Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-05
LOCAL. INTELLIGENCE.

Christmas comes on TUESDAY.
Have you an .sunholy alliance ~
The attendance at Court is not large.
Winter weather for certain on Friday.
Thanksgiving day was cool and bracing.
The children talk of the coming of Santa
Claus.
Snow on the mountains on Thursday
morning.
The thermometer was down to 20 on Mon-
day morning.
oh, the beautiful. beautiful. ah yes, i,
hasn't come yet.
To relievs cold, drink hot lemonade
So says an exchange.
The town presented quite Sunday like
appearance on Thursday.
If you want the best and cheapest cloth
ing, go TO Todd's. overcoats at $500.
The meeting in the Evangelic church in
Patterson progresses Sith unabated interest.
A slight-of-hand performer exhibited in
town on Saturday evening to a slim audi
ence.
How does il come that Thanksgiving and
Easter always are accompanied by cold
weather
Philadelphia Msrkets.-Wheat $l.40tol.
AZ; Corn 6lto66c; Oats S5to40c Dressed
hogs S6to6.50.
A Harrisburg man named Charles A. Lea,
~as arrested for setting fire to the st. Law
renee hotel in Altoona.
Thanksgiving services in the N. E.
church, with Rev. E. E. Berry in the pulpit,
vas well attended on Thursday.
The abundance of wild turkeys has de-
veloped number Of successful turkey
hunters among our amateur sportsmen.
During the prevalence of the late rain,
great damage was done to house roofs, and
fcuces, in Snyder county, in the vicinity of
Selinsgrove.
You can understand how far Mexico is
behInd the age, when told that they still
burn people Tor the SOC allied crime of witch
craft in that country.
L, is reported that first quality of glass
sand has been found in the ricinityof Reeds
Gap, this county; also, that copper oar has
been found on the Tuscarora mountain.
A bsshful young man, while out driving
with his girl On Thanksgiving day, had to
- t1,.i-ia hpSlta-
,ingly explained that " the animals hustle
had come loose"
The cold weather gave the town clock
heavy cold on Friday night, so heavy that
it fell behind with its time several hours by
Saturday morning. The clock was brought
20 time by 10 o'clock.
A national dog show and a national cat
show were held in Philadelphia last week.
But that is nothing; once, in Egypt, the
national religion had a cat for its chief
deity. That was cat religion.
"What the harvest will be-" is beyond
the ken or knowledge Of men, but not with
in the dozen years just past has The growing
at this time in the year as now
J.B n. Todd viii exchange Sewing Ma
chimes for q few horses, if brought in SO on
Thaddeus Zimmerman, Of Thompson
town, had two hogs killed last Thursday,
which weighed, net, respectively 452 lbs,
and 434 lbs, aggregate weight SOB IDS
Whose hogs will send the beam to higher
figures
Obser, ing people in towns where baby
shows have been held, allege that the shows
have a marked effect on bachelors. Many
bachelor marriages follow each exhib:uon.
How would it do TO hold baby show. In
this place
Hunts that are valuable to producers and
produce dealers, are contained IN Giro cular
issued by our former neighbor, Col VIM.
Bell, nov in the Produce Commission busi-
ness, at Pier IL, North Delaware Avenue,
philadelphia, to his patrons.
The Permanent Exhibition is 10 be closed
on SUNDAY. The opening OF it on Sunday
has proved to be a great mistake, WIN
drawing from its support, and encourage
ment, a large and influential class OF peo-
pie.
The "bsby nose' is the "pug nose; :" II
!, the nose of weakness The physlogno-
mist cIassifies noses thus: l. The Roman
nose: .. The Greek nose; 3. The Jewish
nose; 4. The snub nose; 5. The Celestial
uose-
The Annual Musical Convention, TO be
held in the Musical College at Freeburg,
SNYDER county, Pa, will be opened on Mon
dsy evening, January IA, 1878, and con-
sinue one week. Ii you are deslrous OF
receiving q grand musical treat, attend the
Convention.
4, YOU have any Sewing Machine cut OF
order, you can have them repaired and made
.s good as new, by sending them to >. ID.
NJ. Todd. He has first-clsss workman.
An exchange says: wart can be remov-
ed by applying q small quantity Of nitric
acid 10 the surface. Do not cut or open
the wart in any way, hut simply touch it
With the cork. Should il burn when hrst
applied dip in cold water, and il will be i'm
mediately relieved.
Holmes Parvin, an industrious citizen Oh
Patterson, met with sudden death on
Monday. He was helping to unload tele-
graph iusuiators, from John Bratton's wag-
on. A barrel of the insulators, weighing
about 800 pounds, rolled to the rear end oi
the wagon, tilted the bed, and fell on Par
win, crushed his head and killed him almost
Instantly.