Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-16
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

There is to be : new music store in town.
There is talk of Port Royal having q
newspaper
"ELprnBrRRY bushes" are presenting
their leaves 10 right.
Court was well attended during The mid
die days of last week.
BLrE birds, Robins and Shad-aes put in
a. appearance last Saturday.
Narysv:iie, Perry county, is enjoying the
Blessings of religious revival meeting.
There is bill in the Legislature that pro-
yides for stay law of two years duration.
If you want to buy your goods at city
prices go 10 TOdd's cash store. Cash win
tell.
Rev. Mr.. Pridesux preached in the Pres
by;.rian church last Sunday at McAlistsr-
vile.
r is currently reported that the town of
Huntingdon has five hundred msn out of
employment.
There is more legal business now trans
acted in Juniata thas at any previous time
in the history OF the county.
What's got the matter with Altoona
Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tilton
will lecture in that place in March.
JupGE Rowe, president Judge of Frank
lin county, was in town last wers, and sat
on the bench in several cases for Judge
Junkin.
A number of States have bills in their
Legislatures, that viii doubtless be passed,
that will greatly tend TO break up the ''tramp
business"
An incendia-y Ere occurred at Altoona
on the Sth inst, the planning mill OF William
Stokes and a public school building were
destroyed.
The mail carrier between Lewistown post
Office and the railroad station opposite that
plsc., has been arrested for robbing the
mails.
G.. W. Cribs has purchased 10, Of
ground of e1-Sheriff London, bordering on
" haSliugtO1 street, &c " q
dwelling house on it next summer.
Philadelphia Markets-Wheat sl30tol.
40; Corn 55to60c Oats 47to50c. Whisky,
iron-bound, SILL Cattle 4toIic per ID,
gross; Sheep, i.tO7c psr lb; Hogs lltsi2ac
per ID net.
A reformed actor who claimed conversion
from the ways of sin to the ways Of light
during the Hammond revival meetings al
Harrisburg, has since been arrested on the
charge OF forgery
John Campbell, who has been confined in
Jail within one month of two years for con-
tempt Of Court, in that he refused to Pay
costs. was released on Saturday BY action
OF the grand jury.
The barn of John Rupp, not far from Me-
chsnicsburg. Cumberland county, was de-
s.royed BY fire last Friday night about lC
O'Clock. Five head of cattle perished in
the flames. Insurance $500.
Miss Barbara EurtE died at Mil.erstown,
Perry county. on Sunday, February 9th
aged 50 years, 6 months and day. She wa
one of family of l9 children, and former
ly lived at Rast Salem, this county.
IL; is said that Virginia man, who has
lately ha. dellrium tremens, saw angels In
s.esd OF snakes, and now all the saloons II
the place where he lives are fighting ove'
III, honor of having sold him the whisky.
Manv people predict no fruit this season
They say the buds have been so greatly ex
banded by the late Spring-'iSe weather tn a
when the next cold spell comes, the frui
germ cannot help eeing killed by the frost
The State superintendent desires eacl
School board in the Commonwealth TO Civ
five dollars to fund for Centennial pur
poses in the interest of the Common Scoo
Department, which expects to be rePresen
:ed al the Exhibition.
When Judge Rowe was IN town Last weel
many of the citizen soldiers, who serve'
under him in Companies F and /, unde
Captains Martin and Wharton when he wa
Colonel of the Regiment to which they be
longed, called on him.
Two mar, elous dreams are recorded by
Buffalo, N. Y, paper thus: "a man in tow
dreamed that he was going over ths falls
and be had his wife by the throat when h
woke up. Next night she lad dream, AM
broke his nose as she struck at an Indian
The County Commissioners of Nor,hum
berland county have been on tour to cour
ties that have recently built new jails, Wit
the object of becoming acquainted with tn
most convenient plan for building of th'
kind. They expect to build jail for Hortf
umberland county
An exchange says: The Greentsck Ciu
in Sharon. Pa, consists of about 600 men
bers, and the list is daily growing larger.-
The pity is the object of the club is not ST;
ted. Do they take, Do they make, DO the
buy, Do the sell, or what do they propo'
on the Greenback question:
A Frenchman tells the following to prov
what there is in traps for birds. and jewelI
for women, TO Frenchman sswho had pu
chased q country seat and was complainir
Of the want of birds in his garden. "S
some traps" replied an officer, ''and hey
come. l was once in Africa, and ther
wasn't supposed to be woman within tw
hundred miles, hung pair Of earring
and . bracelet upon tree, and the ne,
morning I found two women under Il
branches.