Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-08-13
SHORT ITEMS.

Milesburg is to have a horse shoe fac
tory.
Ten emigrant swindlers were arrested
in New York on the 9th inst.
A man in Galesburg, Illinois has been
fined three dollars for publicly spanking
his daughter
A new use for petroleum is for clean
ing guns, which it is said it effectually
protects from rust.
There are thirty-three cheese factories
in Crawford county. the annual product
amounting in value to S500.00O.
In fight between troops and Indians
near Camp Verde. on June %. three
Indians were killed and five squaws
captured.
Advices from Savannah, Georgia state
that the caterpillar has appeared on the
sea islands. and is committing much dam
age in cotton.
A recent visitor to one of the islands
on the coast of Maine. discovered q
school of forty scholars. all of whom
were the grand children of one man.
Levi Bissell, brother Of the late Gov
ernor Bissell, of Illinois. well known as
the inventor of the locomotive and other
machinery, died in New York On the 5th
inst.
One morning recently Chicago wo-
man borrowed 5000 Of her husband, and
in the afternoon Auttered under his nose
divorce that had cost precisely that
amount.
A dispatch from Little Rock. Ark ,
says that two Cinnamon fought duel
in Lincoln county on the 3lst, in which
one was killed and the other placed in
Jail.
The Reedsburg Free Press employs
women exclusively. 1t says We have
calico foreman" two dimity 'compos-
itors.' and the sweetest little devil in
pink muslin to be found anywhere.
The discovery in season that convict
in the Georgia State prison had seasoned
the dinner with arsenic saved the State
the expense of three hundred pine cof-
fms.
A Texas paper speaks of lady at
Da Has " ho has bonnet worn by her
great-grandmother 200 years ago There
must have been come longevity among
the people as well as the bonnets of that
family.
Duty is the first step to greatness
the helm that steers man safely over the
pillows of life. If we fail in our duty,
we bid farewell to the land of promise
to the haven of hope mans honorable
occupation is gone
John Wenz. junk dealer of Pough-
keepsic, N. Y, shot his wife on Saturday
and then shot himself. Both are dead.
They had quarreled about money mat
ters, and Wenz was DRINK. They leave
seven children
During the late cholera epidemic at
Gallatin, Tennessee, many mocking birds
and canaries sickened in their cages and
died, while those which frequented the
gardens, instinctively fled to the woods
and did not return until the cholera took
its departure.
Miss B., of Chester, is a winning,
dark-eyed girl. who speaks three or four
languages, swims, rides, drives, and dan
ces, loving everything in life. from the
sublimity of sky and ocean to men and
horses even condescending to be gracious
to dandies and poodledogs.
Last year. on the 10th of August. the
wife of Charles Karicher, of Williams
port, whilst visiting at Pittston. gave
birth to triplets. but they lived for a
sho,t time only. August 6, che gave
birth to twins, but one has since died.
The other is reported healthy and bids
fair to live.
The origin of tea is thus told by the
Hindoo my ythelogists. Darma, prince
of tha. country. went on pilgrimage to
China, vowing he would never rest on
the way. But he once, wearied out, fell
asleep, and was, On awaking, SO angry
with himself that he cut off his eyelids
and threw them on the ground. They
sprung up as tea shrubs, and to this Or
igin is owing the power of tea to pro-
duce wakefulneas.
Memphis rejoices in complicated SEN
sation. A youthful citizen eloped with
a damsel whose parents had reserved her
for another, and when she came back for
her clothes, after the marriage they look
ed her up over night and posted her off
for a divorce in the morning. Mean
while the new made and the intended
husband met on the streets, and without
any ceremonious preliminaries exchanged
shots, but without injury to either, and
both are now in Jail
Henry T. Bray got the prize as the