Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-25
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swindle."
The Bedford Springs postof6ce has
been discontinued.
Paris has ten large museums and and
is collecting to start five more.
Persian etiquet forbids the Shah to
occupy any other than the first floor.
John johnson, Of Titusville, is bull
ding two oil rigs to be sent to Japan.
A boy defines salt as 1.-The stuff that
makes potatoes tast bad when you don't
put on any.
Japan has a national debt of $l04,
100000. The people think this an
enormous debt.
A Clarion county man has just named
his twelfth Omega in hopes that it may
prove the last.
JEFF Davis. ex President Of the South.
ern Confederacy. was in Bethlehem. Pa i.
recently, visiting his niece.
A mans body was found floating in
East river, New York, on the 10Th, with
iron weights attached to his wrists.
A Charleston father gave a young man
who saved his daughter from drowning.
two year old steer and a shot gnn.
A Locomotive engineer has invented
pump with which to squirt hot water
on deaf prisons who walk on the track.
A California paper insists that 5000,
gold, is liberal allowance for the ex.
penses Of a trip from the East to Cali.
fornia.
The Boston papers estimate the
amount of money paid to the lobby Of
the Massachusetts Legislature this year
at 100000.
In London, recently, a girl in order to
save her lover, who was the real culprit,
went into court and swore that she stole
a certain diamond ring.
A man in Wayne county, Pa. recent
ly received check for $1,000 from Japan
as reward for having saved the sender's
life fifteen years previously.
At Burlington, Iowa. little girl s
years old walked up and gazed a few
moments on her dead mother. aud then
turned away and died almost instantly.
The Governor of Kansas on the 18th
inst. commuted the sentence of c. b.
Chute. who was to be hanged in Monroe
county, to twenty-one years imprison-
ment.
A Chinawoman was sold at auction
on Granite Creek, Idaho, the other day
The bidding was spirited. and she was
finally Knocked down to a Chinaman
Six, for 1915.
The Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania
Reserves. will hold their next annual re.
union in New Castle; on the 5th of July.
The grafton will be delivered by J. G.
White, Esq, of Mercer. ~
A. D. Meachin. the Peace Commits
sioner who was wounded in the Canbv
massacre. has gone to the Pacific coast
to appear before the military commission
that is to try the Modocs.
The Harrisburg Telegraph states that
a number Of capitalists from other places
have lately been in that city selecting
sites for new iron furnaces, a number of
which they propose to erect
An English shopkeeper had. for his
virtues. obtained the name of the "little
rascal" A stranger asked him why this
appellation bad been given him? ITO
distinguish me from from the rest of my
trade"
Counterfeit ten cent notes have been
put in circulation in New York. The
bogus note is said to be 90 like the gen.
uine article that it requires the closest
examination and inspection to tell one
from the other.
A valet, throwing open the door. an
nounces visitor his master. who is
very short-sighted, advances before fix
ing his glass shakes the valet by both
hands, hopes his lady is we'll, and orders
the visitor to put wood on the fire.
The Attorney General of Kansas on
the 18th inst. brought suit in the name
of the State. in Pulaski county Circuit
Court, similar to the one brought by
Brooks, setting forth that Baxter was
not elected Governor, and asking judg
ment of custer against him.
Thousands of dead pickeral have been
cast up on the shores Of Lake Como. in
Oswego county, New York. The fated
fl sh are the largest and 6nest, and what
is also very strange no other varieties of
fish seem to be affected by the apparent
distemper.
The late grand jury of the Court of
Oyer and Terminer. of New York, found
an Indictment for elagainst Charles A.
Dana, of the San. on complaint Of Will
liam II Kemble, who had him indicted
in Philadelphia. Dana claims his ability
to prove his allegations against Kemble