Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-09-17
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Fairs.
Tight pants with spring bottoms are in
quired for.
The picnic season is about over. Vow
for the fairs
Pay your tax before October 4, if you de-
sire to vote.
Wild turkeys and pheassnts are reported
as being plenty in Mifiiincounty.
The drought in midsummer shortened
the yield of cloverseed in Juniata.
Where is the man who tells how many
SHOWS are to fall the coming winters
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To-
bacco. Dec. 4, ls7s-Iy.
A humber of people from this county are
on visit TO the State Fair at Philadelphia.
GA teaspoontul of turpentine boiled with
your white clothes will aid the whitening
process"
The frame Of the new church for the
Presbyterian congregation at this place has
been raised. i-As~S
! Sacob Esh and Joseph Ard, two promi-
nent citizens of Tuscsrora township, are in
state of poor health.
The past week has been a busy week
among farmers, the larger number of whom
have been sowing wheat.
Kerosene wiz soften boots or shoes
which have been hardened by water, and
render them as pliable as ever"
Ihe Session of the Presbyterian congre-
CATION in this place have granted their pas
tor, Rev. I. J. Sherrard, vacation OF two
week,.N
"TSelve hundred trackmen in the en-
ploy of the Pennsylvania railroad between
Harrisburg and Altoona were paid off on
Saturday"
The Cocolamus Union Sabbath-School
will hold a picnic on September 10th. A
cordial invitation is extended to surround.
ing. schools.
CHE Canadian pony of Jacob Beidler cut
a caper on Sunday afternoon by throwing
boy off his back. The boy was not hurt,
but badly scared.
An evidence that times are getting better,
is the fact that during the month of Au-
gust over fifty new furnaces were started in
the Lehigh valley.
II D. sha Ckt,,
inst. Generals, White, Hartranft, Gregg,
Taylor and McAlister are expected to be
present on the occasion.
The Democratic arithmetic, BY which the
Democrats counted on Maine and California,
has been found TO be seriously defective.
They ought to order a new book.
"Forty-one of the candidates on the
Workingmen's ticket in San Francisco were
foreigners, and of that number twenty-four
came from Ireland-none from China"
Michael Yodcr, OF Fayette township, says
that in his lifetime wheat has varied in
price from 60 cents per bushel TO $3.50 per
bushel. He has sold wheat at both prices.
The Republican majority in Maine over
the Greenbackers is 10000, over the DEM
ocracy 10000, which is equivalent to Re-
publican majority of 100000 in Pennsylva-
MA.
A number of valuable pieces of real estate
are advertised in the Scntisel and Repuoh-
cap. If you desire real estate, it may do
YOU good to examine the properly adver-
tised.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company be-
gan the sale of excursion tickets to the
State Fair at Philadelphia and return, on
Tuesday, at the low rate of $3.50, good for
four days.
\John Ellis had a foot severely scalded by
accidentally getting it in trough of water
in which wagon tire was being cooled, few
DAYS ago, in the blacksmith shop of Will
liam Ellis J~/-0\
Philadelphia markets on Saturday, Sept.
IS.-Wheat, Sl.O5tol .09; corn, 47to49c !;
oats SOto3ic. Cattle, 3to5.c per h.; cows
SS0to4O per head sheep, Sto5c per ID. !;
swine, So .s6tci 20 per 100 lbs.
Iron works throughout the country are
all going into operation, and business men
generally say that people who are not in
business can form no idea as to the activity
that prevails in business circles.
An exchange says; The reason why Gen.
Hoods children are penniiess is because
their father invested his money in Louisiana
securities, and the Democratic party Of that
State repudiated their obligations.
"David Stutzman, Of Centre township,
Perry county, drank a gallon of whisky the
other day aud yet was not intoxicated. A
copperhesd snake had previously filed his
system 18th another kind Of poison. Whis-
/ ky won"
The B. F. Kepner residence in this bor-
ough was put up at public sale by Amos G'
Bonsall, executor, on Saturday. The offer
WAS sl.s5O.OO. A lot of ground of said
decedent was offered at the same time. The
offer was Sl57.00.
n idth iNh W.
ing. 1t was a most timely rain, to all hu'
man appearance for the wheat that
was sowed timely for that yet to be sown
and timely for the ground not yet prepared
TO receive the grain.
"A beautiful monument of Scotch granite
has been erected over the grave of Loui'
Mathers, in the Presbyterian graveyard
The stone was imported from Scotland
The work vas done under the management
of Tobias Auker. u~5s<0N
James II. Junk and ]. c. Crawford, ad
ministrators of Or. S. B. Crawford, decd.
on Friday last sold property, as follows
owned by the said decedent: Mill propert!
to George Stewart, for sl,s5o. A lot o
ground adjoining the village OF McCoys
vile, to John Randolph for SlS5oo. In
balance of the property as advertised wa
not sold.
; The Democracy are greatly divided on tn