Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-08-07

GraDgers will hold grand picnic in Will
liams' Grove, in Cumberland valley on the
2sth inst.
Zinn, the postmaster At Newport, Perry
county, has disappeared, and his where
abcuts are unknown.
A Selinsgrove man raised 81 bushels of
wheat on two acres Of ground adjacent to
the town mentioned.
The Huntington county National Green
hackers have ticket in the field, with Mr..
Caleb North on it for Congress.
Kearney says people come by chance,
therefore he desires to live as long as ne
can; moi orthodox by long piece.
Hoy; must have been in Huntingdon, for
the Monitor asks: ''D,d you see the next
Governor the other evening in townl'
The "horse hole" al the thild pier of the
river bridge is well stocked with bass, but
they know how to resist the temptations of
the fisherman's bait.
| A committee of teachers in Perry county
have been holding meetings To determine 3
uniform series Of text books for the common
schools of that county.
CA western editor says: Communism
/ doesn't take.' He has not seen the real
/ thing Genuine Communism takes every
thing that does not belong to it,
/ The whipping post is in full operation in
Virginia, and its establishment in Pennsyl-
yania ha. many advocates, and the men who
favor its establishment are daily increasing
| in number.
A few days ago Matthew Rogers, residing
| in Walker township, sold a Durham bull
/ calf, five weeks old, 10 Dr. Fr'd Sasser,
stock raiser, in Upper Marlborough, Prince
George county, Nd. The calf weighed
over 200 pounds.
! 1t is nice pan of fish the Greenbackers
/ have had hashed up FOR them in Huntingdon
county. Speer has gathered up the con-
cern, bag and baggage, and will land them
among the Democracy, if they submit to
the ways into which they are now turned.
Greenback fish Speered
An exchange says: '.The county commits
sioners of Lancaster county have given no.
| tice that hereafter the county of Lancaster
will not pay any costs to magistrates, con-
stables or police officers for arrests made
under the act for the prevention OF tres
passing upon railroad trains"
Juniata Valley Camp Meeting will open
next Tuesday, the 18th inst, and end on the
23d inst. Excursion tickets will be sold
from all stations on the Middle, Lewistown,
and Tyrone Divisions of the p. C. r. R.,
from August 18th until August 23d, good
to return until August oath, inclusive.
An editor is pretty certain to lose a pa.
tron when his foreman inadvertently puts q
marriage notice under the head of "AnotheI
Swindle Come TO Light" The groom, in
stead of accepting the biunder as a new
sample of American humor, gets awfully
mad and wants to strike somebody.-Nor-
risioen Herald.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shilling, aged about 60
years, was walking on the Sunbury and
Lewistown Railroad, last week, on a curve,
near Wagner's Station. Her hearing wa:
not good. therefore she did not hear a train
Of cars that came up behind her. She wa.
knocked off the track, and so hurt that she
died in a couple of hours.
/ he Fal ,s q
specific for whooping cough and will cure in
from two days to two weeks: Nitric acid
dill, IL d. drachms; comp. tincture OF car
damons, d. drachms; syrup, 8 d. ounces
water, d. ounce. Mix. One to two tea
spoonfuls every two hours, according to th'
age OF the child.-Boston Journal Of Chem
lsfry.
) Harrisburgers would Ike to have musi'
, 10 their park in the evening. Wait till tn
Communist comes; then every town aDt
township viii lave its band paid by IN
, public, and private music will be forbidden
, The only trouble about the the thing is
where will the money come from to pay tn
band, il no one is to be allowed TO Owl
property upon which an assessment may b
laid, from which TO collect tax
, The Bedford Inquirer says that whel
Chairman Speer made speech at tn
Springs, some days ago, he invited tn
! tramp fraternity to call on Mr.. Dill, declar
ing that they world be welcome, even
their dress be so diapidated that their un
der garment projected long distance fror
the posterior region, which causes the IN
euirer to suggest that Mr.. Speer be emo
bled with the title of Chairman Shirt-ta
SPeer.
> On Thursday afternoon a peddler wit
lamp cleaners, and an iron ore miner had
; quarrel on Main street, the peddler wante'
the miner TO go down along the river shor
and tight it out. But no one wished to &
along to see the fight. So they went in
siley back of Muthersbugh hardware store
and had a round or two, the peddler SCENE
to be the stronger Of the two and afte
throwing the miner down two o. three time
and saving he did not " ish to hurt him, tn
fight ended.
One who is supposed to know, writes tn
following Persons travelling much by raj
? way are subject to continual annoyance frol
!. flying cinders. A very effective cure
within reach of every one, and is simpl
one or two grains of fax-seed. They ma
:. be placed in the eye without injury or pa
to that delicate organ, and shortly they wi
begin to swell and form q giutinous sui
stance that covers the ball Of the eye, el
veloping any foreign substance that may
: In it. The irritation or cutting OF the men
: brane is thus prevented, and the annoyane
may soon be washed ont. A dozen Of the'
Il grains slowed away in the vest pocket ma
u ,-or. in an cnerceucv worfh their weigt