Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-26
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Congress has adjourned.
The longest day of 1873 is no more.
An exchange calls the village scandal
mongers, .sgad-abouts."
A number of people have chills and fever,
every second or third day.
The Juniata Medical Association will pic
mic at Hollidaysburg on Thursday, July IL,
1873.
Republican State Committees headquar
tiers, Tenth and Chestnut Streets, Philadel-
phia.
House TO rent, in the borough of Miffiin-
town. For particulars call at tie office of
DR.. L. E. Atkinson.
ThS Harrisburg Telegraph says, spring
chickens, not much larger than an English
sparrow, sell at 30 cents apiece.
The late rains have brought the corn out
amazingly, so that when all is considered
the new corn stalks are not so far behind
after all.
At O'Clock, next Sabbath afternoon, a
meeting will be held at Cuba School House
for the purpose of recognizing the Sab
bath school.
Z Rev. Mr.. McBurney, of the q. P. church
at Mexico, and Rev. Mr.. Sherrard, of the
Presbyterian church of this place, will ex-
change pulpits next Sabbath.S
X The McCahan brothers few days ago
came across large rattle-snake on Shade
mountain. The snake was killed, and to
their astonishment it had Is rattles.
The State Editorial Association visited
Cresson last week, and while there Colonel
A. K. Mcclure delivered an address on s'the
power, influence and mission of the news
paper press"
"Foutz's Celebrated Horse and Cattle
Powders will, if given 10 Milk Cows, ac-
cordiDg 10 the directions, increase the guam
tity and quality of milk twenty per cent,
and make the butter firm and sweet"
On Saturday, John Peters was sentenced
by the United States Court, to a period of
three years. Imprisonment in the Western
Penitentiary at Pittsburg, for breaking into
the Post Office at this place, on the night of
the 26th of May last
On Saturday, a lad named Stewart. aged
seven years. living with his father, in Lick
ing Creek valley, was thrown down by calf
which he was leading. and thereby the left
thigh of the boy was broken. DR.. Banks
was called and rendered the surgical aid
necessary.
An exchange says: The following notice
speaks for itself: s.Office hours for listening
TO commercial travellers, to IL; solicitors
of church subscriptions, ii to /; book
agents, to 3; stationery peddlers and in
surance men all day. We attend TO our
own business at night"
In memory of the withdrawal of George
Washington's army from Valley Forge,
Montgomery county, one hundred years ago
on the 18th inst, the people in the vicinity
of Valley Forge INDUCED in grand Gen.
tennial celebration. The Continental army,
including the sick, numbered / 500 men.
SFor days and weeks, all through the
spring-time since young chickens came, a
ravenous cat preyed on young fowls of the
neighborhood of East Point, until the men
in that vicinity began TO look for the cat to
shoot it. Prothonotary Beidler was the man
who was so fortunate as to get shot at the
animal, and since then there is peace among
the young chickens at East Point
(-On the first Sabbath in July, E. s. Par
ker will be confirmed as an Elder in the
Presbyterian chuch in this place, in accord
apce with the rules, rites, and ceremonies
of the Presbyterian church. Mr.. David
Cunningham, who was elected an Elder at
the same that Mr.. Parker was elected, has
not signified his acceptance Of the Elder
ship, and will not be confrmedS
There are many practical communists in
the country, who reject the theory of the
commune. The bank officer, who uses the
funds of the bank for purposes of specula-
ton without the consent of the directors,
and appropriates the revenues arising from
funds, is a communist. All that large class
of people who use other peoples money
and never pay back, are practical commun-
lists.
Isaac Ethen, a brakeman on First Ma
tional freight line, was torn to pieces
by the train on which he was employed, q
few days ago, between Spruce Creek and
Altoona. The largest piece of his remains
was not larger than the two hands of a man.
II is not known how he got under the cars ;
some conjecture that he was first assaulted
and knocked ssnseless by tramps. He was
aged about 40 years. A wife and family at
Harrisburg mourn his death.
By some means or other an opinion had
got abroad in the country that on the 18th of
June, 1873, general strike on all railroads
was to have taken place. How such an
opinion came to be abroad is not necessary
TO ask. The fact is, no such strike took
place on that day. There is one other fact
in connection with the question, and that is,
that during period Of five days preceding
the day on which the strike was announced
as to take place the number of tramps be-
tween the large business. centers gradually
grew less, and as consequence there was
a concentration of the tramps at large towns
and business ccnters by the 18th. Itis said
that on that day there were fifteen hundred
in and about Pit;sburg. A number of ar
rests were made.
The debt Of Pittsburg is ia, ,000,-