Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-12-04
SHORT LOCALS.

oe'inssrove supports a dancing scboo
this winter. A'O
Doncannon, Perry county, has had ma .
querade ball. = ''A'
young man walks ten miles from tb
country, to town to see his love.
A bachelor recently said that courtsbin /;
o"ss, ana that marriage is blister.
John Kaufman shot another d.., = A.
"ids of Licking Creek last Friday.N
| The Snyder county Tribune adys-,;s.
mat 1t will take sauer kraut on subscr;n,,on
Ladies of the Selinsgrove Metbod;s
church held pumpkin pie festival O,
Thanksgiving evening.
lhey are digging at the base of Tusca
rora mountain in Saville township, PER-,
county, for vein of copper.
PREACHER Talmage, who is raising such 4,
breeze by preaching about the night sid. O
New York, has quite musical choir. wb;c,
Is led by cornet horn.
a gate in the canal sluice, opposite IN,
Elder tannery, gave way on "wednesday
night, which resulted in nearly all the wate,
Id The level by this place running out.N
81 am inclined to believe" said 4 fon ,o
lady who had refused to sing, "you are
hshing for compliments" "OhI no.v she
replied, 4" never fish in so shallow q
strean.''
l1he Juniata Conference of the Lutheran
Church meets this week in Middleburp
Snyder county. Rev Mr.. Berry and Mr.,
Michael Sieber represent the Miiiintown
and Licking Creek charge.
Mrs Joseph Middagh died at the resi-
dence of her husband, Mr.. Joseph Middagh,
IN Patterson, on Tuesday night of last
week, Her remains were entombed in the
Presbyterian graveyard.
The White Sewing Machine is a new ma
chine that is made or based upon all the
good qualities of sewing machines. J. b.
NJ Todd is the agent here. For further
PARTICULARS, address him.
q The rain on Saturday caused the arch in
the top o; Samuel Wilson's cistern to give
way at time when one of his daughters
was passing the cistern, and she narrowly
escaped going down with the cavIng earth
a9d bricks
Jacob Lemon, of Patterson, will receive
a carload of choice apples from Ohio, on
Thursday, and thereby first-rate opportu-
nifty will be offered to the community to sup
ply themselves with the wholesome fruit for
the winter.
fair and festival will be held in the
Church at Graham ore banks, three miles
north of Mifiintown, commencing Wednes-
day, December llth, instant, and to con-
tnue during thatweek. AIlpeople are cor
daily invited. The proceeds of the fair
viii be devoted to the benefit of the church.
~ couple of drunken men staggered about
the streets, and were sport Tor the boys, on
Thanksgiving day. The men should have
been arrested and put in Jail until they
reached a sober state. Teach your boy not
TO make sport of drunken man, or an
IDIOT. Teach him to be above such sport:
Misfortune in nearly every case, sooner or
later. attends people Who make sport of
drunkards, and idiots or weak minded peo-
pie.
( A hog Of Briton Fasick's caught chick
en- on Monday, and forthwith proceeded TO
devour the fowl; but before the bird was
entirely eaten up the hog choked, an a
butcher was sent for, SO that the pork might
not be lost On examining the hogs wind
pipe, the fact was revealed that the craw o
The chicken had got into the wind pipe Of the
porcine and SO nearly choked it to death,
that then was the fittest time to prepare it
for sausage szd so forth.
Thanksgiving day was quite well observed. g.
There were union services held IN the Luth-
eran church in the forenoon, and a sermon
preached by Rev. T. J. Sherrard. Busi-
ness was generally suspended. tits grand
old holiday, and worthy of observation, if
honest thanks are rendered, but the early
dream of the Puritan that it should take
the ace of Christmas day obseryances can
never be realized. The Christmas observ-
ance belongs to the world, while Thanks
giving day belongs to the Yankee.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: 1t seems
as if everything about the Greenback move
ment was fraud. The latest specimen Is
their organ. The .44-ocats, large eight
page paper devoted to the Greenback lunacy,
whose subscription price was twenty-five
cents a wear. and which claimed TO have
5D0. 600 subscribers, has suspend ed. The
paper has been running about three months
and if It is true that it had half million
ubsc-ibers, the proprietors have pocketed a
nice plum. They got the subscribers and
made each ore pay in advance for year
the paper suspends in three months, AMI IN
consequence the owner makes clear steal
OF $4,000 or $4,000.
COn Monday night the music ene Je"eiry
store of William II. Rollman, on Nam
street. was entered by thieves. The en-
trance was made by placing ladder against
the east end of the building, close by WIN
dow, upon the shutters OF which the 'hie'es
proceeded to operate. A hole was bored
through the shutters, through which the
fasteuinss of the shutters were unleosed
The sash was forced open, and held up oy
an army gun screw driver and wrench. a
large file or rasp, and brace and bit. winch
Jacob Slautterback identified as his prop
erty. and which thieves must have taker
ont of his blacksmith shop, was lett on 'ne
floor of the burglarized place. AS lar a.
known. nothing of great value was taken
and it is conjectured that the thieves be
came alarmed and fed before their designs
had been carried out If they had not beer
alarmed, they would have carried their tool
away.