Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-05-01
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years.
Col. Robert Breckinridge ia candi-
date for Congress in Kentucky.
A pine tree out in Cambria county
made ak thousand feet oflumber.
The Jobnstown Presbyterian church
have adopted the free pew system.
Sportsmen are no longer paid for
shooting wild cats in Union county
Silver coin to the extent of $500, ,00o,-
600 is believed to be buried in India
1t is proposed to admit lady members
tn some of the clubs in New York City
The richest man in the Shenango Val
lev startea'housekeeping one FIVE dollars.
The father of Ex Governor johnson
is still living. and will be one hundred
years old in May.
A company of Costa Ricans have
bought 1900 acres in California, and will
raise sugar cane.
A carriage, once the property of Dan
iel Webster, is now used as public con-
veyance at Newmarket, N. H.
A young child of Mr.. Milton Nichols,
of Lawrence township, died from an
overdose of laudanum,
The Bible is not to be read in the
Phenixville public schools hereafter
The Directors have issued that order.
The population Of the little State Of
Delaware is less than one hundred and
thirty thousand souls, black and white.
j H. Stroud has received $1,000 from
the Third avenue horse railroad, New
York, for being kicked off car by con-
ductor.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in Ter -ssee in immense numbers
aud is doing great damage to the fruit
trees.
A. N. Stauffer, Esq, of North Coven-
try. Chester county, while asleep few
nights since in ft of coughing swal-
lowed an artificial tooth.
Katie Naxon, of Meadville, while
going to Sunday School, stopped a mo-
ment on the railroad track and was killed
by passing locomotive.
The late earthquake iu California is
now known to have affected an area of
about seven hundred and fifty miles long
by nearly FIVE hundred miles broad.
Six thousand men and boys and two
thousand women and girls are employed
in Birmingham, England, in the brass
founding trade Six thousand hands are
engaged in the button trade.
A young Meadville somuambulist
walked out Of third story window the
other night, taking sash. glass and all
with him. Strange to say, be was not
seriously injured
The lumber field. Of Pennsylvania are
annually growing less productive. In
few years we will be compelled to depend
on the West and Pacific railrsad for a
supply of boards.
The hair on a camel weighs about ten
pounds, and sells for more than SlOO.
which shows that it was not only in the
days of Mohammed that the animal bore
a great prophet.
The Louisville Journal says: 1t is
base calumuy to say that we in Ken
tucky carry on capital punishment by
the wholesale. We hang only impecu-
nious persons who have been convicted
of murder.
Col Rush Hawkins, who recently re-
signed from the New York Assembly, is
reported to have said that vote in that
body was as much an article of merchan
disc as a barrel of -four. We cannot
doubt it.
A lady of Boston, seeing among the
religious notices that a certain clergyman
would preach ID w." said at once that
she would go and hear. presuming. as
she did, that the subject of his discourse
was dolly Vardens."
The disappearance of the ice and enow
in the neighborhood Of the Wisconsin
fires has exposed the bodies of many of
the unfortunate victims of the calamity.
Almost daily fresh bodies are discovered,
and an active search is now going on.
In a leading bank in Stockholm all the
clerkships have for some years past been
satisfactorily filed by females. This is
what might have been expected. Every
one who has ever entrusted a secret to
women knows that they make first.rate
tellers.
The discovery is announced in Hun
gary of an almost entire human skeleton.
together with a stone hammer, at depth
which, according to the theories of mod
ern geologists, would prove that man
must have existed long before the mann
moth age"
Emporium, Cameron county, ia bound