Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-16
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Debating sOcleues'
How do you disinfecti
Hang up your shotgun.
The Literat on Thursday and Friday.
Measles prevail among children in town.
An adjourned court will be held next Fri
day.
Shsd flies put in an appearance on Mon
day.
The men who filed their ice-houses are
happy.
The sleigh-bell wa. heard in the land
few days only.
Smallpox closed the public schools in
Huntingdon.
Service every ey ening this week in the
Lutheran church.
Ice from the Lewistown dam came down
the liver on Saturday
The Altoona Dally Tribune is about to
resume Publication.
Spring election February l9. Nominate
no men but good men.
Religious services in the Presbyteri an
church every evening this week.
The late cold snap interfered with ether
town clocks than the one in this place.
The smallpox has not got out of the
house. in Patterson, in which it originated
The railroad company put a substantial
plank walk along the company houses in
Patterson.
The snow and winter weather of week
ago. did not last long; it was all over by
Saturday morning
The School Board of Delaware township
advertise for sealed proposals to build a
school house. See posters.
How cleyerly the local politician shakes
YOU by the hand now. A shake OF the
hand is in order at any time
:. In their way of doing things the New
Hampshire Republicans sat down pretty
hard on ". E. Chandler, on the 9th inst"
Jurors in Huntingdon were so scared by
smallpox that they failed to put in an ap-
pearance at Court, and that Judicial body
was consequently adjourned.
In consequence of the - dead lock " in
the Legislature, we suspend the publication
of all Legislative proceedings until the law
making channels are opened.
Yaccinate. True, you may not meet an
individual who had smallpox, but when
atmospheric coHtagion is active you may
get the disease when there is no case within
many miles.
The practice of suing papers Tor hoei
doesn't pay in Philadelphia. Nat Mckay
has withdrawn all his suits against the Phil
adelphia Times. The Times has been sued
seventeen times and has won every CASE
LAWYER McMeen. Attorney intact for the
heirs of Elizabeth and Reuben Buckwalter,
deceased, viii expose to sale three tracts oil
land IN Walker township, on Monday, Feb
ruary IL, 1878, at three O'Clock P. N. See
handbills.
The Perry county Grand Jury found
true bill against John E. Bcden, County
Treasurer. and Thomas Haines, for con
spring to cheat and defraud Jacob krearCer,
Jury Commissioner, in that they received
OF him $500, in National Bank notes, for
which they were to give him $1,000 IN
Greenbacks, of an over-issue, which they
claimed that they controlled He got for
his $500, thirty dollars in U. s. cotton mill
assimilated greenback, and packet OF
brown paper.
Philadelphia Markets, Saturday morning,
January u, Is7S.-Penna. amber wheat
sl.4Oal.4l, Corn 53to57c, Oats 33tooSc,
Rye 65to73c, Coffee, Rio, l7tOl9c, Java -
to2I5c in gold, Sugar 7toI0c, Iron, pig, SIS
5Otof95O per ton, Nails S2.40to2-50 per
keg, Salted Hides Sto9.c, Salted calf skins
lOtol3c, Sheepskins, for city slaughtered
SltoI. 10, for country, 75c, Pelts S2-ootoZ'
75c, Slaughter Sole 27to34c, Finished up
per 22to23c, Kip 2Sro35c, Apples from New
York State s3.5Oto4 90 per bbl., Potatoes
5Oto6Oc, Onions 81 .25tol.75. Feathers 49t0
50c.
Intelligence from Bloomfield, Perry coun'
ty, on Saturday, says: The Peoples Bank
of Newport. was burglsrized last year o'
five thousand dollars. Subsequently, the
money was returned, and the bank ofhcial'
tailed to prosecute the burglars The dis
t.ict attorney forced the case, however, and
indicted the persons indicated by rumor a.
the guilty of the burglary. The case wa
set down for trial to-day. Last night Jas
Ferguson and William Richenbach, th'
parties indicted, left on train bound west
and so far have not been heard from. Thei
bail one thousand dollars, has been foIiei.
cd by the court.
On Monday evening about O'Clock Mrs
Carver, wife of DIR. Carver, of Thompson
town. went to the stable to milk, leaving
two children, aged q and years Old, IL
the sitting room of the house. when sh
returned to the house the older child wa
absent, and the younger one was lying OIL
the floor of the room in which she lett IN
children, with all its clothes burned OH, ant
its body burned almost TO crisp. Tue un
fortunate child fingered till ii O'Clock tina
night. when it died. The children, whel
the mother went out, played with the hre
and in the play the clothing of the younge
one were set on fire, with the above result
The older child became frightened, ran on
and left the younger cne alone