Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-11-06
SHORT ITEMS.

Hog raising has become quite bust
ness in California.
Forty thousand Russians threaten to
settle in Nebraska.
Newbury port puts in for about $4,000
600, Of the Geneva claims.
TIE Emperor Of China was married
on the l6lh of October.
Over a thousand young American girls
at school in France and Italy.
The Newpors1 VT, Express says the
State Legislature is the most temperate
for twenty five years.
The ladies of Traverse City. Mich ,
walk in the middle of the street to avoid
the loafers on the sidewalks
Last week, says the Lewisburg Chron
iele. a number Of persons in Lock Haven
were poisoned by eating cheese.
A bevy Of ladies in Michigan town
lately paid S45 for the privilege of de-
molishing the stock of newly establish
ed salOonist.
Mr.. j. A G. Lee. of Owingsville. KY,
invited ten or twelve of his children to
family dinner, and secreted six thousand
dollars under each plate.
A number Of the North Adams China
men have cut off their cues. This act is
Celestial suicide, for it prevents them
from ever being Chinese citizens again.
The oldest artesian well in Europe is
at Lilliers, in the Pas de Calait. France
and from it's mouth water has flowed un-
interuptedly for seven hundred and forty
six years.
In Novo Scotia the farmers and lum-
bernen yoke their oxen by the horns
aud they say they can pull larger loads
than oxen yoked in the manner preva-
lent in this country
A Mr. Bsrqgues, who sang humor-
Gus song at concert at Redrath. Eng
land. returned, after concluding, to an
swer an encore and fell dead upon the
stage, Of heart disease.
President Grant has issued a procla-
nation declaring an extra duty of ten
per cent. ad valorem on all goods impor-
ted into the United States in Frenc!,
vessels from countries other than France
1t is rumored that Chief Justice Chase
will be compelled to retire from the bench
of the Supreme Court this winter, on ac
count OF failing health. Judge Carter,
Of Ohio is talked of as his successor
A young lawyer of Savannah, Ga.
fately rode fifteen miles in the cara, wal
ked three more, rode nineteen miles on
horseback, examined seven witnesses, ar
gued and won two cases, wrote a deed
and returned to his nome between the
hours of seven in the morning and half
past four in the afternoon.
A young man touched off a fuse in the
WinnecOrne Wis, silver mine, and was
rapidly pulled up out of tie shaft in a
bucket When nearly up the rope broke
and down he fell forty feet The
blast then exploded, but instead Of being
blown to pieces. he escaped the whole
affair with only a few slight bruises.
1t is said that seals hunt salmon iu
the same way that hounds hunt ha:cs
Seals swim faster than salmon, and the
fish escape by doubling and cvading
their pursuers. in clear water. and with
little wind and no surf. salmon swim
deep or very close in shore, sheltering
themselves in seaweed, as hares do in
covers.
A DESPATCH dated at Salt Lake, on
the LIST inst says: IAN apostate and
back sliding Mormon organization ha.
been formed here called the Utah Lib
Grating League" 1t is taking a strong
hold upon the people and is spreading
rapidly. lls efforts are directed against
the power of the priesthood of the Nor
NOR Church.
There is a man in Yorkshire, England
who may be regarded as martyr in the
cause of characterization. He does not
believe in inoculatiDg his Children with
vile matter from other peoples sores,
and he has borne testimony to the faith
that is in him through six prosecutions,
paying his fine each time and calmly
waiting for the next trial.
Those who persist in thinking that
the world is growing worse should re-
member that the people have become
numerous, and that the steam engine
and the telegraph concentrate intelli-
gence of the wickedness scattered over
wide spaces and among vast multitudes,
enabling them to read Of the crimes COM
milted daily or weekly, iu Japan, San
Francisco, New York and London.
A fearful balloon accident happened
at De Kalb. ILL.,, on Friday. the 26th
ult. An eronaut had balloon ready to
ascend. when, before he had entered the
car. it broke loose and few upwards. A
hanging rope caught around the legs of a
man named NJ Mann and carried him nm