Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-12-13
inst as We Found Them.

There are now only SO prisoners in the
Berks county jail. which is the lowest
number for 1S months past.
James Fisk, Jr,. in his love letters to
Mrs Mansfield, writes az with email
j, and "God" with small "g'.
There is an excess of los over the
number of people in the Alms-house at
Philadelphia this time last year, it having
now 3.447 inmates.
At recent stylish church wedding
twenty five cents admission was charged
and the proceeds given to the young cou-
pie as bridal gift.
The Blairs are a perpetual bother to
the Democratic party. Some Of the fam
lily are always saying "Amen" in the
wrong place -Boyton Transcript.
Smoking is very much on the decline
in England. At the universities not one
man in FIVE now smokes, whereas a few
years ago at least four in five did.
Judge Long, of the Lancaster Court,
fined two lawyers, Messrs. Brubaker and
Reynolds, S25 each for contempt. They
had struck each other while the Court
was in session.
Poor Andy An impostor pretending
to be Andrew johnson. ex-President Of
the United States, hastbeen arrested and
sentenced to one months Imprisonment at
Ancona in Italy.
1t is stated on good authority that a
Philadelphia manufacturing establishment
has entered into contract to supply the
Russian government with five hundred
locomotives.
! Mrs. David Soldier, of Pu;tstown, had
her infant smothered in her shawl on Tues
day of last week She was ou: walking
with it and wrapping tup too carefully,
the child smothera.
An eminent medical man in India
strongly recommends poultices of tea
leaves, moistend with hot water. as pre-
ferable to all other remedies in the first
stages of burns and scalds.
A young Scrantonian thought to fright
en- a young lady the other evening by peer
ing through the window at her. She
drew pistol and came near perforating
the scamp for his lad manners.
Berlin boasts of not less than twenty
women physicians who have acquired rep
utations and independence in their profes-
.ions. Most of them are of the homeo
pa,hic aud electric schools of medicine.
The Fulton county school teachers, on
the 2lst nit, raised their Superintendent 5
salary from $500 to $1,000. after which
the convention broke up in a row. twenty
Of the directors signing protest and for
warding it to the State School Depart
mcnt.
There are twenty three colored men in
the present Legislature of Georga-six in
the Senate and seventeen in the House.
Senator Morton,s pocket book, which was
stolen from him while getting on the
cars at Jersey City, has been returned,
minus $500
A curious instance occurred in con-
nection with the severe storm last week
near Kit Carson During the storm,
while the train was stopped, a large num-
Der of buffaloes congregated around the
train, and stood on the lee side of il for
protection against the storm
Daniel Hilton, of Pleasantville. hung
himself accidentally short time ago lie
was working on the M'Mullen well near
that place. While assisting in drawing
the tubing he became entangled in the
tackle rope and fell with the rope around
his neck. The neck was broken causing
instant death.
A clergyman at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has made new departure in the matter
of '.hitching up. folks. He has swept
away the old established rules of marry
ing for fee, and announces that he shall
hereafter marry by weight, charging four
cents per pound for the happy man, and
two cents for the bride The idea is a
novel one.
A wealthy young farmer in an adjoining
county, says the GAINESVILLE (Ohio) Cou-
rier, made VOW at the time of his mar
riage that he would plant forty peach or
apple trees for each child that was born
during the first ten years of his welded
life. He has been married seven years
and has out three hundred and twenty
trees. He talks of going back on his
vow. He hasn't the land to spare.
Mr.. f. II. Palmer, of Beaver township,
Mercer county, met with singular acci-
dent few days since. He was seated
in the blacksmith shop at Center, while
some persons were engaged in making re-
pairs on the roof, directly over his head
In some manner a crowbar fell from above,
the sharpened end first striking one of
Mr.. Palmer's feet on the instep. passing
entirely through and into the floor, pin
ming the foot fast and requiring quite an
effort to release it. The wound is an ugly
one, and will trouble him for some time.