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


man FELL off an abutment, built in Schweier's
meadow, by the so-called S. & N. B. r. R.
Co. The child fell into the stream and
hurt an arm quite severely.
Greer, of the Altoona Tribune, has got
above catching mountain trout y inc hes
long, and people who are not fishermen
believe him to be right; they believe the
fish should be allowed TO grow larger.
Unknown to Thomas q. Parker, auction
eer, Centre county man stole money from
him several months ago, but within the past
few weeks the thief became conscience
smitten and returned the money to Mr..
Parker.
"Now that forest fires have become so
numerous and dangerous, it is worth while
remembering that the penalty for the firing
of mountain and coal lands is five hundred
dollars fine or one years Imprisonment, or
both.'
NOTICE.-Numerous requests have been
made that we extend the time in which to
send bills for subscription tina. have been
standing or owing for period of more than
one year. The time is extended to the last
of May. 1880.
The Huntingdon Monitor says: "I sa,'
you coming out of a saloon this evening"
said provoked lady. swell, my dear, re-
piled the lover, "you didn't expect 1 in
tended staying in the saloon all night, did
You l'' That's all the reporter heard.
Intelligence from Lincoln, Nebraska, by
private source, says that a great drought
prevails in certain parts of Nebraska-so
dry that the fan and spring wheat has all
died. There has been no rain for period
of seven months.
A peanut war has been Inaugurated in this
city, says the Harrisburg Telegraph, One
prominent vender has dropped his prices to
two quarts for five cents, and a rival in the
business has come down to two cents a
quart.
"The cyclone caused a sudden adjourn
ment of court at New Castle on Friday a
week. Judge Bredin interrupted charge
with the remark, s'This building is not safe
in this wind; guess I'll go - and he did,
followed by the jury and the rest of the
spectators"
1t was at the opera house. The perform
ance was about to begin, when one of the
two strangers looked all around and said
Sc Bill, where is the dress circle l'' Bill
glanced up toward the third gallery and re-
piled: 81 reckon it is up yonder. l see
feller taking off his coat."-Gdlreston Ners.
"There are some queer notions taken up
occasionally on account of something in the
Bible. A citizen of Luray, Va, thinks
kissing Is wrong, because Judas betrayed
Christ with a kiss. This Virginian has
been married twenty years and has eleven
children, but has never kissed his wife or
any Of the rest of the family"
Massachusetts can beat the rest of the
world for abscnt-minded men. In West
field, Mass, a well-known lawyer recently
changed his office, after more than twenty
years. occupancy. They say he still con-
tinues to go regularly every morning to the
old office and ascend the stairs until his
eyes fall upon the legend in large display
type, sRemoved to - when he gives his
hat jerk over his head aud bolts in the di-
rection of his new quarters, looking around
a. =. h.. nh,a ya1 ,,
Just before prominent ex-ofiiceholder of
Hartford retired the other night, he got
down on his hands and knees ard peerec
anxiously under the bed. What in the
world are you looking for, Edward ~ in
quired his wife. Z" Looking for woman"
promptly replied her husband. "You've
been looking for a man under the bed for
fifteen years, and thought I'd start hunt
for a woman, and I'll bet I'll find the woman
before YOU do the man. ''-Harffori Post.
A Yankee came running down to pier
Just as steamer was starting. The boat
moved of some four or five yards. As he
took jump, and came down on the back
of his head on deck, he lay stunned for two
or three minutes. When he came TO, the
boat had gone the best part of quarter of
a mile, and, raising his head and looking to
the shore, the Yankee said {: ssGreat Jehos-
ophat what jump."-Neu York Evening
Post.
SIT Just awful 10 think, they are having
an assault and battery trial in high, high,
high life a. Dayton, Ohio. The alleged as
sault occurred April l, when early In the
morning one lady called to her next door
neighbor that the chimney was on fire. She
rushed out into the back yard without
dressing herself, and found she was fooled.
Then she got mad, and fought with the
other lady by reaching over the fence and
pulling her hair. The other lady did like
wise, and plentifully scratched her antag-
onist's face"
Two little boys set fire to the straw ma
nure pile at the stable of Frederick Espen-
schade in this borough last Thursday after
noon. Mrs. Benjamin Akley saw the smoke
and fire and raised the alarm. Samuel Roll
mar was the first man to arrive at the fire.
Others appeared upon the scene, and by
vigorous work the fire was put out. The
fence was somewhat damaged. 1t was
timely discovery a minute longer and the
fire would have reached the straw and hay
in the stable adjoining, and as high wind
prevailed at the time il is probable that all
houses east of the irs would have been
burned down.
"Miss Anna Oliver, who has been preach
ing to a congregation in Brooklyn, applied
to the New England Methodist Conference
for ordination. She presented a certificate
of Recommendation from the Quarterly Con-
ference of the Jamaica Plains church, sign
ed by Presiding Elder Thayer, but the
Bishop presiding Bishop Andrews-re
fused, according to a previous decision Of