Through mails for cities, bnt give people
in tbe Juniata Valley mail on waytrains.
XEWI ITEMS. I
. two divorces a day is the average iu
New York.
- A jury in Ilhaoa foilad a man guilty
of stealing fe barn.
Omaha ai.d Chicago bave entered the
cm test for tbe new uiiut.
Eight Boston banks pass the April
dividend.
Russia is said to be buying horses
and quinine in this country.
General Grant does not expect to
return until October.
f Wfliity six women physicians were
gradmted at Naw York on Friday.
Slud aod birring are unusually
plenty in tbe Potouiao.
The population of St. Louis, accord
ing to a directory just published, is a
little over a half a million.
Fifty-four railroad companies failed
in tbiaeouutry last year.
Scientists say tbat the tie of beans
as an exclusive article of diet will eure
drunkenness.
Tbe Erie and Oswego canals will be
opened for navigation od Monday the
15th inst
There was a. terrible hail storm
throughout North lississipfi on the
8nd. It is feared serious dsmage Las
been done to corn.
Th hotneephathists are to build a
$25,000 hospital in Cleveland this
year.
A Danville. Ill , woman kil'ed ber
three year old child by an accidental
blow of tbe axe while splitting wood.
At Rhode tslaod funeral they bave
an equal number of male and female
pall-bearers, tbe males the right and
tbe females the left of the erffin.
llalata, the hardened resin of a tree
growing on the banks of the Amazon,
is said to be a good substitute for gut
ta percba.
Mrs. Morris, of Sodtb Camden, was
recently bitten in the arm by a eat, and
died. Sofrh after death ber arm turn
ed black and mortified.
