Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-18
SHORrLOcHLS.
Dog day 8 end on Friday.

Thursday.
Matilda Furnace, Mlrlin county, has been
put into blast.
The soldiers reunion and middle fair day
come on the same day.
The attendance at the fair, from present
Indications, win be large.
Furniture of all kinds, at advantageous
prices, at Gray bills Hall.
Gray squirrels are reported as plenty
in the woods of Dauphiu coaniy.
The weather still remains favorable for
the development of the corn crop.
A cornet has been added to the Presby-
terian church choir In Lewis.own.
The Rev. D. J. Beale will preach in .he
Presbyterian chapel on next Sabbath.
Rev. Holmes Dysinger preached In the
Lutheran church on Sabbath evening.
I Joseph Martin has the plastering of the
Wesdman and Stouffer houses well under
way:
Aiddleburg, Snyder county, has man in
it who eats twenty apple dumplings at a
meal.
Tho lover of oyster eating IS counting the
days that intervene between now and Sep
tember.
The Democratic primary election will be
held on the 2lst, and their convention on
the 23rd.
! Lost Greek Valley farmers in considera-
BILE numbers, pic-nlcked at Macedonia last
Saturday.
The printers picnic promises to be a
large assembly. Seven hundred tickets will
be issued.
Eighteen thousand tobacco plants were
destroyed by grasshoppers, for one man in
Mifiiin county.
1t would have taken several barrels to
hold all the bass that were caught in the
river hist week.
Johnnie McNulty has sold his mineral
water mandatory to Samuel Lapp and
Amos Creswell.
Several persons in this place are talking
about attending the Sabbath-school picnic
near Concord on Saturday.
Washington G lass, is the name of new
5-bushel-per-acrc wheat, in Miffiin county,
grewn in Decatur township.
4 dispatch from the West says that the
supposed Benders, after hearing, were dis
charged, Oh the 10th inst.
| The store of Mr.. Wickersham in Thomp-
sontown was robbed OF about SIS Oe worth
of store goods on Saturday night.
A rattlesnake four feet long, with seven
teen rattles on its tail was killed by persons
who pic-Hicked at Macedonia last Thursday.
There was no preaching in the Methodist
church on Sabbath, the pastor being in at
tendance at camp-meetng at Newton Ham,
Ilton.
Col. J. X. Rhodes, secretary of the Juni-
alta Valley Camp-meeting Association, has
our hearty Acknowledgements for courtesies
extended.
We are indebted to friend for a mess Of |
bass, but as he is too modest to allow of a |
public acknowledgment, his name is not |
made public.
Genera. Garfield wears well. His late |
trip to New York made him many friends.
Wherever he gets cut among the people
they like him.
1 At O'Clock last Wednesday morning the
barn of Andrew Swartzell, near Milroy, Mif-
tiin county, was destroyed hy fire. The
barn was full of grain and hay.
The Altoona Tribune says: ''The cOlored
men Of Johnstown have issued an address
stating that they number forty-six and are
solid for Garfield and Arthur"
"Farmers in Mexican county mend their
roads, and call it picnic. Their wives,
sweethearts prepare the dinner and encour-
age the men with their smiles"
Rev. ]. II. Mathers preached at Lost
Greek Presbyterian church near McAlister-
vile on Sabbath. 4 number of Presbyte-
rims drove out to hear him preach.
The Democrat and Register says that the
are ssscared and demoralized."
That will do to tell to the marines, but it
will rot dc to tell to the old soldiers.
The Garfield and Arthur Campaign Club
of Fayette township viii meet in the school
house at McAlisterville, on Saturday even
ing, August 81. Turn out! Turn out!
The Democracy, in all probability, viii
have a large turnout at the primary election,
because of the question of change of sys-
tenn for nominating candidates for office.
There win be family picnic at Macedo-
MIA, on Friday, august 20, 1850. The fat
will leave the wharf at 8 A. NJ. Each fam
ily will be assessed 75 cents to pay for trans
portation and music. kll are invited.
Hancock fought against rebellion and then
declared against such reconstruction nea-
sures as will secure the country from re-
turn to such things as produced rebellion.
Such craftsmanship as that should be scarce.
Riverside Park and Agricultural Associ-
alton offer one thousand dollars in pre-
miums. Owing to a press of other matter
the Premium List will not appear in the
columns of the Sentinel aud Republican till
next week.
| Rev. Benaugh, pastor elect of the Miffiin-
town Presbyterian congregation, visited
among the elders and members of the con-
last week, and on Sabbath preached
in the church on Washington street. He
has accepted the call.
Some of the rich ladies at fashionable.
places have their favorite dog or
dogs accompany them to thetable for meals.
At Cape May the charge for board for dog
is $40 per week. 1t is all right, if the
ladies' have the money to pay for their dogs,
and the hotel-keepers will admit of it ali.
Political writer's of the wild sort are pull
Ing in. They have pretty nearly written