Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-02
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plenty.
Apple butter has been selling a, is cents
quart.
Each school district should organize 9
Hoyt Club.
Why have the Democracy quit shouting
"Spoons" at Ben Butler
\ Ii you want to save money, buy
iyonr goods at Tocd's.
Boys and ground squirrels have q happy
time laying in a stock of nuts for winter
Use.
Fishermen in Huntingdon are stunned
over the catch of a seven-pound eel at tina.
place.
Irredeemable money and trade on can
didates is the creed of the average Green
backer.
Lord Dufferin of Canada proposes that an
international park be formed around Mag
aga Falls.
The Greenback candidates for Commis-
sionsr have withdrawn from the canvass in
this county.
young man from Mif,iin county, named
James A. COplin, died of yellow fever at
Canton, Mississippi.
John Devese, of Mcveytown, caught a
catfish in the river that was 81 inches long
and weighed pounds.
Mr. Fisher, Republican candidate for Con-
gress, will attend the fair at Riverside Park,
on Thursday and Friday.
The Americans will be called nation of
swindlers, il they pay their obligations in
irredeemable paper money.
The weather-wise are referred to the pre-
dictions made last spring, that the summer
would be a mild one. Whewl
Governor Hartranft will be present at Riv-
erside Park Far on Thursday. He will
arrive at the station at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ.
Z You eau buy Ladies' Shoes at Todd's
for Sltol. %, Mems heavy Shoes 81 40,
Heavy top Soled Boots, 81 25;o3 80.
Send in such communications as you may
desire, for or against the Poor House, be-
fore tsGelectisn;. ). after election day it will
be too lata.
Who can explain, why the fringe on the
tail feathers Of a tame turkey is white, while
the fringe on the tail feathers of wild tur-
key Is brown7
1t is not every day that Governor comes
to town. Turn out on Thursday at River
side Park, and greet John F. nartranft,
Governor of this great Commonwealth.
Mr.. Peter Troup, OF Delaware township,
has stalk of buckwheat in his possession
which by actual count yielded 2200 grains.
Perry county can't beat that in buckwheat.
The Mifflin county fair closed last Friday
By the Sheriff stepping in with a levy on
such things as he lawfully could get or take
to satisfy certain claims against the Associ
aJion.
Last fall potatoes were so plenty that they
sold at 20, - and so cents per busheli this
fall they are scarce, and now they are sold
at 80 cents per bushei, with an upward ten
dency.
Dill is trying to stradde the money issue.
tie is neither for honest money, or fer ire
deemable money, land of course as a strad-
ilc- he-w;l be-beaten al the polls in NO
yember.
There will be an excursion from all points
in the Junista Valley between Harrisburg
and Altoona, to the Port Royal Fair, begin
ming on the 9th day of October, 1878, and
continuing three days.
1T is believed by many people, that Will
liam Kenawell, who was found dead on
unday week. was the victim of a mur-
der. at the hands of some one who knew
him.
The English srarrows often leave the
Court House IN large tiocks, for the coun-
try, and there, in fields and roads, forage
on seeds, worms, bugs and insects.
All persons who favor the repeal of the
fish laws, and the removal of the Columbia
dam, are invited to attend convention of
fishermen that will meet at Harrisburg on
Friday, October II, 1873.
! J.B. NJ. Todd has opened up a new
tot of Clothing, Boys and Mems Suits.
He has the finest, ,lot OF OvercOats that
has been opened ID the county this fall.
Who will trust a man after he has repu-
dated his obligations Who will trust
nation after it has repudiated its obliga-
tions The career of individuals, and na-
tions, that repudiate their obligations is
short
The National and State taxes that poll
ticians talk so much about, are not the taxes
that consume the money of the country.
The taxes that eat up the earnings of the
property-holder, are the road, school, bor-
ough and county taxes.
Vote for Sterrett, and thus be certain that
YOU will not help to elect a man TO the
United States Senate, who will humiliate
the country, disgrace the Republic by so
voting that reputation must of necessity
come.
Delegates from three of the six counties
that compose the 18th Congressional dis
trict beld a conference in the Patterson
House on Monday, and nominated John
Dougherty, of Huntingdon county, as the
Greenback candidate for Congress.
In the majority of districts, or counties,
the votes cast for the Greenback ticket are
thrown away. Where they are not thrown
awav, where their members are elected, 1t
is expected that they will vote for Demo-
cratic pleasures.
The Potter Committee have paper ready
for circulation, by which, such people as had
never heard of Southern rebellion, would
be made to believe that all the ills that
affiict the South had been imposed on them
-. .o,b;on. hnt the fact of the war cannot