Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-08-16

A Republican editor has been elected
to Congress from Montana.
There are now si1ty-eight colleges for
women in the United States.
Horseback riding is the principal
amusement of the ladies at the White
Sulphur Springs.
The Mexican government has appro-
priated $4,000 more for bounties for
Apacbes' acalps.
Mrs. Vallandigham. wife of the late
G. l.. Vallandigham, died in Baltimore.
on Monday morning.
Five persons were checked BY fire.
damp IN an old coal shaft, near Eddy
vile, Iowa, on Friday last.
While Cincinnati family we're at the
theatre recently their servant girl stole
two wagon loads of furniture.
Divorces are obtained in Maryland
without publicity. Husbands take their
wives out fishing and tighten the boat.
A cynical lady, rather inclined to lirt.
says men are like a cold-very easily
caught, but very difficult to get rid Of.
Four large stables, filed with hogs.
were burned on Thursday at Newark,
Ohio, entailing loss of s35,000, with
no insurance.
Some $4,000 young shad have been
turned lose in the Sacramento river, and
Californians already begin to talk about
feasting on shad.
Eighteen persons were killed and fifty
seven injured by tie guu-cotton e1plo-
sion at Stow Mar-market, England
Nine others are missing.
Out in Iowa kisses are sold at fairs by
the fair. A man pays certain sum to
the general fund, and selects the girl or
woman be desires to KISS.
A great pear-shaped spot, forty thou
sand miles long. is now to be observed
on the sun. 1t is said that it can be seen
without a telecope through dark color
ed glass.
A photograph of the lace purchased
by the wife of Senator Sprague is re-
tanned in the shop at Paris. it being the
finest lace ever made, and costing $4,000
for six yards.
A party of six persous at Shrewsbury,
N. Y, saw two hundred and twenty
three shooting stars on the morning of
the 9th inst, in one hour and thirty
eight minutes
White linen parasols. lined with dark
purple or green linen. are used by ladies
at the sea shore in preference to the por-
gee or silk ones. which are SO expensive
and so easily spoiled.
Miss Lidia Nye wears the honors of
champion female pedestrian of Benning-
ton, Vermont, having walked the other
day thirty miles within eight hours, over
the rough and mountainous road.
A lady in Halifax county, Va, who
year before Iast, was the mother of three
boys at time, none of them living, was,
week before last, the mother of four
boy babies. all hearty and kicking.
In disagreement between superin-
tended and teacher of Sunday school
in Indiana the lady came out with vic
tory and shattered parasol The schol !
ars enjoyed it better than the catechism
The first bale of cotton raised in
Georgia this year was received on the
9th at Savannah. 1t was grown in De-
cature county, and was sold yesterday
at auction for 324 cents per pound. 1t
classed as strict middling.
Lewis Beach, of San Francisco, whose
remaining son was killed by the fall of
building two weeks ago. committed sui
eide by taking poison on the morning of
the 9th inst, at the grave of bis children,
in Lone Mountain Cemetery. in that city.
A London policeman, who did not
know that monarch sometimes get up at
6 o'clock in the morning and stroll about
the streets unattended, was recently 60
ing to arrest the Enpeor of Brazil as a
Communist and suspicious character gen.
eally.
A wife poisoning case has turned up in
Madison county. Ohio. Mrs. Pofenberg.
ger is accused of numbering her husband
with arsenic. four yeas ago, the sooner to
get his $4,000. The body has been
exbumed. and large quantities of arsenic
found in the stomach.
Three heavy golden vases were lately
found in Pompeii in the middle of a
street only few feet under ground. 1t
is believed that they were carried by
priests in a procession to propitiate the
gods, and that the bearers were killed
while passing throughthe streets.
General Butler and Colonel French.
while catching at Newburyport, Mass,
a few days ago, accidentally fell over
board. Colonel French caught hold Of
a small boat and saved himself, but Gen.