Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-22
local INTELLIGENCE.

Christmas next Saturday
The river has been frozen over in many
places.
merry Christmas and happy New
Year to all.
And now rejoice, the shortest day of the
year is past.
Chester county has had twelve murders
within four years.
Levi Goshen is putting up heuse on
South Third Street.
Horningtown Sunday School is preparing
To decorate a Christmas Tree on Friday
eFening.
Abraham Guss, Jr., of Milford township,
has choice chcsrru, rails fer sale.
Go sse The Christmas Tree, in the Lu,h-
Gran Church on Christmas evening.
Carlisle has steer that weighs 5000 lbs.
His owner. expect to take hina to the Gen.
tcnnial.
The NJ. E. Sunday School will hold a
Jubilee and decorate their Christmas Tree
on Christmas eve.
A number of wild dogs, that escaped
shooting last summer, are roaming about in
the vicinity of town.
Muddy Run school House took fire from
The stove-pipe la-t Fr;dsy at noon. A boy
a scholar-put the fire cut.
The Lutheran Sunday School Christm rs
Jubilee will take place on the evening Of
Christmas day Instead OF on Christmas eve.
Wheat fields, or fields of wheat impress
one unfavorably now. The late severe
weather is the cause OF the unfavorable ap-
pearance.
The finest favored Candies, and hand
tomest Toys for Holiday presents are to be
found among the large stock that Books
has just received from the city.
A buggy and two-horse wagon collied
on Main street last Monday. The wagon
came oui Of tie cs.lision all right. The
tusgy came ont with broken axle tree.
phladelphia Grain Market.-Wheat sl-2o
,uI.4a. Corn, old, &c; new 5Sto64c.-
Ercs 2OtoS2c Butter 2sto34c- Cattle 3to
SC per ID, gross; Hogs I0atollac per ID.
Sheep i:icasc yer ib-
The Penn.yivau,a Railrced Company will
i.sre excursion tickets for the Holiday sea-
son. commencing the issue on the I'D inst,
and continuing the same every day there
after until the lst day of January, 1876.
Thieves went through Dundore's Stove
and Tinware Store some nights ago. They
gained an entrance By the front doar to the
cellar, and left the building BY the back
door of the store room. Some eighty
ce.ts were stolen out of a drawer.
During the storm on Monday week straw
stack was blown over By the wind, on the
farm Of Mr.. Savorrow Miller, about two
- miles north Of Oriental, this county, cover
ing up a valuable COW, which MAS sinothcred
b.fore She could be ex,ricated.
The weather reporter has not stated o.
announced a longer period Of wind thai
that which prevailed, well say from las
SATURDAY back into the past an indefinite
rpmb.r of days. Who said s il will snow
after the wind falls"i That rules out an
other weather prophet. A thaw sci IN oil
TUESDAY night.
An exchange sayss As the season 10
wearing over-shoes is at hand, the follow
ing recipe for mending rubb-rs viii Prov
timely and be worth inserting in your mem
orandum book: To mend rubber boots, Gu
up some pure rubber in very small piece
and dissolve in benzine. Put patch o
rubber over the place to be mended. an
stick il fast with the solution.
aThose of our readers who visit Phiis
delphla should 60 and see the Great Cioth
ing Emporium OF Wanamaker Brown
corner Of Sixth and Market streets. Ii
worth a visit. If you wish suit Of clothes
Won can save the amount of your fare
tuyins il there. 1t is probably the mos
complete clothing establishment in IN
world. Goods can be returned (if unworn
and money refunded.
Tho Lewistown Gasefts says " The Mi
fiintown Sentinel says Colonel Alexander
Lewistown was in attendance at coul
there" The Gazsffe is hereby iniorme
that the Sentinel published nothing col
cerning Colonel Alexander or any oth'
Alexander, and would suggest that the ed
tor of the Gareffs put on his spectacles ii
next time he reads proof, SO that he pu
the right name. in the right places.
We are informed by the Commissions
that the Court House expenses, includii
the expenses attending the building of Il
house on the northeast corner Of Cou
House square, will not quite amount
sixty-one thousand dollars CSC ,00O). II
next Auditors Report will doubtless
fully itemized. Many Democrats and r
publicans predicted that the expenses wou
run up to one hundred thousand dollar
1t rs qualification to know that their es
culation was not correct, and that so SUE
outrage was perpctratcd-