Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
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oats.
No holiday till Thanksgiving day comes
around.
The north side of the river bridge has
been swept.
The court house Offices have been washed
and scrubbed.
Huntingdon held picnic by moonlight,
which is pronounced a novelty.
Potato bugs, it is said, kill fish, if eaten
by members of the ''fnny tribe %
No cases of sun-stroke in this place, but
many are reported from abroad.
The Lewistown Gasette issues hand
some supplement ''for Young People"
When blackbirds gather in tiocks IN July,
it is said to be sign of an early winter.
A Huntingdon man named Whitaker
caught thirty-five bass one day last week.
Judge Junkin had a good horse to die
horseA.
The peach orchard of the Smith brothers
in Fayette township is said to be ladened
with peaches.
Charles Cornelison, who was once known
here as found ryman. died at Huntingdon on
Tuesday a week.
Frequent bathing in river or creek water
during dog days is pronounced unwhole-
some by old people.
An old man, who has satisfactory spir-
itual life, says, the abundant wheat harvest
is for some good purpose.
"Two of Altoona's merchants were each
fined $40 for selling fire crackers in viola
ton of city ordinance"
Methodist people, of Patterson ana Mif-
hin held a festival in one of r. E. Parker's
storerooms on Saturday evening".
Rev. Mr.. Berry expects to preach Har-
vest Home sermon, if the Lord is willing,
next Sabbath morning, at lOa O'Clock.
Development of the intellect does not
make a man good. II Is the development OF
the moral nature that makes him good.
The German Catholic church at Phillips
burg, Centre county, was struck by light
ming last week, and considerably damaged.
Love of gain, desire for fashionable ap-
pearance, struggle for prominent place
in life, are the things that make people mis-
cradle.
General Ben Butler has joined the Green
back, or so-called National party. About
the best thing they got when he Joined
them was brains.
ga Good Investment. Buy a twenty
five cent package of Foutz's Horse and Cat
tie Powders to prevent disease in your
Horses and Cattle.''
Alonzo Stewart, of Duncannon, Perry
county, attempted saicide a few days ago
by shooting. The attempt succeeded only
in infiicting wound in his neck.
A festival will be held in St. Paul's
church, in Beale township, next Friday
evening and Saturday afternoon and even
ing, for the benefit of the church.
If the Potter committee takes the right
turn, perhaps it may discover that Buchan-
an was not elected in 1856, and thus their
search after fraud may not be such al igno E
plinious failure after all.''
| Sie storm of wind that swept over this
place last Wednesday, toppled the chimney
in Dehutf's house in Patterson, and uproot-
ed peach trees in Woodmansee's yard in
this town, besides doing other little dam
ages.
On the evening that Brubaker's barn was
struck BY lightning, a number of barns in
Berks and Lehigh counties were struck and
destroyed. The loss in the two counties
mentioned occasioned by lightning is esti-
mated at nearly $4,000.
ga western politician gave this advice to
his son-in-law, who was nominated for office:
'Lean a little toward everything, and COM
nit yourself to nothing. Be round, per-
fectly ronnd, like bottle, and just dark
enough so that nobody can see what's in
We"
Judge Baker, of the Perry county Free
man, was up to the Wyoming celebration,
and, in speaking of the places along the
route to the valley, says that Danviile,
which hal population of 1900 at the
time the panic broke upon the country, has
a population Of 5000 now.
Some weeks ago a Miss Wildman, resid-
ing in Slim Valley, Fermanagh township,
fell down fight of stairs, by which fall
her spinal column was injured to such de-
gree that her lower limbs were paralyzcd.
She died on Friday.) Her remains were
buried last Sunday, at Pine Grove church
in Lost Greek valley.
Exchange papers are publishing an item,
to the effect that the daughter Of Samuel
Bell, residing in Fermanagh township, this
county, died from the poison Of a bite of a
copperhead snake, by which she was bitten
not long since. The child did not die; she
has fully recovered from the effects of the
poison )
On Tuesday evening a week, tramp, a
youth aged about Is years, from New York
State, while in the act Of boarding freight
train which was passing through the Patter-
son yard, got his right foot under a car
wheel. The foot was so badly crushed that
amputation because necessary. DIR. Banks
executed the operation. The unfortunate
tramp's name is Alexander Abrams. ,
Southern papers are beginning to advo-
cate pay for the slaves that were liberated
by the war. If You wish to help pay for
them, throw your ticket away on some side
show, such as the Greenback party, or other
concerns that are in the canvass, or the
Democracy, and thereby help to elect a
Democratic Congress, and you will have
contributed your share towards bringing
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