Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-03-27
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

And now many people move.
Time to ''swing on the gate"
BOYS in their bare feet, too early.
Cheap eating, eggs is 9 cents dozen.
Ii Is said ga dry March never bsgs its
bread"
Rafting on the 'Big River" vas brisk
last week.
Put into little beds. Little onisns at Z
cents quart.
She.c.nal is full OF water, ready for the
passage of boats
E. g. Shesfrer has been appointed post
MASTER at Oriental.
w.B. winey has been appointed post
master at Richtield.
Monday morning was one of the coolest
mornings of the year
Search has recently been made for Char
lie Ross in Boston.
Snow fell to the depth of s inches in
York State last Sunday.
The freezing weather of Sunday night
killed the fruit, it is said.
Be careful who you kiss. Physicians
say kissing spreads disease.
Harrisburg has had .'mum" sociable,
and is highly pleased with it.
Do not put holes through silver coin, to
do so is to commit ineable offense.
The eQuinoctial storm last week was mild,
like the winter that it is presumed to end.
NJ David Moist expects TO ouild house
on his farm, near Miffiintown, this summerj
A post office has been established at
Dimmville this county, with J. T. Dimm as
post master.
Gold is coming into circulation in busi-
ness circles in New York city. The silver
Law brings it out.
There Was 8 heavy frost on Friday morn
ing, but the thick fog that crept up through
the valley soon destroyed it.
"a Kansas judge has decIded, inasmuch
"a the law considers man and wife one.
they are both entitled 10 admittance upon
ticket admitting 'one.'"
Senator Pattersol's residence in Wash
,ngton was bdrglarized a few nights ago to
the extent of small quantity of silver
plate and some clothing.
The flfoona Tribune, writes of the ..Road
TO nnd, many walk in it. Who Will write
of the "Road from Hades.p
To the rear goose-bcne weather wise peo-
pie, but the failure of the goose and ground
hog to predict weather may be written this
time as among the exceptions.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says Rev. ].
". Eby, Methodist minister from Logan,
Mitiin county, was placed in the lunatic
hospital al this place yesterday.
When you move, send line, stating
your post office address, so that the paper
may be sent to you in your new home the
first week after yoar arrival there.
The people in Eastern counties of the
State complain that s'tramping" is no long
er confined to men, but that women have
ssken to wandering along with the mes.
Try Ir.-"A French physician claims as
a new fact that black silk handkerchief
thrown over the face of a person in an ep.
slsptic ct will restore them immediately.
7fIrutenant Colonel Theodore Burch6eld
of Altoona. formerly of this place, has been
elected colonel Of the Fifth Regiment Ma
tionsl Guard, to succeed the late Colonel
wilson.
Exchanges speak of the unusual observ-
auce of St Pstrick's Day, and how people
attended church on that day, and then
winds up by telling that it was the Christian
Sabbath day.
The reports of murders and other out
RACES committed last week, would I'll
newspaper as large as the Sentinel, but sick
ening details of crime are not the desirable
kind of new. to publish, in quantity.
The Presbyterian congregation of Port
Royal held a meeting last Saturday and ex-
tended a unanimous call TO the Rev X. T..
Wilson, of Bedford. Mr.. Wilson has not
yet slgni1ed his acceptance of the call.
Albert ". Loudon, a citizen Of Newport,
Perry county, q brskeman on . freight
tram, was thrown on the track at Altoona
by the breaking of = coupling pin. on Sat
urdsy morning, portion of the train pass
ed over his body. He lived only few
hours.
\W Sabbath morning about 10 O'Clock, a
sudden change took place in the weather, a
cold wind sprang up, which continued all
Sunday and all night, and so changed was
the temperature of the air that quite thick
ice was formed on pools OF water by Mon
day morning,
"a bill has passed Congress aud become
law granting a pension of s. per month
TO every survivor of the war of 1872, who
served fourteen days, or was in any engage
ment, and to the widows of such officers,
soldiers or enlisted men, without regard to
the date of marriage. Proof Of loyalty is
not required. The bill also restores to the
roll the names of all pensioners dropped
for disloyalty.'
A cold IL the beginning Of everything
that is bad. If any one conscious OF hav-
ing caught one feels cold chilfs creeping up
the back, let him apply q mustard plaster to
the bottom Of the spine and lower part of
the back at once, and By so doing be may
avert dangerous illness before it is too
late and medical advice can be procured
1t should never be forgotten that "Heat is
iifs-cold 10 death. .'-Soien'tfe American.