Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-12
Personal.
Lawyers Doty, Parker and Atkinson are
on to Aiddleburg, attending court.


Herman Fl. Ncrth, son of Mr.. James
North, of Patterson, has been suffering with
hemorrhsge Of the lungs.
The Altoona Tribune says: Mr.. W. d.
Cramer, the best train dispatcher in the
world, came up from Mifflin on Monday to
inhale the mountain breezes. and at the
same time look after matters pertaining to
his vocation.
Mrs. Lapsley. wife of Capt T. Fl. lap
sley, of Altoona, has had the vision of her
left eve restored, after being useless for 81
years, and completely blind for l2 wears
from cataract.
Whiiehon,e, the defeated Republican can
didate for the Office of District Attorney in
schuylkill county, has begun proceedings
IN contest against Scholick, declared elected
Ex-senator Morrow B. Lowry is hopeless
ly insane. The Erie O6serrsr says. ale
talks quite nationally on many subjects. but
is liable at any moment to hy of on some
project that would be very ludicrous were
which il Is conceived. His latest plan is
one for restoring the dead to life and en-
aoling them TO occupy the same bodies and
pursue the same methods as in ths original
flesh.
Judge Agnew has friends for renomina-
ton for the Supreme bench.
W. s. Stenger, of Chan.bersburg, Con-
eressmaL from this district, is the Fulton
Democrats candidate for Governor on the
Democratic ticket.
Mrs. Hayes is quoted as asserting that,
having lived so many years where there
were few public amusements, she had lost
all taste for the theatre.
Mrs. Benjamin Wcidman, who had the
misfortune TO break her left leg in the hip
joint, last summer, met with a second mis-
fortune TO the same limb, on last Thursday
afternoon. Latterly she has been staying at
the house of Mr.. John S. Graytill, in this
borough. On the afternoon mentioned she
attempted to walk from one chair to another
without help. In the attempt she fell and
broke the same limb, a short distance above
the knee-joint. DIR. Elder was called to
render such attention as the case required.
Elk Governor Pinch back, of Louis
lana, IN an open letter to Governor
Nichols, resigns his position as Sena-
tor, from that State.
General Harlan took his seat on the
Supreme Bench on Monday.
Ex- Secretary Belknap has become
one of Washiugton's most successful
lawyers.
4 private conference was held on
Saturday night the Sth by Senators,
Representatives aud popular leaders
favorable to the greenback movement.
A permanent National Greenback Lea
que was formed, with an executive
committee of one Senator or Represen-
tatlve from each State, to the number
of twenty-five.
olonel r. G. Ingersoll will lecture
IN Lancaster next month on "Liberty
for Nan Woman and Child"
John Riehm, 75 years old, was
thrown from his carriage near Mount
Zion, Lebanon county, Oh Friday night,
and killed
Twenty one little graves dot the sur
face of the churchyard at Trexlertown,
the children all having fallen victims
to ditheris, within the two months.
The wife and sister iu law Of the
proprietor of an Allegten saloon took
exception to the pretty waiter girl feat
uree, drove them out and closed the
place.
A son Of Mr. John Shrum, of Irwin
Station, Westmoreland county, was al
almost scalped on Thanksgiving Day
by load OF shot fred by a man who
wanted 10 shoot chicken.
A Chicago genius constructed a
small fan wheel to be placed in the hat
during warm weather. He tried the
macniue first himself, and III few mo-
ments was the owner of a large bald
place where his hair had caught in the
wheel.
San Antonia rexas) banks paid the
workingmen of the town $4,000 in
Mexican dollars and then refused to
receive it at less than five per cent.
discount
James Todd, one of General Lees
favorite scouts in The West Virginia
campaign, was killed last week in dis
pute with hunter near S.aunton, Vir-
glnia. He was reputed the most skill
full hunte- in the valley of the Shenan-
doah, having killed more than twenty
seven bundled deer up to 1860 with
one old muzzle loading rife. He
could perform the feat of putting bull
let through hat on the opposite side
of tree, by placing an ak blade for the
ball TO glance upon.
Isham Dalton and wife, of Ballard
county, Ky, separated the latter tax
ing an only child and a mule for her
portion
The turkey eaten by President
Hayes family on Thanksgiving day
was an eighteen FOUNDER, and the
gift of Governor Van Zandt of Rhode
Island.
Gen. Longstreet has received Sc
we're injuries in fire which nearly
destroyed his house at Gainesvill,
Ga, the other day. He was hurt In
fighting the flames.
Mr.. PHILIP KILMER presented us
with the following paper, given by
his grandfather. The paper explains
itself:
Eight months after date | do promise to
pay, or cause TO be paid unto Mary and Jo'
seph Crane, or ordet, or Assigns, the just
and full sum of two pounds, thirteen shil'
iings and six pence, in wheat, at four shil'
| lings per bushel, or rye, at three shiling'
per bushel, to be delivered at the house Of
/ Thomas Wilson, or Philip Strouse on Juni'
alta, for value reed, as witness my hand and
seal this 3rd day of February, A. ID. 1889
The grain to be good and merchantable.
PHILIP KILMER.