Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-11-13
SHORT ITEMS.

of fence TO go around hts farm-
The First National Pank, of Baxter,
Kansas, is to have a cashieress.
Six sportsmen. of Lancaster, shot ff
ty six rabbits in one day. recently.
A scooped pumpkin made an excellent
ballot box. at recent Kansas eleclion
1t it reported that Chinese lodge of
Masons has been formed at Oregon City
Mrs Jack Grant, of Portland, Oregon
has sho. and trapped 35S squirrels the
past season.
The three balls of the pawnbrokers
are said to signify addition, division and
silence.
One horse doctor in Boston. is said to
have made five hundred dollars in one
day.
Judge Thompson. the surveyor of the
original town site of Chiesso, recently
CieQ AT ITtclOu,
A Young man in Danville refuses to
fulfil marriage contract because he has
discovered his girl smokes pipe.
Hydrophobia is raging to an unparal
leled extent in the northern counties of
England. where many men. as well as
animals. meet their deaths by it
A Troy man found $50 pearl in
quart of oysters, and "bull movement
upon the oyster trade was effected there
by Immediately.
A watchman on the New York Cen
trail Railroad says that once year
i;hantom train passes over the track bear
ing the body of Abraham Lincaln.
The editor of the Salisbury Conn
Nems is in luck. One Of his admirers
sent him twenty cents to buy cigar
with, besides his subscription.
Edward Colwell and John Croft were
killed on the 9th by the fall of a scaffold,
on which they were standing, while
pa hitting a house in Louisville Ky.
Steam pipes twinlng among the roots
of trees, to keep them warm and preve mt
the leaves falling off, is the most recent
rami6cation of the inventive genius.
The canal stables of McCormick&
Lynch. at Buffalo N. Y, were destroyed
by fire on Wednesday the 9th, and fifty
horses were burned to death. Loss, $50,
900.
A restaurant keeper in Washington
had his license revoked and was fined
SlOO. on Saturday week, fer refusing to
entertain colored people at his establish
ment
"What are you doing there, you
rascal?" Merely taking cold sir"
1T looks to me as if you were stealing
ice. - "Well-yes-perhaps it will bear
that construction
A woman in Scotland is awaiting trial
on charge of poisoning her mother,
three husbands, fifteen children, and
lodger. She has been four times mar
ried, twice to widowers with families
The Rev Henry Ward Beecher and
Henry W Bellows made the Boston fire
subject in their sermons Sunday. Both
agreed that mansard roofs and narrow
streets were good thing. to spread con
Aagraiion.
Two horses were burned to death at
Dannvlle, Pa, on the night of the 7th.
The fire was caused by the explosion of
coal oil lamp. Michael Sanders, an
old and respectable citizen Of Uannville,
perished in the flames
Franklin L. Evans, aged sixty four,
has been arrested at Northwood, n. Ii
charged with numbering Georgianns Low
ering, beautiful young girl. fourteen
years old. Evans. who is great uncle
of his victim, conf-sses to decoying her
into the woods and numbering her.
The California papers are beginning to
claim that, that State will soon be the
great wheat producing State of the
Union. They assert that. during the
last season. the State, with her small!
population of 100000. produced 10000
600 bushels, which found market in
China Japan, Nevada and Arizona
The Supreme Court of New jersey at
Trenton on the 7th, unanimously deci
ded that an act to submit the question of
license or no license is con- ~tiiutional
This is against the opinion Of Attorney
Gilchrist, given to the Legislature last
winter. and came up on the constitution
ality of the act submitting the question
of license to the voters of Chatham, in
Morris county.
A minister once told Wendell Phillips
that if his business in life was to save
the negroes he ought to 60 south where
they were and DO it. That is worth
thinking Of replied Phillips; and what
is your business in life2" ITO cave men
from hell, replied the minister. "rhen
go there and attend to your business"
replied Mr. Phillips.
The smallpox lately took off a yerv