Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-08
SHORT ITEMS.


IL Eastern Maine the enow is nearly
three feet derp on level.
Governo: Prrliam. Of Maine, was inau
gurat-d Oh the 2ud inst.
There was very general observance
Of New Years D,y at Paris
An Iowa man cannot remember where
he hid coffee pot iull Of silver, during
the war.
The number Of men who want to b.
Senator from Missouri has been reduced
io thirteen.
The Democrats of New Hampshire
held State Convention on the 2ud Ut.
aud nominated q State ticket.
A women in LIE Sueur county. Ninne.
sofa. has applied for divorce from hel
sixth husband
A club of fifteen families in pitfsbure
pay doctor s25 each per year to doc
tor them at wholesale.
Robert Grant. son Of the President,
now in the senior class at Harvard, has
just been elected clas. poet.
Foot warmers are now supplied in the
railroad carriages in three Of the great
lines in England.
a Yankee la. invented patent bird =
nest to keep the feathrred sonysters from
spending their winters south
There ia a great demand for wood
choppers in the northern coun,i-s of I'll
ilorn;a. at from SEQ to S75 IA month.
Elizabeth Mink. and elderly lady fell
from the third story window of her resi-
denca. in Baltimore. on the 1t and was
INSTANTLY killed.
The Mornons are petitinning Heaven
to prevent the spread OF the smallpox in
their lovely valley, unless it can be con
fined to the Gen,lle..
\ San francisco Chinamen has speci
mems of such tea as the mandarins drink
worth in this country twenty dollars
pound.
The women Of Columbus. Ga, have
discarded silks aud satin. and are wear
Ing the pllids and checks manufactured
i'll that city.
By collision on the Macon and wrs-
tern Railroad. thirty seven miles from
Atlanta. on the 2nh. eight colored persons
were killed and thirteen injured
a black bear undertook to hug Ms.
Mason, of Wisconsin. to death, bat che
.bb~d the tip of an umbrella into his
eyes, and he succeeded.
The Delaware Indians. in New York.
live in frame houses, wear cut away coats
and stand up collars. fail in bu>ine-s and
compromise at tif;y CENTS on dollar, and
are getting quite civilized.
A San Francisco man laughed until he
had the cranp TO see a lady ia,l through
a trap door in bis sidewalk but hr new
er -miird when the court Informed bin
he must pay $500 for his sport.
Mr. ,;l.dstnne ia said to take As much
intere-, in tree culture as Horace. Greeley
dld When at his manor (Hnwsrds"n)
he tak-s up much time with hi. little
haichet.
General Sherman tell. Of the diamay
of frun,ier-man when told there would
not be an Indian war that year. why
good God raid be, in care Of peace
what shall We do with our hay r
AfIer a life of peculiar vici.situdes.
commenced as u circus rider and culmin
ating a. a prince-s. the Princess Salm.
Salm closes her romantic career as nun
in convent at bleak Innsbruck in the
Tyr"l.
1t il not generally known tha, the
leaves of coff plant are coming to be
used like the berries. and in some coffre
growing lands, Java for instance. arr pre-
ftrred by the natives to the choicest ber-
ry for making the favorite decocrion
The Muncy Luminary man has dis
covered bullet mold over one hundred
wears old. It-is made of bra-s, and 25
bullets Of different siz..s eau BE- Cart at
once. 1t belongs to X. b. Webster Of
Muncy.
+ A. Pollard. the Southern historian.
who died recenrly. was very unhappy in
his domestic relations hi ir.t wife died
soon after the honeymoon, and be was
divorced from the other two whom lie
was divorced fr"m the other two whom
he subsequently married.
It, il said that Tboma. Durf-e, Of Ports
mouth, Il :, whore wife WAS burned to
death las, week. told the neig,bors at the
tine that h- should live but a few days
and want-d his wife funer ] to b. de
i-rreJ. that he might be buried with her
He died on Wednesday.
The family Of A. Culp. residing at
Decatur. H. were taken sick after br-ak-
fast on Fri'Iay morning. A physician
found a paper Of arsenic placed in the
pump from which The water was taken