Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-04
SHORTLOCALS.

The long hot month of August.
The price OF iron has advanced.
More snakes this year than ever before
a Tanner rcocktail-Four ounces of water
The Democracy have organized Glee
Club in town.
Squirrel shooting time begins on the Isl
of September.
DIR. Tanners fast of forty DAYS ends next
Saturday at noon
Notes of the approaching campaign are
occasionally heard.
Rev. David Beale preached in the Patter.
son church on Sabbath evening.
A camp-meeting will be opened near
Bloomfield, Perry county, August &c.
Faces of children grow long over the
thought of the approaching school term.
Jefferson Middagh and Mrs. Middagh were
of on visit to Fulton county last week.
Capt. James II. Stanley, of Middletown,
died OF hydrophobia, last Wednesday night.
Dullness OF business has caused the Sher.
III of Fayette county to dismiss his depSty.
Some days ago lightning aamssed the
steeple of the Lutheran church in Hunting
don.
hliam Wagner, matchmaker, ieweler
and engraver, has returned from his travels
in the West
While handling bags, on Friday week,
McNeal Arnold, OF Tuscarora township, had
an arm broken.
There is talk of a sack of meat having
been found some time since on the ridge
north of town.
&C TO Cooks store for dry goods. ar.
Cook keeps all kinds of store goods in the
Todd stand in Patterson.
A gang of provision thieves seepr to be
committing a good deal of depreciation in
various parts of the county.
There was a stiff frost at Cresson, beyond
Altoona, last Thursday morning. Who
says Venner does not know!
Snow fell or Mount Washington, N H.,
on Thursday. 1t was no small fail, for it
was three hours in coming down:
Some days ago Luke Davis, of Walker
township, bought horse for $40. Two
days after purchase the horse died.
In Africa the negroes believe the color of
Satan to be white. Here the white people
believe the color Of Satan to be black.
Porter s Bainbridge, IS peekman street,
n. Y, send out specimen cards, wedding
envelopes, mourning stationery, sc.
There was a theatrical performance in the
Court House on Friday and Saturday even
ings, for the beEefit of the Post Band.
People who are subject to "hay fever"
are in agony over the anticipated attack. 1t
usually begins about the Goth OF August.
Por; Royal vrestles with the cake walk.
Ahlfiintown varies her entertainments. The
latest has been lecture and theatre.
! Mrs. Sophia Howard, residing in Derry
township is the oldest person in Daurhin
county. Mrs. Howard's age is l06 years:
Mss Emms strayer. daughter OF Mr.. Sam
uel Strayer, of Patterson, has entered Free
burg Musical College as a student at music:
The earlier ground is plowed in the au-
tumn for fall seeding, the better. So it Is
said by assricultGrists who profess to know.
A young man stole arose in England, and
for this act he was sent to jail for three
months. He stole ii out of a cemetery lot.
Spanish ships of war stop and examine
America ships so frequently that tho gen
eral reader has lost sight of the number of
outrag6s-
An infant child of William Haines died
at the residence of its father in this bor-
ough on Saturday. Interment in Union
Cemetery.
ga Reading mother fed her year old baby
ON sliced cucumbers and milk, and then de-
sired the prayers of the church because the
Lord took it away"
An exchange says, the number of widows
far exceed the number of widowers, and
the reason is, that the widowerS re-marry
while the widows remain in widowhood.
1t will be the printers time to picnic
next. Their day is still somewhat in the
distance. On the 4th of September they
will picnic at Roaring Springs, Blair county.
A Lewistown man has tent of entertain
ment at Roaring Run in the Narrows be-
tween this place and LewistOwn- A psrty
from Lewistown pic-nicked there, last Fri
day.
IA butting ram in Lack township exer-
cised himself on the son of his master and
k-ocked the Iad-uamed James Johnson
a 4cythe. and thereby cut the boy quite
severely.
There is a street report that some OF the
mines in Fermanagh township are not safe.
The matter should be attended 20 at once,
and the mines put in safe condition, so that
lives may not be lost.
1t takes eighteen sheaves OF wheat 10
make bushel, full measure. If you know
how many dozen sheayes you put into the
harm YOU NAV count the number of bushels
of wheat to be threshed out.
The Democrats are boasting that they
will have 700 of majority In this county IN
November. Republicans, who are they that
they count onl Who are they that Will
throw away their birthrighti
|wiIliam Kenawell, of Walker township,
has discovered mineral substance on ms
land in Walker township. What 1t is no
one in these parts can tell. Ithas been sent
on to New York for analysis.
General Beaver, of Bellefonte, was in at
tendance at the funeral of Mrs. Banks on
Saturday. he being related by marriage.
Mrs. Beaver was Miss McAlister, as was
also the deceased Mrs. Banks.
Thousands of worms, in shape and color