Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-09
NHORTLOCALN.

The hay crop will be short one.
! Shad are approaching the last run.
Lewistown is to have circus on the 10th.
Constable Hamilton enforces the hog law.
Orphans and argument court next Tues
day.
Many people are glad that the circusses
60 by.
The old scythe is being put in a state of
, repair.
} The fashionable collar for men is straight
stand-up.
Huntingdon Presbytery is in session at
Milroy, Mifiiin county.
Most of the surplus grain in the county
is being hauled to market.
MiffiiL county soldiers will hold their re-
union tomorrow, Thursday.
There was a large turn out at the band
cake walk On Saturday evening.
The South Carolina Democracy have de-
clared for Bayard for President.
A cold thunder shower passed oter the
town on Thursday about 4 o'clock.
J.C. pobhs, of Tuscarora township, is
lying in precarious state of health.
| "A number Of counterfeit trade dollars
have been put afioat in this community.
As much as S25 was paid for seat in the
Chicago Republican National Convention.
A Chicago preacher says the Lord never
prospers a minister who wears a mustache.
Farmers are talking of cutting clover
grass in the last days of this week for hay.
Eight citizens of Lewistown, when they
sum up their ages, reach the figure of SOS
years.
Chairman Atkinson has issued a call for a
meeting of the County Committee. Read
the call.
The Juniata Conference of the Lutheran
Church is in session at Duncannon, Perry
county.
| John Garman is home from the West
Branch of the Susquehanna, and is selling
farm gate.
II. 7. McAlister, ESQ, was in town on
Thursday, looking up data for the History
of Juniata county.
The Democratic National Convention will
wrestle with the Presidential question week
after next, at Cincinnati.
! K. E. Parker has been to the city and
brought a new lot of store goods. Call
around and see the new goods.
Henry Megaughey, residing near McCoys-
vile, died last Saturday evening, aged about
80 years. Disease, Consumption.
How is it when New York doctor says
that eating ice cream will spoil a girls COM
| plexion and make her feet grow large
A man with French fiddle was in town
on Wednesday, on the streets, Civ ing con-
certs after the fashion of organ grinders.
1t is said that kerosene will soften boots
or shoes which have been hardened by
water and will render them pliable As new.
Creighton Junk, well known in Juniata
county, residing in Andersonburg, Perry |
county, is reported to be in a feeble state
of health.
/ The sun side of the street was preferable |
to the shady side last Thursday morning,
and the prediction of yennor, the Canadian
weather man fer a frost came near being
| true.
The small boy, and good many big boys
would like to live at Lewistown, so as to be |
able to attend the circus. A number of
people will have business at Lewistown on
that day.
The Union Sabbath-school Of Thompson |
towfi will hold cske-walk and strawberry |
festival in 7. S. Thompson's wood near
Thompsontown on Saturday evening. June
II, 1850.
George B. Roberts formally entered upon
the discharge of his duties as President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company last
week. "a. J. Cassatt, Third Vice Presi- |
dent, was promoted 10 the First Vice Pres |
idency. The position of Third Vice Presi- |
after be discharged by the First and Second
Vice Presidents"
.'What is the worst thing about riches f''
asked tie Sunday school superintendent.
And the new boy in the bad class under the
gallery, who only came in last Sunday,
stood up and said, s'Their scarcity" And
in his confusion the superintendent told the
school to rise and sing "Don't be Weary,
Children. .''-Buriingfon Ha,ckeys.
! After sun down on Friday evening car
rier pigeon appeared at East Point. An ef-
fort, which was kept up till dark, was made
TO capture the bird. Tn Saturday morning
the pigeon located itself on the roof of the
house OF the editor of the Sentinel and Re
publican. On Saturday night it was taker
| in, and has been cared for ever since.
The first time in the history of national
nominating cony en- tions in which colored
man was called to the chair to preside, was
the occasion, last Friday, at the Republican
National Convention, when Chairman Hoar
called Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, to the
chair. 1t is hoped that the Democratic
rarty will not go into spasms over the event.
The editor of the Lewistown Democrat
speaks from experience when he says that
common gas. tar will effectually exterminate
potato bugs. 1t is cheap and harmless, and
a sdead shot" The modHs opsrodi Is SIM
ply to put the tar in any sort OF recepta-
Gle having a sharp lip, AID pour it on the
main branch of the tubers. Try it, and let
us know of your success.
Along railroad and telegraph routes, peo-
pie we're more or less given to talk about
President making while the Chicago con-
vention was in session. 1t will be the same
week after next, when the Democratic
convention meets at Cincinnati. But in the
/ country, away from the fever points, no ex-
citement is ever felt on such occasions,