Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-12-18


senses the fact that the beverage served
at the principal hotels and restaurants of
that city is a strong infusion of roasted
beans. chicory and sweet potato peelinss
with a trace of burnt tobacco stems to
put head on it.
A Jersey City despatch of the l4,h
inst states John Miller and Michael
Guy art, while repairing a car on the
Pennsylvania Central railroad today
piaced signal fiag on it, warning engin
eers from running trains on that track
A. Ii icks, engineer Of the drill engine.
disregarded the signal and backed down
bis engine on the car, crushing Miller to
death and fatally injuring Gayart. Hicks
has been arrested
A Milwaukee, Wis, despatch, of the
18th inst says: A woman named Mary
Quinn WAS burned to de death in a shan
~ in the Fourth ward yesterday morn
ing She was a confirmed drunsard and
had come home late at night intoxicated,
and building fire in the stove, she lay
down beside it, At two clock her hus-
band was awakened by suffocating
smoke, and saw his wife wrapped in
flames. He extinguished the fire, but
she was dead Another terrible woarn-
ing to drinking people.
A despatch dated at Newton Ohio, on
the l4th inst says A collision occurred
three miles east of here at two clock
yesterday morning between two freight
trains on the Atlantic and Great Wes
fern Railroad, at Boggs creek. Oac OF
.he engines was badly damaged, and
four car., two of which contained cattle.
and two containing grain, were pTecipta
led through the bridge, killing and wound
ing large number of TIE cattle. The
grain cars took fire and were entirely con
-umed No one was seriously injured.
At South Roy,l;on Vermont recently
an attempt was made to ahduct Miss
Julia Foster, young lady twenty two
year cid. As she stepped TO the back
door she was seized by man who pre-
vented any outcry ty covering her face
and mouth with Tie shawl she wore. IN
this condition she was horne come dis
tauce across Il field, as she thinks. to
where an accompice was waiting with a
team, in which she was driven away. She
managed TO escape from her captors, how
ever, and reached a place ef safety
Meantime the citizens had started in
search of her.
Mrs. Svis-helm presents her ideas
about architecture briefly in words to this
effect Your crook spined, hump sl,oul-
dered house, with IA wen on one side, Il
war' on the other. il factory chimney on
the door, and pilot house on the roof may
make sn interesting feature in lard
scape but tnr house to live in. com
mend me to the generou. old square man
sion, such lis most abouul in he rural
di-tlicts of the Keystone State. The
wide centre hall rooms on each 81 lie and
l.. kitchen. for homestead architecture,
never has been and never can be equal
ed"
The German army is about to be
equipped With new weapon. which is
represented to be superior to either the
Werder or the Chassepot gun. 1t is
said this Gun will do execution at dis
tance Of 1900 yards and can be discharg
ed twenty six times per minute. The
arm is light ard simple in construction
and this, in connection with its great
range and the rapidity with which it can
be fired. probably renders it the most
effective infantry arm in the world. The
care taken and the energy displayed by
the German government i'll this matter.
and in the reorganization of the army.
would indicate that Bismarck confidence
in the permanent peace Of Europe is not
of the strongest.
There is a man namrd Hicks living at
Brady's bend, Chautauque county. who
buried his wife nine years ago. Like
many another man. he married again -
About two weeks aSD he sot into do
pute with his present wife, and. during
the controversy, he cast up to his other
half that the dead wife had been the best
looking woman of the two. The new
wife denied it. He Insisted, and finally
said his dead wife had miniature of hel-
self on her person. and he would dig up
her boly and get it, so as to satisfy the
doubter as to the truth Of what he said
Accordingly he got pick and spade and
proceeded to the graveyard, and in a
short time disinterred the body, found
the locket, sfnd brought it forth.
a FIRE broke out in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York city, on the night of
the 10Th inst Eleyen nirls ncriahad in