Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-05-20
SHORT ITEMS.


A Reading youth of %, married woman
aged 65. She was worth $4,000.
London has twenty miles OF underground
railroad, and more is being excavated.
Maine has enacted that apples shall be
sold by weight-foriy-fo pounds to the
bushel.
An Iowa Judge Lately began charge to
the jury with ..Gcntlemen of the jury, you
must now quit eating peanuts"
Gen. Forrest, 90 the brilliant Confederate
cavalry leader" is now engaged in hauling
wood TO Memphis, driving the team himself.
Mrs. David Johnston, of Fayette county,
aged 92 Years, recently attended the burial
of her husband on horseback.
At wedding in Shreveport the other
day, there were fourteen bridesmaids, and
the same number Of groomsnen.
Mitchell, the great wheat-grower of the
Merced region, California, sowed this
spring, in all, about 80 900 acres of wheat
A couple vera married in Bay City re-
Gently who were married in 1850 and 6i-
vorced in 1860, just ten years from their
first marriage.
Mr.. r. ID. Montgomery, of Lafayette,
Miss, lost his wife and child by railroad
disaster, and the courts have awarded him
twenty-five thousand dollars.
The hay crop in Texas promises to be
very bountiful, as its effect on the market is
already felt. The price per ton is Sl0,
against SIS last year.
The President has signed the act to ena-
bic the Secretary of War to carry out the
act of April %, for t.c relief of the suf-
ferers by the Mississippi overflow.
| 1t seems almost impossible 10 have a short
crop of fruit this year. The latest report
is IRON West Virginia, where the trees are
reported TO be in admirable condition.
While the lawyers were fighting over a
breach of promise case in Michigan, recent.
/ ly, the plaintiff and defendant went off
quietly and got msrried.
: Bennett, the New York HeraR man, is
fast walker. He walked ~ miles the other
day in an hour and iorty-nine minutes, and
won 50 3,OCO.
A Marion (iowa) woman poured hot wa
ter down her husbands back 10 cure his
I toothache. The jury decided th1t she was
practicing dentistry without license, and
, sen. her to Jail.
| The ladies of Bristol, Bucks county, Pa,
presented remonstrance of $50 female
! signers to the court against granting any
tavern license in Bristol, the longest re-
nonstrance ever presented.
An Ohio husband sold his oxen to get
money for his wife to elope with, but he
doesn't want any sympathy. He says he
would have thrown in a horse or two il she
had demanded it.
Great scandal has been created at Brus-
sells by the elopcment OF married alder
man with one of the female school teachers.
In Brussels the aldermen are appointed by
/ illc Ming. licUCe tIlS ufTOdt-
According TO the distinguished physiolo- /
gist, DR.. Hammond, of New York, those !
who indulge to excess in the ardent have !
twenty-five diseases of the brain to choose |
from as means Of exit from the world, |
besides 90 every form of insanity, including !
general paralysis What more could they 1
ask 4!
The Young linen-draper's assistant in 1
Paris, who, in fit of brsvado, swallowed I.
fork, and who has since been the lion of I
the dsv, was again seized recently with hor- /
rib!e pains, and taken back to the hospital !
He has already undergone several opera |
tions without any practical result. final /
decisive attempt to extract the fork from 1
his body is about to be made by the most /
experienced surgeons.
1t is stated that at a recent Scientific Con-
gress at Rome two Ncapolitan physicians
submitted to a meeting liquid preparation 4
for stopping instantaneously the How of
blood from wounds of every description
4 commission Of physicians have performed
experiments with it in one of the Roman
hospitals, and have reported it as one of
She hapriest of recent discoveries, and as
particularly serviceable on the battlefield.
On Tuesday morning of last week, a car
of oil on the fast Harrisburg freight train of
the Pennsylvania Railroad took fire at High
Spire, SIX miles east OF Harrisburg, and de-
stroyed three other ears treighted with oil,
and one car loaded with live hogs. Fif-
teen or twenty of the hogs were rescued.
About two hundred feet of the south track
was destroyed, the iron being badly bent ty
the heat. 1t is supposed that the tire was
caused by sparks from the engine.
One of the oldcst-it not the Oldest
newspapers of Germany, and indeed of the
world, the Junsischc Zeituag, has just COM
pleted its second centenary. The paper
first appeared on the Goth of Alri, two
hundred years ago. 1t has undergone many
changes in its appearance aud in its name,
Dut has throughout all vicissitndes of time
consistently advocated liberal policy. 1t
has also remained during that period the
property of the same family, Neuenhahn.
4 festival number inaugurates the 20lst
year of lis existence.
One Patterson. of Michigan, Was a SOL
dier during the late war, and was so unior-
tunatc as to get into Libby Prison, and
while there was beaten aud bayoneted by
one Major Cady, a rebel officer. The other
day Patterson met Cady IN Monroe, Mich,
and reminding him of the beating, and told
him the time had come to square accounts,
and Immediately proceeded to do that very
thing. He gave Cady a terrible logging,
using no blyonet, however, in the opera
ton. And then Patterson was arrested and
fined s25, and his friends paid the fine