Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-19

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Ths dssEta iron smallpox in London
reach from $50 = s4o : week
Milk snaAss are very tsosblssone to
the farmers Of Forest couaty this season.
A horse thief named Littlejohn, dug
ddt of western Jail last week in just
ten minutes.
One California grape grower has a
vineyard valued at S25O.0O0. 1t yields
annually from $4,000 to s35,0o0 worth
Of grapes. .s
Some accounts say that the potato
bag has appeared in Connecticut; others
that the suspected insect is but . harm
less beetle. r- ah s-- 5,g.7
A man in Danville has kept one hotel
for fourty years. aud has an old bachelor
boarder. who has been with him for
thirty. five years -E .i- g.. ea....ra
Mrs. Amy Franks. of Fayette county,
is ninety years Of age, the mother Of
fourteen children, and is said to have in
all, nearly FIVE hundred descendants
living. ... u'.a. -7 10 lt.
A snake about fifteen feet long was
discovered day or two ago in the woods
on the side Of the county road connect
ing the Leesburg with the Washington
turnpike. Virginia. ''
Through tickets to 60 "round the
world are for sale in London for $3.50 !;
but the conundrum is, "what is the use
Of going round when your ticket entities
you to 60 through"
Mount Washington is anxious to at
tracts summer tourists this warm weather
by the announcement that you can see
patch of snow from the porch of lead
ing hotel there. ..
A Washington editor is mad because
a compositor headed his editorial, Cham
pagne Opened" when be wrote, "The
Campaign Opened" He says that prin-
ter is always thinking about something
to drink. .. ...
A Gloucester young lady was about
throwing away withered boquet, lately,
when she discovered in it note contain
ing an offer of marriage from bashful
but really exemplary young man of her
acquaintance. ..
A granddaughter Of Daniel Boone,
the Kentucky Indian hunter and pioneer,
is now the widow of Ex-Governor Boggs.
and resides in Napa county California,
on the old homestead where the family
settled nearly 25 years ago.
Some clever fellow has invented new
kino of ink. called "love ink" 1t is
a sure preventive. against all cases Of
breach of promise, as the ink fades away
and leaves the sheet blank in about four
weeks after being written upon.
A banished Pole, now residing in Bos-
ton, who came to this country over thirty
years ago, has made four trips to Europe
during the time. in search of a daughter
whom he was forced to leave in Poland.
but has not yet been successful III dis
covering her.
During the domination of the Com
mune in Paris, there were nearly 700
marriages, and the new husbands and
wives are sorely troubled lest their
unions be declared illegal. and they be
put to the trouble and expense of being
remarked.
A child was born at Manchester, Vt.
on Tuesday, which weighed only two
ounces, but was perfectly formed, and
hopes are entertained of its living. Its
face can be almost covered with an old
fashioned cent, and lady's finger ring
can be slipped on the arm.
An Alabama editor having read DR.
Halls lecture advising that husband and
wife should sleep in separate apartments,
says that DR.. Hall can sleep where be
chooses, but for himself be intends to
sleep where he can defend his vile
against rats and other noctural foes, 80
long as he got one to defend.
Colonel Hooton and Hon. John Hick.
man. of West Chester. assert that they
have discovered substance which, at a
coet Of twenty cents per barrel, will pre-
serve apples, peaches, grapes. pears,
potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, cantelopes,
watermelons and many other fruit and
vegetables, year or more as fresh as
when taken from the vines.
The venerable Peter Cartwright is
now 81 years old, and bis wife is ST.
DIR. Cartwright has been an itinerant
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church sixty seven years. He preached
and lectured frequently during the pres
ent year. He now writes that hs "is too
feeble to answer his letters, or to lecture
or dedicate churches during the hot
t.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell says that he has
observed in several cases of palsy that
the nails of the limbs of the affected side
cease, on the occurrence of the accident,