Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-12

produced, died at his place OF residence in
Philadelphia, on the lst day OF this month.
Report has it that the satchel that is or
has been strapped to conductors on Penn
sylyania Railroad trains arc to be laid aside.
| United States authority have taken John
Peters, who was arrested for breaking into
the Post-office in this place, to Williams
port for trial.
Rev. E. E. Berry and Mr.. John T. NOurse
represent this county in the State Sabbath
School Convention that sits in session in
WilliamspOrt, this week.
"The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued call for the redemption of five mil
lions of the five-twenty bonds of 1865.
Step up, gentlemen, hand over your bonds
and get your -"
MIR. Dill shoRld be tolerably well groomed,
with such gentlemen as Mcclure, Curtin,
Sitter, and Democratic attendants rubbing
him down every day. ga nabob at one end,
and tramp at the other"
John Hepner, administrator of Mrs. Mary
Hepner, late OF Fayette township, deceased,
will offer valuable real estate at public sale,
on Saturday, June %, 1873. See adver-
tisement, by handbills, or posters.
The borough school directors met on
Monday and let the 2nd school to L. {.
Marks, the Sd school to Miss Lizzie Loudon,
the 4th school to Miss Clra Daugherty.
The LIST school was not let.
The Democratic cry of fraud is dis
guise to conceal the manner in which voters
were intimidated at the late Presidential
election, in the South So said the In6i-
aua Republican State Convention last week
United States Senator Patterson is report
ed as being in favor OF bouncing Hayes.
1t is not known TO a certainty that the OBJ
ject of bouncing the Senator after the ad-
journment OF Congress has been rel:n-
quished.
Thanks are rendered, and acknowledg-
ment hereby made, of the receipt of list
of bills and resolutions passed by the legis-
lative session of 1878, from John A. Smuli,
Resident Clerk of the House of Represen-
tatives of Pennsylvania.
The wheat has been filling satisfactorily.
This season demonstrates that the lea' es OF
wheat stalks can stand a hard frost, and
considerable amount of rust without injury
to the grain, or rather without injury to the
filling of the grain.
"A cunning juryman addressed the clerk
of the court when administering the oath,
saying: Speak up; cannot hear what you
say Stop; are you deafP asked the
Judge. sYes, of one ear Then you may
leave the box, for it is necessary that jury
men should hear both Sides"
, Rev. Z. E, Berry was assis ted in the com
munion service. on Sabbath morning by
: Rev. Prof. p. L. Harrison, of Gettysburg.
In the evening Rev. Jacob Wright preached.
The communion was the largest ever held
in the Lutheran church in this place. The
congregations, both morning aud evening,
, were large.
Some Of the politicians m Blair county,
who have never favored the Crawford Coun
ty System Of making nominations, prevailed
in their efforts to have the question of abol
> ishipg the system submitted to the Repub-
lican voters. The result of the vote is,
; that the party in favor of adhering TO the
system carried the election by 677 majority.
Thirty-five years ago, three boys, Paul
rE0udon, now in Ireland, John Loudon,
now a citizen of Iowa, and Samuel Loudon,
now a citizen of this place, found tor
toise in clearing on their fathers farm
q in Tuscarora township. Last week
Charles Loudon, a nephew of the men men
toned found the same identical tortoise
with the names of his uncles still distinctly
engraved on the shell, only about a mile
e from the place where they sat and cut their
names on the under-.hell Of the animal. I
: The Philadelphia Times in speaking of
the sentence of Spiese, for extorting an
/ illegal fee from a Harrisburg woman, of
which mention was made last week, says
IS Col. McMichael made an appeal to the Court
for a new trial, which was refused. In pass
ing sentence, Judge Cadwalader said he
4 would administer the penalty of the law
solely with reference to the extortion over
:, the legal fee of SIS, and not take into con-
IN sideration the embezzlement or breach OF
). before him. Spiese was sentenced to eight
months in the Eastern Penitentiary.
. The Harrisburg Telegraph says: A cor
q respondent writing from Shippensburg coE'
plans of the way the residents of the an
h. cien: borough were treated by man who
Ie repaired old hats "About ten days or two
weeks ago man by the name of Taylo
n. came to our town and gathered up lot o
silk hats, and took them to Chambersburl
II. to repair and failed TO return mine, aiC
since have heard nothing of his whereabouts
t., | send you this. asking you to bring tn
scoundrel before the people as a rascal
l., Please let other papers ccpy. will oblig'
anv man with 81 for information as to hi
$, whereabouts"
ssIhou Snalt not swear, 10 tue DNiu
Injunction, and the Divine command ha
10 been framed into human law in this State
t., and is expressed thus: g. If any person Q
the age of sixteen or upwards shall pro
3t- fanely curse or swear by the name Of God
Y. Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, any pei
son so offending, being thereof convicted
shall forfeit and pay the sum of sixty-seve
ial cents for every such profane curse or oatf
I'm ETC., and further, any person of the age c
in sixteen years and upwards who shall ours
ed or swear by any other name or ting, sha