Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-05
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The ground was frozen on Saturday morn
ing.
Rain and sunshine last Friday--a fckl
day.
The 4th Of July comes on Sunday thi
year.
Huntingdon has peach tree with whit
blossoms
Save motley by buying goods at R.
Park-r's store.
Ground bark is sent from Cumberland
county to Europe.
There arc five divorce cases before th,
Court in this county.
Mr.. A. G. Bonsall, Of the Democrat an,
Register, has been i'll.
There viii be services held in the bricl
Presbyterian church next Sabbath.
There is said to be luck in finding hors,
shoe. How is il when one is lost +!
A Lewistown girl has gone to London
England, to be educated as Z nurse.
A slight snow storm passed over thi.
place on Saturday evening about O'Clock
Mr.. Cook has bought the Todd store in
Patterson, and re-stocked il with new store
goods.
A lore-feast will be held in Goodwill
church, two miles east of McAlisterviile,
May Is.
The management of the Pennsylvania
Railroad have declared 3 per cent. SEMI
annual dividend.
The river was on a swell after the rain,
and fishermen took advantage of it to set
their nets, last Friday.
Southland Robinson is the cornet player in
the choir of the Presbyterian Sabbath
school in his place.
To sec young lady with her head tied
up is no sign that she has headache-she
may be cu.tiyating bangs.
William Banks, of Fermanagh township,
shipped the first instalment of his fat cattle
TO Philadelphia, on Thursday.
An exchange says, " Columbia fishermen
sprinkle beef blood on stale shad to give
them an appearance Of freshness"
"Reuben Fdgely, who died in Shamokin
some time ago, Equidated s. 500 debt on
the Lutheran church of that place"
The Post of the e. A. K. will give an en-
tertainment in the Court House on the even
ing of the 10Th and 2lst of this month.
The law imposes a fine of SIS on the per-
son who has an outline or set-net in a
stream of water 10 catch fish ON Sunday.
Abraham Halteman, citizen OF Fayetfe
township, has a German Bible that weighs
30 pounds. 1t was published in 1888, in
Germany.
Communion services were held in the
Tabernacle church Oh Sabbath. Rev. Mr.
Butler, OF Cieartieid, was the officiating
clergyman.
Among the many people killed by storm
at Marshfield, No., was the Methodist
preacher of the place. One of his children
had a leg broken.
The display of agricultural implements
during court week, along the South side OF
Court House square, was like the display al
an agricultural fair.
Noah Hertzler, prominent citizen of
this county, resident Of Port Royal, has q
dog that weighs / IA pounds. The dog is
not yet two years old.
The Blaine men persist in saying that
Blaine has a majority Of the delegation to
Chicago. The Gran. men say that Grant
has majority of this delegates.
The small boy is not pleased that the cir
Gus goes to Altoona TO show, and does not
stop here. The truth is, some of the big
boys would have liked it to stop.
A little girl in public school the other
day had occasion to parse the word "angel." T"
Coming to the gender she stopped dismayed,
and asked her teacher if there are any
men angels"
Court got through with its business on
Thursday morning. The settlement of a
number of cases by the parties to the cases,
brought the court to an end in the middle
of the week.
David Kaufman, who was sent to the
PeuItentiary, was not kept long after SEN
tence had been pronounced on him. He
was sentenced on Wednesday, and on Fri
day he was on his way 10 Pittsburg Jail.
The day previous TO the meeting of the
Democratic tate Convention al Harrisburg
last week, jeff DAYS passed eastward on the
railroad, on Day Express. 1t is not known
whether he stopped at Harrisburg or not.
"a Macon, Ca. dispatch OF April 18th
SAYS the first barrel OF Georgia fiour was
shipped iron this point yesterday. The
wheat was cut in Lee county on April 10th
four and half months after it was sown."
The men who carry credentials from the
Democratic State Convention to the Demo-
cratic National Convention as representa-
tives of this Congressional District, are DR.
D. N. Crawford, Mr.. Duncan, and ex-Con'
gresham Stenger.
From the Selinsgrove Times !: ca steam
er drawing fourteen new canal boats passed
down the canal at 5 O'Clock on Tuesday
afternoon, April 20. 1t was the larges
fleet of boats, old or new, we ever witness
ed, and it drew a crowd TO the canal. u
A preacher in this town married a maj
and a woman, a short time ago, at the par
sonage The newly-married asked for
marriage certificate, and when they received
it the groom paid the preacher so cents
That was as bad as to take newspaper ant
not pay for it.
The Democratic State Convention at Har
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