Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-15
SHORT LOCALS.

Saturday morning was cold.
Hail and snow last Saturday.
Butter favored ami co!ored by grass.
And now the lightning rod man comesh |
again.
The Republican State Conveatioa meet,
to-day at harrisburg.
NThe tramp fraternity had many members
proving around las; week.
Mer,sring has /, couple of handsome
phaetons for sale at Richheld.
Considering the advanced stage Of ,ese-
tstion, corn planting came late.
A heavy frost played havoc on Monday |
morning with many kind, OF vegetables
Lswyers, and cloui of witnesses, in the
Gallagher case, are oil TO ChAmo osrsbGrg to
Court
If length of nsm. is good thing, then |
this is good, ..N.tiona! Greenback Labor |
Party"
The Lewisbnrg, Union comfy, National
Bank suspended payment and business,
/ NAV Sih.
The Permanent Exhibition was opened Al
/ Philadelphia with considerable ceremony |
last Friday.
! The poorest Of the candidates Of the Ma
tionai. on the STATE Ticket is reported to
be worth ssO, 900.
/ How is this for education s.Fo school
directors in the city of Scranton can ncith-
er read nor write.''
Rev Joseph " ,thcr. conducted the COM
nunion services at Lost Greek Presbyterian
church last Sabba'h.
The famine in China continues. The
Eastern country has always been a great
country Tor famines.
SGp Saturday last David Cunningham and
! E. S. Parker were elected Elders in the
Presby ytetian church in this place.
Senator Don Cameron and Miss Sherman
I of Ohio, were married last week, the we'd
ding gifts, it is said, are valued at $780,
coo.
The question of the closing of camp
meeting enclosures on Sabbath day is
question that is agitaiing good many camp
meeting people.
Rev. T. J. Sherrard, is off to Pittsburg,
attending the General Assembly, - an an
thorized delegate or commissioner lie
wiI a.. ,bseuf tso weeks
Tho soreheld. the envious nan, the jeal-
Gus rnan, the demAgogue, and the nIsn that
il full OF malice sil never reach heaven,
they are all bound i5r the lini of brimstonc.
People are taking to the old way of trav-
cling. john d. Mish.er, Of Reading, con-
templates running .ral.y" coach between
Reading and Lebanon the coming sun
mrr."
..It was on the train and III, lights burn
cd di,niy SAID he: ..Do 90 no He r Said
she: rs, ubs oo.' ) all vulgar fellow !
ON the seat b.i;rd them "Whlt are yer
grim Us, .uI.y ?"
$50 out. Young man, she il not here /
said Penns, lyaniI preacher last Sundav
in the midst of hi sermon To- y"Htli h /
saw stmding hc>iiliingIy Ia the DOORWAY. !
-Oseego Palladium.
| An exchange SAYS, '.ToStmisters have |
4 been instructed e. receive the little three /
cent pi ce for postage stamps and then not |
reissue it. The government wishes to ct
the. little nuisance Ont OF circulation"
Il will soon be time for the man who |
I taxes 10 county paper to call around and |
/ a,s tor ala announcement for office, and |
urge it, that the paper be used in hIS sup |
port. Such men have no fitness for Office.
! "Whst beauuful example of simplicity |
/ in dress i. shown by thIt domestic animal |
the cat, which rises in the morning, washes |
ITS face with its right hand, gives irs tail
three jerks, aud Is ready dressed for the
day.
The LAWYERS in Harrisburg have 4 difficult |
I case on hand II came through the post
Office in the form of a letter, the direction
on the letter reads. '.ro the Smirtest law
yer in Harrisburg" The case is, which,
or who of the bar is the smartest lawyer ?
1t was a naughty direction.
"a Detroit boy stood an umbrella, with
i cord tied to it, in public doorSay.-
Eleven persons thought that the uubrelli
was theirs, and carried 1t away with them
the length of the string. They then sud
denly Dropped it, and went of without once
looking blck or stopping to pick il up
again"
Slack water navigation for the Susque
hanna and Junis's rivers, is being good
deal talked of. Steam boats instead of ca
raj boats, would always insure a full supply
of fish for the people Of the State. The
fish that would go t. the sea could return
at their regular return tine through the
breaker. in the dam.
ellis Honor, Judge jerks, OF Jefferson.
last week charged that the somewhat pre-
vailing practice of serenading newly mar
ried persons with tin pans, horns. ETC., and
collecting and creating a terrible did, was
a violation of law, riot. In the future lie
will hold all parties guilty of such oErnse
amenda able to the full extent prescribed"
In politics, in corporations. in the church,
in everything in which people organize
there will always be certain nien who con-
stantly say officer so and so, Deacon and
Elder so and so, or sister so and so, or
some one SO and so, not seen so and so, is
running the concern, when the whole truth
in nine cases in ten is, that the thorn in the
flesh OF the certain set is. that it Is not so
and, or 1t is so and so, because they are
not running the concern.
"Mr. Samuel Ur;ch, of Harrisburg,
has in his possession one of the OH