Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-13

Cool on Monda. morning
The shad season ends on the 18TH
Beef cattle are scarce in this county.
Corn and oats are promising in their ap-
pearaDce.
The fire cracker nuisance is Being abol-
ished IN many towns.
Huntingdon has large bar; thirty-two
is the number of its lawyers.
Politicians predict brisk political CAM
paign in Ohio the coming fall.
The vegetable kingdom was greatly re-
freshed by the rains of last week.
The Harrisburg Telegraph is writing right
smartly against the church door gswks.
What killed the dead catfish that have
been sfioat in the river these many daysl
Saturday, June 23d, will be Sunday
school day at the Permanent Exhibition.
wanted-6, 3, 10, or dozen stock cat
tie. For further information call at this
U.hce.
Officer Wilson has been enforcing the
borough law as to the empounding of hogs
at lar rge.
Sleeping directly under the light of the
moon produces melancholy and sometimes
insanity.
Passenger rates from Chicago to Phiia-
delphia have been lowered to $l4 and Bal
tirnore sic.
The report prevails that the efforts to
brig about peace between Turkey and
Russia have failed.
Since the election of President Hayes
the premiuH on United States secures has
advanced considerably.
A feature of church festival to be held
at Harrisburg, will be baby show. They
ought to draw crowd.
Those whe we're so positive in their pre-
dictions of large wheat crop, now See
"what the harvest will be-"
"West Chester's borough tax is increased
from to ~ mills, but assessments are
much lower than heretofore"
Philadelphia Markets - Wheat. Sl-9O to
2.05, Corn 5Sto6Oc, Oats 45;o5Oc, Cattle ac-
tive, Sheep higher, Hogs dull.
The salary u the Presiding Elder of the
NE. church, for the Juniata district, has
been fixed at 50 900 Per snnun.
The Huntingdon Moaifor asks, 'Who re-
members of it raining twenty-one days In
succession in the year 1885 ~
The Normal School, and the private
schools in the borough viii all be closed, ty
expiration of term, in few days.
The Independents and the Democrats de-
clare that the Democracy will elect their
ticket in Pennsylvania the coming fall.
The Union Sabbath-School in Patterson
viii hold a festival on the evenings of the
i4th. 18th and 10th of June, this week.
The desire for manufacturing establish
nIeuts is still on the increase in Hunting
don. The latest enterprise Is soap manu-
factory.
Bonsall, Of the Register, was TO McA'is-
tcryille and saw the four-legged chicken.
de saws the fowl il fact, just as repre-
sented.
Sweeny, one of boss Tweed's ring job
bers, goes Scott clear by paying to the city
Of New FORK the sun of four hundred
thousand dollars.
Iii is well to leave something for those
who come after u.s." as a man said when he
threw barrel in the way Of constable
who was chasing him.
"At a recent Sheriffrs sale in Blacklick
township, Cambria county, so logs of pine
timber were sold at one cent piece. Cows
were sold as low as So"
A new time table for the running Of Pas
ssnger trains, has been put into operation
within a few days. See corrected table
elsewhere in this issue.
They have been sbowering their respects
SO rapidly on ex-President Grant siLce his
arrival in England that he has not yet had
time to visit his daughter.
McAlisterville and vicinity was visited by
heavy rain on Tuesday week, that washed
large quantities of good soil out of corn
fields and other plougted fields.
If every farmer will prevent the hunting
and shooting of partridges during the 9 hunt
ing season. this year, the partridge will be-
come as numerous as in years gone by.
aThe Philadelphia Bulletin wants baby
shows discouraged, as their tendency is per-
hicious and hurtful. Is it possible that the
Bulletin man is a crusty old bachelor l''
A merchant asked his Sabbath-school
class the other Sunday, "What is solitude ~
and was answered by boy who reads the
papers. ssThe store that don't advertise"
a party of gentlemen from Wrightsviile,
this State, are prospecting for gold in the
vicinity of that town. The indications of
the presence of that much sought for metal
are said to be good.
Last Sabbath morning Mrs. Benjamin
Weidman, residing near Vanwert, Walker
township, while walking through her yard
stepped on wet grass, or sod, slipped, fell,
and thereby broke thigh-bone.
The damaged boardwalk across the canal
bridge on the north side, which was the
cause of exciting the convivial portion Of
the population to an unusual activity of
speech and effort at composition, has been
repaired, and now nothing short of herd
of elephants are in danger Of breaking
through