Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
SHORT LOCALS.

Hay making.
Long clover.
Long wheat stalks.
Farmers, go to grass.
Thunder, rain, and hafl last Wednesday.
Ex-Sherrf Loudon has enlarged his stable
The green color of the wheat has passed
away.
The general strike did not take place on
Monday.
The satchel is no longer worn by railroad
conductors.
The Juniata valley, this year, produces a
large wheat crop.
Sheriff Walls successfully cultivates the
Italian bee in the jail-yard.
The editor of the Lewistown Ga.ette
caught bass Ia inches long.
DR.. Samuel Crawford, living at McCoys-
Vile, has been quite sick for some time.
An sppraisement of the real estate of
John NJ. Kepner, late of Port Royal, de-
SCaSSu, Was uldlc last week.
NStevcns & Guss, hardware men in Patter-
son, have erected a permanent wooden
in front of their business place.
1t is reported that the wheat crop in the
West was never more thoroughly sold out
at this time in the year than now.
The Fourth of July fever RACES in many
places this year. Harrisburg and Hunting
don will demonstrate or grand scale.
Krorse owned By Emanuel Meyer, resi-
ding in Fermanagh township, took wind
collie last Thursday, and died in few hours;
~ Tuesday ~sek Lucian pillman, resid-
ing in Walker township, from state of
health took sick and died in less than an
hour.
At Lancaster, day or two ago, eight
young men were fined S. each and impris-
onment for ten days for stealing a ride on
the cars.
Candidates are coming forward, The
family, State, and church are the chief in
sh'"'iONS III thiS "Viiu' DEAhS aioue INC
candidates.
Prepare piece of smoked glass, through
which to look at the partial eclipse of the
sun on the 29th. Look for it from 4 to 8
O'Clock p. NJ.
Josiah Gingrich, farmer in Walker town.
ship, sent us speciments OF tall wheat. The
Clawson was 6 feet 8 inches, fultz 6 feet
inch, Mediterranean feet inches.
"Eight thousand druggists and general
store. in the United States sell Foutz Horse
and Cattle Powders. They sell Foutz's be-
cause they know them to possess intrinsic
merit.''
NIwo men in Walker township traded
wives. One of the men thought he must
needs have dollar boot TO make the trade
even The dollar was given and the ex-
change of women made
The s.nabob at one end and tramp at the
other'' candidate, is not as popular among
the people as his hackers thought he would
be; but how can a man who utters such
twaddle be popular among people who know
what such utterances mean.
This from the Washington, D. c., Ma
fioRal Republican: Mr.. William II. Patter-
son, eldest son of Hon. John J. Patterson,
was, on last Saturday, admitted TO practice |
in the courts of law and equity in the Dis
trict OF Columbia. For the past three years
Mr.. Patterson has pursued his legal studies
under the direction of Messrs. Shallabar-
ger and Wilson.
1t is said by staticians that the average |
amount that the land owning farmer makes |
per day, with expenses paid, is 80 cents per |
day. They are the people who keep up the
roads, keep up the courts, keep up the
schools, keep up their own estates, and are
the poorest paid people in all the country
but, with all that, in their circles the COM
munis;s and strikers find no lodgment.
One citizen drew the attention of another !
citizen to the noise of tree-frog, and said,
'.That little fellows song means that ram /
will fail in few days the tree-trog hits it
in predicting rain." Said the other, "Tell
me, what is it, song of joy, a voice of
warning, or cry Of distressi" and then
the party of the second part had the party 1
of the first part fast in the meshes of ques- |
ton that could not be answered. The ques- |
ton is submitted to those acquainted with /
the language.
On Wednesday afternoon two Frenchmen,
each with wooden leg came to East Point, |
and thence down Cherry street, with bat in |
hand, singing French songs. They walked |
slowly Their singing brought the inhabi-
once in while the smaller man passed his
hat to those who stood and listened to the |
songs. 1t was a new way of asking for
help-new to this community, but an old |
way in Europe. The historians of Martin
Luther tell that Luther often got his bread |
by singing in the streets of Magdeburg
while attending the University ct that place. !
An old canpaigner, who has lately been
around in the county, expressed
himself on Monday morning on the streets
to his friends about as follows: "Wsll, yes,
| have been around some in the county, and |
talked politics. OF course there is no ex-
preston as yet on the candidates, except |
for the District Attorneyship, and the thing
would be quiet but for the candidates of the
Democracy for that office. The Denocra-
cy are talking good deal about the candi-
dates for that Office, and the talk runs about
the same all through the places that | have