Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-31
SHORT LOCALS.

month.
The Patterson House porch has been
overhauled.7
The season in which to catch trout has
just expired.
The communication from Tacltus will ap-
pear next week.
Fishermen catch bass on floating outlines
during the daytime.
The Blair county fair will open at Altoo.
ma October :, 1873.
Stephen Reno sent US a stalk of oats that
measured 6 feet inches.
Rev. T. ]. Sherrard preached at Graham.
vile last Saturday evening.
The g. A. R. Encampment at Gettysburg
was largely attended last week.
IA party of young men gigged seventy
hve hsh IN the river few evenings ago.
Sixty-four probationers were admitted to
the NJ. E. church in Lewistown recently.
Quite a number of bass have been taken
within the past week, by hook and line
fishing.
AZ is not often that oats straw grows to
the length Of the present crop, but it fire.
quently fills better.
Arrangements are being made to trans
port the coin of the U. S Treasury by mail
instead of by express.
Henry Hawk caught seven bass in Cot
ter's hole, on Friday last, the largest of
which weighed two pounds.
The Democratic State Committee will
meet at Cresson to-rnorrow, to consider the
order of the fall campaign.
! party of young people picnicked at
Macedonia last week. They went to that
famous local resort in wagons.
1t is said that July plowing produces the
best wheat crops. There was little plowing
done IN the past month of July.
Moses Pannebaker has executed job OF
nice painting in the Odd Fellows Hall since
the fire damaged that building
Train agents on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road have been dispensed with. The sold
conductor" system is in practice now.
Two men, arm in arm, supposed to have
had too much "heat" on, promenaded the
streets in Patterson Friday afternoon last.
al prefer the heated term to the cold
wave, as the young Oil citizen said when his
girl dismissed him with wave of her hand.
Derrick.
Rev. U. Jacobs, an aged citizen OF Lew
istown, died at his home in that place on
Sabbath, the 2lst inst. His age was 81
years and 10 days.
Two men, selling shoe-blacking, collected
quite crowd at the corner of Main and
Bridge streets, few evenings ago, by &C.
casionally singing popular song.
The showers on Friday afternoon last
purified the air and left those who were
born tired under the consciousness that a
cool spell was again TO be enjoyed.
An exchange says; A piece of flannel sat-
urated with alcohol and applied to the bow
els and stomach, of children, is sure cure
for dysentery and cholera infantum.
The wife Of Mr.. David B. Dimm, residing
in Delaware township, was taken i'll sudden
ly, some nights ago, and before a messen-
ger could be started for a doctor she died.
The sacrament of the Lords Supper will
be observed in the Presbyterian church in
this place next Sabbath a week. Rev. Mr..
McCarreli, of Shippensburg, will assist on
that occasion.
Itis said by dispatch that the United
States Colonel Mackenzie with 800 soldiers
is over in Mexico after a party of raiders
that were in Texas. A few days will prove
or disproye the story.
Hunter, who was recently convicted of
the murder of Armstrong, in Camden, had
his house levied on last week, to pay the fee
of one of his lawyers. The sum to be col
lected is 100.
Robert Sartain, residing on the Shuman
farm in Walker township, was sun struck
during the heated term some days ago, and
was carried into the house in an uncon-
scious state. He has fully recovered.
John Alexander, residing in Lack town
ship, about two miles frsm Waterloo, sent
us timothy stalk about 5 feet 10 inches
! long, and having head 81 inches In length.
Who can beat that
| / Wittenburg College, Ohio, at the late
Announcement conferred the degree of
l.. L. d. on Rev. Samuel Aughey, a native
of yuniata county, now professor of Nat
ural Sciences in the Nebraska State Univer-
sity.
| ( David Notes.-The, residing in Fermanagh
township, was thrown out of a buggy by
his horse frightening at a locomotive at Lew
istown Junction, on Sabbath. He was not
seriously hurt, but his face shows many
bruises
Considerable indignation has been ex-
pressed by land owners along the canal, al
the action of canal authority tearing down
fences of the property holders, under the
plea that the fences are built on land owned
by the canal company.
The Lewistown Ga asette says: What with
pleasure driving, boating. hunting, fishing,
piano playing, street whistling. children's
sports, and long train of similarities, our
Sundays are becoming more of holidays
than holydays-
u S. D. Batesholtz, foreman of the Sentinel
and Republican Office, out of curiosity, put
stakes to potato stalk, to learn how long
a stalk of that root will grow. The result,
so far, is, that he has potato stalk that is
6 feet inches in height. 1t is now in
bloom.
Within the past few days there has been
trouble at Washington, d. C., with certain
Combinations of men who wish to prevent