Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-01-03
LocsL iSFELLfGEACE.

There were number of handsome Christ
mas trees throughout the town.
The ice crop is abundant and Of fine quail
ity, and dealers have filed their houses.
, II Won want TO hire good driving team,
go to Todd. Prices to suit the times.
Tbe Legislature of Pennsylvania as
eeubled yesterday at noon, at Harris
burg.
On Sunday week twelve people were
admitted TO membership in the Lutheran
church. ts ..-
Nine new members were admitted to the
N ethodist church last Sunday evening a
week. -..-..--.
W. C. Mall, a clerk in the Pittsburg post
oifice, is deiaulter. swine and wOmen,"
it Is said, led TO his ruin.
Mr.. James North, distributed one hun :
drsd dollars among those in slaughtered
circumstances, on Christmas day.
a shooting match for turkeys was psrti-
cibated in By marksmen in Patterson on
New Year day.
Philadelphia a.rkets.-w Wheat sl.5Otel.
55, Oats SstJ4lc, Corn 55a6lc, Cloyerseed
lsc per pound.
The old year was toIled out, and the new
wear was ruEg in BY bells, when the old year
and the new year babe each other good-by,
last Monday morning.
A .'watch-,neeting' was conducted last
Ssbblrh night I'LL midnight, in the Metho-
dist church, by the Rev. Mr.. Sherlock.
90 to Todd if you want cheap Over
coat or pair of the best quality OF Boets.
GA the Ilth inst, at O'Clock, the stock
holders Of the Riverside Park Agricultural
Association viii uieet at the Office of the
socletr. A fu,i attendance is desirable
When people talk of chickens now, they
say it is no wonder the chicken market is
duH. There are few Democrats who dare
look rsvs;s. s4i4rely in the face.
4 number OF Congccssmen are complain
ing ghlt letters seat to them have been
opened by certain pcst-masters. Put the
man out who does sucn dirty work. He's
thief.
Tie children who attend the schools
taught by Miss Lizzie Deem, and Miss Lizzie
Loudon, we're delighted with the home
Christmas entertainment given them by
their teachers.
A g..- A.. 40 n,,.aI S.orfrsr Of Cadar
Springs, slaughtered two hogs that weighed
in the aggreg ate, when cleaned, ll9l lbs.
They were only eighteen months old. Who
can beat that?
Ex- Sheriff Knouse still occupies the Jail.
II he would engage in business in town, OF
become permanent resident of the place
the accession would be good one. lie is
aworthy citizen.
Moody has found girl in Chicago sixteen
years old, aud ordinarily intelligent, who
had nesc5 heard the name of Christ except
in profanity and who had no idea Of who
He was.
The annual election for President and
nine Directors for the SelinsgrOve & North
Branch Railroad Company will be held at
the Keystone hotel, IN Sclinsgrove, Janu
ary 10th, 1877, at 2 o'clock.
The Sheriff elect, W. d. Walls, was reg
ularIy installed into Office on New Year day.
We have not the pleasure Of personal ac-
quaintance with Mr.. Walls. All who enjoy
his acquaintance speak well of him.
Major Gen. John P. Bankson, a promi-
nent merchant of Philadelphia, and com
mander First Division National Guard of
Pennsylvania, committed suicide on the
9th, at the office of the Harris dstilling
company III Philadelphia.
J. B. n. Todd has four one-horse sleighs
and one two-horse sleigh for sale. Price,
s. 10 SIS, in exchange for cash or railroad
ties, &c.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Presbyterian
Church of Miffiintown, held their sec
ond anniversary meeting in the Pres
byteriap church last Sabbath evening.
One of the prisoners in jail on the charge
of robbing AcAlister's store, unscrewed
the lock of his cell door in the Jail, and
made Lis way to the jail-yard, the wall of
which he scaled by means of ladder, made
OF his bed-clothing, and is now at large.
List Monday the newly elected Register
and Recorder, L. d. Musser, Esq.,, was in
stalled into Office. Mr.. Musser is a young
man of pleasant manners ard good business
qualifications, and in all probability will be
quite an acceptable officer.
II is not only bad taste to threaten war,
as the only remedy by rhich to settle the
election troubles, but it is the next thing to
criminal offence, or it should be. 1t should
be as much criminal offence to threaten
the life of a nation By organized effort, as
il is for one individual to threaten the life
Of another individual with whom he has a
misunderstanding. a nation is an sggre-
gated Notwithstanding more.
Hr. John Kennedy and Mr.. Rhoads viii
be At Iiiiif!intown on Saturday, January
oh. and Monday, January sur 1877, Nc
Alistervilie, Tuesday, January 9Th; Millers-
town, "Wednesday, January 10th; Port
ROYAL, Thursday, January llfh; Mccoy
town, Friday, January l2ih, for the purpose
OF buying horses. Farmers and others who
have horses for sale will please bring them
10 the above named places on the above