Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-15
SHORT ITEMS.

Geary, was married last week at Carlisle.
ga Utica man used postage stamp the
second timc,n says an exchange, and it
cost him S5ll."
A disease resembling epizootic. prevails
among the horses in Buckingham township,
Bucks county.
Bismarck's wife wears the largest shoes
of any woman beyond the Rhine, and his
daughter follows in the mothers footsteps.
When Miss Nellie Grant is married she
will be Mrs G. c. W. f. A. Sartoris -
What chance for an elaborate monogram.
Some workmen in cellar in Bristol, Pa,
found box filed with bank notes. But
upon exposure to the air they crumbied to
dust.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has de-
cided that colored children have the same
right to attend the common schools as the
white children.
OF man that married his fifth wife re-
Gently the Boston I'rdreler says: ''No one
can say that he is not laying up his trea-
sures in heaven"
Last Sunday night week, some thief
made a raid and stole the front door keys of
about dozen prominent Lancaster resi-
dences, and then threw them away.
John Welsh, of Plumb township, Frank
lin county, died few days ago from the
effects of chloroform administered while
undergoing a surgical operation.
A three-year old daughter Of T. B. Gra-
ham, of Crawford county, was seriously
crushed one day last week, by a large log
rolling on her, while playing upon pile.
The Lebanon Courier says, that that town
has been cutting its coat too large for the
cloth. 1t had about $4,000 OF interest to
paw on the LIST inst, and only $1,000 of
available funds.
A chap near Middlesex, Mercer county,
recently climbed q tree 10 shake coon. He,
however, fell down himself, and his dogs,
mistaking him for the game, tore him badly
before they discovered their mistake.
Andrew Harris, the negro mail-wagon
driver, arrested some weeks since for rob
bing the United States mails, pleaded guilty
at Richmond, Va, on the 9th inst, and was
sentenced to four years Imprisonment.
Sylvester Brady, a travelling photogra-
pher, is in jail at Sunbury, in default of
81 eco bail, charged with the seduction of
a little girl - years of age. He has a wife
and three children at Mill Hall. Clinton Co.,
Ia.
The President of the Brooklyn City Rail-
road has issued an order prohibiting, under
pain of dismissal, drivers or conductors
drinking any intoxicating liquor, or living
in or entering any house where liquor is
sold.
A New York man living on farm in
Alabama was ordered by the Ku Klux to
leave, bat instead of so doing he remained
and shot three of them. His neighbors eN-
pressed their qualification by electing him
county clerk.
John B. Hart, of New Orleans, has
brought suit in Pittsburg against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, to recover one
hundred thousand dollars damages for in
iuries received while riding over the road,
near Altoona, in September last.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Northern Central Railroad, in Baltimore, on
the 9th inst, the proposition TO lease the
road to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, at per cent. on the capital stock,
was rejected by large majority.
The Governor of Georgia has leased out
the convicts at $4,000 per annum. They
are scattered about the State, and are to be
employed in mining, railroading, and farm
ing. The Governor received bids for more
convictS than he could supply.
4 poor family in Denison, Ohio, consist
ing of husband, wife and seven children,
were on the point of starvation. Some
body raised 500 for them. and what did
the wife do with itl She bought silk
dress for $40, and began TO take music les
sons.
An old man, supposed to be Bender of
Kansas, who was arrested in the southern
portion of Utah Territory several weeks
ago, arrived at Salt Lake, on the Sth inst,
and is now in jail. A young man, sup
posed TO be his son, is also in custody at
Salt Creek.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
about TO Introduce bibles in their passen-
ger coaches. Each car will be provided
with four copies of the sacred volume
They will be placed in rack specially made
for the purpose and are intended for the
use of passengers.
Raids by the Indians in Texas are still
reported. At Bears creek on the Both ult.
they drove Off all the horses, altar a skir-
mish in which one Indian was killed. On
the next day a band of twenty-six surprised
rancho near Ripley, on the Sansaba, and
drove off all the stock.
4 special despatch TO Toledo from otta-
wa, Ohio, says John W. Goodwin murder
ed an aged man and his wife named Hay
wood, in the eastern part of Putnam cOun-
ty, on Wednesday night, the Sth inst
Goodwin was arrested, and was with great
difficulty saved from being lynched by the
infuriated people.
A White township, Indiana county, man
some time ago quit drinking and turned his
jug into a savings bank in which he depos-
tied daily what he used to spend for liquor.
He had saved considerable and last week
his wife, not knowing its contents, traded
the jug and some old clothes to a peddler
for dishpan and nutmeg crater.
Reading has case Of kick saving
boy's life Last New Years a six wear old