Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-08
SHORT LOCALS.
This Is the week of prayer.

SHORT LOC.fLS.
This is the week of prayer.
The days are sixteen minutes longer.
The vacation of the gold dollar is over.
fhe ice on the river is about nine inches
thick.
Howard Goshen, of Patterson, has three
living owls.
There is no change in the Philadelphia
grain markets.
The seventh snow of the season fell on
New Years day.
Lawyers are talking of organizing estate
Bar Association"
When skating, venture rot on thin ice, or
on ice near air holes.
Down in Memphis, Tennessee, the ther-
momster dropped to zero.
The thermometer dropped S5 degrees in
twelve hours last Thursday.
The eighth snow fell on the morning of
the 2nd inst, and dritted.
A good chance to save money by buying
of j. K. Boughner, at MeAlisterville. [3t
There has not been SO general or wide
spread cold since 1866.
The high wind of last Friday played havoc
with the tin roof on Graybill' Hall.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To-
bacco. Dec. 4, lS7s-ly.
The Dunkards held protracted meeting
in their church near Van Vert, last week.
The Snyder county Grangers are lively
organization they gave dinner in Selins-
grove few days ago.
feet, hands, noses and ears on people are
reported by dispatch.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has made a
raid on the disreputable houses of the city,
and closed miLy of them.
Thermometers ranged, in town last FRI
day morning from 3 degrees to 10 degrees
below Zero, according to location.
a lot of good Bran for sale at Rohm's
Mill. Ijanl-3t
Citizens of Huntingdon will sow wild rice
along the river and creeks near that place,
to attract wild ducks and wild geese.
Pray God to keep you from the sin of
ri ha sahl Int NJ t,.
BILE generates more disease than all the
other causes in the world.
A debanch, or bad act on the part of So
called christian man or woman, has a ten
dency to bring the organization to which !
they belong into disrepute.
J. K. Bougkner, in Mcalsterville. is SELL |
ing at cost all goods usually kept in coun- !
try store. UanS-3t
Last "Wednesday evening cake walk was
held IN Mount Pleasant school house, in |
Walker township, for the benefit of the |
Sabbath-school that meets in that place I
Twenty-six dollars were raised in that way.
There was no overland mail, or stage
communication with Selinsgrove from We'd |
nesday til Tuesday. The cold weather and |
the drifted condition of the roads vas the /
cause.
The cold weather was the cause OF the 4
removal of handsome floral decorations,
that graced windows in 4 number of town l
homes. In some houses the plants and /
flowers were not removed soon enough to /
save them from the bite of the frost.
The SeliEsgrove stage failed to get fur
ther on its way than TO Ro;hrock's, in Fer |
managh township, last Friday and Saturday |
mornings. The snow had so drifted in the |
road that the horse and vehicle could not |
get through.E
In consequence of the cold AMI the drift
ed condition of tie road, number of SOL /
diers' orphans were compelled 10 remain In .
this place from Thursday to Saturday. Com
was opened with Nc AlIsierville /
on Saturday, and they were taken out.
.'What shall leave you when | die :"
said an insipid fellow to ayoung lady whose
patience he had nearly exhausted. "Neei- |
MT wait till you die,'' said she; 90 you can |
leave something now, il you will" "What
shall leave! ?" he asked. Leave Your
self" she replied. He left.
Everybody go TO ]. Il. Boughner's, at Nc
Alisterville, and see how cheap he is SELL
ing Boots and Shoes and everything else
Jan SGT
The weather last Friday hight was not
only unusually cold but 1t was also unusu-
ally windy. In Tuscarora valley the barns
OF Oliver Barton, Samuel Pannebaker, Ben
jamin Shellenberger, Nicholas Ickes and
Calvin Barton sustained serious damage to
roof, door, gable and other parts.
Tobias Herizler, of Tuscarora Valley, has
threshed this season q 200 bushels of grain,
using the Sweep-Stake Steam Threshing
Machine. The number of bushels threshed
in given time exceeds all precedents; for
example, at Samuel Wharton's place in
Spruce Hill township, he threshed &c bush
els of wheat in 80 minutes. He has two
more crops yet to thresh.
James keiser, of this borough, was al
most overcome by the cold last Thursday
evening while on his way from East Salem.
He turned in to the home OF Davis Kauf-
man in Walker township, and fell, insensi-
Bile, against the door of the house. He was
taken in, and his frost-bitten feet and hands
bathed in cold water, which revived him.
If he had gone half mile further on the
road he would have perished.
The Bloomfield .7drocnfe says: On Mon
day morning of last week, as Mr.. John Ko-
chenderfer was passing the Summit school
house, located about one mile east of Ickes-
burg, he noticed smoke issuing from the
roof. He informed Mr.. David Bousam, the
teacher, of the fact. An examination was