Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-01
SHORT ITEMS.
Oregon farmers are plowing.

The people Of Nebraska are about to
plant Oysters in their lakes.
| A Wisconsin paper advertises for sale
cow that gives milk five years old
King Kamehameha w., of the Sand
wich Islands, died on the 1lth ult.
Lucy Stone won't lecture this winter
She is nursing little boy four weeks
old.
Within a year the consumption OF
opium in this country has increased L.
900, 900 ounces per month.
General John A. Dix and Thurlow
Weed draw pensions as soldiers of 1911,
the latter as fifer
An amiable Wisconsin Indian emptied
a box Of rattlesnakes on the bed of man
who had offended HIM.
Two hundred thousand bushels of corn
are reported to have been lost by the late
sinking of the barges at Memphis.
A Wohurn. Mass, woman has called
at the post Office twice day for twenty
years for letter that does not came.
Six big girls banded together the 9th
er day and thraehed an Iowa schoolmas
ter so severely that lie had to have a
doctor.
After the let Of January persons en-
tering Germany from France will not be
required % provide themselves with pass
ports.
Oliver Wendell has a brother named
John Holmes, who prefers chopping
wood to writing poetry because it is go
much easier.
A member of the Mexican Congress
opposed railroad bill the other day, 'be,
cause said he lit will ruin the pack
mule business.
Robert Dale Owen, whose remarkable
remarks at the burial of his wife last
year excited so much comment. is about
to mary again.
jacob Martin. while crossing the river
at Columbia. Pa on the ice, on Christ
mas morning, broke through and was
drowned.
Mr. Abel Grant, owner of the Graut
farm near Parker, Pa, aged so. and
Mrs. Williams. aged 70 years, were mar
ried on the 18th ult.
The number of hogs slaughtered at
Cincinnati for the week ending with Sat
urday night was 42 600 whole number
from November l to this date, 379 900.
A devoted lover of the true, the beau
tiful, and the good, has ascertained that
every letterof the alphabet excepting @;s
contained in the twenty frs: verse Of the
seventh chapter Of Ezra.
The Democratic newspapers want to
meet at Harrisburg, on the 9Th Of Janu-
ary, and consult on the futures,f the par
ty Good idea. Consider perpciusi mo-
ton at the same time; it would be as
useful. ia
The Adrian car shois at Adrian Mich.
with six new coaches, were burned on
the night of the 9th ult The loss is
SIS 600. One hundred and fifty men
are thrown out of employment. The fire
originated in the paint shop
The Mississippi river, at Memphis. is
completely gorged with ice. At that
point the river rose !eighteen inches on
the 9th and 2Sth ult. and continued ris.
ing. causing destruction of vessels and
apprehension Of terrible disaster to the |
docks and ice-bound steamers
James E. Thompson. a wealthy farm
er of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is said to
have left the country with liabilities
amounting to forty seven thousand dol
lars. Twenty three attachments have
been levied upon his farm, seven hun
dred acres, on Crane river. His wife
has brought suit for divorce on the
ground of adultery.
A man advertised for girl to look on
while his wife did the work. An appli
cant asked how many evenings she could
have tout" "Well," said the gentle.
man. 81 don't see how we can let Won