Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-09
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

LONsIL f&NI
Vaccinate.
Fill ice-houses.
Feed the sparrows.
Weather prophets to the front.
Congress will meet again next week.
Read the proceedings OF the Legislature.
The late fail of snow was 10 inches deep.
The next campaign viii he an important
one
Few sleighs were put on the road on Sab
bath.
The holiday travel has been better than a
year ago.
Huntingdon had smallpox and thought it
was chicken-pox.
Is the new leaf that you turned over on
the LIST, still clean
A large installment of the beautiful snow
last Friday morning
A number of people talk of going west in
The spring, to settle there.
a number of people from the larger towns
propose moving to Erazil.
Wild turkeys have rest. They'll not
know what's the matter.
J.B. NJ. Todd has received new lot of
Clothing, at reduced prices.
The sleighing enlivened the town by
bringing many people to town.
I .Ex-Assembly Rohrer, of Tuscarora valley
has invested largely in Texas lands.
Who said that snow that falls in the in
crease of the moon invariably drifts
Henry Ward Beecher and Bob Ingersoll,
both expect to lecture at Harrisburg this
winter
The tow2 clock got out of condition On
Thursday, which affected the time of the
whole town.
On Thursday morning about O'Clock the
chimney of Jas. II. Simons, near East Point,
took fire, but was soon extinguished.
A fresh lot of new style winter Caps at
Todd's.
There is a mingled smell of disinfectants
in town, carbolic acid, onion, asafetida,
birthstone, and other unpleasant smelling
things.
"Goyernor and Mrs. Hartranft will give
the first reception of the season at the Ex-
ecutiye Mansion on Thursday evening, Jan
uary 18th.
The State Senate desires TO cast off all
the unfinished business of last year. The
Lower House does net consent. To what
degree will that obstruct bGsiness7
Fifty people have been made penitent,
and have sought pardon of their Maker.
through the instrumentality of the Evan
gelic church in Patterson this winter.
Ice, sufficiently strong TO permit skaters
TO skate on it, was formed on Friday night,
along the river-shore, on the Patterson side.
Good use of it was made on Saturday
All church people observe the Week o.
Prayer, in town, the Presbyterians in then
church, and the Iutherans and MethOdIsts
in the Lutheran and Methodist churches al
ternately.
You can buy Buffalo Robes and Lar
Robes, and Horse Blankets cheap Todd's.
Nearly all the people expressed more oil
less dissatisfaction with the wild weather OF
December. ssToo warm for winter weather.
they said; and now that it has got cold, they
@, still are not satisfied.
{ Associate Judges Elder and Barclay, were
on the bench at the hour appointed for al
adjourned court last Friday, but the storm
had SO obstructed travel that Judge Junkir
was unable to get here.
A youth, aged about sixteen, son of GRAM
Walters, of Lewistown, in an effort TO get on
a running freight train of cars at Lewistowr
Junction fell under the cars, and was so in'
iured that he died. His funeral took place
on Sabbath last.
General Siegfried's document on the Har'
risburg riots, prepared for file in the Audi
tor Generals office, is severely criticised by
the Harrisburg Telegraph. which paper, also
after its criticism, objects to the filing Of
the Generals report.
James Cargill, whose place of residence
was in house on the hillside west OF the
Company houses, on the west side OF the
railroad in Patterson, died of smallpox or
Saturday night last. There are no Other
cases thus far in town. Vaccinate.
Another Reduction in the Price of Sew
ing Machines. at Todd's.-He sells all the
different kinds of machines. $40 to so
will buy the best machine in the market
Don't pay $40 or $50 for a machine, when
YOU can buy the same machine for S25, al
NEW.
The PENNSYLVANIA Board of Agriculture
will meet at Harrisburg, commencing Wed
nesday, January %, 1873, at 2 P. NJ. On
tine evening of the same day, at O'Clock,
Prof.J. P. Lesley, State Geologist and Geol'
ogist of the Board OF Agriculture, will ad.
dress the Legislature and Board of Agricul,
ture. Subject: Soils, as regarded from the
side of Geology.
What grand season the past one has been
to renovate the soil, moist gentle fall sea
son that extended itself away into the win
ter, supplying the earth with gasses from
the atmosphere to degree such as has moi
been witnessed in many years. The crops
will be better in the next few years to come
So say those who are disposed to predict on
scientific principles.