Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-02-26
SHORT LOCHLS.
Grape vine pruning.

Grape vine pruning.
There are dozen extinct ;anneries in
this county.
Wanted - An apprentice TO learn the
stone and marble c,ittirg trade. Apply to
T. W. Auker, Miflint6wr, Janiata Co.. Pa.
The banks were the only business places
closed on Washington's birthday.
Tuscarors township had eighty candidates
/ for the offices of the late spring election.
/ Read the advertisement of Airy View
Academy, as Published in another column.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To-
bacco. Dec. 1, ls7s-iy.
| James Irwin, tn. new clerk to the Com
missioners, moved to town yesterday-Tues-
day.
The fourteenth snow of the season fell on
Wednesday night; it was about six inches
deep.
The passage of an act to pay $1,000, 600
for the Pil,sburg riot will be an unpopular
act.
An appropriation of $50, 900 is needed to
carry on the new Post Office building at
Harrisburg this year,
The ladies' of Lock haven have literary
society, and newspapers since its organ
/ ization in that place are oyershadowed.
The pruning of the trees around Court
/ House square progresses slowly because of
| the unfavorabie weather.
The lawyers of Blair county are raising a
/ fund with which to buy law library for the
use of the bar of said county.
4 large number of Lewistown people have
secured tickets for the lecture that Miss
Kellogg will deliver next Friday evening.
Juniata Conference of the Lutheran Syn
cd of Central Pennsylvania will meet in
New Bloomfield, March 10, / and l2, 1879.
The Burgess of York, this State, is a Re-
publican-the first Republican Burgess that
has been elected in that place in aperiod O.
two years.
I All subscribers in arrears, mere than "
months, on the LIST day of April, 1879, will
be charged full arrear rates as advertised.
y IT, 4
Last "Wednesday Miss Ann Sellers was
stricken with paralysis, while walking along
| the pavement IN McAlisterville, and since
then has been in An unconscious state.
1t is suggested that a row of trees be
planted on the east side of Court House
sduare. The pity is that they were not
planted at the time the three other sides
were planted.
: After the 4th Of March the national cap
; it'll viii pass into the ccntrol of Confederate
I colonies and trigadier generals, after pro
; tracted struggle in war and politics of eish-
I teen years"
The ice has not passed OF the river, ex-
/ ceptihg in places. From this place to the
| Lewistcwn dam the river is clear of ice,
excepting a strip of mile in length on this
side of the Island.
-Haller and Parker, candidates for Justice
OF the Peace in this borough, were tie at
the late election. A new election for the
Office of Justice will determine the ques-
tion. Haller is Republican and Parker is
Democrat.
The Philadelphia papers report the elec-
ton as held in the Fourth ward of that city,
] Notes
plenty at fifty cents piece. 1t was fight
among the Democracy.
Thus far the Potter Committee reveals
this fact, that the friends of Tilden used
their best endeavors to buy the Presidency
for that old gentleman, and because they
failed TO buy it, they charge that the friends
of Hayes bought it.
Special communion service was held in
the Licking Creek Lutheran Church On Sun
day afternoon, through which % persons
were admitted to membership, which i:
the ingathering of the late protracted meet
ing in that church.
The Methodlsts of this place have pre-
pared a petition that Will be presented tC
The comirg Conference of their church
PRAYING that Rev. Mr.. Wilson be reinstated
to all church privileges of which he has re
Gently been deprived.
"The Rev. J. b. Grass, of Wilkesbarrc
believes in dancing. Grass says he doesn'
ha- hi1 at
trip the light fantastic toe in the hay-day o
their yOuth-and they think mower of hin
for il, too.-Norris.Otrn Hsrald.
wThe California dairyist who put rocl
in the center of every cheese he shipped tt
South America was actuated by the kindes
feelings. He thought the buyer of th'
: cheese would want the stone TO kill th'
Shippers with. ."-Dsiroh Free Press.
8 The Harrisburg Telegraph says tha
Smithburger, the man who was shot whil
running away from the effort 10 rob tn
Office of the Fisher Brothers IN Hunting
don, tells that the job to rob the Fisher
, was set up in Harrisburg with New Yorl
professional robber.
The Huntingdon Journal says: A coupl
of Huntingdon boys, who, two or thre
weeks ago, took it into their heads to tramp
: turn up al Pittsburg, and the latest frCl
them is that one has been sent to the Wor
House for sixty days and the other to III
/ House of Refuge. So much for disobe
: dience.
i McClure's Times has Sunday-schoo
(; teacher among its reporters, and Of cours
(; a reporter needs put numerous questions
his class. On Sunday week, he asked
question in this way. The man goin
Y from Jerusalem TO Jericho fell among
: what i'' which question was answered by
boy in the class, thus: "He fell anon
!. thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choke
, him."
On the 4th of March the Democracy com
INTO control of both branches of Congress
, and by and by they viii show their hand,