Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-08-28
SHORT LOCALS.

| hepupicans, organize IN every township
Good Guns at J. B. NJ. Todd's for $3.50
The dog days of 1878 came to an end las
week.
Petty thieving, with threats of shotgun
punishment.
Turpentine is said to be yellow feve
disinfectant.
Kearney is neither Protestant or Catho
lie, in religion.
To give Democratic politician politica
colo, say Grant, or Cameron.
The Patterson Sabbath-school picnicket
in Lauver's wood last Thursday.
The borough schools will be opened oil
on Monday, the 9th day of September.
A Priest in India says the world will com,
to an eud on the llth day of July, 1879.
Rev. J. B. Kennedy, of Trenton, N. J =.
preached in the Presbyterian church OIL
Sabbath.
John Bergy killed Is copperhead snakes
last Friday, near Jericho dam, In Fermsn
agh township.
The q. p. Sabbath-school of Mexico viii
hold picnic at the Gin Spring, on Satur
day, Aug. 81.
Farmers are busy preparing ground fol-
fall wheati busy threshing wheat, and hull
ing cloverseed.
The law requires that all bass csught, thai
are under six inches in length, shall be re.
turned to the stream.
The Smith Brothers supply the local mar.
kets, and large demands from the east and
west, with their fine peaches.
The plum crop in this State this year has
been large one. Everybody will eat pre-
served plums next winter.
Use cider vinegar many of the quick
vinegars, that are manufactured in day,
are said to contain copper, a rank poison.
Five, Ten to Fifteen Dollars will buy a
good Sewing Machine at ]. B. NJ. Todd's
The people of the South, who have been
so scourged by the yellow fever, are long
ing for frosty mornings, for frost, it is said 4,
drives away yellow fever.
Carbolc acid is said to be disinfectant
for yellow fever. Read the communication
from 8. Tacitus;" he tells OF cheaper pre-
ventive than caIbolic acid.
The Union Sabbath-school, of Mexico,
held their annual picnic at Gin Spring, on
Saturday last. Those who We're present
say the occasion was pleasant one.
Republicans, let no one move you to vote
against your own ticket. No reasonable
objection can be urged against the candi-
dates of the Republican party.
Kearney calls educated men "classical
scoundrels." What Will become of the free
schools when the Kearneyites get into
power But let the foreigner talk.
The harmonious combination is found in
Providence, Rhode Island, in a man named
Green publishing Greenback paper, print
ed in green ink. Green throughout, GER
tainly.
JACK O'Neill was convicted, at Sunhury,
a few days ago, for the murder of Cramcr
Hesser, near Shamokin, in 1874. He is the
twenty-second Mollie Mcguire convicted OF
murder.
Ca Saturday last, the Red Bank and LO-
Gust Grove Saobath-schools held celebra-
ton in Groninger's woods. The day was a
pleasant one, and the occasion was enjoyed
by all present.
The Lutheran Synod Of Central Pennsyl-
vania will convene in the Lutheran Church
in this place on the 26th day of September
next. The full delegation, ministers and
layn.en, number about seventy.
Todd is selling off his stock off Clothing
at cost, to make room for Fall Stock.
The Lutheran and Methodist Sabbath
schools will unite il holding basket pic
mic, in Schweier's grove, on Thursday, 29th
inst. All friends of the Schools are in
vited to attend.
II is an opinion OF taste, as to which,
whether the arrangement of flowers In the
yard of Senator Crawford, or the arrange
ment of flowers in the yard of Mr.. Samuel
Showers, is the most pleasing.
The Bloomfield .1iuocate says On the 7th
inst. Mr.. Andrew Shick saw land turtle on
the farm of William Moose, marked 'sD. N,
Is2o"-supposed to stand for Daniel Neil
son, who owned the farm at that time.
Under the direction of the Session of the
Presbyterian church in this place, collec-
ton was lifted On Sabbath, in Rev. Mr..
Sherrard's church for the benefit of the
yellow fever sufferers in the South.
A melon dealer says that black specks or
blisters on the skin of water melon is a
certain mark of ripeness. Now is the time
to find out what he knows about water
melons, for they are in the market.
A number Of well-kuown Mollie Maguires
moved quietly away from Sunbury, North
cumberland county, last week, Immediately
after the jury found Jack O'Neill, fellow
Nellie, guilty of murder in the first degree.
Don't trade of your old Sewing Machines
till you learn the price of Todd's new ma
chines-all kinds. You can save $40 to SIS.
This is what the wife of doctor said to
her husband who went out for days hunt
ing and on coming home, complained that
he hadn't killed any thing. "That's because
you didn't attend to your legitimate busi-
ness"
By typographical mistake, the notice, an
nouncing, that the United Presbyterian Sab
bath school of Mexico will hold a celebra-
tion at Gin Spring, was made to read Aug.
SOth. 1t should have read Saturday, Aug.
81, 1873.
Report from Huntingdon says that the
Huntingdon Democracy will cast a compli-
mentary vote for John VI. Bailey In the
district conference, and then wheel into line
for Magee, which, if true, will nominate the
aforementioned candidate for Congress.
A man in Huntingdon county struck his
wife with switch no thicker than mans