Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-19

building new church.
4. ]. Newcomer, of East Waterford, thi.
county, expects soon TO move to Bloomfield,
Perry county, there to keep hotel. The
upper end viii lose good landlord when
he goes away.
The elevated railway in New York has
been such a success, that now Philadelphians
are seeking the means to get Legislative
enactment to allow them to build elevated
railways in the Quaker City.
The Master in Equity, Mr.. Sibert, took
testimony, last Thursday and Friday, in the
Orphans Court room in the Court House,
in the case between the Presbyterians of
Lost Creek, and Miffiintown.
"Henry Hineman was Killed at Lewis
town junction on Saturday a week, while
coupling cars. He had taken the place of
William Gibbs. who was killed only a few
weeks previous"
All subscribers in arrears, more than l2
months, on the LIST day of April, 1879, will
be charged full arrear rates as advertised.
If.
C. s. Mills, a citizen of this place, in
few days will leave for his new home in
Pierce county, Nebraska. His many friends
in this county wish him success in his
western home
The pay car of the P. c. X. r. Co.. passed
from Harrisburg TO Altoona, last Thursday,
and paid all hands connected with the road
between the pDInts mentioned. I That is pay
ing out money at railroad speed.
The Philadelphia Board of Health come
forward and state that 1000 people die in
that city every year from .scarlet fever"
diphtheria, and typhoid fever, which is en-
gendered by sewer gas aud polluted water.
A down town contemporary says: 4
young couple were found at the front gate,
one night this week, locked in each others
arms. They said the combination was lost,
and they conldn't get it, because the jani
tor was asleep.
MI NNVHSA,
Appraiser, will soon be around in the dis
charge of his duties. Mr.. Cooper is a cour-
teous gentleman, and viii make an efficient
officer. He was ON the Republican ticket
last fall, as a candidate for Auditor.
4 city correspondent, writing from Har-
risburg relative to the Columbia dam ques-
ton, says: The indications are that legis-
lative committee will soon make a pilgrim
age to the region of the Columbia dam to
see if the salmon cannot be induced TO
swim over that obstruction, or to provide
some right of way by land around it.
The bill making an appropriation of s20,-
$4,000 for the payment of arrears of pen
sion passed, on Monday, by over a two
thirds vote. Ii the arrear pension business
does not interfere with the payment of the
regular expenses of the government, and
does not increase taxation, the country will
receive it most kindly.
Some evenings ago. young man named
McManigle, from Port Royal, and a young
man named Maxwell, a resident of this
place, got INTO dispute which resulted in
the use of a billy in the hands of McMani-
gle, and a hatchet in the hands of Maxwell
McManigle was considerably cut about the
head and neck.
David Stouffer, living on the f. s. Par
ker farm near Johnstown, this county, had
his left leg broken near the ankle joint, on
Tuesday morning. He had threshing going
on in the barn, and was working near the
platform that is usually built between the
machine and the NOV, when by some unac-
countabe cause the platform fell down, re-
sulting in the injury mentioned above.
They are trying to get an act through the
Legislature to furnish one copy of :. Pur-
don's Digest" for each House, and that the
It is also proposed to reduce the salary of
the Govoruor to s. 500 the Attorney Gen.
eral, Secretary of the Commonwealth and
Auditor General, 5000; the Treasurer,
$4,000, and the Adjutant General, $4,000,
with reduction in the number of clerks.
The Potter Committee investigation has
revealed the fact that the Democracy were
anxious to buy the electoral votes of Lou
isisna, Florida, South Carolina and Oregon,
for Mr.. Tilden, and the only reason they
did not buy those State, was because they
could not. The Democracy will quit can't
ing about their virtue after such testimony,
which was given BY men in the closest cob
fidence with Mr.. Tilden, and that consti-
tutes the suicide of the Democracy. No,
no; that will not do. Say il differently
say the Potter Committee hanged the DEM
ocracy, when it revealed the fact that Til
den's friends did all they knew to buy the
electors Of the States mentioned.
President Gowan, of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, is out in let
ter, exposing the secrets of an organiza-
ton known as the Knights of Labor, which
has been in existence in Schuylkill county
for over year. He says general miners
strike was ordered By the society to take
place on February l6 in case the men were
not paid their wages by that time, but a
postponement was ordered until the Goth
inst, by which time all will be paid. He
gives the names of a committee called "Mc-
Nulty's Gang" appointed and organized
for the purpose of burning coal breakers
and other property in case of a strike, aud
gives other details Of the organization.