Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-03-13

Society for the prevention Of cruel
ty to children in the shape of exposure
from the bare arms, shoulders, and legs
which the vanity Of mothers delight in,
is soon to be established in Boston.
Woman whipping is still nduIged in
by Delaware and Virginia, and the Sen
ate of the latter State has recently
refused, by a vote of to 81, to repeal
the law puHishing feminine pickpockets
with the lash:
The Queens pet stag, "TheDoetor,"
is dead. When he was turned out to be
hunted by the royal stag hounds he
would run till he found a house open,
then take refuge in it. Twice he escap.
ed capture by boiling into 'Winsor Castle.
1t is reported that the ex-Prinee In.
perial of France will visit The United
States next summer, and perhaps be ac-
companied by Prince Napoleon. lie Z,
now sixteen years of age. and is said to
speak five languages Auently. The En-
press Eugene is writing up her tour
through Spain. which will be edited by
Theophiie Gautier
The people of Nebraska have formally
set apart the 10th day of April for tree
planting, under the name of Arbor Day.
The State Board of Agriculture will give
500 to the agricultural society of the
county in which the greatest number of
trees shall be planted on that day, and
so farm library to the person properly
planting the greatest number
A Southern paper gives the following
statement Of the amount of money sub
scribed by the States thus far for the
national monument to Robert f. Lee:
Maryland S33 40; North Carolina, $780,
% !; Georgia s3,0O5,27; Mississippi, ST.
Ole, 20; Louisiana, 50; Arkansas, so4,-
40; Kentucky, 81 ,625; Virginia, s1.s6l,-
60; South Carolina, 81 ,23O,30; Alaba-
ma, S767,2O; Florida, s22 Missouri,
S62,05; Tennessee, S102,G0; Texas,
S439. Total, $40 ,932, IL,
In Remove, OH the night of the 10th
ult., a drunken fellow named James Muir
ray, visited the house of William Potter,
fireman on the Philadelphia and Erie
railroad. The conduct of the intruder
was such that Mrs. Potter called in as
sistance and had the rascal elected.
All went on smoothly until Murray re-
turned and finding the door locked, he
proceeded to kick it down. The noise
awoke Mrs Potter, and the female drew
revolver and fired two shots, pro-
ducing serious wound in the right
shoulder of Murray.
Some months ago a citazen of New
Jersey, while searching for minerals in
the mountains of Warren county, STUN
bled into woodchuck hole and fen to
the ground. He found around the mouth
of the hole what, upon investigation,
proved to be mica. He bought the prop
erty. The deposit Of mica is foand in
one solid mass, fourteen feet wide, in con-
tinuotis layers Ike roof Stating, and is
dug out in large square blocks, which
may be split up into innumerable pieces.
The only other mica mine known to ex-
ist in the United States i. in North Caro-.
lima
Fisk's canaries, 25O in number, recent
ly sold in New York, were nearly all
named after personal friends of the de-
ceased or celebrities, such as Jay Gould.
Commodore Vanderbilt and other rail
road magnates; A. T. Stewart, Dr..
and other business men; Ben
Butler. General Mcclellan and other
political celebrities were thus honored;
while even the pulpit was not forgotten,
since one sweet song>ter was named after
that stalwart champion of Low church
episeopaey, the venerable DR.. Tying.
One bird WAS named Senator Revels
and another blind Tom
A dsgrsceful affair recently occurred
at Setstil!, Greene county. A few even
ngs since the society that is in the habit
Of worshipping at that place had prayer
meeting, and when the audience was dis
missed, AMI before the audience had time
% get out Of the house. the lights were
and four young ladies were
immediately seized by some rufians, who
handled them in a very rude and wanton
manner, to the great modification of the
iris, who belong to the most respectable
antilles in the ueighbOrhood. Up to the
present time the perpetrators of this das-
ardly outrage have not been identified.
The large clock at the English Paria-
nent House is the largest one i'll the
world The four dials of This clock are
ach twenty two feet in diameter, Ev-
ny half minute the point of the minute
land moves nearly seven inches. The
lock will go eight and half days, but
: only strikes seven and half, thus in
icating any neglectin winding itup. The
nere winding up Of the striking mechan-
SIN takes two hours, The pendulum ia
5 feet long the wheels are of cast
ron the hour bell is eight feet high and