Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-09-01
SHORT LOCALS.

Col. Bell sells grain drill with a fertil-
izer distributor attachment. Everybody
viii want a drill with a fertilizing attach
ment.
The Democrats raised pole down in
Monroe township last Friday, but Demo-
cratic poles this fall will not knock the per-
simmon.
There is street rumor that negotiations
are pending for compromise of the trou-
bles between Presbyterians in this place and
Lost Creek congregation.
The management of the Millerstown,
Perry county, Normal School have closed
the DOORS of the institution on account of
the ague, which seized upon nearly all the
scholars.
Between last Wednesday morning and
Thursday morning there was change of 30
degrees in the temperature of the weather,
the mercury in the thermometer falling from
80 to 60 degrees.
The Republican State Central Committee
will meet in the room of the Garfield and
Arthur Club in Bleakly Block, Franklin, Ve-
mango county, Pa. on Thursday, Septem-
Der 8, 1880, at 2 O'Clock p. N.
The speech of NJ. S. Lytle, Esq, of Hunt
ingdon, before the artield and Arthur Club
of this place, was listened to with marked
attention, last Thursday evening, the occa-
sion of its delivery.
New Yorkers say, let America be the
granary for the world let Europe be the
workshlp for the world, and that can all be
brought about by free trade. The Democ-
racy and New York city are one in that
vIesE.
J. K. Durborrow, formerly editor of the
Huntingdon Journal, has opened a law
office in Huntingdon. Hope he may have
many clients, and get every one satisfac-
torily through.
Teach your children physical employment
as well as mental culture, for they may need
it IN the course of their journey through
mt. auicfiCau iOFNunes arc uuCu cislcE
spent than made.
People We're glad when the English spar
row came. Now, how glad they would be
if they would go away. They are befoul-
ing the cornice of the Court House. Where
ever they can find place to roost or build
a nest they effect lodgment.
When the King takes snuff, all the cour-
tiers must sneeze. Now that Hancock
wears a moustache and small imperial, all
the Democrats must needs cultivate NOUS
tache and small imperial between this time
and the day Of the election.
Fifty persons claim to have been con-
verted by the late camp-meeting at Newton
Hamilton. If one person has been re-
deemed and made secure in the promises of
the glory of the next world, the meeting
was great one.
In some localities POLES erected for politi
cal purposes have been torn down by the
1t is great discredit to engage
in work of molesting a political opponent |
by violence.
Robert Bryson, who it is said was stoned |
to death in the river not far from Pittsburg |
for taking a bunch of grapes that hung on
the outside of a garden fence, was taken to |
Cumberland county and buried in the family |
graveyard last Wednesday.
A rich man in a Western town willed fifty |
dollars as an endowment fund, for |
the keeping up of repairs of the streets, |
SC, provided that the borough authority |
would prevent the organization and practice
of brass band within the limits of the bor-
ough.
A terribly fatal throat disease prevails in
Cincinnati, Ohio. People in the western
part of this State are fearful of its ap-
proach. The disease seems 10 be confined |
to children between the ages of two and ten
wears. The glands swell, and high fever
prevails, and the victim dies of suffocation.
The skill of physicians seem not to reach it.
| During the thunder shower OF last We'd
nesday Mrs. L. ". ii. Kreider, OF this |
place, had occasion to go to the kitchen
door of her house. While there a flash of
lightning darted by the door, and sent a
singing sensation through her body.
On Friday town boys captured carrier
pigeon that had been flying about the town.
The name of 7. S. Clark, 1906 Girard Ave-
nue., Philadelphia, was printed on the'rnder
side of one of its wings. The owner was
dispatched to, and he requested the release
of the bird.
Col. Geo. F. Mcfarland has taken charge
Of the Soldiers Orphan School at McAlis-
terville. The school has been doing quite
well, but under the direct management of
the Colonel it is expected TO do better. Mr..
Smith will remain as steward.
Ben Butler made a speech in Massachu-
setts last Saturday night for the Democracy,
in which he said that President Hayes aban-
doned the colored people to their fate in the
South. Good. 1t is the first confession |
from a Democrat that the colored people |
needed protection in the South. What will |
they get if Hancock be elected
Frederick Burns is in Jail, not upon a |
charge of crime, but upon charge of un- |
sound mind. Mr.. Lauver, kinsman, had |
him lodged where he is. Last week Barns
was in town and exhibited a considerable |
amount of money. He stopped at Willis
Hotel, and proceeded to issue tickets, writ
ten on pasteboard, for grand dinner for
the benefit of some of his friends.
For period of ten years, preachers and |
professors who have been authorized by \
ecclesiastical bodies have been at work to
revise the Bible. The work of revision has |
been completed, and the new Bible has been
printed in England, and will soon be repro
duced in this country.
Last Wednesday, as Dorie Switser was
passing the canal lock at the Davis farm,
near ThompsontOwn. he espied something
moving in piece of grass alongside OF the