Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-07-02
SHORT LOCALS.
Wheat harvest.

| Wheat harvest.
Rabbits are reported plenty.
A fatal cattle disease has broken out ID
Blatk Log Valley.
The hay CROP in Dauphin county is repre-.
sented as a 81 ort one.
The depredations of the currant worm &,
comprehensive this year.
There is fatal horse disease raging in
| certain parts Of Cambria county.
Lawyer Stone is away to Philadelphia, at
ten'iing the funeral of a brother.
A dividend of 3 per cent. has been de-
clared by the Juniata Valley Bank.
A refreshing shower Of rain passed over
the valley last Wednesday evening.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To-
bacco. Dec. 4, lS1S-ly.
Brotherly Love, last week, 10 see a brother
married.
W q S1Nhiuah diiA 70
have been down to The sea, with the Edito-
rial excursion.
Bob Parker mas been off to see piece of
woodland in Delaware township, of which
he Is the proprietor.
Quite largs fiotila Of hat-hottomed boats,
such as bass-ishers use, might be gotten up
ON the river at this place.
The question as TO whether President
\ Hayes has or has not a backbone, is no
longer discussed.
| CAtneon, on Saturday, John Bell, citi-
zen of Milford township, fell from a cherry
tree and broke his right shoulder.
! Aishing party is being organized. to do
weeks fishing in the Narows, between
this place and Lewis;own.
a man named David Hostetler, citizen
Of Menno township, Miliiin county, has a
steer that weighs 20i5 pounds.
An exchange says, the Piccadilly that
won't wilt in day is the one that is four
sizes larger than close lit.
TIE Harrisburg Telegraph every once in
while gets so iull OF enterprise tina; ii takes
a large supplement 10 work it off.
By Saturday, if the weather remains fair,
the greater portion of the wheat in this
county viii have been put on shock.
I The well put down on Beidler's lot on
Cross street is located on a strong stream,
and the new pump in if works like charm.
The wheat crop in Blair county is said to
be so small in quantity that it will scarcely
:. bread and seed I" the county for the next
year.
Bloomfield and Duncannon people are
earnestly urging the project of building
railroad to connect the two places by car
travel.
A large number of editors from New
York State. New Jersey and Pennsylvania
united in a grand excursion TO Cape May,
last week.
II George Jacobs, District Attorney, and
friend Bradford Evans, have gone on jour
ney, with horse and buggy, to Niagara
Falls, via Bellefonte.
Lawyer Lyons business, in matters per-
tanning to estates in the Register and Re-
corder's office. at the late court amounted
to over forty thousand dollars.
Who was Alexander Lafferty! The man
who laid the warrant on the llHi that Mif-
tiintown is built on, and on adjacent lands,
embracing about 375 acres.
! A few days ago Samuel Ernest, hand on
/ the gravel train, lost his balance on a car
and fell off, on the track, thereby sustaining
severe injury to his left hand and arm.
George o. Anderson, citizen of Fer
managh township, was bitten In the foot by
a rattlesnake few days ago. He has re-
covered from the effects of the poison.
They are organizing society out in In
diana to promote marriage. Woaldn't it be
Just as well to organize a society out there
to keep people together who have been mar
ried.
"Ma, lend me a pencil; want to draw
son,e ladies'" "Draw some ladies! Why,
Johnny, this is Sunday" swell, I'll draw
them in their Sunday clothes. p New York
World.
A man with a wheelbarrow, who left Cali
fornia last December, passed through Al
toona last week, on his way TO New York.
OF course there is a wager at the bottom
Of II.
A preacher up in Mapleton. few even
ings ago said that thanks should be render
ed to God for all things, and particularly
Tor the sleep that some people were allowed
to enjoy in chrtrcA.
The present Congress has been wordy,
but Hayes goes few better, and may be
counted on as being determined to have the
last word. His vetoes fall like linguistic
bomb shells among the Democracy.
George Shiyery declares in his announce
ment as a candidate for the Office of Sheriff
that he is the Democratic majority candi
date for the Office just mentioned, which
Mr.. Fowles and his friends hotly dispute.
The increased expenditures of the Stat'
working under the new Constitution has re
quired a change in the tax laws. \ new
;.x law was framed and passed by the lat'
Legislature, which We issue this week il
supplement form. Read the supplement.
CCitizens of McAlistervilie expect to Civ
, vent to their patriotic sentiments in speeci
sud song in the evening Of the i'h Of July
in the public square of the place. a bal
5 loon ascension will also be one of the at
fractions of the OCCASION; good time
anticipated.
: There seems to be a disposition to en-
r force The Tramp Law, when the time cone
E around in which it may be operated; bu
: the question is raised, "Where are they ar
0 they all to be kept during the pendency
trial to which they are entitled ."
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