Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-04-14

HollidaysbuES had Bee last Friday even
lag. ffHI tstH
Exchanges are noticing the close of soup
houses. -.-.f. N.t'.'
sltoona IS to have Bee on Saturday,
the 18th.
Numps is the epidemic now among town
children.
Enos Bergy ia shipping lot Of horses
east this week.
Huntingdon Presbytcry convened at Pert
ROYAL yesterday
Ic.istown had lively Spelling Bee last
tridAy evening in the Court House.
John McMeen shipped q lot of hand Some
and welI-fattenet steers east On Friday.
A troupe OF showlnen ertertained play
socrs in Grsybill'S Hall last Friday evening.
Fifteen hundred pounds of stones are
tcdnired to keep the town clock in runniI 6
order.
i iieiis from which wheat vas taken last
summer, have little grass on them; It sas
killed by .irouth.
Simon zook, of Mifiiin county, lost S6i0
and his pocket book a few days ago while
going home from Lewistown.
Last Friday the Thompson's shipped lot
Of line horses eastward. The horses are
represented as b.ing above the common
run
The question of fire engine or no fire en-
CINE was voted on in Patterson on Monday.
The election WAS carried in iayor Of an
cr.Sine.
A marriage notice in the Lewistown Dem
pcrar last week was headed, "Died." We'd
give a quarter to know what the groom said
when he read the notice.
A fashion writer SAYS or the new bOnucts:
They have hurricahe deck, a bell tower,
signal lights, birds Of paradise, quail,
Welsh rabbits, and flower gardens ad lio.
..To B. or not TO Be.'-There is to be 4
Spelling Bee at Mexico on the evening of
The goth inst. 1t viii &c line sport 10 See
the Bee at work Go down and Be a spec
tailor Of the Spelling Bee.
The attendance at Court next week is ex-
pecied 10 be dni,e large. We should have,
at the lowest figure, no less than eight hun
urod calls du,ing that week. That's
hint. and hope you see it, as the eccen-
tric and good Rev. Mr.. Gruver used TO say.
The town clock Is in complete running
order now. Il Is Delicrcd tlfat many
Watches will be for sale. People say,
'.Nhat's the use of having or carrying
watch when the time of day is sounded in
une's ears every hour during both night
and day %
The Franklin REPOSITORY says Col. W. c.
Midnight, in Antrim township, having sunk
well eighty two feet in the limestone rock
without obtaining water, adopted the meth
cd Of the petroleum miners of exploding a
charge of nitro glycerine at the bottom of
the wei. The result was very gratifying
the rock was shattered and plentiful sup
,ly Of water WAS obtained.
A Lewistown man while among the noun
tains south of that town found al antigua
ted-looking pot, and forthwith took it to
the GdssHe Office, which was the most
proper thing TO do, as it must needs be
written up OF course the editor devoted
ra article TO it, which appeared in last
weeks issue. 1t is the queerest article on
pot-ology we ever real, and is learned
enough to confound all of the potters in
the State. Frysinger Is good or old whole
pottery; how is he on old pottery in pieces
The Democrat aud Register last week di-
rected attention to sales of property by the
Sheriff, and attributes them to be the out
growth of the management of the Republi-
can Administration, just AS If Sheriff s
sales did not take place when the Demo-
cratic party ruled the S tate and nation. If
the readers of that paper can stand that
kind of clap-trap stuff, they are lower in
the scale OF intelligence than We believe
them to be. 1t becomes a question, which
of the two individuals is TO be pitied the
most, the man who writes such paragraph
OF the man who believes it.
A Patterson youth named Jacob Slagle
was arrested last week on a charge of taking
things that belonged to the Railroad Com
psny and appropriating them to his own
use. In default of bail he was sent to Jail i,
where he remained until Sunday evening,
when he succeeded in climbing up the in
side Of the jail. yard wall to the top of the
east side fronting on Third street. He sat
moment there and took IN the situation.
II was about church time, and a number of
people on the psvements in the vicinity saw
him. When satisfied with the bearings he
dropped himself to a frame leaning against
the outside of the wall, and thence to the
sidewalk, and thence ran northward out
Third street and across the Presbyterian
graveyard at q rate of speed that induced
the spectators to believe that he had been
trained for the occasion.
PUBLIC SALE.-Reuoen Caveny, ad-
minIstrator of the estate of Ii. Z.
Graybill. decd, will sell at public sale.
at decedent's late place Of business
in McAlisterville, on Saturday, April
18th, q lot Of new Furniture, shop
tools, patent mortrsing machine, LOT
of dry lumber, aud other articles. Sale
st 10 O'Clock. William Caveny, auc-
tioneer.
For SALE-A comfortable house and
a fertile lot. located nesr the boroue oil