Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-12-11
SHORT L0CALS.


Religious revivals.
Deer shooting ends on the 18th inst.
Miffiintown is 46l feet above the level oi
the sea.
The season for swinging on the gate i
over.
Christmas is coming, and it "comes onl,
once year."
People in certain parts of Union county
have small pox,
This is the week for the Kentzler trial in
Snyder county.
The attendance at Court was not as large
as it usually is in December.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To,
bacco. Dec. 4. lS7s-ly.
The Mount Union Methodists visited theil
preacher, III body, as donation party.
Our acknowledgements are rendered t.
Senator Crawford for valuable public doc u.
ments.
The first snow of the season fell last
Thursday morning. II did not quite cover
the ground.
he third snow Of the season fell on Sun-
day night; it was also the deepest, being
about p Inches in dcpth.S
All the members of the Cavalry Soldiers
of this county are requested TO be present
for parade and reunion on the 18th inst.
A new kind of gambling has sprung up in
a number of the larger towns. Its TO s.bet
or wager" on the result of suit in court.
A committee of the Prcsbytery of Hunt
ingdon will conduct Sunday School Con-
vention at Cleartield on the 18th inst.
The second instalment of snow this
winter came with great wind, on Friday
afternoon. After the storm the sun shoue
out and melted the s'bcautiful' all away.
The stable of d. W. Wood, in Lewis
town, Mifflin county, was destroyed by fire
on Sunday morning week. His house
was saved from the. flames by great diff
Guilty.
The barn of John ]. Hall, Of Monroe
township, three miles south of Richfield,
was burned on last Friday morning, togcth-
er with all its contents. How the fire orr
ginated is not known
The E. B. McCrum farm in Fermanagh
township, sold to James North for $1,000,
At Sheriff's sale, on Friday, November 29th,
has been resold by Mr. North to Mr.. David
Sieber for six thousand and some dollars.
Men assign various reasons why they
should be excused from serving on juries,
but the strangest yet was that given this
morning BY a man who gave as a reason the
fact that he knew nothing about the case
Rochester Union.
EThe literary people of McAlisterviIle have
a society, which will prove a
source of intellectual profit and delight to
Ill members, and to al others who attend
he regular weekly meetings of the society
A public entertainment, consisting of dia-
ogues, colloquies, tdbleaux, Rotations,
ieciamations, &c, interspersed with vocal
md instrumental music, will be given by
he pupils of McAliSterville Soldiers Or
phans' School on Christmas eve, Dec. "a,
1878. Admission Is cents. Proceeds to
,e applied to furnishing the reading room.
B. The holding of the court on account of
he Shineloff case, compelled the Teachers
institute to assemble on Monday afternoon
n the Grand Jury room for organization.
The organization was completed by the
election of ex-Supcrntendent David Z.
Robson, vice president, and the election of
!. ii. Kearney and MISS Lizzie Loudon, Sec
etaries.
~ large number of railroad employees
net In the Superintendent Office at Har-
isburg, last Saturday evening for the pur-
,ose of presenting gold watch to James
dcCrea, Esq, former Superintendent of
Middle Division. Employees from differ
mt points along the Middle Division were
,resent. A number OF railroad employees
rom this place were present.-
The Mount Union Trms,. says that on
a week, colored man, who re-
,ides al Jacks Spring, near that place, re-
urned home from hunting, and requested
lis wife to remove a coat from the gun,
which he lad wrapped around it to keep it
Try. In doing so the hammer was acci-
ientally struck against the door, which
caused the discharge of the gun, the con-
tents entering the woman's leg near the
knee, causing a fearful wound. At last
accounts she was lying in a critical cont
ion.
wm. II. McCollin, (late Graduate and In
,trucror in the Pennsylvania Institute for
he Blind, will will be present at the Teach
,rs' Institute all week, and entertain the
people at the day aud evening sessions, with
his readings and declamations of Prose and
Poetry, from standard authors, interspersed
with descriptive, humorous and pathetic
ballads. Mr.. McColin is totally blind. In
addition to the regular programme for We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, he
will give his exceedingly fine musical and
literary entertainments.
The operations of an organisation called
the Sunbury and North Branch Railroad
Company, have interested the people of this
county to a considerable degree. Why its
promises have not been made good, is not
the object to inquire here, but its efforts to
collect money from parties in Snyder coun-
ty have been resisted in the courts. In the
lower court the company, so called, was
sustained in its action. In the Supreme
Court the Judgment of the lower co'irt was
reversed. For further particulars, as to the
action in the lower court and the reversal
in the upper Court, read the case as pub
Iished in other columns of this issue of the
Sentinel and Republican.
The Lcwistown Gazette says every rapsr
in the United States ought OCCASIONALLY TO
keep the fact before its readers that burnt
corn is certain and speedy cure for hog