Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10
Personal.

St SohGAA.
! NJ. Edgar King, of the Blair Corafg Rad
icqi, has been nominated BY the Republicans
OF Blair county as e candidate for Leglsla-
ture.
Rev. George P. Hayes, D. D., President
Of Washington College, who lectured SO
satisfactorily 10 Junista people during the
Teachers Institute. last winter, has been
entered as law student in the common
pleas court of Washington county.
ID ID. Stone is about to build an Of
fee in the Belford lot, facing on Bridge
street.
An irew Hines, of Fayette township,
this county, is So years of age and has
never seen railroad.
Rev. Lemuel Sieber, has an appoint
ment TO preach in the Lutheran Church
next Sabbath.
Miss Lizzie Loudon's horse frightened
and threw her, few evenings ago while
out riding in company with a number
of ladies'.
The food last Thursday swept the
surface soil furrow-deep off field of
DR.. Graham, that be bad lined and ma
nured, and finished sowing 10 wheat the
day before the rain. Surface soil, lime.
manure and wheat all swept away in a
day.
[ WHILE tbreshiDg with machine,
John Dunkle's barn, in Union county,
came near being destroyed by fire, the
straw having taken FIRE whilst the ma
chine was in full blast. The blaze was
teu feet high already, when fortunately
bucket of water near by was dashed
upon the fire. A bucket or two of
water near threshing machine is at all
times a wise precaution, and farmers
should profit ~ this incident.-Selins-
groue Times.
Further accounts of the effects OF the
great storm of Thursday last shoe that
they were more disastrous than any
which has occurred for many years. Ths
number of shipping and railroad disas-
ters reported are, taken together, un-
precedented. The principal disasters
were the railroad accident on the Pick
ering Valley PA railroad, by which
sixty persons we're killed and wounded,
most of them belonging to the Panaba-
ker family reunion exclusion the havoc
among the vessels at Lewes, Del, and
the wreck of the Long Island Sound
steamer Massachusetts,, from which for
tuuately two hundred passengers we're
safely rescued. Numerous other acci-
dents, involving life and property are
reported" "
DURING the past two weeks Sheriff
Jennings ard his deputies have been
engaged in cleaning out the fish dams
in the Sus9uehanua river, between the
Mahantagc creek, six miles above Mil
ler.tsrg, and the Conewago creek, five
miles below Middletown. Some seven
ty-th-ee Gsh dams were destroyed by
these gentlemen, and it ROW hoped that
the law will be respected. The Sheriff
is determined to put stop to the prac-
tice of building fish dams, and will de-
molish them wherever discovered with
in his jurisdiction.
In some Of the dams 3 number of
sma Il shad, not over three inches In
size, we're discovered caught in the bars
of the fish traps aud killed.
Parties who are interested in fish cul-
ture intend. to watch the constables'
returns 10 the next court to see if any
mention is made of any violations of the
fish law. They argue that coastsbies
cannot help but know the fact that fish
dams are erected in their districts bor-
dering on the Susquehanna, and the
cons,ables must return the violators.
The constables have the right to bring
suit a. off h,ers of the law, and it is their
duty to do so. Let stern hand crush
the vielators, and it will have the effect
of preventing further rascality in this
respect.-HarTisburg Telegraph.