Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-07
LOC.iL INTELLIGEACE.

They say the ground hog knows.
Don't forget Eli Perkins lecture
Not stormy, but gentle march thus far.
Cambria county has a 6ve-legged sheep.
Port Royal has organized fishing club.
sho;es sell at profitable figures this spring.
Sunshine and warbling birds on Saturday.
Gusts of wind aud strcaks of sunshine on
Sabbath.
Governor Hayes was ihaugurated as Pres
iaen: on Monday.
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,-ew:st0wn is not in ecstacies over the
,octure Of the Da2bury Nsrs man.
4 Huntingdon county furnace company
is having "A 600 cords of wood cut.
Sucker fishing has been lively business
at the Millerstown dam this spring.
Men whose railroad stock subscriptions
cave not been paid cannot vote for officers.
Ell Perkins will lecture in GraybiIl's Hall
Un Tresddy evening, March l3.
Ihe man who denies a Democrat a good
substantial growl is less than human.-Cin-
cinRqti E.qGnsr
Tie fashionable way is not to say. they
have been married, but to say, they have
been nupualated.
Philadelphia Markets. - Wheat sl.52,
Oats S3toSsc, Corn S7to45c, CIoverseed Is
.yl5e, Cattle 4to6c, Sheep 4to6c
The Republicans of Blair county last
zeek adopted the Crawford County System
OF nominating candidates for office.
The Lutheran cougregatiO of this place
y.li hold sociabe at the Parsonage of the
Pastor, Rev. E. Z. Berry, on Wednesday
evening, at 4 O'Clock.
Subscribe ior the Seniiurl and Republican,,
4 paper that gives you gre alter variety, and
brt;er selection of reading matter than any
other papor in the Junista Valley.
You viii want to hear Eli Perkins lecture.
The Lewistown Seafinel says: 3S3 per-
sons have supped soup at the Soup Houses
2S3 quarts of soup and lSl loaves Of bread
being d ,tributed for the week ending Feb
ruary a.
John 1. Hawk, of Patterson, has a male
and female bear, captured on Shade Noun
tain. Iii you wish 10 60 into the cultivation
or rearing of bears, no better opportunity
viii ever present itself.
There is bill on its passage through the
Legislature, the intention of which is to
prohibit stock gambling. The brokers say
the chief effect will be to centralize the
business more in New York.
The business of the country viii move on
since the Pres Identlsl question has been
seitied in favor of peace and order, and
within TIE next four years may be expected
70 greatly improve from the present depres-
sion.
The Oil CITY Derrick says: When a man
without cash OF credit attempts TO leave a
hotel. and lowers his valise out of a back
window by means Of rope, it makes charity
seem cold to hear the voice OF tie land
lord below, yelling up: ''Ah rigbi-Fve got
the valise; let 60 the rope"
alt was a refreshing variation from the
general run of speeches at temperance
meetings when a man got up in Pittsburg
the other day and remarked: &c Ladies and
gentlemen. TO bring my nose TO this state OF
blooming perfection has cost me, at the
least calculation, Sl0,OO0."
The fire that broke out in the Juniata
Valley House il Milerstown, Perry county,
On SUNDAY evening, the 25th ult, was not
eati-eiy outened, as was believed. About
O'Clock on the following Tuesday morn
ing the fire broke out anew, and entirely
consumed the building.
There is a bill on its passage through the
Legislature that provides for the abandon
ment Of certain canals in this Common
wealth. Within the past few days petitions
have been circulated for signers, asking the
Legislature not 10 include the Juniata canal
ia the abandonment.
The Presbyterian congregation, that as
sembled in the capacity of s'sociable" at
the parsonage of the Pastor, Rev. T. J.
Sherrard, on Tuesday evening week, was
a large one, and crowded the rooms to a
degree seldom reached BY sociables. The
general criticism that is heard after nearly
thas 81.
much extravaganza in preparation and ex-
penditure, in edibles and general makeup,
was not applicable to this sociable. The
whole of it from beginning to end was in
perfect keeping with the plainness and solid
ity that characterIzes Presbyterian con-
gregations everywhere.
Last Wednesday morning hot ashes were
taken out of a stove in the house of Mr..
Jonathan Mccoy, who resides at the hrst
lock north of town. The ashes were put
into coal bucket; the bucket was put un-
der bench close up against the weather
boarding on the back porch. About dark
on Wednesday smoke was smelled in the
house. The family were quite uneasy.
They had vague understanding that fire
smouldered somewhere in the building, but
search that lasted till after midnight allied
to find if. About O'Clock all lay down TO
sleep. About O'Clock the fire broke out
in sleeping room occupied by portion of
the family. The alarm was given. Neigh
bors rushed to the rescue with buckets and
water, and. most remarkable 10 relate. the
house was saved from destruction.