Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-29

iu Jopps few years ago. The crops
failed snd left the settlers without the
means of subsistence. In Patagonia
the land, like that of Egypt depends
for its fertility upon the overflow from
the rivers. Last season the river Chu-
pat, in Patagonia, failed to do its whole
duty, with the result above stated. The
government of the Argentine Republic,
which adjoins Patagonia on the north,
will give the needed assistance to the
suffering colouists.
Albert Hagar, a young lad of Johns
town, Cambria county, was taking a
ride on freight train on the Pennsyl-
vaoia railroad, on Friday the 10th inst,
aud when the train was running at
about 20 miles an hour his hat fell off,
The boy resolved to jump from the
tram to secure his hat, aud the result
was be Lit on his head and fractured
his skull so badly that he expired in a
few moments. Another warning to
reckless boys.
Two young girls left babe, two
weeks old, at a private residence in Ian
caster one evening last week, which
was se-ptcd by Officer Whites wife.
naS il clothed, IN long flannel and
rir ,v nsns Wsm. aF.ses, over which was a
bl from iih cloak with hood to it.
AiOuLS Sew ~sW, eek, was fine gold chain,
with charm the shape of a heart
attached, on which was engraved Irene.
The waif has black hair and eyes, and
is perfectly formed and apparently
healthy female child There was Sc
cured al ound its waist, one of those
patent palpitators, that supply nourish-
ment to babes, when it has to be OBJ
tanned from the COW, instead of the
maternal SOURCE. The girls it is be-
lieved came on the. 6 o'clock train in
the evening and left in the nine, but
who they we're, or whence they came,
no one can guess.
The severe frosts have killed the
early crop of vegetables and fruits In
South Carolina and Georgia advices
from Charleston and Savannah report
vegetables of truck farms destroyed BY
frost aud ice.
The pastors of all the Presbyterian
churches in this country have been re-
quested by the General Assembly to
prepare sermon to be preached on the
FIRST Sabbath in July next, which shall
give the origin and history of the
church over which each presldes.
a silly young Englishman of wealth
and position, named Hubert Smith, be-
came enamored o: a gypsy girl named
Esmeralda Lock, and made her his wife.
Now he has fresh bill of divorce in
lieu of his wife, that enterprising fe-
male having run away with literary
character named Groom, and brought
her foolish husband to shame and grief.
1t would have been better for Smith
and his Esmeralda if Groome had been
made. the fair gipsy's groom in the first
place.
The surest remedy for chapped hands
is to rinse them well after washing with
soap and dry them thoroughly by apply
ing Indian meal or rice powder.
A piece of scroll ivory veneering
sixty feet long and ten inches wide,
containing nearly fifty square feet
of surface, was sawed from an ele-
phant tusk the other day at Deep
river, Conn.
A young man out in Westmoreland
county recently made himself pair of
sheet-iron wings, and mounting the
roof of pig-sty, spread his pinions to
the breeze, started and landed in the
mud.
Two hundred trains pass daily over
the Pennsylvania railroad between New
York and Philadelphia. A train leaves
Jersey City every sever minn.es;; aIghtt
and day.
A little daughter of Mr.. George Det-
wiler, of Altoona, was burned to death
on Monday, 18th inst. She sat near
the stove, and her clothing caught fire.
There are no less than 1872 petitions
to the Butler court for license to sell
liquor-94 for taverns, 26 for restau-
rants aud Is for wholesale. Five of
these petitions are from women.
Two horse thieves we're recently cap
tured in Bedford county, having in
their possession two horses stolen from
Sir. Wilhelm, resident of Somerset
county.
Mrs Nancy Eckert, the last surviv-
or of the Brady family of the West
Branch valley, died recently in Ly-
coming county. She was the grand
daughter of Captain John Brady, the
Indian fighter.
Levi Jones, litigious individual of
Mercer, has just emerged from a law
suit which he started about dog, and
came out second best after paying four /
hundred and seventy dollars.
In an old record book of Connecticut |
church, dated 1907, is this item: ssFor
pniSo in ohurcb Ann Raftar