Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-01
SHORTLOCaLS.

Altoona people are organizing a circu,
and variety company.
The Decoration ceremonies were conduct
ed as per programme.
Huntingdon Sabbath-school people have
INDUCED in picnic.
Hail fell at Port Royal, and at Van Vert
last Wednesday afternoon.
Some of the town boys pass most of the
day in the water, swimming.
The hay crop in Juniata will be larger
this year than it was last year.
Thad Kreider and Burt Hinkel fell ort OF
skif into the river on Saturday evening.
A great drouth prevails in certain parts
of the West, for example in Illinois.
The thermometer stood at 96 degrees in
the shade at O'Clock P. N. on Friday.
Lewistown butchers have advanced the
price of beef. Miffiintown butchers ditto
Rev. Mr.. Hinkel, Presiding Elder, preach
ed in the NJ. Z. church last Sabbath even
/ ing.
| An exchange says that sscotton wool wet
with sweet oil and laudanum relieves the
earache."
The attendance at the Sabbath-School
Convention was large on Thursday after
noon and evening.
The State Fish Commissioners had a
large number of young shad put in the river
at this place last Thursday.
Mr.. John Woodward, a respected citizen,
living at Reeds Gap, is in very poor health
and not expected to get well.
When persons wiped their face and eyes
in church on Sabbath, it was no sign that
they were wiping tear drops.
Nearly all the preachers throughout the
land preach sermon on the subject of the
revision OF the New Testament.
The trestle work, or ssfalse works" of the
bridge have been completed, and substan
tial foot-way now spans the river.
The sermon Of Rev. W. V. Canoe, as
preached to the Post on Sabbath, is highly
spoken of by those that heard it.
The editor Of the Lewes, Delaware, Light
is doctor, and he offers to vaccinate every
person that subscribes for his paper.
Mrs. Anderson, an aged lady, mother of
r. J. Anderson, of Tuscarora township, is
so III that her life is despaired Of
The old people prefer the old word s'hell"
to the word sshades," as introduced in the
late version of the New Testament.
All Huntingdon was shocked by the find
ing of the dead body of a newly born female
child in the river at that place.
Tobacco plants for sale, at Is Gents per
hundred, by Absalom Yoder, near Pine
Grove church, in fermanagh twp. st
Stephen Reno, Jr., living in Fermanagh
township, was taken suddenly i'll last week.
The cause was too heavy lifting.
The Huntingdon Journal advocates the
arresting of boys and men that express OBJ
scene remarks on the streets. Good.
1t is just being found out that is was not
the spring that damaged the wheat, but that
it is fly that have been lurking in the stalk.
Repairs still go briskly On in Foorman's
hotel. The proprietor has fitted the place
up anew, and made it good place to stop at.
A lady's Interpretation of a gentleman is,
ssthe man who has self-respect enough TO
keep him from low habits both in speech
and action"
Rev. Joel Swarts, d. D., Of Camden, n.
J., will assist Rev. Mr.. Berry during the
communion Services, that begin on Satur-
day evening.
A Mahometan prays five times day-at
daybreak, at noon, in the afternoon, in the
evening, and at the first watch of the night,
or bedtime.
Samuel Harry, son of the late Titus Har-
ry, of Tuscarora valley, got badly hurt, one
day last week, while peeling bark, by a limb
of tree striking him in the face.
A number of frog hunters were out last
Saturday, but the number of frogs secured
was smaller than the number of hunters.
The circle of frog eaters is becoming larger.
Captain Mcclellan has made a splendid
robe for Francis Hover, out of a number of
skins OF rack-coons that Mr.. Hewer caught
in the woods of slim and Lost Creek val
lies.
The Republicans of Snyder county, at
their primary election, held on Saturday
week, nominated Captain J. Merrill Linn, of
Lewisburg, Union county for President
Judge.
| A ssthunder shower'' came from an east
erly direction last Wednesday afternoon.
1t is an uncommon thing for ts tsthunder
shower TO come from that direction. The
long steady rains come from the east.
The new bonnet is not SO much of a bon
net as it is a collection and combustion Of
ribbon and flowers. The ladies look just
splendid in the flower and ribbon bonnet I:
they appear as if looking out from bed CT
roses.
The Franklin Repository last week said
GO Nearly all the farmers of the county were
compelled to replant Their corn, as that al
ready planted has rotted in the ground.
The cause is attributed to the corn freezing
during the past winter"
A Mifiin county man is having monu-
ment put up in a graveyard for himself.
The monument is to be complete in every
particular excepting the date of the mans
death, which, of course, cannot be placed
upon it until he dies.
Some one who has counted the number
of people that cross the river at this place,
says that four hundred people is about the
average number that cross daily excepting
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