Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-05-21
SHORT LOCALS.

OliTia's contribution will appear in mex,
issue.
Railroad authority has put number OF
tramps to Jail.
The Banks win be closed on the SOth in
stant-Decorsticn day.
The birds sing between the hours of and
6 o'clock in the morning.
In wheat market centers the price has
advanced during the past week.
The sign of the fish was too carly by "a
hours for the rain. last Friday.
Lucy Morrow has been appointed post
mistress at East Waterford, this county,
Prof. A. L. Guss was in town on Friday.
He is collecting material data for history.
wANTED-S0o pounds Fitch at cents
per pound. J. B. NJ. ToDp.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To-
bacco. Dec. 4, IS78-ly.
The rain, or tree frog, is the best rain in
dicator. Its rattle is the forerunner of rain.
Mcveytown, aifiiin county, is to have a
walking match on the evening of the oath
of May.
In northern New England the thermome-
ter indicated 100 degrees of heat, last We'd
nesdsy.
Philadelphia wheat on Saturday ranged
at Si.l2tol.l7 Corn at 39to45c. Oats at
S4to37c.
John Clark, alias Lewis Clark, was lodged
in Jail on Monday, on charge of not main
tanning his family,
Notes of preparation for the observance
of Decoration day are heard from many
parts of the country.
The festival of the Mechanics enlivened
that part of the town in which it was held, E,
on Friday and Saturday evenings
The ten-heur system is again in operation
in the shops at Altoona. The past year
nine hours constituted the number worked
in day.
80 A Colorado farmer says that planting
one or two iaxseeds in each hill of potatoes
will keep away the much-dreaded potato
bug.'J
Many looked upon the sign of the fish as
certain TO bring rain; but last week the sign
was three days in the fish and hot drop of
rain fell.
s'The grand jury of Lycoming county has
found true bills for conspiracy agaiust Peter
Herdic, and he has given bonds in the sum
of IS 900 for his appearance"
There is general outburst Of condemna-
ton of the habit of setting fire to woods,
and general demand that the people who
build fires in mountain woodland and 0 not
outen them should be punished.
A sale OF carts and mnles, on Thursday,
brought number OF people to town. The
property belonged to some one who at one
time proposed 10 use them in grading the
Selinsgroye aud North Branch Railroad,
\ On Friday evening, after night-fail, the
Band took its stand in the cupalo Of the
Court House, and played 4 number Of tunes
that fioated down over the town as if they
came from the realm of the clouds.)
Mrs. Jane Irwin was taken suddenly i'll
with apoplexy, about O'Clock on Thurs
day morning. She was entirely unconscious
during the morning hours of that day. At
this date her health Is greatly improved.
The man who was found not far west OF
Patterson, some days ago, near ;le railroad
track, in an unconscious state, died at the
Patterson House, last week. He was 4
Philadelphia; his name was John McGa-
vey.
The Democrats in this county are talking
about adopting the Crawford county system
of nominating candidates. 1t is the cor
rect system. The candidates under it have
no set OF middle men to deal with, as is the
case with the old delegate system. They
go before the people direct, for their Domi-
nation.
A card, announcing a Republican citizen
of Delaware township as a candidate for
Jury Commissioner, has been received, but
as 10 name accompanies the card, it cannot
be published. Communications of what
ever kind-excepting such as are purely OF
a literary character-should, when sent TO
printing Office, be accompanied BY the name
OF the writer.
A Carlisle paper says: One good Demo-
crat in the county keeps fourteen dogs to
protect himself from the encroachments Of
candidates. Another has seventeen, and
says he sits on the porch and watches the
fight between his dogs and the candidate.
If the dogs drive tie hunter for votes
away he gives them an extra feed. The
dogs are ahead yet.
Last Wednesday night three tramps rob-
ped the store of William Macklin s. 5 on, at
McVeytown, Mifiiin county. They got ten
dollars in money out cf the drawer, and
took tobacco, and shoes, aud other articles.
That they went west on some train is con-
jectured from the finding of one of the
stolen shoes along the railroad, about five
miles west of the town.
\. Hummel, the enterprising timer in this
place, like most other people, likes to fish
once in a while. Last week he set net in
the river, and on Saturday morning when
he lifted it, large shad graced the collec-
ton of fish that were restrained by its
msshes. Some wag, who knew where Hum
mel had his net set, put the shad into it.
Hummel hopes to be able to return the COM
pIimcnt.
A number of Philadelphia editors, of
whom il wa, said that they were under pay,
were before the Riot Damage Act Investi-
gatiHg Committee at Harrisburg, last week.
Only one of the newspapers represented
had been approached. Its editor had been
offered five hundred dollars to cease the
editorial warfare that be was waging against
the Riot Damage Bill. He did not yield to
the temptation.
This is what the Huntingdon Journal says;
We are informed that large numbers of bass