Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-14
SHORTLOC.ALS.

Ion Saturday numbe. Of citizen soldier.
VIII start in Carriages to Gettysburg.
A Harvest Home will be held in Mill
ken's grove, Beale township, on Thursday a
week.
1t is reported that Mr.. Stenger viii not be
candidate for Congressional nomination
Ii that report is true, the contest in the 18th
district, among the Democracy viii be nar.
rowed down to Mr.. Parker and Mr.. Speer.
The pedigree of General Hancock is q
good one, viewed from a New England
standpointi but what would his Puritan an
cestors say to him becoming the champion
OF the Lost Cause in an effort 70 restore il
to powerl
A few evenings ago number of Repub-
lican citizens of Miffiin and Patterson met
in the Commissioners Office and organized
a temporary Garfield ard Arthur Club, ap.
pointed a committee on organization, &c,
Another meeting, to effect a permanent or
ganization, will be held at the same place on
Thursday evening. Organized Organize
The oldest inhabitant has no recollection
of such growth Of corn stalks at this time
in the summer, and every person IS asking
every other person. '.Will the yield of corn
be in proportion TO the amount of stalks
and VIII the crop come correspondingiy
early !''
A festival viii be held at St. Paul's Luth.
eran chuich In Beale township, on Friday
evening, the 10Th, and Saturday afternoon
and evening, the 18th inst, for the purpose
of raise funds to liquidate the debt OF said
church. A cordial invitation is extended
to everybody.
In a number of the counties of the State
Garfield Riding Clubs have been formed,
the members of which meet once week,
for the purpose of riding on horseback, and
TO dill as a regular mounted company, to
take part in torchlight professions during
the campaign.
q
ing between two and three hundred pounds,
and when he braces up, puts on corset
and uniform, he is just splendid to look
at. He looks a great deal finer than did the
leader Of his party, JEFF Davis, when he put
a petticoat on.
Thad Kreider, son Of Squire Kreider,
while diving in the river, dove too near the
bottom of the stream, and thereby brought
his head in contact with large stone or
rock. The lad left the bath in haste, but
aside from cut in the scalp he has not suf-
fered great deal.
GA few days ago" the editor of The OUl
was arrested on three charges, by three
Bellsfonte people. The charges are libel,
and obscene publication. He entered bail
before Justice Middagh in the sum Of nine
hundred dollars for appearance for trial at
Bellefohte.
Read the thrilling incident in the life of
Garfield on the occasion of the assassina-
ton of Abraham Lincoln when a mob in
New York was about to destroy the HorId
office. Heat the account as published in
another column in this issue of the SeRtiaFt
and Republican.
The following is reproduced from an eS-
Change paper: A gentleman of Lycoming
county, who has been i'll with a drcpsical
affec tion for two years says he has expe-
rienced wonderful relief from the use OF
tea made from the plant known as the stag
alder" Its effects are almost instantane-
Gus and appear permanent.
Garfield is self-made man; Hancock
was made by the Government. Garfield ed
ucated himself in the arts of peace; the
public educated Hancock in the arr of war.
The one is mere fighter; the other is
fighter when there is war, but is a civilian
when there is peace.-ChIcGgo Tribune.
DIR. Tanners experiment to live without
food, now that it has progressed 10 days, IS
bringing ou; suggestions that one square
meal week will be enough for the tramp
The Doctors practice, if enforced on the
tramp would be hard on him, unless indeed
to eat every day be only piece of fashion,
able physical sensuaiity.
People who read have distinct recollec-
ton of how the Democracy, from the little
to the big. continually found fault with Cen
eral Grant because he would not speak and
write. Now leading Democrats are beg
ging General Hancock to ''shut his mouth,
aud throw his pen away" The advice is
not given in elegant language, but it is the
language of Democrats, and is not of Re-
publican coinage.
Sheriff Kelly was iourneying through
Kurtz valley several days ago. Rain was
falling. little boy with an umbrella came
out of lane on the south side of the road
so suddenly that the horse SHE'D, turned
suddenly and upset the sulky. Of course
the Sheriff fell out, but ne was not hurt,
and the horse did not get away. The aeci-
dent happened near the house of ex-Com-
missioner Dimm.
Col. John ". Forney has come out in
favor of Hancock for President. There
doubtless will be others who may do so,
but what of that . When the Union cause
was battling against rebellion, men were
killed by the thousand, and hundreds de-
serted, in every campaign, but still the
cause went on. So in every civil campaign
through which free government has been
preserved, men here and there have passed
away and deserted the cause, and still free
government exist.
The Democracy incline to pick at the Re-
publicans because Bob Ingersoil is Repub-
lican. The great iDfdel, Tom Paine, was