Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-04

Claims to the amount of $1,000 were
presented against milwaukee estate
Receipts wers presented for the entire
rmount with the exceptions Of $35. So
much for tho business habits of the dead
man who thus kep. his heirs from being
defrauded.
On placing q sea shell to the ear a
sound is heard within resembling the
noise of the distant ocean. This is
caused by the hollow form of the shell.
and its polished surface. enabling it to
receive and return the beating Of all
sounds that chance to be trembling in
the air. t-'
A Disastrous rice famine prevails in
the island Of Java. and the poorer class
es are dying in great numbers from star
vation Some cases have occurred in
which women have offered their children
for sale 70 Europeans, SO that. if they
died, their little ones might be preserved
from starv alton.
The bank at Genevieve, No., was
robbed on Tuesday the eth ult. of $500
by two men. who entered the bank over
powered the cashier, and forced him to
open the safe, and afterwartl accompany
them to the outskirts Of the town. A
party of armed men have gone, in pur-
suit Of the tobbeu. ! 9lj
Covington, Ky, is wondering at the
queer antieso of an old couple in its street
Every day a venerable dame appears
with hammer and nails and securely
fastens up the gates in her locality Il
her wake follows her aged consort with
a crowbar, who patie'tly undoes the
work Of his predecessor, keeping about
three gates behind her.
Oa the night of the 18th ult.lthe resi-.
dence of Colonel Potter, in Linden, N
J was burned, The family barely escap
ing with their lives. Shortly after a fuse
was discovered burning. leading to hay
rick in the barn, viii ch was stamped out
Investigation discovered a can Of Is
pounds Of gunpowder under the barn,
with which the fuse connected ssa..
A prominent Baltimore lawyer writes
that when a man or woman poisons a
human being without detection, one sue
cessful crime Of this sort begets such q
sense of power and of ability TO remove
at will every human obstacle, "that. in
nearly every case, the mind becomes
warped and TIE poisoner is ready with
the deadly draughs to avepge the most
triAing diarespect or wrong" q ~
Mr.. Speaker, exclaimed member
Of the Arkansas Legislature. my col
league taunts me'wi,h desire for fame
scorn the imputation. sir. Fame, sir
What is fame : 1t is shaved pig with
CREASED tail. which slips through the
hands Of thousands, and then is acciden
tally caught by some fellow that hap
pens to hold on to it. let this creased
tailed quadruped 60 by me without an
effert to clutch it. SIR"
l know a women who lives in a coun
try village. With heart and brain
alive to better things, she stays there and
day after day, year after year, takes care
Of an idiot brother, and for her reward
has only vacant smiles aud meaningless
gibberish. 1t is such a half life, you
say it is vegelating you could not
live so.-WeH, perhaps so. But l i'm
agine that it is sort of vegetation thai
will bloom out grandly in the sunshine
of a second life. -Ercharge., fnNH
A Washington special says There i.
sufficient authority for stating positively
that the government will sustain Colone
Mackenzie's pursuit and punishment o
the Kickapoos upon Mexican territory
and there is no longer reason to doub,
that the recent visit of the Secretary. o
Wa- to Texas had for its main obiec
the arrangement and authorization o
this plan for putting q stop to Indiar
depredations along the Mexican from
ties. a.s -..s-ae- sl1 -a-a tr
An Iowa clergyman was just unrea
sonable enough to want his salary, ant
when the church failed utterly to pay
him any considerable portion of it, ht
sued and recovered judgment. The mat
ter, was recently made the subject of in,
vessigation by acouncil Of inquiry, ant
that tribunal arrived at four solemn find
ings, viz THAT the church did wrong
in failing to pay its pastor his salary
that the pastor did wrong in suing tbt
church that the church should apollo
gize to the pastor. and that the pastor
should apologize to the church" JacA
Bunsby would have found it hard to bea
that. -
The Pulaski Citizen tells this littl,
tale, which reflects great credi: upon tn,
ingenuity of somebody y"Cbarles Il
Robinson. Of Giles county. killed chick
EN- snake which measured seven feet il