Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-04-09
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SHORT ITEMS.

bic beverage in Pistsburg.
The Buffalo church choirs are said to
be the best "courting societies" in the
State.
Marriages between white and colored
persons have been legalized by the
Rhode Island Legislature.
A marriage took place in Butler coun
ty last week and the following morning
the bridegroom was found dead in bed.
The most wholesome beef aausages
that can be purchased in London are
made from horseAesh and soaked bread
When prisoner won't work at Sing
Sing. they tie dozen bricks on his back
and let him walk up and down half a
day.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
decided that a man in that State is not
responsible for a .slander uttered by bis
wife.
A Connecticut farmer spent a week
digging in a hill for a fox, and then
found rabbit which sold for twelve
cents.
The authorities Of Dartmouth College
suspended the entire sophomore class
few days ago, for disorderly conduct in
the chpel
! One of the latest Partisan fashions is
band of black velvet worn around the
hair upon which arc sewed gold flies,
bees, and other insects.
The California Cinnamon are killing
and eating all the buzzards they can lay
their hands on, and prefer them to roast
turkey.
A jury in Venanso county has award
ed Miss Harriet Swingle 1925 damages
for breach of promise to marry on the
part of Sophronius d. Shafer.
Fifteen Detroit clergymen have pub
lished an open letter to Governor Dix.
commencing his course in the Foster
case. Capital punishment has been abol-
ished in Michigan.
A young girl left Lowell, Mass, two
years ago with $500 in her pocket, aud
went to Kansas and turned farmer. She
could sell out her property thi. day for
$4,000.
A wedding party in the Church of
Notre Dame de Lorrcte, Paris, were all
vic,imized by pickpocket, who went go
thoroughly through their ranks that not
enough was spared to pay the marriage
fees.
Wisconsin has a forlorn damsel, plain
tiff in breach of promise case, who
writes in one of her letters. produced at
the trial, that she has shed tears enough
over it to run smallsized grist- mill
A milIiner at Defiance, Ohio, walked
into church one Sunday recently. and
rawhided business man who had SLAM
dered her. The minister haaiied until
the affair was over.
The governor of Minnesota has sent a
message to the legislature stating the
loss of human life by the great storm in
January. The number of deaths was 10 !
and of persons injured by entire OR par
tial loss Of hands or feet 81.
Mrs. Mary Aan Cotton, of West Auck-
land, England, has put even Mrs. Lucre-
zia Borgia, of Rome, Italy in the shade
in the poisoning business, having put
quietus upon nineteen victims before a
shadow of suspicion fell upon her.
Paris has been carried away with the
romantic story of Ting Sang. a Chinese
adventurer, who made fortune by pc
troleum speculations in Omaha, lost i:
by starting newspaper in Baltimo re,
and is now engaged in sweeping the Rue
Lafayette.
The Virginia Legislature has adopt
ed the joint resolution approving Gov.
Walkers plan for the assumption of the
state debt by the Federal Government.
and has directed the Governor to for
ward copies of TIE resolution and his
message on tho subject to the Legsla-
lures of the different states.
Immediately after the adjournment of
of the New jersey Legislature on the
4th, Senator Sheppard, of Cumberland,
was arrested on charge of receiving
$500 for his vote in the interest of the
National Railway. lie gave bail to an
swer the charge at the May term of the
Oyer and Terminer of Mercer county
The Liberal Christian believes that
mo folly can be greater than for society
to excuse crime on the plea of drunken
ness. 1t is saying to passionate, hasty,
and thoughtless youth, if you want to do
criminal, get drunk and you
can do it with comparative salty, 1t is
multiplying the quantity of crime and
the perils of society.'
A man named D. II. Drake wal arres-
ted at Cadiz Junction, Ohio, on Tuesday
night week, charged with the murder