Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-11
SHORT ITEMS.

Brigham OunS has son at West
Point.
A rich veiE of marble has been struck
in Boyertown. Berks county.
Women can now be elected school
officers in any part of Illinois.
The value ofeggs exported from Ore
gon, during 1872, amounted to sl55. $50.
The eastern quail imported into Cali
fornia are represented to be doing we'll.
Sleeve buttons the sizo of a silver
dollar are the latest agony for young
sports.
A small bird somewhat resembling
the sparrow. is eating up the devastating
grasshopper in Texas.
Kansas farmers are planting more
than usual Of peanuts, fa1seed. and
castor beans this season.
An Iowa jnstice, with rightful claim
to the title, has fined a man SIS for
snatching a paper from newsboy.
A man Of 73 and woman of GO elo-
ped from West Amcsbury, Mass, last
week. because their children objected to
their marriage.
An euterprising individual offers SEQ,
900, for the privilege of exhibiting Cap
tain Jack drought the country during
the period Of sixty days.
Mrs Handrahan. of Darlington. Wis.
reached under hen for some chickens,
and rattlesnake that occupied part Of
the nest bit her on the hand.
Cows are dying off in the vicinity of
Elyra. y, from a mysterious disease
They are taken suddenly sick, refuse to
eat or drink, and in few hours die in
great agony
On opening bank in Milwaukee Wis,
a few days ago. it was found impossible
to unlock the safe as the combination
had been forgotten. The lock was drill
ed out.
Three New Hampshire brothers recent
ly married mother, daughter. and
grand daughter. and it was the eldest of
the brothers that married the grand
daughter.
A new fabric for dress goods, woven
from glass, has been invented. 1t can
not be burned and cannot be stained,
and lasts until the fair wearer hates the
sight of it.
A horse which died in plymouth
Mass, one day last week was found to
have in bis stomach some four or FIVE
quarts of wooden splinters' which be
had been vain!y endeavoring to digest.
The shoe heel hereafter is to be made
upon the idea of common comfort. Paris
makes the move. and of course the fash
ionable world will follow. The heel will
be low. and made as near as possible like
the natural.
A letter from the Fejee Islanos states
that the mountain savages killed fami-
ly of whites named Burns and some
polyuesian laborers, whose bodies were
horribly mutilated. and some were car
ried awap for Gamble feast.
A band of armed de.peradoes sur
rounded the Jail at Waco. Texas, on the
night of the end. and after securing the
keeper of the prison, and locking them
up, liberated all the prisoners, twelve in
number, several of them notorious char
actcrs.
The gas we'll near Fairview, Butler
county, pays the company that owns it
about three hundred dollars per day.
Pipes are laid to Fairview, Petrolia.
Harms City and Argyle. and these towns
light their houses and heat their stoves
with the gas.
The lightning in Davenport, Iowa,
according to the Gazette of that place.
recently entered an open window, strip
ed the gilt from toy bureau and fasten-
ed it upon a photograph near by and
wrought dark zigzag streaks upon the
surface of mirror, but did no other
damage.
A newly elected constable. in Law
renee county. arrested man last week,
and on arriving at the Jail, left his pris.
oner standing at the door while he went
to find the Sheriff. He was much sur
prised on returning to find that the chap
had coolly walked Of. And at last &C.
counts he had not been found.
A huge black bear which has been the
terror of Bloom township, Clear6eld
county, for several years past, was shot
aud killed by fourteen year old boy
named John Bilger, on last Monday
week. Mr.. Bruin weighed between $50
and 400 pounds. and the fat on him in
some places was fully three inches thick.