Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-10-04
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Illinois claims the Champion suu'noweI
measuring five feet in circumference.
A harmonious ladiee' clab in Wiscon-
sin was broken up BY the introduction Of
. prize for the handsomest baby.
Judge Vincent. at the Erie county
court decided that playing billiards or
dominoes for drinks or cigars, was gam
bling.
A Chicago heiress has made runa-
way match with q gentle man employed
by her uncle in the responsible capacity
Of hostler.
The Crawford Democrat says that if
all the wife beaters in that county were
in jail, that edi6ce would be full. What
a place for wives Crawford county nust
be.
The Memphis appeal says: We have
a half dozrn ears of corn grown on the
plantation Of Mr.. Nealis. two miles and
a half from the city, that contains six
thousand grain. They weigh about
twenty pounds.
Carlisle has 4O.OOO subscribed for the
erection of nail works in that borough.
1t is intended to increase that sum to
S40O 600 if possible, and to give en-
ployment to two hundred laborers. Such
enterprises are the legitimate results Of
the protective tariff.
On Sunday night of last week, at
Sextonville. Wis.. a house was struck BY
lightning, the current passing down the
chimney and stovepipe to the floor. kill.
ing dog under the stove and knocking
the slipper off the foot of Miss Sher
man, who sat at the stove.
A Wisconsin paper states that the
forests on the islands in the Mississippi
are full of gray squirrels. 1t seems
these squirrels are now moving west. and
the river is full Of them swimming to the
Minnesota shore. The crop of nuts in
Wisconsin is small, and these squirrels
go where they may provide for the winter.
On the 18th inst, little child of vii.
liam Beecher, of Clear6eld township.
Cambria county. was playing in the yard
and eating some roasted corn. when the
geese got after the child aud soaring it
badly. causing it to scream. While cry
ing the child drew grain Of corn into
it's windpipe. and Immediately s,rangled
to death
The old landmarks of Japanese civil
cation are swept away with rapidity
which would be astonishing even among
a less conservative people. The latest
news from the fowery isles shows that
the progress toward what We are pleased
to call a higher civilization is almost dan
gerous in its celebrity. The people begin
to feel that hereditary titles and ranks are
not an advantage to the country.
Fever and asue is very prevalent
along the Susquehanna river. There are
five hundred cases in Sunbury and three
hundred in Northumberland. In Milton
one phsician visited ninety cases in one
day recently. At Baldwin, few miles
below Harrisburg. nearly one half the
employees Of the steel works, numbering
over one hundred persons. have been un-
der the influence of the shakes" the /,
past few weeks.
\ heroic woman is Mr. William Bart
lett, who lives near Pilot Grove. in LIE.
county. A few days ago little son of
hers fell head foremost into well. The !
well contained several feet of water. A /
younger brother of the boy gave the
alarm, and his mother ran to til. well,
clambered down its wall, seized the
boy when be came to the sur
face. put him Oh her shoulder, and, un.
aided, climbed out of the well.
The Cory Blude says: "One day last |
week a savagely disposed Irishman
at the Philadelphia and Erie
stone quarry. near Garland, stuck pick
into valuable horse because the animal |
was driven SO close to him that he brush.
I'd his nose against the man back. lie
was arrested and obliged to pay 5000 for
the horse and give bail for his appearance
At the September court IN Warren, to the
tune Of $500. to answer for cruelty to
animals.
Mr. James Calhoun. on his arrival in
New Orleans, lately had the pleasure of
meeting three gentlemenly persons named
Mclaughlin, Murphy and
In the evening they invited
hin to the house of a friend of theirs.
md while there to game of cards -
The result was than Mr.. Calhoun lost
lis watch. his spare cash and his temper,
md made complaint which led to the
consignment last week of the three gent
emen to the workhonse on charge of
'agrancy.
A gentleman returning from Iowa, a
ew days since. over the Western Union
load relates that at a station near Be.