Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-08-06
SHORT LOCALS.

Inc river has risen above low water ,narv
He whose wants are many.is never bsnnv
. Farmers are busy blowing, and hauling
manure.
The Republican ticket is a good onr-
Vote for it,
Eight robberies were committed in Perry
! county last week.
The corn crop will be great deal larger
in the county than last year.
Printers of the Juniata Valley will picnic
at Cresson on the 9th of September.
/ Make your calculations so that you can
( attend the Fair, if you have health.
They say it always rains in the sign of
the fish. Now is the sign of the fish.
Pheasants are reported as being plenty in
the places that they usually frequent.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To-
bacco. Dec. A, ls7s-lv.
Read Mr.. GrOninger's speech carefully.
1t is volume in itself, and needs no COM
ments.
Milers are beginning TO understand how
to make good raising -four out of the Fultz
wheat,
Bilious fever, yellow fever, agae and
cholera never takes people whose digestion
is good.
Abraham viii has painted his butcher
wagon, and given II some fine artistic
touches.
4 horse trainer was in town and exhibit
ed his art on two spotted Indian ponies, on
Saturday.
The Greenbackers propose to hold
county convention In this place on the 18th
OF this month.
! The Methodist church has been so re-
paired that services may be Conducted in
the lecture room.
The Town Council, headed by Mayor Mar
tin, was around on Ssturd ly on tour of
| inspection, In the borough.
Presbyterians and Lutherans hold PRAYER
meeting jointly, in the church Of the latter, /
every Wednesday evening.
Horses and buggies were engaged in town |
a week ahead for the Thompsontown pic /
nic, TO take place tomorrow.
The picnic to take place in Thompson's /
grove, at Thompsontown, on Thursday /
promises TO be largely attended.
Thara ,r,s .n.b an a,,oun, ,r mad =, 81,
water of the river and canal last week that /
the number of bIthers WAS greatly reduced. I
And now an amateur fisherman in town |
declares that the correct way 10 fish for
bass is to fish for them as trout are fiShed |
for.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
put its shoulder to the wheel, ana a railroad |
from Duncannon 10 Bloomfield viii lie |
built.
The Lutheran church, after it will have
been repaired, as the management or Trus-
tees contemplate repairing it, will give sat
isfaction.
Scrub the haunts of the red ants, and
after that operation sprinkle the place with
spirits of turpentine, and they viii leave the
premises.
bee-tree was found near Altoona few
days ago which, when cut down, yielded to
the party that found 1t one hundred and
fifty pounds of honey.
90 am going TO see the electric light"
will be a frst-rate excuse for those VINO are
tlmid, but heartily want to see the show a;
Lewistown on the 9Th.
Porter Thompson has a lot of fine South
down bucks for sale. The sheep were
brought from New York State by Louis r.
Rhoads, a dealer in first-rste stock
The Colorado beetle has new bug in the
field as a competitor as potato vine de-
stroyer. The least bit of moisture from the
new bug, on the hand, blisters the skin Sc
verely.
The following item, aiioat in the news
papers, is valuable: Holding a wound from
a rusty nail in the smoke OF burning wool
or leather, VIII stop the pain and prevent
lock-jaw.
Two married men, named James Moore
and Ira Conrad, are in the Huntingdon Jail
on a charge of having violated the person
of Miss Rosa Fry, in Oneida township,
Huntingdon county.
"wong Wing, a converted ChiuaTan.
who was elected treasurer of 4 Chinese
Methodist Church in California, has be
haved Alice samee like Mclean man. and
absconded with the funds-s600."
DIR. Borne, of the Theological Seminary
at Selinsgrove, preached an uncommon ser
mon, in the Lutheran church on Sabbath
evening, from the common text of the Par
able of the Talents, as found in the 18th
chapter of Matthew.
A grand excursion on the railroad to Bed
ford springs is announced by the railroad
company, for the 9th Of August, good for
several days. Only $500 for a ticket to see
one of the famous watering places OF the
country. For definite particulars, call at
the railroad ticket office.
This from the Huntingd on Journal! "Nc
are pruning our subscription list of the
names of persons who make no pretension
10 pay us for our paper. As we strike them
off we enter them into a book kept for that
purpose, and in the near future we propose
to publish them in the Journal, SO that the
public may know who has swindled us"
The roof on Graybill's hall was repaired last
week While the work was going on, boys
would climb to the top of the tall hag-sta |
that suruounts the building. A number of
citizens predicted that a sensational funeral
would be the result of the climbing OF the
BOYS; hut the prediction was failure.
None of the boys had the misfortune to faii
Of or braak the pole and destroy a life at