Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-04-25
r2C.iL TETELLIGEACE.


N4y-day parties.
Cleaning cellars.
Blooming flowers.
The chimney swallow.
shovel and hoe in the garden.
Harrisburg papers advertise a circus.
sucker catching was brisk during the late
FIilS.
Rain last Wednesday, the first of the
.onth.
The martis has cGme-a sure haTbinger
o. sumner.
Roaches-Pulverized borax, It is said,
vii drive them.
The constable of Tyrone is to have a reg
u.a;ion uniform.
arbitraiors get two dollars day under a
rceni enactment.
The iirst thunder Of the season was heard
Il4 thursday evening.
Sassairas bushes, if placed in a hen roost,
vi drive away chicken lice.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lectered in
Altoona on Monday evening.
A nauber of the Sab5a,h-schools OF Har-
r;stzrs bold monthly sociables.
The farorite dish OF Huntingdon pro-
fe,sional trapper is musk-rat flesh.
An abortion case is on the books FOR the
r-,i term OF court in Blair county
4 thief stole cloverseed from the gransry
il David MoisJ's barn, near this town.
J.B. 8r4;ton has sold the Carlisle Volun-
ter 10 Samuel NJ. Wherry. of Cumberland
c~faIy.
Tomatoes in the Harrisburg market at 30
rrsis hee, ;Ae box containing six or eight
tathItOes.
thirty thousand dollar palace car is in
the course of construction an the Altoous
car shops.
serchan; tailor Lcus.on has NOV ed his
Illce OF business. to a room in the acNeen
b-;dus on Bridge street.
The sacrament Of the Lnri's Supper will
J4 administered in Rev. Mr.. Berry's church
aexi Sabbath week, May 9th.
John Hildebrand. the oldest citizen in
Huntingdon, died last week. He was be-
tween 90 and 100 years or age.
lHhAling steam from the spout of a tea
kettle nearly took the life of George Shu-
CART, Of Huntingdon csunty. recently.
L.bsnoa county wifi be repres ented in the
Republican tate Convention by T I. Worth,
Nm Kaufman and Thomas Walker.
The fashionable hat for lady for the
COMING summer is said to vary in size Of
top, somewhere between 4 parasol and an
umbrella.
A ..seyen-years,' whose father had lost a
limb in the war, on hearing that all in hea-
ven we're perfect, asked: "Pa, when you
sie sill you have two legsi'
The people of Boston never say Have
v0z zteer 20 the revival 2" They inquire
-hsye - -s-ah-been in attendance upon
iae-a-4b-tie awakening 3''-Erchange.
FrancIscds. the iewistovn hardware man.
has established q powder magazine two
niles irom Le-isiosn. He is determined
that if an explosion takes plsce it shall not
harm Lewist0wn.
Boss Tweed is about to make himself even
by revealing all of the ring secrets, how
fraudulent claims, &c, were set up te pass
The auditors, through which millions OF dol
lars were stolen from New York city.
"a young lady in East Baltimore has drs-
cstied a constant lover of seven years be-
cause he Inadvertently remarked last SUM-
day night that she dfi not lock 80 young Is
when he first met her."
81 am afraid it is mixed goods" said the
LADY to the clerk. "Oh, no, madam, I'M
POSSIBLE replied the polite gentleman, "ai
our camel's hair shawis are made OF pure
silk direct from the worm"
"During the past week over three-quar
ters Of a million dollars worth of goods
were exported from Philadelphia TO foreigr
countries. Chief among these exports wer'
bacon, beef, tallow, lard, petroleum, lea
tobacco, oil cake, cotton ana bones"
Mrs. A. Mccoy, of Altoona was a gues
IN the Southern Hotel in St Louis the nigh
that ii was destroyed by fire. She got ou
OF her room on the fourth floor to the hal
and there tainted, but was rescued by tn
fremen.
E'The Globe Hotel, al the Centennia
grounds, the construction of which cos
two hundred thousand dollars, was sold a
auction last week for SS,375. The build
ing, which contained the largest soda wate
fountain in the world, and which cost twelv'
thousand dollars, was knocked down TO
SlI5. The furniture of the hotel sold for I
song. One hundred and twenty-six suit
OF walnut chamber furniture brought price
varying from ten TO twenty dollars set. !"
A drunken man or q crazy man, nance
William Haskins, arrived in Altoona ol
Friday a week, and on the next day, in wan
dering about the city, stabbed J. G. KnePl
and John Courtney, citizens Of the town
without receiving any provocation on thel
part. The assault created an intense ex
element, which resulted in the effort t
capture the crazy man. The capture wa
only effected after stoning, shooting an
clubbing the fellow till he fell senseless
de would not surreader- He was sent Z
jail, where his wounds we're dressed. Hl
victims were severely, but it is hoped no
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