Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-09-25
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morning.
The turkey and rabbit shooting begins
October Is
Wilson and Mcyeen will be elected Com
missioners.
Rev. l.. Sieber preached in the Lutheran
church on Sabbath.
The Democratic Congressional Confer
ence was protracted one.
Counterfeiters have been at work showing
spurious notes in Perry county.
Turkeys, pheasants, partridges and rab-
bits are reported as being plenty.
Seven Democrats and two Republicans on
the Greenback ticket in this county.
The rededication of the Pine Grove N. E.
church was largely attended on Sabbath.
About Ss.O00,OOO are spent annually in
this State for books in the public schools.
1t is believed that an organized band of
horse thieves are operating in Huntingdon
county.
! hou NOh'NhSS ih siaS
place this "Wednesday evening, at half
past seven O'Clock.
Most of the wheat has been sowed, but
the general opinion is that it was put into
tho ground too dry.
Make up your minds to vote for Lemon,
Wagner, Degan and Cooper, and let no one
dissuade you from voting for them.
Washington North has been appointed
Adams Express Agent, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by Mr.. Speddy's death.
The candidates nominated by the Ben |
Butler convention in Massachusetts last
Lewistown people ask TO have an illumi- |
mated town-clock put in the cupalo of the |
court house, which has just been repaired.
Hogs have been dying in different parts
of the county in considerable numbers. The !
disease that carries them off is a new one.
The attention of the fish warden, and the |
jealous game and fish club pen is directed |
to tish-basket fishing in Tuscarora creek.
The Union Sabbath-school picnic held in
Fayette township last week was a large one ;
four Presbyterian preachers and one Luth- !
eran preacher were present.
Alexander Speedily, native of this place,
died last Thursday. His remains were en-
tombed in the Presbyterian graveyard on
H., q
Send in your communications now, for,
or against the Poor House, as the question
will go before the people for decision, at
the November election.
Another grand excursion 10 Gettysburg
next Saturday, the 2sth. The train will
leave Huntingdon at ) O'Clock in the morn
ing, and pass this place in due time.
sAl five dollar notes of the First \ alton
al Bank of Tamauqua, Pa, numbered above
two Thousand three hundred and ninety -one,
are announced to be counterfeit"
A million in money has been spent in ex-
cursions and at camp-meetings in Pennsyl I
vsnia this year, and still people talk of hard
times.
Mrs. Jacob ssh, of Spruce Hill township,
died last Wednesday morning, Of hemor-
rhage of the lungs while sitting in chair
in her husbands house.
Let US have a brisk campaign in October. |
The Republicans of Pennsylvania must not
lose United States Senator. Let there be |
a steady pull to elect Sterrett to the Legis-
lature.
The Democratic Congressional Confer !
ence, that met in this place last week, had 4
not steam enough to carry it through by
Saturday, so it adjourned to meet at New
port, Perry county on Monday at O'Clock
z. NJ, where it has since been in session.
Mr.. George Smith was thrown out of his ,
buck-wagon on Saturday, and hurt about /
the head and breast. The accident was
occasiOned by a bolt in the seat slipping out |
OF its place, by which loosening up the seat |
fell off the wagon when a wheel dropped |
into a rut.
Weather prophets predict long, hard |
winter They say the summer birds went |
South one month earlier than usual. But /
with all the saying the ''pee-wee" piped its |
brief song last Saturday, as in earlier days 4
eff summer.
A few dar, ago Yost Yoder, farmer in
Fermanagh township, raised his Peerless
potatoes. Mrs. Jacob Musser was one of
the helpers at picking them out of the fur
rows where they were thrown by the plow. I
She picked seventy bushels in one day. |
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: A jury
in Reading has muleted the Berks County |
Railroad in S2,Ol5 damages for the appro-
priation of two and half acres of ground |
belonging to Daniel Shepp. When A. II.
Dill was in the Legislature he prepared, in
troduced, advocated and voted for a bill |
which, had it become law, would have en-
abled the Berks County Railroad to take |
Daniel Shepp's land and refuse to pay him
dollar for it.
The committe on permanent organization |
of the newspaper fraternity In the Juniata
Valley are, j. X. Durborrow, Huntingdon |
Ndfiona list. chairman; A. }. Greer, Altoo- |
ma Tribune; III. A. Pike, Ebensburg Free |
man; James F. Michel, Bedford Ga=ette;
J. W. Scott, Osceola Rereiiie; j. W. Furey, |
Bellefonte Wafchmqn; w. W. Trout, Lew
istown Sentinel; A. G.. -Bonsall, MifiIntown |
Democrat and Register, and George Shrom,
Newport Ledger.
The Kearneyite Democracy in the interest
of Ben Butler, took forcible possession of
the hall in Boston in which it was intended |
to hold the Democratic State Convention. |
They took possession early, at O'Clock in |
the morning. The result is, complete |
split in the Democratic party. Massachu- |
sets has taught a kind of freedom that
threatens to run into license and violence. |