Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-24
SHORT LOCALS.
CELERY setting.

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A new name for water melons-Colic On
delivery.
The oats crop is large one, with grain of
good quality.
Smoke glass to look through at the
eclipse on the 29th inst.
Men shoot game on Sunday, within hear
ing distance of Lewistown.
Advocates of the whipping post are
springing up in many places.
Mr.. Gayman has built large new barn
on his farm iu Fayette township.
At O'Clock last Friday morning the ther-
mometer stood at SC degrees in the shade.
Alonzo Stewart, of Duncannon, Perry
county, attempted suicide a few days ago.
Heat overcame and killed horse for Will
liam Ort, of Fermansgh township, last Fri
day..
People in Perry county-in.erested par
ties-are advocating a division of Carroll
township.
Rev. E. E. Berry and C. B. Horning
launched new boat for river fishing, last
Wednesday,
The Mifiiin county fair will open on the
25th Gay of September only two months
in the future.
Camp-meeting and bush-meeting people
are getting their houses in order for a So
journ in the woods.
John S. Graybill, of Mifiiiutown, is the
member of The State Central Committee,
for Juniata county.
1t is said by bee cultivators that bees this
year have an uncommon inclination to leave
their hives and go the woods.
A horse, owned by William Banks, was
killed by the heat while at work on the farm
in Feimanagh township, last Thursday.
Several days ago korse owned by the
Wilson brothers, at Oakland Mills, Fayette
township, got crazy, and had to be killed.,
The Harvest Home sermon of Rev. E. E.
Berry was well received by the audience
that listened to the reverend gentleman on
5 unday.
At Milliken's Knob, in Brown township,
Miffiin county, there is a spring the temper
ature Of the water of which is 46 degrees
the year.
Levi Zook, who jumped from a train of
cars while at full speed, some days ago, at
McVeytown, Mifiiin county, is recovering
from the effects of the mistake.
ga heated lover wrote a letter Of the
same to his inamorata last week, beginning,
IS westest.' She will be q sister to him
hereafter-nothIng more"
The advantage OF comfortable rest was
with the tramp last Thursday night, as he
lay in the pleasant night air in fence cor
ner, or by the side of hay-rick.)
II is a sosrce of regret that We were not
abl. to be present at the examination of the
Orphans School, at Nc cAlistervillc,
in response to a most cordial invitation.
ssWe never saw man." says an exchange,
''who thought il a sin to steal an umbrella"
Then you never saw a man whose umbrella
had just been stolen.-Nep Hdrea Register.
On Saturday morning valuable mare,
owned by Emanuel Meyer, of Fermanagh
was found dead in pasture field,
where she had been turned on Friday even
ing.
John Page, while working in an oats
field of William Oles, in Fermanagh town
ship, last Thursday, was sun struck, and
lay unconscious five hours. he has since
recovered.
The growing corn throughout the county
is not of heavy growth in the stalk, but it
has time to put forth a large ear, which it
may 90 If the month of August be month
of many rains.
People are beginning TO hold private hops.
When they do such things when the ther-
mometer stands among the nineties, what
will they do in January, when it goes down
below the freezing point
Cases of sunstroke and death by heat
were so numerous in ST. Louis last week,
that papers from that place say that the fu
nerals were as plenty as when the cholera
settled in the place few years ago.
"Healthy milk cows are profitable. They
eat less and yield more milk than poor un-
healthy cattle. They can be kept in good
by using Foutz's Horse and Cat
tie Powders during winter and spring"
Mr.. Browand, residing in Fefmanagh
was overcome BY heat in one of
his fields, on Friday, and carried to his
house in an unconscious state. He is re-
covering from the effects of the prostration.
Auditor General Schell, in reply TO inqui-
rers, says: "Millers are not subject to tax
unless they have tiorr or feed store sepa-
rate and apart from the mill. In the future
no costs will be paid on suits brought
against millers."
"John," said a pover;y-stricken man,
ssPye made my will to-day" All" re-
piled John. 90 You were liberal to me, no
doubt "Yes, John, came down hand
some. | willed you the whole country TO
make living IN, with the privilege of going
elsewhere if you can do better"
"It has been decided recently by Judge
jerks, of Jefferson county, tnat this thing
of "serenading'' newly married couple by
means of tin horns, pans, horse fiddies,
cracked accordeons and such, is an indict-
able offence. as the participants in all per-
formances of the kind are guilty of riot"
j. W. Griffith, Esq, of the .Morrou Coun-
ty Sentinel, Mount Giiead, Ohio, spent Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday among his friends
and relatives in this place, he being ma
tive of this county. Mr.. Griffith came east
with the Ohio Editorial Association that
made a trip to the Atlantic seaboard last
week.
: The weather was so warm last "Wednesday