Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-07
The End of BOOSTERS Tilden and
Hendricks in Tusoarnra Valley.

Hendricks in Tusoarora Valley.
Since the November election Rev. Mr..
Olewein, Methodist clergyman serving the
Port Royal Circuit presented Mr.. Daniel
Conn, one of his psrishioners, with a pair
of splendid roosters, with the understand
ing that the one was to be permanently
named Tilden and the other Hendricks.
The birds or fowls enjoyed themselves high
ly in their new home, but time of sad ca
lamity came. Hendricks was the first TO
yield to the decree of fate; it came in this
way: The rooster OF the name Just men,
TONED, but short time since few onto the
chime of an open barrel that stood on end.
The place seemed to exalt the bird. and he
walked around on the brim proudly, but By
an unguarded step he lost his balance and
fell down into the barrel and broke his neck.
The fatal accident did not seem TO affect
TIlden. His strut was as full of pride as
II his companion still divided the attention
and admiration Of all the henery. Last
week, however, swift-footed fate came along
and claimed him too as one of her victims.
He had become predatory in his inclina-
tons. Indeed he had become predatory in
his habits, and when the whim seized him
would hie away to his masters corn-crib
and steal corn from il, through the crevices.
While on an expedition of that kind, last
week. he got his head into a crack, turned
his head too far TO one side, aud, in the
effort to exiricate his enjangeie ed head,
hanged himself b, the neck till he was dead.
so short and inslorious was the end of
roosrers Tildsn and Hendricks, in Tuscarora
Valley.
1t is reported that the election of officers
for the Selinsgrove and North Branch Rail-
road Company will take place at Richied
on Tuesday, March 18th. Interested parties
should see 10 1t that there is no combini-
ton 10 unite Offices in one man Not long
since the directors of the road talked of for
Tuscarora Valley made the gre IT mistake of
uniting the Offices Of Treasurer and Secre-
tary in one membei of the company. A
combination of two such offices In one mem-
Der OF the company is quite objectionable.
The people who hold an election at Rich
field on the 18th inst, should not fall into
the same radical error. Confidence is need
ed, hut combination of Offices such as
have the power to handle the funds and TO
make out such statements as suit their
purposes destroys confidence.
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Eli Perkins, the great American humor-
ist, will lecture in GraybIll's Hall, on the
evening OF the 18th of this month. If Eli
comes up to half his usual manner of enter
tainment, on the aforesaid ey ening, rich,
humorous and intellectual treat will be rem
dered TO the inhabitants of this ancient vii
age.
Subject-Just what it is to be, Mr.. Per-
k;ns has not said, but he foreshadows, and
If the foreshadowing is not withdrawn and
some other good subject substituted, it will
be on the antiquity of things generally and
the pedigree of Mifflntown institutions and
people particularly. He processes to have
an enlarged knowledge Of the institutions,
and people OF the place, and 4 definite ac-
qusintsnce with the physical formation of
the JunIlta region. La his letter to the
Lecture Commit &C he tells few things,
of which the following Is specimen:
81 remember Mifflintown when on a visit
to that county, in the year 800. J. W.
Speedy, Of T'ae Independent, wa, then fair
haired boy, innocent, and blithesome, and
emigrated from Germany, where he left
beautiful, wife aud l3O small children.
"Fifty years afterwards came Messrs.
BoLsall & Jackman, from ireland, snug
Cling over the Democrat and Register office
in Saratoga trunk to avoid paying duty.
The Juniata river, if remember rightly,
was named after the Janiata Sentinel. IL
was established about 200 years before the
river existed The channel of that historic
stream was dug out by the earliest ihhabi-
tants tor express purposes. The story that
Scbweier found Post Master Books in the
Post 0fiice when he came to that town is
not true"
The Lecture will be rich, rare and racy.
Price of admission 35 cents, Reserved seats
so cents. Children half price,