Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-06-26
SHORT ITEMS.

piece in Illinois.
A Chinaman has invented a new sys-
TEN of telegraphy
The arrival of bridal parties at Saratoga
averages twelve daily.
oxford University celebrates its one
thousandth anniversary this year
Canada musters about $4,000 militia,
and has reserve force of nearly 700, 600.
The subscriptions to the Somerset Re-
lief Fund amount to little over $50,
900.
The wire worm is doing much damage
to the corn, potatoes and wheat through
out Maine.
Mr.. Alexander. of Kentucky. has sold
two short. horned heifers to an English
purchaser for Sl3,600.
A negro man and his two boys made
eighty dollars in one week recently gath
erine moss in a Florida forest.
A COMMUNIST, with both legs cut of
was brought before the Military Tribun q
at Versaills. to receive sentence of death
A special from Richmond. Va, says
two negroes. convicted of petit larceny
were publicly whipped in the Henrico
county Jail on the 18th.
A lady in Milwaukee has just buried
her seventh husband. She is thirty -four
wears old, and was a fresh and charming
widow last week, but is probably married
by this time.
An examination of the records in the En-
downment House at Salt Lake City dis
closes the fact that but three plural mar
riages were celebrated during three months
ending June lst.
A golden rule for young lady Is to
converge always with her female friends
as if gentleman were of the party ; and
and with young men as if her female
compapion were present.
A number of Northern capitalists have
purcoased several miles of the gold region
of SPottsy lvania CO.. Va. and are hav-
ing MACHINERY made to get the gold Of
the sulpturets by new process recently
! discovered.
A Philadelphia paper says the houses
erected in that city last year cannot occu-
py less than thirty-6ve or forty squares,
and the ru.ihcr built since the close of
the war would occupy hundred and
fifty blocks.
Lancaster boys play cards in the Gem
etcry, using the grave for the card tables,
and the ErPres thinks it is useless ex
pense to send Missionaries to the Fejee
Islands to find heathens when there are
so many near at home.
a number OF ladies in Grecnville, Ala,
have signed the following pledge: ave.
the undersigned do promise hereby that
we will faithfully abstain from the use of
tobacco in any shape. form. or manner
while in church
A child. three years old. received into
the Buff 10 orphan asylum the other day
was found to be suffering from deliriurn
tremens. its drunken mother having ac
tu,lly fed her offspring from the whisky
bottle.
There is an artcsian well in Paris
which is nearly two thousand feet deep,
four feet in diameter at the top and two
feet at the bottom, and which discharges
upward of FIVE nllons of cubic feet of
water every twenty fonr hours
A negro who was stabbed by another
negro i'll Louisville on May 90. died on
the goth inst, and the coroner summon
cd in the case the first eclored jury ever
formed in Kentucky, who found a yer
dict against the alleged murderer.
The east end of Louisville was thrown
into a terrible state of excitement on sat
urday night week. by mad dog, which
ragged through the streets, biting ten or
twelve persons, including several little
children. Some Of the persons were
badly torn by the animal.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, Vice President
of the Pennsy lvania Railrord, donated
100000 to the Wilson Female College.
of Chambersburg, few weeks ago Col
| Scott is a native of Franklin counAV
having been born in Louilon, tha, couu
ty, in 1924.
A party of -emigrants from Texas
passed through Bristol, Va, the othei
day, en- route for their former homes i,
Bath county. Va. They said they had
travelled about 1000 miles, aud had been
on the road over twelve months. Thei,
horses. the most Of which were Texa:
ponies, looked remarkably well.
The Missouri Democrat of the 18th
publishes crop dispatches from over one
hundred points in Missouri, Kansas, Hi
nois, Iowa and Nebraska. which repre-
sents that winter wheat is very poor. A
large amount has been ploughed up. and
the remainder will yield only from one
third TO a half crop There ia varv I;,,ls