Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-08-21
SHORT ITEMS.

An irreverent buther styles bis shop a
meating- house.
The peachtrees around Alton, Illinois,
are breaking down with fruit.
A runaway hearse horse broke up
funeral procession in Logansport lndina
The big strike on the 18th inst failed
to come off. The comet didn't come to
tine.
Eggs sell in South Carolina at ten
cents a dozen. A dozen Of eggs will 60
farther than ten cent cigar.
,Tbe4 4Heathen Chinee" insares his
life for enough money to send his body
home to China when he dies.
Five young women created quite a
sensation in the Central Park, New York,
last week, by riding fleet horses astride-
Winnie Ream, the sculp.ress, is visit
ing Greenville, Mercer county, the home
of her mother, who lies dangerously i'll.
At St. Louis on the 9th. Nicholas G.
Sennot. a merchant who was ruined by
the Chicago fire, committed suicide by
poisoning himself.
A house was haunted in Saginaw,
Mich, and a thorough investigation re-
vealed venerable woodpecker in an in
ner room.
The first Presbyterian Church in
Elizabeth, N. j., claims to have had reg
ular services, without intermitting Sin
gle Sunday. for the last two hundred
and seven years.
In New York. OH Sunday night. Fred.
Tilitzke shot Mary Sprerer because she
refused to marry him. and then rushed
to the East river and jumped overheard
Tili,zke was rescued by the police and
conveyed toprison.
The Sioux ara very obscrvant. Oae
of Spotted Tails followers, who speaks
little English, seeing one of the ser
want girls of the bot i take off her CHG
non, exclaimed :-"How White woman
raise her own scalp! Indian no good
here! !"
John A Coleman, of Providence, has
received check for about $4,000 from
the New York and New Haven Railroad
Company. being the amount of damages
awarded. after four years litigation, for
ejrc,ment from train. he offering for his
fare at the time coupon ticket.
The Harrisburg papers contain no less
than twenty three notices of applications
to be made to the next Legislature for
the incorporation of new banks in Penn
sylvaniu. Ten of these new banks are to
be located in the western counties, and
five of them in this city and vicinity.
The grounds at Camp Morton, Ind
annapolis, where rebel prisoners were
confined during the war, are being reno
waited, and one of the men engaged in
the work found recently a wafivr run ui
bank bills. amounting it was estimated,
to $4,000 or 100000 Visions of a
golden future were dissipated by the fact
that, as soon as touched, the whole roll
crumbled into powder.
The Boston Trareler says there is a
great increase of drunkenness in Boston
The law is dead letter, public senti-
ment is adverse to its enforcement, pub
lie men give their countenance to drink
ing customs of the day, women who
move in what is called good society en-
courage drinking by their example, many
of the pulpits are silent, and worse than
silent, and the community is rapidly
drifting upon a current strewn with the
wrecks of desolated homes aud broken
fortunes, and ruined men and women.
Berks county farmers report singular
disease among their cattle. Within a
few weeks number have gone blind,
some in one eye, but most of them in
both eyes One farmer has twelve head
some entirely blind and others partially
so. One calf, at three days old, never
out of the stable, lost its sight On
some farmers two, thee and four are
victims of the disease. The nerve of the
eye seems to die from within, and the
eye becomes white. Horses have thus
far escaped the affliction.