Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-04-29
SHORT ITEMS


county tressurers.
Governor GrOome, Of Maryland, is . lead
ing member of the Pythian order.
The German language 10 to b tarsht il
the public schools Of Washington, d, C..
The cultivation Of the japanese silk
worm .fpplston's Journal decl1rss wsuid b,
profitable.
A reverend Scranton gentleman received
one cent for marrying couple on Easter
Sunday
The experiment of lighting street lamp,
with electricity il to be carried out in Prov.
idence, K. l.
A Kickspoo young lody measures six feet
and seven inches in height, and Is yet grow
ing.
The world is great mystery, with ere.
alton at one end of it and cremation al
the other.
A circus elephant at Cincinnati took Sc
we're cold recently, and the doctor pre-
scribed two gallons Of whisky.
bill was ihtr oduced in the NewI Y ork
Assembly to incorporate an increnation
society, with capital of $4,000.
A Milwaukee mother " swapped I" her
eight year old boy and five dollars for a
Newfoundland dog all parties are satisfied
The advocates of an adv vsRced education
will take heart from the fact that Harvard
College has challenged Yale to billiard
match.
A deer.horn was uncsrthed at Sunbury,
bearing the inscriptionl"M X. lI76'" 1t
was quite brittle, breaking. withou: the
least effort.
Gold mines are reported TO have been dis
covered in the mountains OF Arkansas, near
the Choctow line. Miners and adventures
are fiocking.
Samuel W. Hildreth, aged 10, was Sun
fenced to Imprisonment Tor life, on the 23d
inst, at Lowell,SMass., for the murder OF
Oliver A. Doland, aged -.
Lumbermen say that ABOUT 4O,000,o00
feet of logs viii be started down the river
this spring. Ten millions of these will stop
at ScIndoes, and the remainder go on to
hoiyokc, Mass.
Cause and consequence. There is not a
single drinking saloon In all Noble county,
Ohio, with its population of twenty thou
sand, and for the last six years it has not
been represented in the penitentiary.
"Tweedism'' they call it, and tse hero
this time is blaok MAN.. ID. Humbert-
Treasurer of Orangeburg, S. c. He Tweed
ed the county out OF $50 ,0O0, and, like the
.sBo.s," is in Jail.
A little boy narrowly escaped with his
life, near Hartleton. He fell between the
sills, the entire train passing over him, a
d epression IN the road bed having been
deep enough to prevent the ponderous ma
chinery from striking him.
Old man Bender, now in Jail in Salt Lake
city, has been ideatifrd through photo
graphs OF him sent ts Kansas, and will be
taken there. The young man arrested as
his son, has been released, proving 10 be a
deserter from the army.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
gives notice that unless parties liable to pay
ment of special tax license under the In
ternal Revenue laws make their returns OF
Storm eleven" before the 3lst Of May, they
will be liable TO penalty of 90 per cent.
The New England Methodist conference
has recorded = severe testimony against
church fair lotteries, the sale of prize pack
ages On cars, the running of cars that ART
used for gambling purpose. and the sale Of
liquor on night palace cars.
VIM. Weaver, Of Douglassville, Berk,
county, while going home from work few
days ago, found diamond, which Philadel-
phia jewellers have pronounced worth 81
UUS. nobody is to suppose, though, thai
Dougllssvil,e has a diamond mine.
Since Mrs. Wilson, of Mt. Vernon, ILL.,.
thrust cooked revolver into DIR. Porter:
face and persuaded him to revoke one ol
his prescriptions, it is considered hazard.
GUS for physicians in that region to pre-
scribe alcoholic stimulants for married men
A party of men have purchased 1900
acres of land in Wisconsin, fer the exclu
sive purpose of raising muskrats. Last
year they captured 1000 of the animals, and
they anticipate take of 5000 this year
The skins sell at thirty cents each.
Darling is the name of 4 Tioga count,
man who wanted to commit suicide, but tn,
druggist gave him tartar emetic and hs
nearly turned inside out. Then he tried
hanging, and cutting his throat, withou
success. Then he got mad, kicked his wife
smashed the furniture and ran away to n ev
York.
In Halifax, n. s., there is woman VIII,
is thoroughly convinced that she is dead
and she cannot be convinced to the con
trsry. Her delusion is the result of re
msrkably vivid dream which she had abou
six months ago, in which she imagined she
suddenly expired. AT intervals she lies il
bed for days motionless and apparent Il,
lifeless. II is an extraordiAry case of mon
omapta.