Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-08-27
SHORT ITEMS.

The daughter of Putnam, the pub
lisher, practices as physician in New
York.
To cure nose-bleed. the Scientific
American says, vigorously move your
jaws.
The new public buildings Of Phila-
delphia are to be larger than the Capt.
tol at Washington.
The Snyder County Agricultural
Fair will be held September 30th and
October lst and End.
In Union county, about mile and
a half from Lewisburg, is log build
ing erected in l7l6.
Captain Jack and his principal war
riors are to be hanged at Fort Kla-
math on October Sd.
Horse thieves are worrying the farm
ers in Jefferson county, where that
class of rascals are unusually plenty.
Miss Nethe Mckee, only twenty
years old, fair and comely, living in
Allegheny, Pa, has inherited the whole
of her fathers estate, which is valued
at 100000.
Belfast Me-, was swept by de-
structive FIRE on last Sunday. Over
one hundred and twenty five buildings
we're destroyed. Loss 100000.
Amount Of insurance not stated.
The Supreme Court of New Hamp-
shire has just decided at Concord that
railroad companies have no right to
grant to any party or parties exclusive
pr. rlege to carry express matter over
the lines.
Peter Beck, boy sixteen years Of
age, was killed on Saturday week at
ReamstOwn. by a fying-borse swing
bar coming loose and falling upon him,
at Sunday School picnic.
Last Saturday a week, a colored man
OF Troy, Ohio, working in the hot sun
all day, ate ten ears of green corn, four
cucumbers, and drank pint Of whisky.
He then laid down and died, and peo.
pie there call it case of cholera.
In recent Ohio divorce case the
wife testified that her sole object in
marrying was to change the name Of
Hophammer to that of Debisle. She
got the name, and also man who
marked out domestic rules with horse-
whip.
Many of the cows about Cairo and
vicinity are going blinj-temporarily,
However. The cause is thought to be
a wild weed that resembles the com
mon thistle, which comes in contact
with the faces of the cattle while hunt
ing for grass on the common.
A child Of Daniel Veit fell into a
stream near Punxatawney, Jefferson
county. one day recently, and its father
at once plunged in to save it, which he
succeeded in doing by pushing Ii to
shore with an edgiug, but he was him-
self seized with the cramp, and drown
ed before be could be taken out.
On Sunday night a week, in Harris
burg, Jacob NJ. Jones stabbed Charles
Williams in the right breast so that he
died short time after. The parties
are colored The trouble arose out of
game of drawpoker. Jones has
served out term in the penitentiary
for murder. He is under arrest, con.
fined in the Harrisburg prison.
A few days ago on the farm of VIM.
Seidel. in Greenwich township, Berks
county, crow ventured near stream
of water where he was caught and
killed by swapping turtle. The cries
Of the crow were heard by number of
laborers in a field, who hastened to the
spot and observed the unusual occur
renee.
A little daughter of Joshua Hinter-
leitner, Of Reading, whIe out gather
ing berries was SO badly frightened by
an old man named David Hottenstein,
that she was taken with st. Vitus dance
and died within week afterward. Hot.
tcnstein has been arrested and held in
$500 bail, and a woman named Man.
oerbach, said to be an accoMpllce, has
been held in 5000.
Among the unmailable matter sent to
the Dead Letter Office few days ago,
was package about ten inches in
length BY four In width, which. upon
being opened, proved to be small hive
Of bees. The pine box in which they
were enclosed was perforated with
twenty -four auger holes, twelve on each
side. The bees were in these, each
hole having . sponge in it saturated
with some kind of saccharine matter
for the sustenance Of the occupants.
These little cells or holes we're covered
with fine wire to prevent the escape
Of the bees, which appeared to be IN
good state Of preservation, buzzing
around in their narrow confines in quite
= lively manner. They we're evidently
sent ~ some bee dealer to custom or
friend, the package, however, having no