Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-08
SHORT ITEMS.
There are a5,oOo spiritualists in Iowa


Georgetown, Mass, has been scandal
lied By the marriage of a consulate wild
over the day after his first funeral.
The Decatur county, Iowa, court house
was entirely destroyed BY fire on Tuesday
morning week. All the records were de-
stroyed.
The recent loss of Mohamedon pilgrims
on the Mediterranean steame, was much
exaggerated. II appears that only twenty
were lost.
Judge McCormic, of Franklin. was fined
by the Mayor of that town for hitchiag his
horse to a shade tree. He paid it without
Oeing offended.
1t is proposed new TO coin silver twenty
cent pieces. A bill providing for this has
been favorably reported from the 5 enate FL
nance Committee.
In Florida. colored school the boys are
Taught to sing this verse: 81 am a little
Radical glory in the name; would not
be a Democrat, because it is shamel'
Snow is twenty feet deep in Onion VAL
ley, Cal while Meadow Lake City, in the
same State, has snow thirty feet in depth
with which to encourage 4 spring freshet
A fire broke out in Lingnon's Hotel, in
the village of Rosedale, nine miles from
Kingston, n. Y, on the night of the lst
and half of the place is said TO be burned.
The coal miners at Hooking Valley have
struck for three cents bushel and ask pay
ior aut coal The operators concedc the
price per bushel, but desire to keep out nut
coal.
a Texas gentleman four years ago bought
a SOW and four pigs for s., branded them,
and tIirnei them loose. He now enjoys the
proud distinction of being the .'Hog King"
of Texas.
Illinois has extended to married women
every right but that OF suffrage. They can
keep their own earnings, and transact busi-
ness with their husbands the same as with
strangers
The notorious Sam Mcclellan, in whose
defence on charge of murder, {. L. VAL
landighaln lost his life, was shot in a drum
ken brawl at Hamilton, Ohio, on Monday
night the Seth ult.
Milford, Delaware, claims to have 4 min.
lister who opens the church, sweeps 1t out,
rings his own bell, plays the organ, leads
the singing, breaches his own sermons, and
takes up the collection himself.
The Scientific .4merican predicts that the
time will soon come when ice will be manu-
featured in all our great cities at dollar
ton. Manufactured ice AZ Sc a ton has for
some time been in the market OF New Or
leans.
In Brooklyn, n. Y, lately the wind took
an undertaker's sign from its fastenings and
laid il down in front of grog shop, where
it informed pissers-by that sscaskets and
coffins were furnished at the shortest notice"
within.
The Brookly ssEagle" publishes state
ment that 500 COWS are packed togetcher in
filthy stables just outside the limits of that
city, and fed on hot swill, and gives the
names of the dealers who sell the milk as
'.oranse county"
A portion OF the German press are now
advocating the Introduction of legal proyi
sions to make voting in Parliamentary elec-
tions compulsory. They propose, that is to
say, to attach q penalty to abstention from
voting.
"Ogonts," the paiatial residence of Amer
ica's last king swindlers, Jay Cooke, in
ChlItenham township, Montgomery county,
is for sale. and proposition is on foot TO
buy it fer summer resort for wealthy fam
lilies.
Two smart Detroit damsels have been ar
rested for taking possession of n lscomo-
tive, opening the throttle-yalve, and start
ing the machine. They jumped off. leaving
the locomotive to run into freight train,
and do 500 worth of smash.
The Jcfersouville, Indiana Common
Council have passed ordnance requiring
liquor dealers to pay $500 for licence. The
passage Of This ordnance and the movement
in the cause of temperance will, it is said,
drive some of the citizens TO Louisville.
NJ. Sandras has communicated to the
French Academy of Science a method of
making infants suck directly from the teats
Of Z COW. lie has tried it successfully, and
thinks its employment would diminish the
mortality among children deprived Of moth
er's milk.
A Nevada judge, after the jury had been
empannelled and counsel ready to proceed,
pulled out revolver and judiciously re-
marked, ssIf any man goes frolicking around
the courtroom during the trial of this case
shall interrupt him in his career" The
strictest decorum prevailed.
A lady in Lake City, Florida, has grow
ing in her gsrder genuine cork tree thirty
feet high, the bark on which is sufficiently
thick 70 make bottle corks. There is also
in the SAINT garden a genuine black pepper
bush, which yields regularly full crop of
the berries.
A citizens mass meeting was held at the
Keystone Opera House, in Reading, on the
| night Of the 2nd inst, to secure the general
enforcement of the Sunday law, and com
mittee was appointed to confer with the
Mayor and ask him to employ the police
force for that purpose.
| A fire broke out last wednesday night,
about $50 O'Clock, in the stables at Laurel
hill Slope, Pa, owned by A. Pardee & Co.,
consuming the stables and twenty-three
mules. The fire company was promptly on
hand, but failed to control the flames. The
origin of the fire i. unknown.