Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-10
SHORT LOCALS.

Fit.
The fifteen game.
Boys talk Easter eggs.
The schools are closing.
Lots of people expect an attack Of spring
fever.
The Lutheran Conference is being well
attended
Elections in Maine were nearly all Repub-
lican in result, last week.
Leap year parties are continually talked
of, but not often indulged.
TIE price of printing paper has advanced
about seventy-five per cent.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: Nobody
seems to miss the Legislature.
The Presbyterian church case last week
awakened considerable interest.
Some one said the early frog will see
through specks yet-ice is meaut.s
j. b. NJ Todd is selling the best fish
and the cheapest In the county.
Lewistown lady has jessamine stalk
blooming in her garden ever since Decem-
Der.
Jecob Wills horse ran away with the
butcher wagon on Tuesday morning, broke
the vehicle and scattered the meat.
DR.. Ard, son of ex sheriff Ard, died at
his fathers place of residence in Spruce
Hill township, last week, of consumption.
Judge Jonathan Weiser died at bis
place of residence IN Sus4uehanna town
ship, last Saturday, of pneumonia
f. W. IL. Kreider has beeu re ap-
pointed agent of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for
this county.
II you want to sell your side meat,
go to Todd's; be pays s cents per Id.
Go and see what bargains in fish.
There will be preaching in the
Presby teriau brick church next Sab
bath morning at the usual hour, and at
Z O'Clock in the evening.
DR.. NJ. b. Carver, of Thompson
town, will move to Beileville, Miffiin
county, on the lst of April. A Hcmeo-
pathlc physician will take his place.
The fourth and last of w. II. Krei-
der's mule team was drag yed out on
Monday morning. There is something
strange about the speedy fatality that
carried off the whole team.
The Post of the G. A. X. will give
another entertainment in the Court
House on the evening Of March 20,
1880. The preparations have been
more extensive than those that resulted
in so satisfactory an entertainment
some weeks ago. Admission lG cents.
The effort to make it appear that the
present Board of Commissioners have been
extravagant in the general expenditures of
the county funds is about thelhatest failure
that has taken place in this county in many
years.
Mr.. Himelbaugh, of Black Log, bought a
mare at Joshus Beale's sale last Wednes-
day, and proceeded TO ride home, but he
got on his way only as far as Commissioner
McMeen's place, when the animal lay down
and died. 1t was quite a loss for the pu
chaser.
ga Virginia couple eloped under difficult |
ties from Rockingham county, in the Shen-
andoah Valley. The bride stole away from
home, and waited in the barn all day for her |
lover, and when he came they started for |
Fishersvile, on the Chesapeake and Ohio /
Railroad. They walked along through the
woods all night, but must have bsen moving |
in kind of circle, because next morning |
they found themselves only few hundred |
yards from the old mans house. Finally |
they got away to Fishersy lie, and took a |
train TO Lewisburg, West Virginia. There |
the bride was seen standing in the midst of
an admirirg crowd relating their adventures,
while the groom stood bashfully by. She |
declared that she had tried three times to /
get married before, and that she was going |
to be married this time if she had to go TO |
the end of the world.'