes be will de-
wise method where by tobacco smokers
can be rnn on the same economical prin-
ciple.
The people of Minnesota have voted
an important amendment to the State
constitution. That instrument now pro.
vides that all stockholders in any cor
poration shall be liable to the amount of
stock held my them. The amendment
excepts railroads from this provision.
The only property left by an old wom-
an who died recently at Lafayette. In
diana, at the age of eighty-nine, was a
twenty-dollar gold piece, which she had
kept carefully concealed for thirty five
years, in order to pay her funeral expen-
ses.
To cure dogs of sucking eggs, a cores
pondent of the Southern Cultirator says:
Take an egg, punch a hole in it large
enough to admit the little blade of knife
and put in through the hole as much tar
tar emetic as can be piled on dime
piece, and give it to the dog, or put it in
a convenient place where be will find it.
Repea. three or four times within ten
days or two weeks
In Muskingum county, Ohio, man
name Dutton had been out coon hunting
and, after returning home and retiring,
dreamed in his uneasy slumber that he
had caught the coon and struck it
against tree, killing it. He was awak-
ened by the frantic screams of his wife,
and to his horror found that he had pick
ed up his little infant daughter and dash
ed her against bedpost, killing her al
most instantly.
The following head notes of the case
of Houser VS.. Tully, from Adams coun-
ty, lately decided by our Supreme Court,
may give useful information as to the
duties and obligations of inn-keepers to
their guests. Tully went to Houser's inn
and purchased liquor, &c. and gave mon
ey for safe keeping to one in the bar
room, as to whom there was evidence
that he was bar-keeper. The money
was lost. The Court properly instructed
the jury that if Tully was guest, and
gave his money to the barkeeper, or if
not in fact bar-keeper. one acting in ca
pacity from which an authority to re-
ceive the money on the credit of the
house might be inferred, he could recover
if the money was entrusted to him on
the credit of the inn; but if Tuily was
not guest. or entrusted the money on
the individual credit of the innkeeper,
he could not recover. An inn-keeper ..
extends an invitation to travellers and
receives a reward for his hospitality,
from which result corresponding duties,