Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-01-22
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War is believed to be imminent be-
tween Japan and Corea.
so dark and yet SO light as the man
said when he looked at his ton of coal.
There are 5000 whites in the Sand :
wich Islands. the majority of them Amer
leans.
A child in Muscatine, Iowa, was poi
soned by chewing piece of green paste
board.
Somers, a little Connecticut town, has
eleven couples ready for their golden
weddings.
A strip Of land in Boston. six inches
W ide and one hundred and thirty feet
long, was sold for ss45 lately
The Queen Of Denmark wins the
hearts of her people by driving about in
barouche and wearing a thirteen-cent
calico.
Sophie Barney took premium at a
Montgomery (Ala.) fair as "the young
woman who would make tue best wife
for poor man."
Mrs. Mary Snyder resides in Leesburg
Pc. There is nothing very remarkable
about this lady beyond the fact that she
is los years old.
San Francisco issued 1896 marriage
licenses last year. In the cases of 742,
the parties changed their minds instead
Of their conditions, and remained single.
Samue! H. Richards, of Columbia Pa.
on the 14,h inst. was run over by the
cars at Rohrerstown, and had both legs
cut off. lie died shortly after the ncci
dent.
Fuel continues very scarce in Nevada
and wood id selling at twenty dollars per
cord. Mining companies are only max
ing steam enough to keep the pumps
moving and the mines dry.
The planning mill of Trimble. McIn
tyre Il Co, in Allegheny county. Pa,
together with five dwelling houses, were
entirely destroyed by fire on the l4th
inst. Loss $4,000, with but small in.
surance
Gesrge W. Williams, whose trial was
pending on the IA in the United States
District Court at Boston, for robbing the
mails, escaped from the ante-room of the
court house, and his Whereabouts is un-
known.
The Memphis Appeal tells of an Irish
man who got laughed at for making faces
over some persimmons, and who retorted
thus "Ye may grin, ye mutton-headed
idiots but can lather the sowl out of
the man that split vinegar on thin
plums.'
The boot and shoe store in East Mauch
Chunk, Pa owned by Mr. Henry Tuck
er. was totally destroyed by fire on the
night of the 14th inst.-supposed incen-
diary. The amount of loss is not
known. There was an insurance of
9 1nn ,,,h;nb loo, ,ox ~o,,a. g.
The Newton md Record says a lit
tie negro boy, about years old, living
near Newton, was sent by his kind (D |
father for a switch with which to whip
the child. Its prolonged absence was go
long unnoticed that when found he was
sitting beside barn, frozen to death.
The typhoid fever is so'lad among the
prisoners in the county Jail at San Fran
cisco that the sheriff asks authority to
take away one hundred of the inmates
of minor offenses, for the pur
pose of relieving the ovcrcrowded condi
ton of the prison, and thus check the
of the disease.
On the 10th inst near Wells village
Me-. a construction train. in backing
down, ran against stick of timber, and
he first car. containing. gang of labor
,rs, was thrown off the track against the
.ocks and broken in two. Twenty or
hirty men are reported more or less in
ured.
Another of the astonis hing young fe-
male farmers is a curly haired blonde, in
Pittsfeld, Mass. She manages farm,
plants and digs potatoes, hoes corn. can
swing a scythe, and is great at driving
,orses she feeds the stock, does the
larry work, and draws the wood in the
winter.
A German resident of Davenport, after
everal years experiment, has succeeded
n manufacturing sugar from cern, which
s said to grade with the "coffee A.. and
IAN be made at cost of four cents a
,ound. A company, with 100000 capi-
al, is being formed at Davenport to es-
abtish a factory at that place.
George Wilcox, young man Of Yam
'erbush, Warren county, while hewing
imber, about a month ago, was struck in
he forehead by an axe glancing from the
,ands of scorer, the edge cutting through
he skull. He was confined to his room
few days, when he commenced work
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