Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-06
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Merry June.
Fourth of July.
Green with envy.
Locust blossoms.
Plant late potatoes
It is never too warm 10 attend a
race.
Seventeen candidates for Sheriff in
Huntingdon.
BY paying ten dollars fine bass
may be caught
Murders in the South, and no po-
litical campaign.
San Francisco row boasts a popu-
lation OF 301,000.
4 Georgia man hss cabbage FIVE
feet In circumference.
The Lewistown Gazette SAYS base
bail is nearly played out in that town
Two military companies in Blair
county are booked for prize drill.
The young clover" is reported as
having caught well in the wheat fields.
A picnic party pulled out" on Sat
urday in the Crusader to Fowles
woods.
Decoration Day was more gener-
ally observed last Wednesday than
ever before
The lights of four gigging parties
were within sight, at one time, on the
river, on Thussday evening.
Pittsburg had d baby show last
week. Mrs. Mary bakers baby, nine
months old, drew the first prize.
The 0tizen's Journal, Of Butler,
recommends the culture of toads as
an antidote for the potato bug nui-
sance.
An Armstrong county man has de-
clared that this State is to be visited
by severe frost on the 7th inst, to-
morrow.
The Jersey Shore Herald contains
the announcements Of twenty-five
Democratic candidates, and that isn't
all of them, either.
"A little boy, seeing the swan
plunge its head under the water,
called out: " Mother, come and see
the swan cast anchor.
4 philosopher has extracted the
following reply from schoolboy to
the question, "How is the earth di-
yidei, my lad?" by earthquakes,
sir"
TIE Medical Society of Peunsylva'
MIA will holi Its twenty eighth annual
session in the House of Representatives
ct Harrisburg, on the 18th, l4th and
10th days of June.
By the late Sabbath School statis-
tics the number of Sabbath Schools
N the 1ounty sre so; the scholars IL
attendance in the same number 1884 /;
tLe teachers number 107l.
"The PENNSYLVANIA r. r. company
commenced the erection of new
bridge across the Susquehanna river,
at Rockville, near Harrisburg on Mon
day a week. The bridge Will cost
S1,500,000"
Huntingdon bloods got up bogus
Masonic initiation for the Benefit OF
Young man named Stearns, and
now Stearns has got up a real law
suit for their benefit, IN which the
charge is, assault and battery.
The cucumber season has set in,
and a man is walked up at two o clock
in the morning, after dreaming that
an elephant is sitting on his equator,
TO experience violent regret that he
has not attended church more regu-
larly in his youth.-.Norrich Bulletin,
On Friday evening week, during
services In the bunker church at
Spring Run, Mifilin county, a thiei
stole a valuable horse belonging to
Jesse Shook The horse was recov'
cred the next day near Newton Ham
lton, but the thief got away.
Many of the township and Dor
ough officials in Schuylkill and ad-
joining counties, by their neglect to
publish the annual statements re
quired by law, have been declared
guilty of misdemeanor IN Office and
are to be proceeded against"
A Philadelphia German drank 81
beers last Friday afternoon, and ther
ate a raw turnip. to prevent HIM from
getting drunk. Once it becomes
Enown that turnips will prevent
drunkenness the growth OF the roof
will become thing for general cul
tivation.
Parties who have been gigglng IL
The river at night, report fish plenty
Bass are numerous. but the tempta
tion to gig them is overcome by the
shyness of the fish About the first
intimation fisherman has of its near
ness, is its rapid retreat from within
the circle of his light.
It is not the right thing to allow
trout three or four inches long to be
sshed out of the streams, merely to
crafty the vanity of some one, to
have It said that he caught the great
est number of trout and yet such is
too frequently the case. The little
fish sho,ld he rof,,rnad IN the straam