Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-17
SHORT LOCALS.

Trout fishermen are looking up their
tackle.
II will soon be time to cast us township
accounts.
OF The biggest hog in Huntingdon weigh,
goo pounds. "'
Mrs. Sarah r. BARLEY has house to rent
on Cherry street.
What has become of Olivia The time
for poetry is here.
Huntingdon Baptists are holding service.
IN their new church.
Get your age fixed before the censns
taker comes around.
Even the wild geese were confounded by
the weather last year.
tx-Soeriff i.oudon is having the outside
Of his house repainted.
Reuben Caveny will open hotel at Cane
May the coming summer.
The party who never pays his loan-The
man who borrows from his wife.
They say that a public sale is a good
place to go to get square meal.
The number of children in the Catholic
schools in Altoona is about ,OcO.
People who are posted say that the
ground hog came out on Sunday last.
DIR. Zeigler, of the Selinsgrove Missionary
Institute, looks younger than he did wears
ago.
full assortment of new goods at r. T..
Parker's store.
Rev. Downey and Rev. Hamilton are dis
cussirg the temperance question in the
Perry county papers.
Gideon Halteman, a well known citizen
of Johnstown, this county, is reported to
be seriously i'll.
Among the Democratic candidates for
Congress, E. d. Parker has been announced
as in the field.
A Harrisburg doctor is in Jail on the
charge of having produced an abortion on
a married woman.
Work on the new openings, or new mines
for iron ore, was suspended last week by
the BAD weather.
FOR RENT.-A comfortable dwelling
house in this town. If you wish to rent,
call at this office.
The veterans of the Post here promise a
pleasant entertainment, on Saturday even
ing, March Doth. Admission, 10 cents.
Harrisburg blacksmiths have ad, anced
the price of horse-shoeing to ST. so and 81.
The high price of iron has been the cause.
The premature explosion of blast in a
lime quarry at Millerstown, Perry county,
on the 9th inst, killed b. +. Harris, of Port
Roy al, this county.
Hon. Ed. Mcpherson has become secre-
tary of the Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee, he having withdrawn from
the Philadelphia Press.
The Democracy in this county, at their
next primary election VIII vote on the quos-
ton of adopting the Crawford County Sys-
TEN for the nomination of candidates.
When the Democrats attend the next
Convention they will wear Randall and Wal
lace hats, but the place to buy hat 10 suit
yourself is at K. E. Parker's store.
The Supreme Court has decided that the
Federal or Congressional election laws are
constitutional, and Democratic leaders on
the outer wall are correspondingly excited.
David Kaufman was arrested at McAlis-
terville on Saturday on a charge of having
stolen cloth to the value of S25.0U from
Messrs. swartzlander s. Benner. He is now
In Jail in this place.
The suit that was brought against the
management of the Juniata Hotel when it
made application for license has been with
drawn, for the reason that the application
for license was withdrawn.
This from an exchange: A great many
papers are circulating the fact that the man
who borrows his neighbor's paper is beat.
But how about the fellow who takes the
paper and doesn't pay for it
The house of Jonas Leister, in Fayette
township, was destroyed by fire on Satur-
day. Nearly all the contents of the build
ing were saved. The fire originated through
defective tiue. Insurance, $1,000.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says that the
handsome lamp that was voted to conductor
William Reese, of the Miffiin Accommoda-
ton train, by the Miffiin fair, is on exhibi-
tion in the window of Harrisburg jewelry
store.
The style or pattern of wall paper has
been wonderfully changed within the past
few years, so with the style of calico. r.
E. Parker has the latest STYLES of calico.
ga Washington dispatch Of few days
ago says: A very dangerous scounterfeit one
hundred dollar note on the pittsburg Ma
tional Bank of Commerce, of Pittsburg, Ia,
was detected at the National Bank Redemp-
tion Agency"
NOTICE.-Numerous requests have been
made that we extend the time in which TO
send bills for subscription that have been
standing or owing for period of more than
one year. The time is extended to the last
of May. 1880.
Rev. S. W. Reigart, of Mechanicsburg,
Cumberland COUNTY, preached at Lost
Creek church, on Sabbath morning, and in
the brick church in this place on Sabbath
evening. ALI the people who heard him
came away pleased with his preaching.
During the progress of the riot bill bribery
case in the Dauphin county court last week.
a definition of what a Legislative rooster is,
was given. A "rooster" is one who is
ready to sell his vote for money-ready to
vote for any bill for a money consideration.
Dispatches from Europe say that the Rus
sian General Melikotf had a coat of mail on
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