Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
Letter from Oriental,
ORIENTAL, Pa, June 13, 1878.

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M EditOr-Dear Sir, Haymaking
Will soon be in full ''blast" in the east
ern end of the county: few of the
farmers have commenced cutting
grass. The grass is good. Grain,
suppose, has never been much better
than this year Corn is backward.
As long as it feels comfortably to
draw feather-bed over the legs at
night to sleep, it is not the best wea-
ther for corn to grow.
Mr. John 2. Troup, of the vicinity
of Oriental, was blind of one eye for
some time, caused by cataract hav-
ing been formed over it, had the same
successfully cut and removed by DR..
Nipple, of Port Treverton, and is
now doing well.
An excitement was created about
the LIST of April at the Oriental store,
when the new proprietor, E. g. Sheaf-
fer, took charge of it, and the excite
ment is still continuing with una
bated interest, crowds being on hand
day after day to witness the rapidsales
of goods, keeping two or three clerks
busy all the time to wait on the Gus
toners, and always line of custom
ers along the counters waiting for
their turn" Mr. Sheaffer's ship
ments of produce run from 700 to
1000 dozen of eggs and 450 pounds
of butter per week We are always
happy to give good testimony of a
man who was raised in our midst.
and may be considered as being zone
Of us, and OF Mr. Sheaffer we can
do that cheerfully and without hest
tation.
The other day I was looking over
the report of the last census; and
being anxious to see among the Pro
fessions, in which profession q man
would be most likely to succeed, and
which were full or overcrowded, /
found that among population of
3S,115,6H persons, great and small,
black and white, old and young. high
and low, We had 40,736 lawyers, g.
3S3 doctors, 1884 preachers, 1885,
So teachers, 40,756 tavern-keepers.
Now if We average six persons to a
family, we find that one lawyer feeces
l56 families, one doctor drugs S5
families, l preacher consoles 145 fam
lies, one teacher instructs so fami-
lies, one tavern-keeper gives drink to
153 families, and disgust many more.
Now found that those professions
are "brimful;" but. looking further
on, ] found that there were only 73
chimney-sweeps, and SO 1 made up
my mind that probably there might
be an opening in that profession but.
upon considering the fact that chin
neys are being made so small nova
days that full-grown person cannot
get through them, l am lost again.
Mr.. Michael Shetterly, an old cit
izen of Susquehanna township, has
been in helpless condition for up
wards of two years already, caused
by paralysis. Such cases are truly
pitiable, and call forth the sympathies
of all humane persons.
Those young men who dress well,
and drive fast horses when going
abroad, should not, when in want of
trowsers for every day wear, go into
cornfields and steal the trowsers from
the "scare-crows it looks SO anus
ing, and if the printers get hold OF
such tricks they are SO very apt to
make fun of it.
Amelia Houtz, daughter of Levi
Houtz, who moved to Nebraska from
the vicinity of Richfeld, little more
than a year ago, had one of her arms
crushed in a corn-sheller this spring,
and mangled to such an extent as to
render amputation necessary. A let
ter of recent date from that place,
states that she is doing well, though
crippled for life She is about eigh-
teen years Of age
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