Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-09
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

The ime to cease trout fishing viii be on
tht l5ih inst.
The Sill grove and North Branch Rail-
rond is in sfc.V qTs.
Mifiiu county farmers are experimenting
un Hungarian grass.
s.Ord and didu't," is what Katydid SAYS
these nights in the tree tops.
A number of ladies and gentlemen pic
nicked at Macedonia last Thursday.
On Thursday, the I7th inst the Lutheran
Sabbath School OF this place expect to pc
mic
The Odd Fellows great Centennial Pa
rade will take place in railadelphia Sc. TEN
Der 20.
Alleged crookedness in the Blair county
aims house has led 10 an investigation. No
report yet
The number OF people who fished for
bass has been reduced. Reason-scarcely
any fish are caught.
The Lower House OF Congress has re-
,ealei the resumption act, providing for
gold payn.ent in 1879.
Buy peaches of Smith and Brother, OF
Pleasant Hill Fruit Farm, east OF Meals
tervilie, hear Cooolamus.
One hour and thirteen minutes is the time
IN which the Fast Lire came from Harris
.,lrg TO Mitfiin the other evening.
The Presbyterians of Huntingdon held a
large picnic hast week. Upwards OF live
hundred people were in attendance.
The cornice on the plaster column. of
the Court House seen TO be the fdyorite
place of nest building for the Esglish spar
row.
There is movement on foot TO carve 4
piece out of Texas Tor a new State. She
IS large enough to make half dozen large
States.
Upwards OF five thousand PENNSYLVANIA
iroops--vv encamped sd jacent
10 the Centennial Exhibition grounds at
Philadelphia. f,
The ..Come boss, So boss of the cattle
drover has not been heard this year in these
parts. Few cattle are driven 10 market
nearly all are CARED
Some thirty or Forty young ladies' of New
York city are said to Be :. stage struck"
lis 4 misfortune that they have not taken Il
fancy for something else.
Tilden's letter of acceptance is out. 'Tis
long, but how could it be othtrwise than
long, when il is considered that il was ia
June that he was nominated.
The District Attorney of Blair county
was tried last week for mslfeasance in offi,e.
The jury acquitted him, and required the
prosecutor To pay the costs.
Rev. Steward Banks, assisted Rev. Mr.
Sherrxra ia the administration of the Lord :
Supper on Sabbath, and preached both the
morning and evening sermons
Rev. Da-id Beale, member Of the Beale
family of this county, and now preacher
in Baltimore, Nd, preached in the PreSby-
tvrlan chuich last Friday evening.
A wilkesbare man is forger to the.
amount of two hundred Thousand dollars.
His nanse is Thos. ID. Conyrghim He has
fed to place that bis victims have not yet
found out. .4-.
An ONO man sends ssquartcr'' U this
Office, to be given to the boy who wal calch
HIM pIir oi English spaTrews all express
age and carrying expenses to be paid BY the
citizen of Ohio.
The late meeting of Directors OF the
Selirsgrove and North Branch Railroad,
held at Selinsgrove, resulted in the usual
t;,ik about collecting subscriptions, &c, as
has haS been talked Year aHd more.
The u,ana cement Of Union Cemetery have
appointed next Friday as the day On which
to meet al the Cemetery, with force sliii-
cient to render 10 the grounds snch service
Ms may be necessary to keep them in proper
appearance.
"The Lewisburg, Centre county, and
Spruce Greek Railroad has been leased to
the Pennsylvania Railroad for ninety-nine
years The road is to be completed as lar
as Spring Mills, when work will be suspend
ed until times are better"
ssThe barn of Samuel Young, near Milf
.iinburg, Was struck by lightning IN the
evening, 2eth. and burned 10 the ground
with the entire grain and has crop, and a
reaper. Mr. Young and his hands We're in
the barn when it was struck. and had just
put ia the last load OF hay"
On Tuesday evening Of last week, adaugh-
ter of Mr.. John Zook, Of Fernlanagh town
ship, aged between one and two years,
found its way to trough of water near the
house, and in having its little hands in the
clear water, lost its balance, fell into the
trough, and was drowned.
3arnlm's great moral show is down in
Nova Scotia A few days ago it passed in
parade through the streets of Halifax. The
officers OF a bank in that place, for the mo-
ment forgot themselves, and stepped ont
side of their Office and but a step around
the corner. When they returned, a pile of
nearly SIG 900 of money was gone no one,
but the thief, knows where.
On Thursday last tramp named Timothy
Meyers, while asleep on the bumper of a
freight train, was jostled off onto the track
at Nanayunk station, Miffiin county. The
cars ran over his lett arm, crushing il both
below and above the elbow. He was brought
10 this place, where the arm was amputated
about four inches below the shoulder. Dr.
D. NJ. Crawford performed the operation,
assisted by DIR. Lucian Banks.
Mr.. II. L. Reynolds, of this borough,
informs US that he captured and killed 3T,-
s44 potato bugs this summer, BY actual
count. Mr.. VIM. A. Sponsler contracted
to pay him 20 cents per thousand for all he
could pick of his tvo potato patches, one
IN his town lot and the other on his farm at
the head of town. Harry kept account OF all
nepicked, with the above result .-Bioomfsid
Tir1ss.