Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
MORT LOCALS.

The iron business Is depressed.
Fair associations are recognising
clam soup instead of oyster SOUP.
sunday week will be whitsaaday.
William Haines is enlargine his house.
Subscribe for the Sentiael and Rspu5liean
oa's mas come out of the ground nicely
Fruit blossoms of all kinds in profusion
Iron has fallen in price from $40 to So
per ton.
White will be more worn than eyer III;
summer.''
The new court house in Cambria coun
ty is to ccst $s0, 1000.
The thermometer went up to IS degree
In the shade on Monday.
The Handle Factory at Port ROYAL re
ceives orders from Europe.
1t is said that the lst of June wifi s,o,
the bach or arrear pensions.
Eleven thousand people attended the cir
Gus at Harrisburg last week.
Mr.. winey has put up new house ant
store room in McAlisterville.
Within the past week great deal of corr
has been put into the ground.
John Hotlobaugh is making improve
ments in his ice cream garden.
1t is the importing interests of cite,
that break down the tariff laws.
DIR. Rothrock's new house in McAlister,
vile Is about ready to move into.
Cigars made of properly cured Juniata
county tobacco are highly praised.
Tap, tap, tap, tack the carpet was the
raging sound all last week in town.
Housekeepers are again in a state of re.
pose; the house has been cleaned.
1t is time that ladies get their age fixed
as the census taker will soon he around.
The man born in the year 1880 must wait
till in the 10th century before he can vote.
The 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry will hold
Its eleventh reunion at Harrisburg June 8,
1880.
George B. Roberts has been elected Pres
ident of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany.
There will be preaching in the brick Pres
byterian church next Sabbath, morning and
evening.
Two children of Mr.. Bilger, in Fayette
township, died only few days apart, with
scarlet fever.
J. N. Van-O rmer, of Fayette township,
shot mad dog that came to his premise,
on Sunday morning
Members of the Lutheran church say that
the thermometer stood at 80 degrees in the
church building on Sunday.
"ImmiErants arrived at New York last
month at the rate of one per minute for the
whole thirty days"
.sOh, pa 20 cried little fellow upon see-
ing trout for the first time, sits got the
measles, hasn't it 20
George Jacobs, Sr., has sold his tobacco
to Joseph D-ering. Deering is engaged in
the manufacture of cigars.
Charles Lowry caught a l9-poEnd snap
ping turtle, few days ago, on the 8. BERN
bank, north of town.
Rev. Mr.. Elliott, from the West Branch
of the Susquehanna, preached in the Pres
byterisn tabernacle on Sabbath.
Sun-down hats, in size larger than com.
mon parasols, for men, for sale at Parker s
store, also full line of dress hats.
Jacob Hostetier, of Walker township, had
a foot severely bruised while working at
Adam Weidman's house, last week.
Carlisle papers published that Judge Jun
kin had died. The notices were premature.
The Judge is alive and in good health
The Post of the G. A. R. will hold an en-
tertainment on the evening of the 2lst and
22nd INST, in the Court House.
The Juniata County Ssbbath-school As
sociation will hold its annual convention at
May 26th and 9th, 1880.
The Post Band cake walk, held in the
Court House corridors last Saturday even
ing, brought out large number of people
The Post of the G.. A. r. at this Place
will turn out on Decoration day and deco
rate the graves of their deceased comrades.
Ladies who cultivate flowers have been
busy the past week preparing outdoor beds
in which to transparent flowers and SOW
seed.
Two secret weddings by Liverpool, Perry
county, people, has created stir in that
among all people who are given
to talk.
Marks, tb" peanut man, has taken his
house down and shipped it to Lewistown,
where it is to be reconstructed.
On Friday, in the United States District
Court, James R. Bumbaugh was sentenced
to three years in the Penitentiary for rob-
bing the mails.
Issac Brubaker, of Fermanagh township,
was put out of working order by cutting a
foot, by the glancing stroke of an axe, a
few days ago.
The census taker in this district must &c
to Africa for his appointment, but you need
not go so far for cheap, good Goods, 60 to
Parker's store.
A number of young men from this place
went to Harrisburg, distance of 50 miles,
last Thursday, to attend the circus. They
went on the cars.
Jerome Thompson and Robert Croziei
brought a drove of horses afoot through
town, a few days ago. They were stabbed
at Thompson's barn near Mexico.
An acquaintance says that the men near
the frontier west who make money fast, are
the store-keepers, the cattle dealers and
bankers, or men who loan money.