Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-10-01
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Huntingdon is TO have new Academy.
David Sulouff is working lively on the
Neyin lot
1t is lawful to catch black bass, below the
Millerstown dam.
John Etka expects to open business in
Patterson by and by.
Residents of Marysville, Perry county,
are suffering with ague.
Mt. Union has a notary public. Frank
II. Harrison is the man.
There is a "horse chestnut" tree in Lew
istcwn in full bloom. Rather la:e in the
season.
The gross receipts of the Pennsylvania
Railroad this year are estimated at S25,-
010,000.
Recently, Franklin county was excited
over the reported discovery of stone coal.
They now understand that ii is ''lignite."
The equiuoctial storm was light. A
weather, wise man says its lightness augers
a long and pleasant fall season. Hope he
knows.
They catch black bass In large numbers
now at Harrisburg, with "roc and line"
The weight of the fish vary between one
and four pounds.
A citizen of Huntingdon named Michael
Mcbride was killed while walking on the
railroad by train of cars, on the evening
OF the 18th inst.
Squirrels are plenty. Some attribute
their numbers to the enforcement Of the
law in the early part Of the season. Most
probably they are correct
Donaldson, the aeronaut, has published
card expressing his determination TO
cross the Atlantic in the balloon made for
that purpose He says he will start in
about n week.
The editor of the Bedford lnqairer WIS.,
tied the Cumberland, Md, agricultural
fair, and came away in an unsatistied frame
of mind with the hotel accommodations of
the town.
When you hear man assail the charac-
ter of women by insinuation, you will be
correct when you conclude in your own
mind that the fellow himself is libertine
and scoundrel.
If the SENTINEL is g little slow in coming
10 time, think of the disadvantageous cir
cumstances under which it is published,
and modify your criticism accordingly. 1t
will come in on time regularly again before
long.
The National Banks have stood the
shock of the money panic almost without
culver. The country would be in calam-
itous circumstances, financially speaking,
if it were not for our present National
banking system.
BY and by the SENTINEL Office will be
opened at the intersection of East Point
and Cross street. The latter street will also
be opened, thereby Opening communication
from the McAlisterville road to the Cedar
Spring road without going by way Of Main
street.
There is perennial nobleness and even
sacredness in work. Were he never so be-
nighted, forgetful of his high calling, there
is always hope in man that actually and
earnestly works in idieness alone is there
perpetual despair. Blessed is he who has
found his work; let him ask no other
bIessedDess. He has a work; a life pur-
pose; he has found it and will follow it !
Labor is life; God-given force, the sacred
celestial life-essence breathed into him 10y
Almighty God; from his inmost heart
avakens him to all nobleness, 90 ali knowl-
edge, "self-knowledge," and much else so
soon as work fitly begins.-Cariyie.
A number OF Democratic journals un-
wisely are censuring the Republican ad-
ministration- National for the present
money panic and its results. Are these pa
pers not acquainted with the money dis
turbances of 1887 and 1857? The troubles
of to-day are not TO be compared to the
troubles of those days. Those were the
days of Democratic rule. 1t would be un-
pleasant to thrust the record OF the past
into the faces of The generation of to-day,
but if 1t must be done it cannot he helped.
You can have wal OF peace on this subject,
Just as you elect, but if Davy Crocket were
living he would say to the Democrats,
"You amt right, boys. Iguess you'd bet
ter say, 'We'll take peace"
On last Wednesday evening the bank OF
a drain six feet deep, that George Baker, a
citizen of Patterson, was engaged in dig
ging on Railroad Avenue, from Pennelfs
store TO the railroad sewer, caved in and
buried him up to his neck. Twenty min
utes time was consumed in extricating him
He was seriously hurt, his collar bone hav
ing been broken. He also tor time gave
evidence of internal injury. At this writing
he is, however, greatly improved, and hi'
recovery is expected. The next day 9
plumber and assistant were partially buried
while at work in the same ditch BY another
portion of the bank falling in. The plum
from for several days.
FRIGHTFuL LEAP.-A young girl from
Wild Cat Valley, this county, took passage
on a train from Millerstown to go to New
port, on Monday last. When approachin:
the latter place she was seen to leave he
seat, go out on the platform, and before
she could be prevented, leaped therefrom
The train was moving about 20 miles ar
hour, and of course those who saw hel
jump, expected to find her & mangiet
corpse; but to the surprise of all. wher
the employees Of the road ran back tt
where she was lying, they found her able
to get up, having escaped with some severe
Bruises She stated that she had nevel
been in the cars before and that lady bat
told her that this was the place to get of