Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-24
SHORT LOCALS.

House cleaning.
Fishermen gig fish.
Cikterns arc empty.
The campaign will open in May.
Prospects for crop Of fruit are good.
The banks were closed on Good Friday.
John Zook planted a field to corn last
week.
Rain is greatly needed to refresh the veg.
etsble kingdom.
The shipment of poultry over the Penn
sylvania railroad is heavy.
The Oldest inhabitant has no recollection
of an earlier spring than this.
The price of beef is tirmer. Lent season
came to an end last Saturday.
Ten to twenty bushels Of peerless pots-
toes for sale. Call at this office.
Mrs. Belford has remodeled the front of
her store-rooms along Main street.
Swear the witness, that declares that
that onions are good for chapped lips.
Everything that blossoms at this season
Of the year, is heavily ladened with bios
SONS.
Cupid and hsmen thinned out the ranks
Of young bachelors in this place the past
season.
Souis Landis, residing near East Salem.
this ounty, has captured nearly 800 foxes
in his time;7
The Lords supper will be administered
in the Presbyterian church on Sabbath,
Nay 18th.
The Spring is earlier by ten DAYS than
the Spring of last year and the two seasons
preceding that.
The condition OF the health of Rev. T.
J. Sherrard would not permit HIM to preach
on Sabbath evening.
William Maxwill buys bones for mills
that grinds them into dust to be thus used
for fertilizing for land.
Gouis E. Atkinson bought the Wise house
and lot on Patterson Avenue, for s2SS, at
public sale, last Thursdayo
A COW belonging to John O'DonelI, OF
Patterson, was killed by the day express,
east, on Friday afternoon last.
Excursions to Europe, and the Paris E1-
position will be in order the coming sum-
mer. Who from Juniata will got
C. C. North, native of this county, now
a banker in Huntingdon, is ,tumping Hunt
ingdon county for the greenbaek cause.
See card of Attorney J. S. Arnold. Mr..
Arnold has the reputation of being fluent
speaker, and being well learned in the law.
The praying membership Of the Presby-
terian and Lutheran churches in this place,
has been largely increased within The past
six years,
Bullard, the Delaware county member of
the Legislature who misappropriatcd losir
association funds, is in Jail. de failed to
obtain bail.
Jonathan Mccoy, deceased, was baptized,
and admitted to memberthip in the Luth-
eran church by Rev. f. E. Berry, on the
day Of his death, last Friday.
ssCandida:es are so numerous in Butler
county that the farmers have found il nee
cssary to placard their hitching posts with a
sign bearing the word, smallpox"
The GreeHbatk NatiOnaiisf published at
Huntingdon, has a column of space that it
says belongs to. the s'Mosaic Order of Chris
tian Justice" Will some one tell US what
kind of an order that is .
SCheerful, iesfing, blooming Spring has
brought out the hand organ, and its slow,
awkward accompaniment. the Italian organ
grinder. The first music by of the kind,
this season was run by an Italian mother
and son, last Friday.
Sshce the passage of the silver bill there
is no more talk of the cen. shave. Many
Of the Western Banks pay gold over their
counters now. All the Banks will do the
same thing in a few months at most. A
wise piece Of legislation was the silver bilD
The Bloomfield, Perry county, .4drocate
says, John F. Rice, a native of Juniata
county, Pa, but now a resident Of Shelby,
Richland county, Ohio, is the only man liv-
ing who was with Commodore Perry when
the battle of Lake Erie was fought. Mr..
Rice was born in 1871.
The Huntingdon Journal says, "Rumor
has it that the coal wharf IN this place is to
be entirely abandoned in the course Of a
few days, and that the engines which coal
at this point will be served at Mitlin and
Bells Mills IL this rumor turns out to be
authentic q number Of men will be thrown
out Of employment"
A number of newspapers are publishing
articles attacking the Newton Hamilton
camp meeting management for allowing too
much latitude to immoral people during
camp meeting time. Camp meeting man.
agements don't usually pick their company,
they open the door to all. The criticisms
Of tho press of the upper Juniata may lead
to the placing Of closer watch on the
movements of fast people when they attend
the meetings in the future.
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