Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-23


said: A small worm has attacked the grow
ing wheat in Oneida townships, and is de-
stroying much oft. The "repti.e' is found
at his work in the joint just below the head
and before being discovered, kills the grain
While 1t is ripening. The worm resembles
the wire worm, and was never known to
attack the grain before. 1t is a mystery to
the farmers of that township where i: comes
from.
An exchange says: Mad dog: will be ripe
soon now. and it is just as well to reu,em-
Der what the British Medical journal says.
namely: That garlic has always had a great
reputation among anti-hydrophobia RENE
dies, and is found as principal integral
portion in a large number of formule long
kept secret. A young man bitten by a mad
dog was shut up in a loft. In his delirium
he seized upon some bundles Of dried gar
lie, ate greediIy of it, fell into deep sleep,
and awoke calm and cured.
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Court is being held to try case that
came over from Snyder county. The pres
ent management of the so-ca,let Selins-
grove and North Branch Railroad Company
brought an action to recover subscription
from a certain Snyder county man. Pay
ment is refused on the ground that the
money was subscribed with the understand
ing that it was TO be used in the grading of
a particular piece of the road, and that it
.as not to be paid until $4,000 had been
subscribed TO be expended on the same
stretch of road.
The Democracy blame Garfield for no.
saying that he would have nothing
to do with Credit Mobilier. They have not
the fairness TO say that he should have taken
his time TO learn whether it was good or
bad, and Yet rinety per cent. of the DEM
ocracy who blurt out against Garfield be-
cause he did not at once declare against
the corporation, cannot tell to-day what
Credit Nobiier was for they cannot point
ont its good and its bad. IL is as indefinite
to the minds of most of the men who de-
nounce Garfield as are the ghost stories Of
lays gone by.
A citizen came into the Office the other
day and said, 90 tell you. sir, times have
changed within the past generation Forty
years ago, when | was young, when a man
had house OF barn TO raise, he notified the
whole neighborhood, and if a neighbOr
chanced 10 be missed In the run of Invita-
lions, he took It as an Insult. But mark
he change. Now, if a man is asked TO
house or barn raising, if be does not belong
10 the crowd OF men engaged to build the
house, he almost feels insul,ed over the
invitation. / tell you, sir, times have
changed"
The Everett, Bedford county, Pres, of
June Is, says: During the storm of last
Sunday, the brick school house in Hope
we'll township, about mile from Hopewell
in the direction of Everett, was
blown down BY the storm and reduced to
pile Of ruins. 4 Sunday school was in ses
ion Ia the school-house when it was struck
" the storm, and our information is 10 the
feet that scme fifteen of the children in
he school were more or less hurt in the
alling of the building-nine of them seri-
1usly, though none fatally. One man is
said to have had his back broken by piece
of timber falling on HIN.
The County Committee has appointed
July 3lst, as the day oa which to
hold the Primary Election For the nomina-
lion of candidates for the various Offices.
The System for the government Of the
party ia its nomination Of candidates, and
the counting OF the votes poled at the Phi
mary Election, is published in another col
nrnn. Read it carefully, and he at the polls
promptly, and see that no men be sent as
return judges excepting such as are worthy
of trust, and nominate no men but good
men for the various Offices, from that of
Chairman of the County Committee to that
Of Congressman. Candidates have TO be
certain length of time. For
particulars see System.