Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-04-02
SHORT ITEMS.

1t is reported that the State Attorney
General will carry the Evans case to the
Supreme Court.
A BosTON gentleman keeps the small
pox hospital literally supplied with flow
ers.
i THE legal weight of bushel Of corn
has been reduced in Iowa from seventy
to sixty eight pounds
A woman named Annie Adair has been
arrested in Lorraine. Ill. for poisoning
her husband last January.
The skeleton of an infant was found
in house near Susquehanna station Ly-
coming Co., on the 18th ult.
1t is reported at Omaha that the In
dams are raiding on stock near Cheyenne,
Wyoming Territory.
The Chicago police board has asked
for an ordinance compelling the closing
of all drinking saloons at III o'clock at
night.
Miss Jennie Brown, OF. Wirconsin, has
received fifty yards of watered silk as
reward for saving three men from wa
terry grave.
| A distinguished critic and traveller as
serts that the ladies OF the royal family
of Russia are the most beautiful women
in the world
The dwelling of Joseph Swain. in Gil
ford village. N. H.. was burned on the
2Sih ult p, and Mrs. Swain, aged 80, per-
ished in the flames
\ New York Judge on the 2Sih ult.
decided TO admit George Francis Train
to bail in $1,000, but the irrepressible
George refused to be baled.
Boss Tweed has resigned his seat as
Senator from the Fourth District of New
York, and the committee investigating
the charges of corruption against him
has been discharged.
The Iowa Pacific railroad is to be sold
under lion, on a judgment obtained
by Maurice Brown and George W. Nit
chell, for Sll 900, in q suit under the
mechanics lien law.
The Roman Catholics are reported to
be rapidly gaining ground IN Kentucky.
multiplying their schools. colleges and
hospitals, and doing extensive work
among the colored people.
W. S. Pride. correspondent of the |
Wilmington (Del.) Erery Erening, was
expelled by large vote from the floor
Of the House of Representatives on the
e7,h ult. for criticising certain measures
before t e Legislature. |
One of the Boston horseshoers has
been held to bail in $1,000 for threaten
ing non-striking shoer. The penalty
if convicted is State prison not exceed
ing ten years. or $4,000 fine. or both liue
and imprisonment.
Rev. W. A. Kerr, of Wilismsport,
was recently dismissed by the Pres
bytery of his church. Hi. congregation
ratified the opposite of the conclusion by
giving him lately donation of over two
hundred dollars.
A dispatch from Peoria, ILL.,, says the
farmers in that section are organizing for
war against tho railroads. a meeting
was held there yesterday and. resolutions
adopted declaring that the farmers inten-
ded to prosecute the war on the railroad
corporations until farmers rights are rec
ognized and respected.
Willis Williams, of Islesboro, Me-.
was out on the ice hunting sea gulls,
when an accidental discharge of his fow-
ling piece wounded him so badly in the
thigh that he could not walk He smear.
ed his dogs face with blood and told him
to go home, which the sagacious animal
did. and by signs and the blood alarmed
the family, and they followed him to the
place where the young man was lying
The wound was very severe, but Will
liams is likely to recover
At Louisville on the 2Sih ult., the
negro Thomas Smith, was hanged in the
presence of about seven thousand persons
for murder committed in May, ISL
In his prayers on the scafold he protes-
ted his innocence, but when ordered to
stand on the trap he confessed his guilt.
lie had previously implicated the prison
physician, DR.. Pope, in an attempt to aid
him to escape by asserting that the pris
oner had the smallpox, and sending him
to the pest house, from which he escaped,
bu: was recaptured.
A young lady at Vallejo, about to go
off in the cars, stepped into the waiting
room at the depot 70 kiss lady friend
coed by The damsel was in a hurry,
and the room was rather dark So has
tily embracing her friend, she bestowed
two or three kisses on her lips. "Hi
yah = shouted the object of her caresses
struggling for freedom "whatee for you
so chokee me !! Too muche squeeze
The lady didn't scream but fled precipi
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