Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-01-28
SHORT LOCAES.
A legal holiday-February %.

In town on Saturday.
See advertisement of ]. ". stimu,a, ~,
7 dertaker, in another column.
Exchanges report the Temperance @
the tramp IN many localities.
valentine day is great day, for lovin:
episties, and ludicrous cartoons.
Shad flies, honey bees and blue birds wer,
common things to be seen last Sabbath.
III you are not happy with what you have
You VIII not be happy with more or less.
Rev. L. L. Sieber preached in the Lutb.
eran church on Sabbath, morning and even.
ing.
Capt. W. III. Mcclellan, Of McVeytowu
paid mis- native place a flying visit on Sa,ur.
day.
Largest Stock of Furniture in the county
for sale, 1T Cost, at W. F. Snyder's. Call
at once.
There will be preaching in the brick res
byterian church next Sabbath, morning and
evening.
Conrad, of the kcveytown Journal, step
ped eff the cars on Saturday, to take look
at the town.
The State Editorial Association met in
Harrisburg in the Senate Comm itiee rooms
last Thursday.
George Smith is having a set of stone
steps put TO a front door of his residence
on Main street.
Mrs. John Barefoot died at the residence
Of her husband near Oakland Mills, on at
urday, of pneumonia.
Rev. II. C. Shindle, 5f the Port Royal
Lutheran church, received a donation from
his congregation few days ago.
We respectfully invite the attention of
our readers 10 the ''locai" of A. S. Wright
& Co., in another column of this paper.
report is current in Perry county that
Sam Albright, the murderer of W. H. Mil
Ter, has been seen in Leadville, Colorado.
Peter Beshoar, of Fayette township, son
of David Beshoar, Sr., died of pneumonia
on Monday evening, aged about 80 years.
1t took SIS, 900 TO demonstrate that there
is no coal oil in Cleartield county The ex-
perimental well has been plugged and aban-
doned.
Young ladies' in Middletown, Dauphin
county, held leap-year sociable. Young
ladies in Altoona held the same kind of
sociab.e.
Daniel Stouffer, a wer-known citizen Of
Fermanagh township, died on Sunday morn
ing, after an illness Of only few days. Mr..
Stouffer was aged about SO years:
By mistake the date for the holding of
the spring election was stated in last weeks
issue to be February IL. 1t should have
been stated as February IL, 1880.
Three professional tramps were arrested |
and brought before Squire Loudon, WHO |
sent them TO jail, under the tramp act, by |
which they will be put upon trial next week, |
at court.
A scientific writer in the Quarterly Re-
rieW asserts that piece of bread about the
size of French billiard ball tied up in a |
linen bag and placed in pot of boiling veg
etables will prevent unpleasant odors arising
from the same.
The Huntingdon Globe says that during
the gear 1879, nearly fifty bastard children
were returned to the Quarter Sessions of
that county, and last week twelve more
were added 10 the list. This shows dread
tut state of morals.
The Philadelphia Record almanac is the
most complete almanac in point Of picture
and in the scope of item in
formation that has be en- issued by the press
of the Commonwealth this year. The Rec
ord is first-rate newspaper.
To all persons in arrears for subscription
for more than one year, we expect to send a
bill between this date and the lst of March.
We would much prefer that all
such good people as are in arrears and WHO
DO not want to have bill presented, that
they send subscription money by some
friend or by mail
The Harrisburg Telegraph of the 2ist
says: 's Last evening about six O'Clock a
severe storm accompanied by vivid light
ming and heavy thunder, passed over Far
risbnrg. The soldest inhab:tant,' a very
useful sort of person, AYERS that this is a
very rare occurrence at this season of the
|, car" To which may be added, that the
flashes of lightning from the storm that the
Telegraph mentions were plainly seen by
people in Miff1in.
.sThe old question, what becomes of
the pins p may be amplifed to cover the
subject of watches also When the state
ment strikes the eye, and through that or
gan the senses, that Z 200, 900 watches are 1
sold in this country every year, one is i'm
peled to exclaim, 'What disposition do peo-
pie make of their old watches, that so large
Of seven millions of new watches in the
United States every year means one to about
every SIX of the population annually. When
he statistican solves the question, 'What
becomes of the pins let him tackle the
watch problem"
An exchange, writing of the daty of GER
tain officers, says: 1t is part of the duty
Of Constabes, under the law, to advertise
he approaching February election, which
comes off the third Tuesday of next month.
The law requires them to put up not less
than ten notices at least ten days before the
election. Where there is Justice of the
Peace to elect, a notice of that fact must be
posted up not less than twenty days before
The day of election. In boroughs or town.
ships where there is no Constable, it be-
comes the duty of the Supervisor or the
Assessor to put up the notices, though they