Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-01-07
SHORT LOCALS.

The river was almost half bank full last
week.
This is leap-year, and the bachelors arc
on the qxi r;vs.
Go TO the CRYSTAL PALACE TO buy nice
good furniture
The Harrisburg Telegraph issued an at.
tractive Year Book.
The State hillers' Association meets a,
Harrisburg on the 18th inst.
Boys INDUCED in wheeling matches on
New Year day, on Cross street.
People who store ice for SKINNER use, are
longing for spell of cold weather.
This is the Week of Prayer. This attend.
ance is up to the average in this place.
This is the week that tests the reformer
who turned new leaf on the LIST inst.
The auditors Of the several counties in
the Commonwealth will soon begin work.
Harrisburg has a number Of female pick
pockets. So the Journals of that place say
Congressman II. G. Fisher has our hearty
acknowledgment for valuable public docu-
ments.
"Harvey Troup, farmer, living near New
port, in Perry county, hanged himself on
Sunday afternoon"
Mrs Jane Irwin, of this place, on Sathr-
day morning while walking in her garden,
fell and broke an arm.
The Horningtown Sabbath-sch chool varied
their Christmas entertainment. Instead of
Tree, they had a Panorama.
Sportsmen wheeled at the Central Hotel
in Patterson, on Friday. The highest prize
was 24-pound turkey.
The Literary Societies of this county will
hold sessions three days, in the Court House,
beginning on the 22d of this month.
Last week horse owned by Abram Will,
got away from David Hoffman, and broke
in pieces . sleigh to which he was hitched.
FOR SALE.-A One-horse Phaeton, good
as new. For particulars, address Mrs. J. d.
Magruder, Mifiiintown, Juniata Co., Pa.
Dec. 5, ls79-tf
Miss Sanford's pictures of Rome and Italy,
as exhibited by the aid of q magic lantern
en- Christmas evening, were entertaining to
all who saw them.
The Band has been conducting cake walks
as a medium by which to raise money to
buy handsome suits, such as are worn by
professional bands.
Ex-Sheriff Walls, in vacsting the Jail on
Monday, moved into one OF Joseph Mar
tins houses, between the Luthsran church
and Lutheran parsonage.
Something for Democrats to ponder -
"what shall it profit party if it steal one
State in 1879 and lose q whole Union in
1880 7"-Erchange.
Boys afeot. and boys on horseback,
clothed in fantastic dress, with their faces
masked, paraded through the streets about
noon on New Year day.
A few nights ago, while Daniel Panne-
baker and family were in attendance at
church, some one stole a coat and vest from
the back porch Of their dwelling house.
S. S. Wilson has moved into the Jail as
Deputy Sheriff. Sherli Kelly will not move
to town until in the spring. In April he
win move into the Oswald house on Main
street
The Tabernacle Sabbath-school gave
pleasant entertainment in the evening of
New Years day. A tree lad-ned with can
idles and candy, and attending ceremony,
were the main features.
GA japanese student called on a young
married lady, and was invited to call again
soon. He called again in about half an
hour. This was, perhaps, Jap nattery; if
SO, it certainly outdoes European civiliza-
tion."
Blihu Benner, Esq, of ThOmpsontown,
had valuable mare and fine set of hsr-
ness stolen on last Sunday nigh. A buggy
belonging to Abrsm Sieber, son Of Rev.
Solomon Sieber, also of ThOmpsontown,
was taken the same night.
The B. T. Kepner mansion house in town
was sold by Executor Bonsill, a few days
ago, to Phlo d. Hs Lin, for &2205, and the
lot of ground at the intersection of Patter-
SIN avenue and East Point was sold to Miss
Stouffer for $l15.
S. Al. Provost, SuperIntent of the Middle
Division of the P. C. K. R., gave each of
the subdivision bosses in his division .
Christina. turkey. Fifty-thr-e is the num-
Der of turkeys that was required to fill the
bill.
lieutenant James R. Kelly, Sheriff elect,
was sworn in on Monday. Republicans in
Juniata take events as they come in a quiet
way. If they were given to merry making
they would have INDUCED in a grand jubilee
over the installation of Sheriff Kelly.
The audience chamber and the vestibule
in the Methodist church have been hand
sonely frsscoed by Wise & Rudy, painters,
from Baltimore. The church will be re-
opened with appropriate ceremony on Sun
day, January Is, 1880.
]. Miller Mcdonald was duly installed as
Register and Recorder on Monday. Mr.
Musser, whom he succeeds, was an obligine
officer, and retires with the best wishes OF
many people who became acquainted with
him during his official career.
At the Presidents reception, on New
YEARS. day, all et-custom house collector
from Sitka called and berated the President,
calling him despot. Police officers put the
ex-official out of the White House. The
fellow is not an American he is for
eigner.
Col. William Bell has engaged in the sale
Of Farm Machinery, and proposes to sup
ply the farmers of Juriata county with
Machinery. The Wind Engines, Force