Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-12
SHORT ITEMS.

Lancaster, has brought three barn burn
ers to grief.
-Four men have been arrested in Clear
field county, charged with poisoning horses.
The current price of likely girl in Az
rica Is two cows. So says Sir Samuel
Baker.
The Sudbury and Lewistown Railroad
will probably be sold on or about the first
of January, 1874.
crlzy woman in Georgia recently noun
ted a locomotive which was standing Inat-
tended and ran it until the steam gave out
fifty five miles.
negro woman in Charlcstown, Indiana,
whose husband was hung by mob two
years ago, has begun lawsuit against his
murderers.
The New York .frcadian define, " jour
nalist'' as man who spends the best days
of his life in comforting regulations upon
others and getting none himself.
Ritchie county, SO years old, recently be-
came a mother. Her husband is a. years
old Her youngest child previous to the
last one is grand dmother.
clasped her tiny hand in mine; I VOW
ed TO shield her from the wind and from
the worlds cold storm. She sat her beau-
teous ewes on me, and with her little lips
she said: can umbrella will do Just as
well.''
A Bedford county man. who tried the
dodge of clipping with girl and leaving
| his wife inthe lurch, was caught and jliled
on the charge of desertion preferred by
his wife; at this stage of the trouble the
matter wis settled and the man and wife
went home happy together.
AT a camp meeting at Middletown, Cal,
recently, pretty, delicate, little woman be-
came greatly excited. and while shouting
and clasping her hands declared she want
cd to die there. Her wish was granted, for
she almost instantly fell buck and died in
few minutes.
The Bedford Inquirer says, boy named
WANT, aged fourteen years, residing at
Saxion, applied lighted match to a lot of
blasting powder, &c kegs,) ON the l9th ult.
The powder exploded, but strange to say,
the lad was not harmed. When asked why
he did it, he innocently replied, "Just for
the fun of the thing"
4 man at Wallaceton, Clearseld county,
while attending church the other evening,
became overheated ard pulled off his over
coat. When he threw it on the seat, a re-
volvsr in one of the pockets was discharg-
cd, and we are not surprised to learn that
many OF the congregation became consid-
erably agitated at the unwonted noise in 4
place of worship.
An exchange says: One morning last
week, at an early hoIr. man standing on
a wharf at Cincinnati. observed dog SWIM
ming around in circle in the river. The
observer went TO rescue the dog, and dis
covered near him the body of man who,
IS the coroner's inquest proved, had COM
mitted suicide. We had been the dogs
owner, and the faithful animal had chung to
him even in death.
On Friday nigh. last some scoundrel shot
two horses aud two cows, in field OF Jo-
seph Haggerty, near Blair Furnace. One
of the horses belonged to Michael McCul-
Tough, Of this city, and the other belonged
10 man named George Richards. The
first horse died and the other will probably
recover. Both the cows belong to Mr.
Haggerty, and it is thought they will re-
cover-.7ifoona Radical
| One BotOcini, an Italian, and his wife,
who travelled over the country with per-
| forming bear, arrived at East Newark on
the 4th inst, on their way TO New York,
where they Hoped TO lodge the bear during
York to make arrangements, leaving the
animal muzzled and tied to a post at the
| roadside, away from any habitation, and
under watch OF his wife. When he return
ed he foInd the bear growing fiercely, and
holding his wife tightly in its arms She
was already dead and horribly bruised,
trampled and torn. The bear was subse-
quently killed.
A detective has taken James Miller, post
master at Fanneisourg, Franklin county, to
Philadelphia for robbing the mails at that
place. The suspicion OF intere sted parties
induced the department to look after this
Office, and by mailing decoy of money
letters, and having the detective secreting
himself near the post-office at the time the
letters were expected to be in Miller's care,
he was caught in the very act of extracting
the money from the letters. The prisoner
is a brother to Este Miller who is now
serving a term in the Penitentiary for rob-
bing the mail on the South Mountain rail-
road on which he was the agent.-Pre,s.
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