Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-04-28
SHORTLOCALS.

Court House at Lewistown on Thursday
evening. The proceeds will be fer the
Yesgertown church.
Calvin North brought an iron ore miner
from the Susquebanna to prospect for iron
ore on the farm that he bought from the r.
C. Gallagher estate.
First citizen to second citizen he met, on
Monday: "Say, what cases are up in court ."
Second citizen 50 Two or three hard cases
went up few minutes ago."
The frequent storms that have arisen this
in the minds of nearly the whole people.
They talk as il they expect a storm this
season.
1t is mistake for people to declare that
Tilden was elected President, but il is no
mistake that r. T.. Parker has not allowed
his prices for store goods to go up with the
boom of prices.
The Fermanagh Township Building Asso-
citation held a meeting on Tuesday evening
week, and Nominated officers to be elected
next month, and also resolved to open a
new series Of stock.
"The story is told of a very artistic man
in Boston who broke an engagement with a
charming young Lady on account of incom-
paiibility of complexion. She did not
match his furniture"
Last Friday boat loaded with iron ore,
owned by Mr. Jowells, sunk in the Millers-
town dam. The ore on board is valued at
S30O.O0. The boat was owned by Emery
Smith, young coIored mall
! Southern men wear broad brim hats TO
keep the sun off their face and neck. K. <.
Parker has mems Southern sun-down hats
for work on the farm. He has all other
styles in straw and felt.
The Blair county Radical says A draft
was Received sy a soldiers widow in Holi-
daysburg, on Monday, for Sl,l3 pension.
| This is the largest sun; that has yet been
granted to a resident of Blair county.
| On account of sickness IN his family Rev.
A. H. Parker did not declare the pulpit of
the Tabernacle vacant last Sabbath. Rev.
Mr.. Van-FOssen, of the VI. +. Church,
preached in the Tabernacle in the morning.
The Town Council met in the office OF
the President, l.. f. Atkinson, last We'd
nesday evening. The only business trans
acted was the appointment of a borough
constable. Thomas W. Hamilton was ap-
pointed.
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.
Almost every town in the State talks as if
furnace should be located just at that
place. Wait till they take to making rail-
road ties of iron. Furnaces then will bloom
as thick as blackberries in summer. Why
not build houses of IRON!
The Perry county Freeman of last week
SAYS: We learn that Rev. 5. A. Davenport,
late of the Landisburg, Blain aud Sherman's
Greek Presbyterian congregations, has re-
ceived and accepted call from the East
Waterford and McCulloc his Mills congrcga-
tons in Juniata county.
On Friday week the barn of George
Rinehart, in Wheatfeld township, Perry
county, was destroyed by fire from stroke
OF lightning. Insurance, $500. On the
same day, in the same county, in Carroll
township, the barn of David Hair was struck
b, lightning and destroyed by fire. Insur-
ance, $500.
There is a hawk or two about the town
that has in the past two years caught nearly
all the partridges in the neighborhood.
Sportsmen should 90 for the hawks till they
bring them down. A few partridges have
survived the swoop of the ha@S, but there
is little encouragement to protect them so
| long as the hawks are unshot.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson drove to Black
| Log Valley in u sulky, on official business,
one day last week, and when opposite Nc
Veytown, get awry Of log, and upset,
whereby both shafts of the sulky were
broken Off Two poles, cut in the woods,
were tied to the sulky for shafts, and in that
way the deputy came home.
Read in another column how store-keeper
yan-Dyke, Of Walker township, was taken
in by selling tea in Philadelphia, and when
you have read it, reflect how Rev. r. 3.
Wilson was overcome by a drink of cider
in Harrisburg, a victim of bad men. When
you are away from home, and unaccou,-
panied by friends or acquaintances, taste
not with strangers, smell not with strang-i
ers, play not with strangers
The Congressional Committee on Coinage
have resolved to report bill to ''get rid' OF
the trade dollar. They propose to call them
in, BY giving a legal U. S. silver dollar in
exchange for the trade dollar. Government
will do well by the exchange, for the trade
dollar has u more grains of silver than the
legal dollar, and the banks that gathered in
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reap harvest if they have barrel or two
of the coin.
Henry Hawk found black snake and a
copperhead snake engaged in fierce fight,
last Friday afternoon, near the iron ore
nine which he is working, about a mile
north of town. The black snake had a firm
grip on the copperhead just back Of its
head. He tired of the sight, and did not
wait to see the fight out, bu. from the ap-
pearance of the snakes he believes that the
black snake would have won the fight. He
killed both snakes and measured them.
Tine black snake measured 40 inches, and
the cOpperhead 36 inches.
No man should drink to excess. The
man who drinks til he gets sick or drunk
is a man of poor Judgment, but if man so
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