Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-01-25
Just as We Found Them.

IN s'O VA AS6'ou0'
Complaints are made of horse-thieves
in various parts of the State.
Canadians are now having their usual
winter snow-shoe races.
The Connecticut tobacco crop has
been large but poor in quality.
Bismarck says: IL am Republican,
bu, the time is not come yet"
Chickens are the medium of financial
exchange in the rural districts of Georgia
The Pope notwithstanding his years
and weight. is very skilfull at billiards.
Industry must prosper" as the man
said when holding the baby while his
wife chopped wood.
A vein of coal has recently been dis
covered in Dark Hollow, Warwick town
ship, Bucks county which promises we'll
Eli Sell. uear Greensbnrg, last week
slaughtered calf eight months old
wLicl, weighed. when dressed 4O2
pounds.
John S,iller, of Willow Grove, Bed
ford county, recently killed three wild
turkeys at one shot, which weighed
thirty six pounds.
Mrs. Ruth II. Ross. widow of Judge
William S. Ross, has been elected one of
the board of directors of the Wyoming
National bank of Wilkesbarre.
Henri Rochefort has disappeared from
Paris altogether. No one knows what
has become Of him, and it is rumored
that he has been a,sassinated.
Sheep thieves have been visiting
Washington county lately. Eighty five
head of sheep were driven off from a
farmer in Bent!eyville. last week.
A famer named A. II. Daniel, formerly
residing near Waterford, Erie county,
was swindled on the cars near Cleveland,
a few days ago, out of $500 by the
bogus freight dodge
According to an English Parliamentary
report, thirty one slavers were captured
in 1869, on the eastern coast Of Africa.
by British vessels, aud l,1O2 slaves set
at liberty.
There are 5000 acres Of oyster beds
in Chesapeake bay yielding annually
25,OOO,O 900 bushels of oysters In Bal
timore upward of 100000 are employ
ed in the business of canning oysters.
A Northampton boy, aged five years,
recently repeated $500 verses Of the
testament without mistake. He could
not read the verses, but committed them
to memory by hearing them repeated.
In trial to ascertain which of the
fire companies could hitch up their ap-
paratus the soonest, the Hook and Lad
der Company came out victorious, hav
ing their truck ready to start in forty
seconds-the best time on record.
A young married woman, apparently
in good health, fell dead in Coates
vile. Chester county, Pa, few days
ago. while preparing dinner. and her aged
mother, fastening down stairs on being
summoned fell and was killed instantly.
A year ago an Indianian was sent to
the Penitentiary. While he was in pris-
on, his wife got divorce from him.
When he got out of prison, he made
love to her again, and she remarked him
on his paying the cost Of procuring the
divorce.
The Sunbury american describes the
golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Weiser of that place One of the guests
presented the golden groom with gold
en- tooth pick, which he accepted while
asserting that he hadn't had tooth in
his mouth for years
A little child. about four weeks old, of
Mr.. Benjamin Eby. of Paradise township.
Lancaster county, was found dead in bed |
on Friday of last week. The child was
herlthy in the evening, and
the parents. in awakening, were much
shocked to find it dead.
In an orangery at Los Angeles. Cal.
ifornia, there is lemon tree planted in
the midst of an orange grove. The fruit
Of this tree is neither lemon or orange,
but in shape and flavor it partakes of
the pecuiarities of both orange and lem
on. 1t is a complete by brid.
By the breaking of the ice on Cones
toga creek near Lancaster three lads
were dropped into the water. The ia,
her of two of them tied rope around
his waist and went after them but was
hauled in insensible, then one of boys
was rescued but the two brothers named
Siliman, were drowned.
On Friday, the 18th inst. the trial of
Martin Harder, for the murder of VIM.
Dali. was concluded at the court house
II Clear6eld. The jury found him guilty
If murder in the second degree, and he
vas sentenced to spend eleven years and
iine months in the Western Penitentiary,
where he now is.