Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-06-20

Cherry pies.
Midsummer.
The longest day.
Shirleysburg wants barber.
PIttsburg is in a financial slough.
The days for the duster have come.
Altoona has chronological lecturer.
Most Of the farmers have gone to grass.
Chickens are hrst-rate potato bug exter-
minatOrs.
The time for pilgrimages TO Macedonia
has come.
Chicken cholera is hard on poultry in
Snyder county.
The State Medical Society met at Harris.
burg last Wednesday.
The Altoona car shops have an order for
four hundred new cars.
Riverside Park Fair will BE- held Septem-
Der 18th, 2O,h and 21st.
Perry county has four-legged chicken
and three-legged duck.
lAANaA A4oNeaoS liNf dAaS eAASh5 mugs
different parts OF the State.
Lowistown pecple viii go to SelinSgroye
10 jn5ilate on the 4th OF July.
The constable of Huntingdon gets sl.5O
Coz every COW that he empounds.
When tramp comes to you for yictuals,
ask him TO pick potato bugs first.
"a Levistowu man has a hen that laid
two eggs Gay for a period of two weeks -
Philip Strouse has built handsome and
substantial barn near " Mexic % railroad station.
Tbs wheat crop in the State of Al4blma
IS reported above the average crop in point
vf yield.
The United States Treasury is issuiIg
silver currency at the rate of a million OF
dollars per month.
David Stouffer has improved the appear
ar-- he front Of his lot on Third street
u poltA.g up new fence.
Sgsssa.e Court proceedings relative to
Juui-.a coUnty--McNanigle VS.. Grouse
JudgnIeEt affirmed.
The battles aRd AurOras engaged in
match ane OF base ball GA Saturday. The
BAltics were the victors,
Tie State Medical Convention, last week
at Harrisburg, passed a resolution asking
Congress TO reduce the tariff on 9ulnine-
By order of Prof Wickersham the sol
diers' orphans have a vacation from July
2lst to september lst period Of six
weeks.
For the first time in its history, the Stale
Medical Association, which met in Harris
burg last week, admitted women as physi-
viHs.
Johnnie NcNulty, the efscient custodian
ef the public grounds, has cut the grass
tLe second time in the Court House Yard.
Huntingdon police allow no cows on the
streets of that town longer than il takes to
drive them tc ard from the stables 10 pas
ture and water
An ..umbreHa fxer'' passed through town
the other day, shouting his business aloud.
As far as his voice reached 1t was good
way Of advertising.
Lutheran preachers of the Junista Con-
ference held a picnic at shindeIs Station'
or the Sunbury ana Selinsgro'e Raii-csa'
yesterday, Tuesday.
"Michael Lipp, of Pittsburg, wants slo,-
900 from John Knapp tor slsnderIng him
This is evidently case OF too much lip
10 suit john"
"Goodncss,'' but " Johnnie Bull'' has a
liking for American fresh beef. lot OF
cattle were bought in Lancaster county for
foreign shipment
The McVeytown Journal complains that
setters from that place to Philadelphia have
been opened and checks aud money pur-
Ioned thereirom.
The number Of failures of business men
IN different parts of the country is caleuia-
s.d To weaken the houses OF all who are
burdened with debts.
Hezekiah Bradford, rich Philadelphian,
Aas planted about one hundred acres OF
farm that he owns along the river opposite
Thompsontown, in ounce and peach trees.
The Germantown Telegraph, from per-
sona observation, believes that cigar saok-
;ng is on the increase, x but the vile habit
OF tobacco chewing has considerably dilniR
ished."
City folks go to the watering places and
country folks to the harvest fields In the
winter the case is changed then all is busi-
ness for the cit, people, and all Is leisure
for the t1iiliog.
On Friday evening the Dauphin Medical
Society entertained the members OF the
State Medical Convention at banquet a;
the Bolton House, Harrisburg. About leU
delegates were present
The editor of the Huntingdon Journal
suggests that the janitor of the court house
---...Dgaon county rut hooks in the wall
# the court house to hang the men on, oy
-he ls saloo as, who will not sit down when
ihe. attend Court. They are always STANG
ing in the SIGHT of other people.
Ministers should remember that the wea-
ther is growing very warm, and the same
congregation which sits delighted through
two and a half hours of a five act comedy
can't possibly endure more than twenty-five
minutes of sermon and three-minute
prayer. There is a limit even to human en-
durance.-Er.