Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-21
LOCAL. INTELLIGENCE.

LOCI, INTELLIGENCE.
People arc beginning to talk about the
Fair.
Huntingdon enjoyed tin wedding last
week.
Beaver county is to have new court
house.
Sriter says the duIlest luxury now is
natrimony.
New cutters are being laid along South
Water street.
tie large tannery at Lewistown is to have
an artesian we'll
Bloomfield people cultivate the Italian
bee, extensively.
The NEST saturaiing rain of the simmer
fel last Thursday night.
couple were married in the Holidays
burg Jail few days ago
The price of large sbull-frogs" was 80
cents last Week, in town.
rattlesnake was killed in a Lewistown
garden, on Third street, last week.
lancaster is advertising for 4 contractor
TO enlarge the reservoir of that city.
There is a mental view of the world, that
place, fashion and gold can never reach.
Mrs Belford has had board walk put
down along her lot fronting East Point.
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10 Macedonia TO picnic last Friday after
noon.
The Republican party in Huntingdon
county, SO long diyiied into factions, have
united.
There was wreck of freight train, at
Baley's station, in Perry county, on Satur-
day evening.
Exchange papers from different parts OF
the State report the wheat harvest as .'rea-
sonably good"
Samuel ". Miller, of Huntingdon, passed
the examination for an appointment TO
c-tletship at West Point.
The bureau drawer of a Middletown, Dau-
lLln was fObpSu sOhncu .
ago of $500 in greenbacks.
Grain quotations ON Monday in Philadel-
phis were as follows: Wheat 81 .35tol.3s /
Corn 8jtoS.c Oats 60tc64c.
Unexpectedly, and Be thc great delight of
ever. body, the potato bug has almost de-
Iar;ed-Only few stragglers remain.
Abraham Will cut grass and made hay in
the Park, on the terms that the Park Asso-
citation receive two loads ana he one load.
Harrisburg fishermen are talking about a
four-pound shad that was caught with a
hook and line in the river at that place a
few days ago.
Abram Kauff'man's house, near Manayunk,
Mffin county, was destroyed by fire SOME
DAYS ago. stove pipe through porch
roof kind.ed the fire.
The Juniata Base Ball Club of this place
propose TO make tour of the eastern
counties of this S tate. Thev viii start on
the tour sometime during the first week in
August.
son of DIR. Geo. S. hemble, formerly Of
Mitfiinburg, coughed up live leech the
other day-supposed to have been s'taken
in'' while in swimming.
''The irst step toward greatness is to be
honest, says the proverb; but the proverb
fails to state the case strong enough. Hon
esty is not only the first step toward great
ness, it is greatness itself"
People in these parts are expecting a
cheering yield of potatoes this fall, the
rains so necessary TO their development
having come, and the bugs so competent to
their destruction having gone.
Rev. Joseph Mathers, native Of this
place, son of Hon. James Msthers, de-
ceased, wa. IN town last week among hii
friends few days. Mr.. Mathers breaches
at Bells Mills, Blair county.
Samuel Grier's house in Rye township,
Perry county, was struck by lightning a few
days ago, and pile of rags on the garrei
was set on fire. The fire was put ont be-
fore much damage to the house was done.
A colored man stole horse in Hunting
don county last week, and got down to Nit
Hin county with the beast, but no further.
Sheriff Muthersbaugh brought the law to
bear on the fellow, caught him, and sent
him back TO Huntington.
The Democratic candidates for Office as
announced in this county are: Jacob Bel
dler for Prothonotary, John N. Howe and
John W. Kirk for Treasurer, James Nc
Laughlin for Commissioner, Alfred J. Pat
terson for District Attorney.
Last Thursday the Presbyterian congre-
CATION at this place voted on the question
of choosing pastor. Rev. T. J. Sherrard
was the only minister before the congrega-
ton for their suffrage The vote he re-
ceived was large majority of those present.
Rev. r. NJ. Wallace, OF Altoona-who o
preached in the Presbyterian church in this
Place not long since hile in the railroad
depot at Philadelphia. some days ago pu;
his satchel down and went out 10 take a
lunch When he returned, il was not there.
II contained clothing to the amount of about
so, and sermons.
In many places ladies are learning TO
swim, and bathing in streams is becoming
common, and why shouldn't theyi In
Pottstown, this State, they have taken hold
of the exercise with will. The Ledger of
that place says: s Down town ladies fire.
qaently bathe in the evening in the Schuyl-
XIII, using for bathing suits the uniforms of