Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-15
SHORT ITEMS.

Smallpox has appeared in New York
to an alarming extent. -....
The house in which Senator Cameron
resides, at Harrisburg, is lO5 We rs old.
An Illinois editor, in advertising hi.
office for sale, announces that lie is going
to peddle shoe strings. -'
There axe said to be 81 900 clersymen
i'll the United States, their average pay
being about $500 year.
OF the twenty-four members of the
Senate whose terms expired on the al,
instant, only seven have been reelected.
a muskrat made hole through the
dam Of a Wisconsin farmers trout pond,
and thirteen hundred trou. escaped
therefrom.
William Forester, New York bur
Slar, is believed, by the police of that
city, to be the murderer of Mr. Nathan.
Proof accumulateE.
Kansas agents are organizing colonies
for emigration to the State, in all parts of
New England. Thy vary from fifteen
to fifty families each. ...
A clergyman, in Illinois, who recently
preached sermon against drinking. was
afterwards attacked in the street, by
saloon keeper and severely beaten
\ little boy in Lawrence county. wen.
rat shooting tie other day. and brought
down his mother at the first fire Tho
old lady's wound is not serious, fortu-
nately.
The largest valley in the world is the
Valley Of the Mississippi. 1t contains
100000 square miles, and is one of the
most fertile and profitable regions on
the globe.
North Carolina has 'an old man of the
mountains" who lives about 40 miles
from Greenville, and has reached the age
Of l43 years. At the time of Brad
docks defeat he was 90 years old. and
had wife and three children
\ farmer in Hillsdalc county has
brought suit against a moving machine
manufacturing firm for damages for the
loss of his arm. While he was moving
the seat gave way end he fell on the
knives, having his arm cut off.
ii meant to have told you of that
hole" said gentleman to his friend
who was walking with him in his garden,
and stumbled into pit full of water
NO NATTER said the friend, blowing
;he mud and water out of his mouth.
"l've found it."
A grand welcome will be accorded TO
the German troops on their entry into
Berlin The preparation for their recep-
ton have been going on for weeks, and
the Ber'iners are determined to make the
occasion memorable. The city will be
illuminated in manner Of unprecedented
splendor.
\ New York woman has sent COM
munication to Journal Of that city. sta
ting that she is dcsirous of selling her
hair, which lis yard and quarter long.
and thick in proportion, aud of light
brown color She is led to this course
because she is in arrears for her rent, AID
she proposes 10 sell her hair for 500.
A young wom,n from Boston, the wife
of an army officer on the frontier, be-
came much interested in a noble slva..
until he stole all her jrwelry. got teastly
drunk with the proceeds, and was found
half buried in the mud one morning in
front of the fort. She has since ceased
to regard the red man romantically.
Three yc.rs grace is allowed To
France for the payment of Germ,cy's
big bill Should she pay it at the rate
of million of dollars a day almost three
years would be required TO get rid Of the
principal alone. The interest would be
an hun!rcl millions more, at Il low es-
innate.
Colonel Colman, of the RUrol IID,N.
says none of the root crops save the
iurnip thrive well in the latitude of st
Louis that all roots, even the potato,
thrive best in cooler climate. and that
on account of the dry summers and com.
paratively dry springs they cannot raise
one-fourth the quantity of roots that can
be grown further north.
A chill of Maggie Helfright, of
/ Huntingdon, took sick and, apparently,
died. \ neighbor was sent for to wash
and dress it, preparatory to placing it in
the coffin. When the lady responding
to the call was about to wash the child,
it was seen to move and open its eyes
IL iiNeu ABOUT three hours dItc'"dIde'
and then died, the body becoming cold
and lifeless
An old farmer named Jeniscn, living
in Wapello county, Iowa, recently came
into legacy of $40 100000, left him by
a relative in England, which it was neces-
sary for him to go after When he re-
ceived the news he was hammering on
barn which he was building. He paused.