Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-03-25
SHORT ITEMS.


Fifteen ministers in Cincinnati preached
temperance sermons on Sunday.
4 1900 barrel tank of oil was struck BY
lightning at Petrolia, Pa, on the 18th.
A sleigh over one hundred years old was
sold in Berks county, the other day, for
dollar.
The salary of the Mayor of Altoona has
been rxad at sixiy-five dollars 4 month, and
the Chief of Police at ;if,y dollars.
Only ten straight tickets were poIled at
the recent election in Northurnbcrland.-
This rest were all scratched and pasted.
Twelve years ago the Southern leader.
struggled to get s1t of Congress; now the
most of those living are struggling to get
back.
The "wives, mothers, daughters and sis
ters" OF Mansfield, Ohio, have solsmsly
pledged themselves 10 tho work of temper
ance.
A boy hanging on behind . wagon at
Mogetown, Montgomery county, was struck
IN the eye by the drivers whip, cutting the
eye entirely out,
Miss Nellis Grants sartorious owns
farm in Wisconsin, which he TILED until the
death vi his brother made him heir 10 a.
English estate,
A bank lock, which works BY elock-work,
and c,n't be opened except 1t cxrtain hours,
even BY the owners, is one OF the latest in
vsntions.
A young man vas arrested the other day
on charge of having written obscene mat
ter in Bible at tho Exchange Hotel, in
Uscsola.
The Wisconsin Legislature was in session
six weeks, and accomplished a. much work
as such bodies usually do in four months.
The member are paid tour hundred dollars
per session.
Reading drunkard let his .ad child lie
In the house two days without making any
preparation for the funeral. Ii. was drank,
and coatinued so while Mayor Evans made
The required arrangements.
The Curvensvilis Tunes says that Mr..
Sam. Whitehead married Niss Amelia Rod
head, out in Geulich township, about year
sgo, and that the little Whitehel I'd. Rsdhcsd
is black head.
sjoker" at G Gilbertstown, Berks county,
pulled chair from a young lady as she was
,bout to SIT down on it, and she is now .uf-
fering from hemorrhsge Of the lungs from
the fail.
An unknown donor recently presented
tho Mount Union Presbyterian church with
81 yer Communion Service, consisting of
pitcher, plate, two go5lets and bap-
tismal bowl
Susan Thornton, twice convicted Of mur-
der in The first degree, b. poisoning her
husband, in Charlotte county, Va, has been
sentenced to bs hanged on the 10th of
April.
The new horse disease which las msde
its appearance in New York is known
among horsemen as 'sPink Eye" which
runs Its course in thrss 20 i've days, and
then the animal rec6yers.
Joshua II. ToInlinson, OF Attleborough,
Bucks county, was nearly choked 10 death
by h is false teeth becoming loosensd While
he was asleep, aud lodging in his throat
The timely arrival of a physician saved him.
Henry Mass and Barney MOlcneauys,
neighbors and brothers-in-law, living IN
Lewis county, KY, quarrrled. Mass wen;
home got pistol and shot Noleneaays'
wife. inhicting fatal wounds and then blew
out his brains.
Ella Baird, of Crawford county, attempt
ed to take an apple from the pocket cf
boy at school. The latter made an effort to
transfer pistol he carried from one pocket
TO another, when 1t was discharged, the
contents entering the forehead of the gil,
ard causing her death a few hours after
ward.
The New Castle, (Pa.) CoErant says;-
Two men are now in Jail in this city for
dressing in female attire and peddling pat
eat corsets. They practiced their little
game in this CITY for about six weeks, and
fitted most of the bellies of New Castle, as
well as other ladies', always insisting that
they should fit the article TO the purchaser.
The NORTH East San says: One day last
week one " eidncr induced the wife of a Mr..
Cupps. who domciles in the vicinity of
Shadduck's Corners, to elops with him.
They came to North East, but we're holly
pursued By Cupps and overtaken- Mrs. O.
says Weidne: promised her nice ten cent
calico dress if she would go with him.
At Altosna, Pa, on Saturday a week an
engine standing in the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company's yard, got started in some
way and ran through the round house across
an open space, and into lag machine
shop, in which over five hundred men were
at work. One man was killed and another
wounded. The engine smashed everything
in its course.
The will of Miss Sophia J. Snow, be
quea,hiny SIS ,OC0 to various charitable IN
siitulions, which was admitted to probate at
Boston yesterday, contains this sentiment
90 forbid any p, rson or persons to break
this my last will and testament, aud who
ever attempts to break it, or breaks II, may
he, She. or they find no peace Of mind and
body in this world or in the world to come
Detroit is sure .of at least one case of
genuine love. a packet Of 1872 letters was
picked up in one of the city streets the
other day, being correspondence covering
period of six weeks, and there was not
letter il the lot that didn't have at least six
''darlings" in it, and such expressions, ''my |
angel love" seemed to have been applied !
with a ppnuer box