Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-03-29
Just as We Found Them.


A train bearing 700 woman and child
rem of colonists who have settled in Ellis
worth, Kansas passed through Topeka
on Saturday.
A couple of girls near Fond du Lac,
Wis cultivated a one hundred acre farm.
and supported themselves and parents
out of the proceeds.
In the town of Clarendon Iowa. the,
names of all the female residents were
registered on the voting list, but on the
day Of the election not woman appear
ed 10 deposit her ballot.
At Harrisburg. on the goth, a shift
ing engine ran into a freight train, killing
William Calender and Samuel Swager
brakeman, and seriously wounding Saml
Carter. brakeman, and Edward Yoder,
conductor.
The directors of the Frederick and
Pennsylvania Line Railroad made con.
tract on Monday with the Lochiel Iron
Company of Pennsylvania for the iron to
lay the track on said road from Littles-
town, Pa, to Taneytown, Md.
An Irishman with heavey bundle on
his shoulders. riding on the front of a
horse car, was asked why he did not set
his bundle on the platform. He replied:
BE jabers, the horses have enough to
drag me; II carry the bundle.
In Carroll county, Iowa on the 18th
inst. B. B. Ferry, lumber merchant,
shot and killed his wife, set his house on
fire, and then sho. himself dead. lie
married his wife at the East only last
October, but was much given to strong
drink.
On Mr. Dunnitg. the celebrated law
yer, being asked how he contrived to get
through all his business, he replied, !
divide my business into three parts; the
first part do myself; the second part l
get done for me; and the third is never
done at all
"Why, you'd better knock the door
down I What do you want ?''-"Och,
my darlingl don't let me wake any of
your family. I'm just using your knock
er to wake the people next door. I'm
locked out, dye see; and they've niver a
knocker.
A burglar entered the Old Stone Pres
byterian Church in Augusta county, Va,
on the night of the third inst. and stole
the pul pit Bible, an heirloom which. for
a century or more, had been used 10y
the venerable ministry who preached the
Word in that mother church of the Val
ley of Virginia.
At Ashland, Pa. one of the boilers of
E. Best's coal, breaker exploded on the
10Th inst, killing Mark Daniel, the en-
gineer, and seriously if not fatally injuring
others. A portion of the boiler fell
through house close by, and struck
two children who were in bed at the time.
Happily they escaped without serious in
jury.
A pine tree was felled on lands of
John Dubois, Esq, in Clearfeld county,
a short time since, from which was cut
seventeen logs sixteen feet in length, and
containing seven thousand two hundred
feet of good lumber Talk about your
giant trees of California but you seldom
find larger pine trees in this country
than the one above referred to.
One of the candidates in Concord, N .
H., believing he was elected, told an ale
dealer on Tuesday night to treat every
body who came in during the evening at
his expense; and went home. The an.
nouncement of the result showed une1.
pectedly that he was beaten by seven
votes. His successful opponent generous
ly offered to foot the bill.
A man in Oil City got into a quarrel
with woman. She'd be blessed if she 4
take any of his impudence. So she
cody walked into her kitchen, got a
dipper full of buckwheat batter, and
threw it all over him. The fellow was
of course beautiful illustration of a
dough. head. He contends nevertheless
that he can whip any woman in Oil City.
"IF you do not close that window i.
waiter, / shall die from the draught,"
said lady at dinner. "And if you do
close it. shall die from the heat in this
hot weather !'' exclaimed a stouter
fair lady. Then there was giggle
among the dinners at the dilemma of the
waiter, when literary gentleman pres
ent, said: "My good fell w. your duty is
clear; close the window and kill one lady
and open it again and kill the other"
A finished Boston thief few days ago
made off with a team and two cases of
dry goods, valued at $4,000, which it was
to Philadelphia steamer for
to two houses in that city.
he pursuaded the teamester to sccompa-
ny him to the fourth story of the Boston
postoff;ce for package which he repre-
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