Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-11-30

" Hu ooirs cha>e people III iiuutiuS-
don county. Indiana.
1t is rumored that Napoleon is making
preparation to visit the United States.
Hon. John Cessna will contest the
election of Myers, Democrat, in the
Sixteenth Pennsylvania District.
General Butler has been requested by
the President to visit him on business,
the nature of which has not transpired.
There are 81 factories in Richmond,
Va, for the manufacture of plug and 81
for the manufacture of smoking tobacco.
A practical farmer in Wisconsin adver-
tises for healthy young woman to take
his name and bring up his FIVE children.
In New York the other night. woman
waA found dead in bed whilst her
husband was stretched on a sofa in Tho
same room dead drunk.
Scientific men have recently discovered
that the poison taken into the system
from continued smoking of tobacco will
cause death in 167 years.
The bankers of Fall River, Mass,
excite the cupidi,y of the pedestrians by
displaying in their windows nine silver
bricks from Nevada, worth $4,000.
Chunder Sen, the famous Hindoo,
came from India to see Christian Eu-
rope, and could not do so by reason of
the ravages of war among Christian peo-
pie.
\ Western paper describes letter of
Horace Greeley's as looking ''as if some
body had smashed bottle OF ink OH If
and tried to wipe it off with a curry
comb"
A young man in Indiana county, while
out hunting the other day, fired into the
bushes and brought down his mother-in-
law, who was seeking stray chicken.
That was making game of the old l.dy.
A Boston paper tells how two very
fashionable wedding receptions occurred
there recently at the same time, in neigh
boring houses, and how many of the
guests got into the wrong house and were
presented to the wrong ''happy pair"
A few days ago young man died at
a boarding house on Common street, New
Orleans. Two of his friends went to the
house to attend 10 the body. What was
their astonishment when they were con-
fronted by the landlady, who told them
that they would not be permitted to
touch the body unless s1OO were paid.
They inquired for what service the mon
ey was demanded and were informed
that the deceased owed SIS for board,
and .hat the balance was required for
damages done to my boarding house"
The Western Reserve (Ohio) Chronicle
says: We were shown few days since,
a letter in the handwriting of Rev. John
Wesley. the founder Of Methodism.-
This letter is not copy or Autographed
imitation, but the original. 1t is dated
February 18th ,1773, having been penned
nearly 100 years ago. The chiroghaphy
is smooth and uniform, although bearing
evidence of having been written some
what hurl iedly. The letter came from
England, and is now the property of
Mrs. DIR. Gray, at present on visit to
this place.
The aurora borealis was recently yisi-
BILE in England and excited great aston
ishment. A traveller who happened to
be in LeiCestershire at the time found the
inhabitants of certain village gazing in
tently at the pheomenon One of these
observers said "There is France for YOU
The traveller was rather taken aback,
but found, upon inquiry, that the villa
gers all believed the red light in the sky
to be the reflection of Paris on fire. One
of the villagers said "Gad, how it burns
and another exclaimed, They're getting
thunder now"
The Tionesta Republican says ave
believe we have in this section the champ
ion old couple of the State, if not of the
United States. Mr., and Mrs. Allio, liv-
ing about nine miles southeast of this
place, are aged respectively LOG and 1O4
years. Each is the others first compan-
ion. They are natives of France. Have
two SONS, and one daughter living. The
oldest. a son, is living on the farm with
his parents. Our informant, VIM. Thom-
as, Esq says they have lived where they
are now, to his certain knowledge, for
thirty-fve years. Both are hale and
hearty, and bid fair to be the oldest cou-
pie for several years to come. If any
body knows of an older couple than this
we would like to hear from them.
On Saturday evening, at Selma. Ala
bama, quarrel, which had been pending
all day between Jack Baxter, white, and
Alf Granger, negro, both brick masons.
eliminated in the latter being shot and
killed. Baxter surrendered himself ts
Marshal Wade, from whom he was ia
ken by mob of negroes, stripped, beat
en-, and dragged through the streets, AMI
left for dead. Through the influence o