Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-12-17
SHORT locals.
Court all last week

N'' "eut r"iu PATTERSON to Harrisburg a
distance of 40 miles IN SO minutes.
William Banks, of Fermanagh township.
mas pair OF fnll-blooded Chester White
hogs, bought in New York.
Another copious rain fell on Wednesd,,
evening and removed the question of a
scarcity of water.
? The Post o: the G. A. K. at this place.
are oa to attend the reception of Grant at
Philadelphia.
William ii. McCollin, the blind man and
great humorlst, is livening up the Teachers
Institute. Do not fail TO hear him.
Miss Sanford will give her brilliantly
illustrated lecture on :. Rome and Ilaly''
this "wednesday evening.
Captain Mcclellan had the Band in charge
on Saturday for street parade. 1t was the
first parade with the new horns.
4 number of boys had a delightful time
on Saturday, chasing and catching fish when
the water got low in the canal
Lawyers so badgered a lady in the Cham
bersburg court that she tainted. Has she
no husband. brother, or fatheri
Messrs. Marks, Mckee, and Ut;ly, three
Lewistown lawyers, We're in attendance at
Court and the Institute on Tuesday.
McAlistervillc Soldiers Orphan School
Entertainment, on Christmas Eve, Decem-
Der "a, 1873. Admission, Is cents.
FOR SALE.-A One-hor Phaeton, good |
ss new. For particulars, address Mrs. J. d. |
Magruder, Miffiintown, Juniata Co., Pa.
! Dec. j, lS79-tf
/ DR.. Edward Brooks, of the Millersville |
State Normal School, will lecture at the I
Teachers Institute tomorrow Thursday) /
night.
An exchange says if it were not for the /
attendance of girls at church, the BOYS i
would not Loaf about the doors when the 1
congregation Is gong out.
Tn. G. A. K. Post at this place turned 1
out 50 strong to attend the Grant reception
ton at Philadelphia, last Tuesday The
musicians were included in that number
There are a few cases of diphtheria in
Fermanagh township. Flour of sulphur
mixed with water and used as a gargle. is
said to be certain and speedy cure for
that disease.
"Judge Ross, of Bucks county, has sent
fifteen tramps to jail for a year under the
new law, and said he would give all the
tramps brought before him the full extent
of the law IN older to rid the county Of the
nuisance"
The reception of Grant in this State was
a grand reception. Pittsburg, Harrisburg,
and Philadelphia were the focal points at
which thousands of people assembled to do
America has produced.
A son of F. +. Rohm was caught by a
wagon in the river bridge, on Monday, aad
had his right leg broken below the knee
joint. Dr Elder attended the unfortunate
iad and gave such surgical attention as the
case required.
Grant and his wife sailed from Philadelphia
on trip around the world. II was not
made, as the play says, in so days, but WAS
only completed last Tuesday, December Is,
1879, by General and Mrs. Grant returning
TO Philadelphia, amidst the grandest oya.
ton tnat the City of Brotheriy Love and
representatives from all parts of the Com
monwealth ever extended to any citizen.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Re
cord writes from Milford, Pike county, that
the whereabouts of W alter Mitchell, a nOto-
rious land swindler OF that place, who has
been missing for some weeks 20 escape ar
rest, are known. He states that Mitchell's
operations have been extensive enough TO
make him worth Sl50,O00, which he has in
Government bonds, and that he has made
arrangements to leave the country, if such
should become necessary in order to avoid
a conviction and imprisonment.
The Philadelphia Record says: " 1t is es-
timated that from 5000 to 10000 pounds OF
oleomarga are sold in Philidelphia daily.
As this substitute for genuine butter is not
really uuwholesOme, there Is M particular
objection to its being sold, # persons buy
ing il are not sold also. The law providing
that it must be- plainly designated appears
to be quite generally disregarded. A good
rule for detecting oleomargirine IS sad 10
b.. the hea. test. Butter will soften uni
formlv when placed before fire, while its
counterfeit will not"
Lawful deer shooting closed on Monday.
II is stated that Mrs. Bordell, mother OF
the two children who persisted in the hlmes
bv the burning of their house, near Alien
Vile, Miffiin county, som. days ago, mas
become hopelessly insane over the terrible
death of her children. The mother lett the
children in bed when she went to neigh
boris house, and they were found IN oea
with their heads covered in the pillows, face
downward. They were smothered to deifh.
Tba fire was communicated from the stove
pipe or fiue, and was first seen issuing from
the roof.
The Huntingdon Journal of last week
saws: The Touring mill of I. e. oroisoh' a'
Orbisonia, was totally destroyed by hre al
an early hour on Monday night. the hre'
we understand, was communicated 10 'nc
huiId,np by a man named Bryner, who had
clandestincly entered the mill for the pnr-
pose of sleeping there. Before going TO
sleep he concluded to take smoke ana IN
attempting to light his pipe the lire eo' INTO
some straw that had been packed aDou'
s,,,,. q, the machinery for the winter, which
blazed up and set fire to the wood work
Brysn ran out and gave the alarm, but tne
fire had made such rapid progress as 10 De
..naaIIe The mill we learn, con-