Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-11-27

ted Governor of this Commonwealth on
Tuesday, January q, 1879.
Thanksgiving services will be held in the
Lutheran church at McAlisterville on the
evening Of Thanksgiving day.
! The whipping-post, as protection to So
ciety, is believed by many to have more re-
straIning qualities upon the yicieusly in
ciIned than confinement in jail.
Peter KOons, aged IS years, a citizen of
Fayette township, died suddenly, before
medical attendance could be summoned, on
Tuesday evening, New. 10: 1878.
J. B. NJ. Todd is selling the best Sewing
Machine made-the WHITE.
The Town Council and the Fermanagh
township Road Supervisors have been try
ing to determine to which authority the
lower bridge across the basin belongs
Union Thanksgiving services will be held
in the Lutheran church in this place at IOs
O'Clock A. NJ, on Thanksgiving Day. Ser
mon BY Rev. I. J. Sherrard. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
Ed Ellis slaughtered hog that weighed
39I pounds, but Thad Zimmerman, in
Thcmpsontown, killed two, the aggregate
weight of which was 9a9 pounds the net
weight of each hog was 446, and 463 lbs.N
The Supreme Court of this State deliv-
cred an opinion last week, that declares
that hotel-keepers are bound to pay for
goods stolen from guests. unless stolen by
a companion or servant of the guest.
]. b. NJ. Todd is selling the only genuine
Waterproof Boot. Go and see the Walker
Boot-warranted.
On the 18th inst shocks of an earth
quake were felt in Illinois, Missouri and Ar
kansas. Who knows that the beautiful
lrsiries OF the West are not to be noun
tsin-ribbed as is Pennsylvania
"A son, aged about u years, OF William
Haines, of Turbett township, while hand
ling pet colt. was kicked BY the animal,
and so badly injured that he died in few
days. His remains were inferred in Church
Hill Cemetery last Sunday, the 2ith inst
Rev. John Laird will deliver lecture in
the Lutheran church on the evening of
Thanksgiving day. Subject-'sCalIfornia."
1t will be a pleasant place TO spend Thanks
giving evening. Admission 25 cents, chill
dren 10 cents. Doors open at O'Clock
lecture at half-rast Z.
Buy your Clothing at Todd's.
Teach the boys and girls, as fast as they
are able to comprehend, that the world has
many evil ways that lead to depravity, but
above all teach them that there are many
WAYS that lead to honest life, and that the
bad is to be stunned, and the good is to be
taken as a standard 10 act by.
John Shower, John Kaufman, Emmitt
Aumiller, John Houtz and Nathan Kauf-
man pitched their tent in Licking Creek
valley, near the Big Thicket, last week,
where they engaged in three days hunt,
the result of which was, one four-pronged
buck, one fawn, and one wild turkey. p
A Mrs. Shineloff, and daughter are in Jail
on a charge of infanticide-of having taken
the life of an infant child. A hearing was
accorded them, before his Honor Judge
Junkin, last Thursday afternoon, the result
of which, was, thar they were both rema~1-
ed to jail to await trial at court. Two wit
nesses. W Westley McNew and sister, testi-
fed that on a certain evening they saw Mrs.
Shineloff, through a window, strike an III
fant on the head with piece of stove wood,
after which stroke, Mrs. Shinelof took the
child up, came out of the house and walked
away in the direction Of Licking Creek.
The Snineloffs and McNews live in Licking
Greek valley, this county, about miles
from this place.
Since the above was put in type, report
of case of infanticide comes from Town
send, Delaware The charge is that two
children born out of wedlock were muir
dered. negro Of the place mentioned
who appeared at a certain place with two
bnllet wounds in his head and other wounds
on his body, testified that be received them
At the hands OF the male friends of the
young ladies, whom he served by burying
their iilepitimate children; that he had re-
realed the secret impaired TO him, and
that on the pretence of taking him away,
out of the State, they took him by carriage
to lonely place and shot him.
A correspondent of McClure's Times of
last Saturday writes of the negro's testi-
nony as follows:
Justice James C. Wilson took his deposit
tiou on Wednesday, and since then has Wis
tied him twice TO hear the story over to as
certain whether it varied in material facts
To-day stood with the Justice at the side
OF the bed, and with copy OF the deposi-
tion in ny hand noted how the story told
by The prostrate man conformed in TACT,
though varied in order of statement, with
what he first related. His story, told in the
earnest dialect of the uneducated of his
race, runs thus:
TIE EEGRo's STORY.
aMas'r Wilson, sab, ] can't remember
the time when the daughter of Mrs. Dod-
son had the babies buried in swamp back
of tie house of Mrs. Dodson- Last spring
was var ago when the Oldest young lady,
now Mrs. Prettyman, of Philadelphia, came
to me in field with baby that was dead.
II was born at its time and was wrapped in
an apron. She told me to bury it and say
nothing about it. took the body aud