Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-07-30
SHORT LOCALS.
The catch of large bass is small.

The Catch of large bass is small.
Attend the Primary Election Cd Saturday.
The long hoped tor rain set in las. Friday
Dog days will end on the Goth Of August.
July blowing, it is said, produces the best
wheat.
The circle of frog eaters is growing
larger.
"Does bathing IN river water produce
boils 2"
1t is long campaign from August to No
yember.
And now the wind blows over the oats
stubbleS.
Squirrel shooting begins or tie ist day
Of September.
The river sunk to point below low water
mark last week.
Every week, number of small p,cnics
go IN Macedonia.
The Fenuell and Yeakly stores are sgan
IL iuil operation.
Half the roofs in town were put to leak
by the late storm
Whortie-berries are plenty on the moun-
tain opposite Richfeld.
David Richenback, of Millerstown, was
in town last Wednesday:
The prass in the river and canal seems to
have in unusual length.
Gossips hurt no one. Everything they
say is taken with allowance.
Samuel Butler, the Republican tstdiddte
for state Treasurer, is FARMER.
Shake hands with the candidates. You
may be one yourself by and by.
Rain last week fell in time to save vege-
tation from a complete scorching.
Chew Iackscr's Best Sweet Navy To
bacco. Dec. 4, lS1S-ly.
The Methodist, Lutherar ard Preshyte-
rian churches in this place are out of re-
pair.
Prospects for a large clovcrseed crop are
poor. The weather has been too dry for a
large yield.
Johnstown Sabbath-school viii held pic
mic in Parker'S grove, on Saturday, the I'd
day of August.
III. II. North, of Patterson, is the meIr-
Der of the State Central Committee for Ju-
niata county.
The Knights of Labor held a picnic at
Shenandoah, Pa, last Thursday. 1t was
largely attended.
People who predicted a scarcity of flies
this season, are on the retifed list with the
weather prophets.
The late Democratic Congress advocated
every idea that they made var for, except
ing only that of slavery.
On last Wednesday, on railroad bridge
No. g, IN Huntingdon county, a tramp from
the State of Indiana was killed.
The sacrament OF the Lords Supper will
be administered in the Lutheran church III
this place next Sabbath.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
issue excursion tickets for the Newton
Hamilton Camp Meeting.
Tobias AulSer gets many of the base
stones for monuments and tombs stones
for graves, from Ohio.
4 portion of the heavy molding in the
Court Room ceilinv fell off on Saturday.
4 leak in tie roof was the cause Of it
.I0osening.
The Presbyterians will hold communion
services in tie Court House next Sabbath.
Preparatory services cn Saturday, at IL
O'Clock A. NJ.
J. T. l.. Sahm is here on a iis't to his
fsther-iu-l,-, joseph Bothrock. Mr. Sahm
is connected VIII .he county government
OF l.uzcrns county.
tcv farmers who have woodland tina, lay
in the way OF the storm of the llth, will
have need 70 cut Iher winter wood from
the stump, as the storm blew down enough
wood to do several winters.
Dr. Granain has been experimenting with
spring wheat on his farm ir Tuscaror4 town
ship. There is no report yet, as to whether
the experiment is proving itself to be salts
factory in It's results.
"C1' E.e-t, C. Ror'en, Of Chester cdun-
ty. has been appointed chairman of the Re-
pub,ic4n State Central Committee, ard {.
l.. Magee, of Allegheny, and Samuel +.
Barr, Of Dauphin, secretaries."
The rain last Week In the oil region, in
this State, was heavy, and destroyed great
dell OF property. At Petrcla twenty, to
thirty stores and dwellings, were washed
away. No lives were lost tho people eS-
capped from the lew ground.
Last Sabbath morning, about the time of
the close of the morning service in the
Lutheran church, Mr. Hinkle, Jr., Of this
place, TELL to the floor in an unconscious
state. He was Carried into the ycstibule,
where he soon reglined his consciousness.
Simon P. Leyder and David Kaufman,
citizens Of Mii'iIn county, were returning
in buggy, from a visit TO friends in this
county, one day last week. At Stroud's
Mills, in the former county, the horse
frightened, wheeled in the road suddenly,
upset the buggy, and threw both men ont.
Kaufman, who was unhurt, caught the
frightened animal. Leyder was severely
bruised. One wheel of the buggy was
broken, and the top of the buggy was dam
aged.
When bass are hnngty they quickly come
to the surface of the water, to catch such
bait as falls on its surface, as is demonsira-
ted almost every day by boys dropping
toads from the river bridge into the stream.
Sometimes the bass pay nc attention TO any
thing that is dropped into the water; at
other times they eagerly catch toads and
| other bait. The ways, or habits OF the bass