Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-04
SHORT ITEMS.

ship in Rome.
Diptheria is prevalent in many townships
in Venango county.
The potato rot is now ascribed to def
cheney Of lime and magnesia in the soil.
Ebensburg has twenty-three voters named
Jones, twenty named Evans and eighteen
named Davis.
The lower house OF the Maine Legislature
have refused to pass the bill abolishing the
death penalty.
The government has recovered $4,000
in the suits against Gistillers' bonds at
Springfield, Illinois.
Postal cards bearing notices of 'equit sa-
bookkeeping or prepare to be prayed at"
are common now.
1t is proposed as an alternative, out west,
if women's prayers do not stop the liquor
traffic, TO try women's votes.
The reunion of the Tenth Pennsylvania
Reserves viii be held at Mercer on Tues
day, the 18th of may next.
A mule has died of lock jaw in Chester
county, the other day, caused by an awk-
ward blacksmith driving nail into its foot.
Seventy years ago the Rev. DR.. Lyman
Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher,
was paid salary of $500 and his tirewood.
An act has just taken effect in Illinois
giving the dead bodies of unclaimed pau
pers and criminals in Chicago for dissec-
ton.
A Brooklyn jury have justified the shoot
ing OF a negro chicken-thief by police
man, and commended him for faithful
performance of his duty
The newest idea is that OF Wisconsin
legislator, who demands that travellers by
rail shall be weighed and made to pay so
much per pound by weight of fare.
Thirty-two persons were before the court
of WestmorelAnd county al the Feb. term
tor selling liquor without license, selling
liquor to minors, and selling liquor on the
Sabbath.
High jinks. There was a negro wedding
in Columbus, Miss, last week, which boast
ed cards, nine roasted pigs and hundred
cakes, and tapered OF with three reception
days.
'.0wing to John Robiason's circus be-
ing in town, the regular Thursday evening
praying-meeting has been postponed" said
a recent number of the Enterpri,s, of Dali
las, Texas.
1t is an honor to womanhooi that not
dollar has ever been missing from the De-
partment of the Controller of Currency,
where women exclusively are employed as
clerks.
Mr.. Saurtoris. the future husband of Miss
Nellie Grant, is a son and only child of
member of the British Parliament, and at
ter the marriage will Of course take his
bride to England and reside there.
4 Georgia paper tells Of an attempt By
powerful eagle to carry OFF girl fourteen
years old. 1t says the bird lifted her from
the ground several times and carried her
some distance. She was severely wounded
bv its beak and taions, her sides being ter
ribly lacerated.
Mrs. Morris, of Maryville, Iowa, planned
an elopement with a travelling photographer
named Hamilton. Her husband learned OF
the fact. He at once hitched up his horse,
got into the wagon with h frightened wife,
drove FIVE miles TO the trystrins place, and
delivered her to Hamilton.
The women's movement has broken out
in the city of Williamsport, the ladies hav-
ing signitied their intention of visiting not
only the places where liquor is sold, but
also the Mayors office, the Court House
and the residence of the President Judge,
for the purpose of engaging in prayer for
the suppression of the unholy traffic.
elf you don't see what you want, ask for
it," is posted up in conspicuous place in
Logansport grocery. A native stepped
into the establishment last week. He saw
the card and remarked, 80 van; ten-dUl-
lar bill and don't see it, 'sNeither do
l." was the laconic reply. The native look
ed further, but he advised the grocer to
stake down that sigl."
This is the year in which the late Sister
Anna Maria Taiga, of Rome, predicted the
death of the Pope, with attendant convnl-
sions of nature. 'sFor three days and three
nights" she said ..Cimmeriin darkness will
rest over the earth, hiding every object in
the world from view; The people who look
out of the windows for the purpose Of de-
scribng what is going on in tie firmament,
will be Immediately struck down dead"
A despatch from Port Sully to Sioux City
SAYS that the Uncpspas made raid on the
herders near Grand river agency on Fehru-
ary 22nd, killing private Collins Of the 7th
Infantry and stealing several horses. They
were followed by party of soldiers in the
direction of Standing Rock, but their trail
was lost. The same despatch says that the
Indians intend concentrating at tn. foot of
the Black Hills b. April l. preparatory to a
general war on the whites during the sum-
mer.
| Kingston, y. Y, was startled recently by
a singular discovery made by Some work.
men. They we're repairing building known
as the " oolsey House, situated in the lower
part of the town, and in taking down the
/ chimney a skeleton was discovered wcdged
4 in the fiue. 1t was pronounced by the ply
sicians who examined it to be the skeleton
of a woman, apparently ABOUT eighteen
years of age, and it had probably been in
the place where it was discovered about :.
year.
Lone Wolf, the war chief of the Kiowas,
was comparatively civilized until he lately
heard OF the death of his son. He had an
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