Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-06-18

The Green6sck State Convention is tc
meet at Pittsburg on the 18th, tomorrow.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To
bacco. Dec. 4, ls7S-ly.
There were a number of showers on Mon
day that refreshed the corn and potato
crops.
Visitors are already crowding Cape May
The season opened a month earlier than
usual.
Aoudon Todd reports deer plenty in Lick.
ing Crsek Valley, be having seen four last
week.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
talking Of sinking an artesisn well at Al
toons.
Perry county cclored people have held
the first bush meeting of the season, at Mil
lcrstown.
Since bass have been put into the river,
the number of foot boats have been greatly
multiplied.
| Il. II. Brubaker ard Samuel Bergy will
car lot of cattle eastward Tomorrow,
ThGrsdayN
The management of the Sabbath schools
in this place are preparing to hold 4th of
July celebration.
The yield of peaches in Junista will be a
| toler.bly satisfactory one, if We may judge
from appearance.
The amount of property destroyed by
storm this summer throughout the country
is unusually large.
One who claims to know says, unleached
wood ashes scattered on potato stalks will
keep OF the bugs.
| q. II. Martin, who is engaged in the auc-
ton business with his son-in-law, Thomas
U. Parker, is home.
The Junior Cornet Band attended the re-
union of the Mifilin county soldiers last
Thursday, at BelleviIle.
The COrnet Band from this place headed
the procession at the Soldiers Reunion IN
/ Miffiin county last week.
City papers report an advance in the price
I OF coal . to 10 cents ton Cool weather
las not set ,n yet, in the country.
/ CAt long last Squire London has well Of
water at his place a; East Point. 1t was
the fourth effort that brought II.
On. McAlister and George w. Wilson
were installed as ruling elders in the Pres
/ byterian church in this place last Sabbath }
Rev. Jacob Wright, James Wright, and
Mrs. E. D. Caum, all children of John
Wright, deceased, we've in town last week.
! Col. J. L. Robson, Lieut.. James Keily,
I Harry Moore, and S. /. NcAlis;er attended
the re-uilioa of the Mifiin county soldiers
last week.
4 Mr.. William Banks, OF Fermansgh town
ship, has l40 acres of standing wheat. Ii
no misfortuns overt.kcs it, the yield will be
uncomnouly large to the acre.
/ Joseph Crown, a Pitlsburg lawyer, was
convicted OF ballot-box siufiing, and SEN
teuced, on last Wednesday, to one years
imprisonment, and fined 500 and COSTS
X The late storm devastated fields of wheat,
/ between Evandale and Richfield, this coun-
", TO such a degree that cattle have been
turned in to pasture on what is left of the
wheat.
The Selinsgrove Times of last week said :;
Harrison Gundrnm, collector Of taxes for
Penn township, WAS committed to Jail on
Saturday evening last for misuse of taxes
collected.
People of Williamsport have abused the
privilege of visiting cemeteries in that place
to such a degree, that now people are not
allowed to enter the cemetery enclosure
without a pass or permit.
The Republicans of Snyder county nomi-
mated J. Grouse for Prothonotary, J. NJ.
Van-Zandt for Register and Recorder, ii.
NJ. Grimm for District Attorney, and A. A.
Ulsh for Jury Commissioner.
There will be a grand, patriotic 4th OF
July celebration at Mnflintown, under the
direction of the Sabbsthschools of Miffin-
town and Patterson. All are invited to take
part in it. Particulars next week.
The brigadIers' objection to armed men al
I the polls, seems like the objection Of joker,
or like the objection OF one not in his sober
| senses, when The fact is considered that IN
the South everybody goes to the polls
armed.
ISLasf Thursday night, thieves lifted door
and frame that covered the outside cellar
= av 20 the hor Sc of Mrs. Riddle Dunn, in
Fayette township, and robbed The cellar OF
such things as suited their appetites and
fancyO
The call for the meeting of the Republi-
can tate Convention, by Chairman Quay,
has produced a spasmodic Outburst among
the unterritied. 1t scared the leaders OF
the Democracy as BADLY as when President
Lincoln issued call for more troops.
Democratic conventions nowadays have
a parole OF twaddle resolutions about mill
tary interference at the polls. They never
/ had word TO say about the Interference
of the Rebel government, or the interier'
ence of the Ku-Klux, in the resolutions oi
their conventions.
Representative Doyle, Greenback men,
Der from Huntingdon county, was men,
Der of the Riot Damage Invest sating Com
mittee. The rerort Of the committee pro-
nounced Petrod, Smith and Rumberger,
members of the House, "guilty of corrupt
solicitation of members of the Legislature
Rev. Mr.. Doyle signed tho report, but when
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