Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-02-28
Just as We Found Them.
Scotland exports walnuts to this CO

Scotland exports walnuts to this coun
try.
Butchers in Columbus. Ga are by law
obliged to wear white aprons.
In Kentucky Legislature there are ff
ty farmers out of one hundred members
Eight hundred barrel. of beet sugar
were made at Black Hawk, Wis, last
season.
An Iowa man, counting principal and
interest, has paid $4,000 for tobacco in his
life, and he is but thirty years old.
Sioux City fel poisoned meat to the
wolves of the adjacent forests, and all
the dogs of the city have gone where the
good CANNES go.
The infidels of Massachusetts have sub
scribed $50, 900 toward the erection of a
building for their use, to be named Paine s
Memorial Hail.
The colored people of New Jersey
hold State convention soon to determine
upon their political action in the future.
a boy baby was solemnly christened
Mary Reilly, by mistake in New York
the other day. The Legislature will be
invoked to restore him to his sex.
Mrs. Green recently eloped, taking
with her her children, but leaving note
to comfort her husband by the assurance
that they were not his.
The citizens of Rockport, Ind, pro-
pose to erect a suitable monument over
the grave of the mother of Abraham
Lincoln, who lived there.
An octogenarian named Margaret Wat
son while indulging her habtof smoking
in bed, in New York, Wednesday, set
the bed on fire and was burned to death
The Kaufman (Texas) Star says ::
The farmers in this county are making
early and extensive preparations for the
coming crop.
An ohio women demands a divorce or
the death of the old family cat that has
been a thing of beauty and Of joy for the
past ten years, and the husband vows he
won't Kill the cat.
A Harrisburg woman lately became
the mother o: triplets, one of which has
black hair, one red, and the other white.
She won't have to tie pieces of ribbon on
them to know them apart.
A married lady complained that her
husband had ill-used her. Her father,
hearing it, boxed her ears. Tell him."
said the father that if he beats my daugh-
ter will beat his wife Rather plea
SAINT prospect for the lIdy.
A countryman in Savannah. observed
gang Of n groes at work in the streets
each wearing ball and chain. He
asked one why that ball was chained to
his leg. 10 keep people from stealing
it said the darkey; heap of thieves
about le-e."
A Boston liquor dealer ,~on being ar
rested by virtuous constable, offered
SO if the officer wouldn't search the
woodpile. The official, stern in his
integrity, refused and had to cord up
seven cords Of wood, after unpilng it.
He is sorry he didn't take the $50.
About 3 clock on Friday morning
fire destroyed large portion ofthe busi-
ness part of Monticello, n Y. The Re-
publican printing offices, three law offices,
one drug store, jewelers. establishment,
saloon, billiard rooms and two private
dwellings were burned. Loss $4,000.
j. a. Suffer, the California pioneer
who made the first discovery of gold, is
now living in Litz, Lancaster county. poor
and crippled with intlammatory lheuma
:ism, He is sixty nine years of age, and
without means of support His friends
and all his country will be glad to hear
that the California legislature has just
given pension of $3.50 month for five
years.
The town of Peshiigo, which was
literally destroyed by fire, has been al
most entirely restored already to its for
mer condition. The greatest disaGvan-
tage the inhabitants suifer from is the
want of water All the streams flowing
from the burnt district are so impregna-
ted with lye that the water cannot be
used, and the people have to melt snow
to obtain the daily allowance.
There is absolutely no bottom to the
pit of degradation into which men vo..un-
tarily throw themselves. A saloon keep
er, named Holmes, in Galva, ILL.,, was on
continuous drunk for 10 days, during
which time his horses were left to starve
in barn well stored with hay. TIE
famished animals devoured their manger,
stalls, and each others names and tails,
until they had not strength to gnaw, and
then sank down and died.
An enthusiastic correspondent thus Ge-
scribes 'josie' Mansfield as looking bet
ter than ever: "She is somewhat thin
ner, and colorless as marble Neither
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