Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-02-18
SHORT ITEMS.

All the brothers and sisters of Chang ard
Eng were twins.
The temperance movement has a. last
reached Japan.
The Miners building association of Ly-
kins is worth 100000.
A starving woman in Paterson, N. j.,
spent her last So for wig.
Easton has had over two hundred cases
of measles, and not one resulting fatally
Mr. Proctor saw. tn thi, earth OF ours
at the end OF 1000 years will be behind time
about three minutes.
The independent Grsnges, a society
which opposes the farmers oranges, met
at Albany, on the 18th inst, to perfect or
/ ganization.
The President has approved the Congress
sional joint resolution authorizing a special
Court of Inquiry concerning General o. o..
Howard.
Mrs. Jacob Siegfried, of Allentown, ran
a nail into her foot couple of weeks since,
which resulted in death from lockjaw few
days ago.
An eastern man has been swim ding the
people of ST. Louis by selling raddish seed,
which he represents as the germs OF new
Arctic Morning glory.
Paris, France has worked itself into a
fit af righteous indignation, against dueling,
and sentenced a man who rect ntly fought
duel to four years imprisonment.
Fred Cooper, boy of sixteen, is under
arrest for the murder of hi, sister, by cut
ting her throat with penknife, at Union,
Erie county, Pa on Saturday week.
The residence of Mr.. Joseph Ring, in
I Triumph, near Iidioute, Warren county,
was burned on the night of the 4th, and
Mr. King prrished in the flames.
Thomas George, of Syracuse, has been
mulcted in damages to the amount of $50
for setting his dog upon girl named kas-
nan. 1t ought to have been 81 ,oOs at least.
Alfred Tiley and VIM. Finger. employees
at the Allentown rolling mills, were both
smorhered to death on the sth inst, while
at work fixing . valve at the bottom of
well connected with the mills.
! Christian Boone, aged IL, was instantly
killed at Mellrrt's l. Kinsey's foundry, on
the 9th inst, by an iron pipe, which he was
assisting to load upon wagon, falling upos
his mex.
! Martin Higgins, the hackman convicted
of an outrage on Mary O'Brien, an lr sh
girl from Philadelphia, was sentenced by
Recorder Hackett TO twenty years in the
State prison.
| A call for a State convention of Goa
miners, to be held at Harrisburg on the
| 18th day OF March next, has been issued by
John Siney, President of the Miners Ma
tional Association.
Mr.. jacob Ammon, of Glade, Warren
county. has buried five children within the
past three months. The two last ones died
of diptheria and another one is sick with
this dread disease.
ssWhether dirty woman with sweet
temper is to be preferred 10 cleaniy one
with sour ,emper," or not, is what is
troGbling Westmoreland county debating
societ, just now.
They have genuine case of leprosey in
Detroit, and it is asserted that the disease
is more OF less prevalent in a number of
cities of the country, notably San Francis
CO, where it has been introduced by the
Chinese.
A Young japanese nob,eman, scion of
one of the most powerful families in Japan,
who was sent over TO study the sciences at
Ann Arbor, Mich, year ago has been con-
ver;ed and baptised into the Methodist
Church.
On the 10th, inst, delegation of ladie.
were heard b. the House Committee on
Appropriations. at W Washington, advocating
an appropriation Of 81 1850 in aid of the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at
Gettsyburg.
At IrOnton, Fayette county, two weeks
ago. little girl named Regan, aged four
years, fell into a coke oven and vas burn
ed to death. Her mother, on hearing of
the occurrence, became SO excited that she
choked her infant child on her lap to death.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company when working all their col
liers full, employ I ,i50 men and boys in the
mining department, and 1876 in the engin-
eer and Improvement department, includ
ing .26 men and boys in the iron ore re-
eion.
Statistics show that the larger part of
c'imc in England committed by men is COM
mi;ted by young persons betvccn twenty
and thirty years old. and Of the crime COM
mitted by females the greater share is CON-
mitfed by persons between thirty and forty
years Of age.
Victor Hugo has been very unfortunate.
First his daughter was drowned, with her
husband, while boating, at Jersey; Charles
Hugo died IN Brussels ayesra ago; Francois
has just been carried 20 the grave, and one
daughter only now remains of all the poets
family.
Counterfeit 81 notes, well executed and
calculated 20 deceive, have made their ap-
pearance, enun.cr ating from New York
They are on the following banks: FIRST Ma
tional. Ninth National, Marine National
Shoe aId Leather, National Bank OF the
State of New York and National Bank OF
Commerce.
A woman in Jeffersonville, Ind, dressed
up figure in her absent husbands best
Suldsy-go-to-meeting clothes and set il
outside the window Ot course, by the
pale light Of the absent moon he thought il
WAS a burglar or 4 rival and he perforated