Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-03
SHORT ITEMS.

one divorce 10 every nineteen marriages
was the proportion in Vermont last year.
Four thousand women in Salt Lake City
have petition,d for prohibition OF the sale
Of intoxicating liquoss.
A Wisconsin minister has been dismissed
from an orthodox pulpit because he bull;
fire under balky horse.
In fifteen elections under the local option
law in California eleven have been carried
BY the anti-liquer people. tEsf
An arsenic mine in England is said to
produce enough Of the mineral in month
to poison the entirs population of the
world.
The Cambridge University Union has
adopted u motion, by l0l votes 20 ~, in
favor of introducing the system of crena-
ton into England.
Thirteen houses and barns have been con-
sumed BY the forest fires in Erie and sur
rounding counties. The loss IN property is
estimated in the neighDorhood Of s20J,00O
or $4,000. -
Cremation age; 80, n.s ma Johnny's
got the urn and is spi.iing pas ashes over
the ioor.D 30, whata naughty Johnny
Get the fea,h-r-duster and sweep your poor
father right upl''
A prisoner. after being locked up three
years in St. Louis tor assault with intent
to kill, irnni ed;ately proceeded to the kitch
en- of the prison and pounded the cook
Down he goes again.
A runaway team in 0gdensburg, y. T.,
injured boy. The horses were frightened
by the staggering OF drunken man, ana it
is proposed to prosecute the dealer who
sold the man liquor. /
DIR. Schmidt, of the University Of Athens,
has completed a mAp OF the moon on whish
he has been at work for thirty-four years.
1t is justly regarded as one of the greatest
astronomical feats of the century.
4 Lewisville (oregon) lady WAS recently
blackballed by Grange. She blamed a
min, a neighbor, for casting the vote, and,
meeting him AZ church. proceeded to give
him drubbing. The lady is hity years old,
and the man seventy.
An Indian who is confined in jail at Wal
IA Wall.. Oregon, for murder, has been
told by his fellow prisoners that he viii be
hanged sure, and that he had better get
used to it. He practises every day by let
ting them hang him as long as he can bear
il; but still he says he would rather be shot. !
Mr. Carlisle and wife were struck by
lightning at Allosburg, near ManumuskTn, |
n. j., on Monday afternoon a week, and !
the wife was instantly killed. Mr.. Carlisle
was stunned, but is expected TO recover. |
lie was paper.ng room at the tinG, and |
his wife Was standing at a window near a
chimney, down which the lightning came.
In The National Conference Of Dunkards
at Girard, Illinois, long discussion took |
place on the proper manner of wearing the |
beard, and il was decided that while il h as |
ever been a rule of the Church 20 wear
full beard il is not permitted to wear NOUS |
taches. The question of allowing members
to engage in banking business was decided /
in the negative.
The Lieutenant Governor Of Manitoba (
has issued a proclamation prohibiting the
importation of spirituous liquors into any /
part OF the Northwest Territories also for
bidding the mabuiacture OF such therein. !
5 pintous liquors are not to be brought into
the Territories from any proyincs Of Can
ada, except by special permission of the
Lieutenant Governor, under pans, penal
ties and forfeiture.
The ex-Chief Of Police in Terre Haute,
Iowa, married under rather unusual circum-
stances. His son, less than a dozen years
old, suggested the desirability of change
in the domestic arrangements, and named
the lady he would accept as stepm0ther.
The ex-Chief sought the lady, told her
what his son had said, and intiInated his
desire to gratify his sons wish The lady
heard him with respect, awakened her little
daughter, received the daughters consent,
and then gave her OWE. The wedding took
place the next day.
About three miles east of Elizabethtown.
Pa on "Wednesday, 10th inst, during
terrific thundergust the Lightning struck a
white-oak tree, SCATTERING it in remarka-
bic. manner. The tree was about thirty
inches in diameter and twenty feet clear to
the first limb. The lightnisg struck the
tree about the lower limb, tearing the en-
tire sold tough oak butt into shreds like
broom corr, tearing it completely out Of
the roots, and ploughing up the ground for
4 distance of sixteen feet around the tree.
rhe top of the tree was intact, and contains
ibout two cords Of wood, and fell directly
into the hole where the stump stood. The
spinters aud deb.is were scattered around.
covering the ground for distance of fifty
yards. The most singular part is that the
op should fall directly where the stump had
'eeD, in such position as If planted there
)ne part of the trunk, weighing about two
hundred and fifty pounds, was thrown
distance of seventy-fve yards from the ,
Gene of operations. Many people visited
he SPOT from all around ths country to see
he terrible force of lightning I,