Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-07-30
SHORT ITEMS.

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SHORT ITEMS.
Vanderbilt is nearly eighty. and neve
drank liquor.
More than 1000 people were married
in San Francisco last year.
A ton of hay sells in Buffalo for twics
as much as a ton of corn.
Ice two feet thick was discovered il
one of the Hartford sewers q few days
ago.
The Shah has resisted all invitations
thus far to leave his 100000 overcoai
on hat-rack.
1t is said that Plymouth Church has
sI7.O6c ON deposit in the Brooklyn
Trust Company.
A number Of saloon keepers in Altoo
ma have been held to answer for infrac
tions of the Local Option law.
The Beaver Falls Cotton Works EN-
ploy six hundred hands and produce
twenty thousand yards per day.
The Hon. Asa Packer. of Pennsylva
mia, has given sl,OOOoo0 and fifty ST,
acres of land to the Lshigh University.
The territory occupied by coke burn
ers in Westmoreland county is FIVE miles
wide and fifteen long. The number o
ovens aggregate $3.50.
A Massachusetts woman went befor,
a justice the other day and swore that ,
neighbor woman had bewitched her into
having cramps and spasms.
Some Nevada miners, who were drill
ing at depth of fourteen hundred feet
recently tapped vein of water SO ho1
that they boiled eggs in it.
The people of Lebanon, Ind tor,
down house of ill-repute. recently. and
are determined to do ,he same with
others, unless the inmates leave the town
A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo-, says
that the Iowa train robbers are believed
to have been traced into Nodoway coun-
ty. Missouri, and i. is thought they will
be captured.
A Green Bay man, named Chester
has requested the President to let him
have the hanging of the Modocs. He
will furnish ropes and bear bis own trav
cling expenses.
The Courier. Journal vouches for the
fact that Kentucky widow was hauled
to her husbands funeral the other day
by the same mule that kicked the breath
out of his body.
An Iowa girl has been arrested and
held for trial on charge Of twice at.
tempting to poison her father. She says
her father attempted to ruin her since the
death of her mother.
A St. Louis man advertiees that, his
wife having left him without provocation
after two weeks of married life. "he shall
consider himself parted should the same
not return within three days"
The first white woman hanged in Geor.
gia was named Eberhart, and she was
executed in 1855. The last one also
bore the same name, and the Eberharts
talk of emigrating from that State.
A little boy was caught in the gearing
of a patent churu. at Clinton, Wisconsin,
the other day. and though bis scream
was first rate, he failed to make good
butter.
At Mount Sidney, Va, recently, q
blind horse stumbled against a bive Of
bees and knocked it over. The bees at
once attacked the poor animal and stung
him so severely that he died in a few
hours.
When wife in Turkey forgets to keep
the suspender buttons sewed on her hus-
bands trowers she is patted on the back
for half an hour with a pine board an
inch thick.
Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, has com.
muted the sentence Of Sturgeon, SEN
fenced to death for the murder of John.
ny Murphy. to imprisonment for life at
hard labor.
One of H. A. Meloy & Co.'S powder
mills, near Tamaqua, Pa, was blown up
on Monday morning week, and Sam.
uel Miller. of Tamaqua, killed. The
shock was felt for several miles.
Francis Gustave Colberg. a natural
son Of the late King of Sweden and
half brother to King Oscar. has been
arrested in New York and held on q
charge Of smuggling kid gloves.
A mortgage for s7e9. upon which 1s
months interest had accumulated, was
declared null and void at Lyons. N. Y.
recently. on the ground that s25 paid 70:
services in procuring the money for which
the mortgage was given constituted usury.