Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-21
SHORT ITEMS.

years ago.
Mrs Hutchinson. residing near Spruce
creek. Huntingdon county, added three
10 the population few days ago.
\ conscrilt being told that it was sweet
TO die for his country, tiled to excuse
himself OF the ground that he never
liked swee. things.
An Irishman who had blistered his fing
ers ly endeavoring TO draw on a pair of
boots. exclaimed Il believe shall never
get en- on until | wear 'em day or
two"
There were not less than FIVE thousand
six hundred and forty five children in
the Roman Catholic Sunday school pro-
cession, last Thursday, in Rochester, n.
Y. Ten churches were represented.
The late hail storm in Vermont at
tackled railway train with such fierce
ness that the locomotive, with all the en-
ergy of $50 pounds of steam, required
twenty minutes to han! the cars a mile.
Two little children were buried alive
ly the falling in of wall of cave in
Wexford, 4 L, the other dav. Their
mother, Mrs. Burnell, who was sick.
died from the shock, and the father has
become insane.
A. c. Jones, who WAS recently arrest
el at ST. Joseph, Missouri, for forging
the signature Of Thomas \. Scott. Presi-
dent of the Union Pacific Railroad. to
free passes, was sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary.
1t VIII probably surprise many peo-
pie to learn that the territory called
British Isles" of which Great Britain
and Ireland are the chief, lying off the
European continent are fully 500 in
number, and that l75 are inhabited.
The ticking of the clock at the Cam
bridge observatory can be heard at San
Francisco. This is done by connecting
the pendulum of the clock with the tele-
graphic wire in such manner that the
main circuit is broken and Instantly clos
ed again at every swing of the pend
lum
Three times last week a slight earth !
quake shock was felt at North Oakland, +,
six miles east of Butler, Pa. On Sat
urday morning one of the residents sent
his son TO the well for water, which on
being drawn up was found covered to
the depth of about two inches with crude
petroleum.
\ little daughter of Mr. Henry Dyke
man, of Williamstown, Dauphin county.
died on Tuesday morning of last week,
from the effects of drinking small quan-
tity of I've that had been prepared for
some domestic purpose and left standing |
on table in the kitchen, from which it
was taken by the child.
The dead body of an in n'ant was found
in an old bed of mortar in Petersburg /
Huntingdon county, Il short time ago,
but by whom placed there is mystery
The party who found it. with a careless
ness that was almost criminal, permitted
a large dog to get at the remains aud de-
vour them. The child, it is supposed,
was stillborn.
Judge Harrison, of New Haven, has |
begun his official duty by sentencing to
six months imprisonment and SlO0 fine
gentleman with a reputation of twenty
years standing in that city as saloon
keeper, sporting man and politician ;
who, although he Lad rendered himself .
liable TO legal penalties, was astonished
as well as annoyed at being sent to Jail. t
On the night of Wednesday, the 9TH inst
in Pittsburg, the house of Dir. Christian
bentzer, which had been raised on blocks /
TO the height of ten feet, for the purpose /
of building another story under it, was
blown down. The family, seven in num-
ber, were still occupying their rooms
Strange to say none Of them, with the
exception of an infant whose face was
slightly cut, sustained any injury. /
While some boys were playing in the
l.eighborhood of slate quarry near Le-
high, Pa, one of them ventured too near
the quarry, and fell in, and as there were
no persons but boys around, the boy
would certainly have drowned but for
the timely appearance of dog, which,
seeing the boy in the water, plunged in,
grabbed him by the shoulder, and swan
with him to the shore.
Some days ago little boy in Virginia
was killed by the bite of rattlesnake. l
The little fellow had gone out with some
other members of the family to look for !
eggs, and in his search he crawled un-
derneatb his fathers barn. After going !
some distance under the floor he scream
ed to his companions that something was I
killing him. They obtained assistance,
and ripped up the planks of the floor.
when to their horror they found large
had tightly coiled itself