Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
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There will be . Sabbath School cel-
ebraiion at East Salem on Saturday
September 10 1881. The public are
cordially invited to attend.
An entertainment will be given on
Saturday evening September 10 1881,
in the School House in Thompsontown
The proceeds Of which will be devoted
to the building fund of the III. 4.
Church 10 Thompsoniown-
What's the use of going to Canada 10
consult Vennor about the weather. Samuel
Showers in this place predicts or foretells
weather with as much certainty as the Cam
ada prophet.
James Chamberling, of Indiana county,
came to this place some days, age with a
drove of &C cattle. He fotnd ready sale
for them. Last Thursday be sold the last
of the lotto heads, and his horsc-to
VIM. Mclaughlin, of Fermansgh township.
The Juniats County Agricultural Society
will hold their twenty first annual exhibi-
tion at their grounds IN Port Royal, on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 18th,
18th and l4th days of October, 1881.
JOSEPH RorHRocK, President.
The tax-gatherer was abroad last week,
and this week he still is calling on tax
payers for a certain percentage of their
earnings to be used in keeping up the
schools. roads, courts, court houses, poor,
and so forth.
"The Pennsylvania railway company has
placed at the disposal of the President, in
anticipation of bis contemplated removal to
Long Branch, car No. l2e, which was the
late Col. Thomas A. Scott's private carr"
but the car was deemed unavailable, and an
other was prepared at Altoona.
Oil City Derrick: Mrs. Jones went to a
picnic the other day, one of those quiet
picnics with no fuss, where you get up at
O'Clock in the morning. pack of four chill
drsn and ten lunch baskets and gad around
in the heat all day-and it made Mrs. Jones
so tired that she had to do two days wash
ing before she felt rested.
A fire broke out on Meyers ridge on Tues
day, and destroyed several hundred panels
OF fence. S. b. Loudon, Emanuel Meyer
and sons, the Misses Meyer, David Wilson,
C. 3. Horning, the Oberholtzer brothers,
CHRISTIAN and John Reno all turned out aud
fought the fire, and kept it from getting into
the woods east Of the Meyer farm. II the
fire had reached the woods there is no tell
ing where it would have been stopped.
A youth, living with James Groninger in
Milford township, was over In Licking
Greek valley on Saturday. Returning after
dark, he lay down to drink at spring on
the side of Black Log mountain. While he
was drinking snake dsrted out from the
hank and bit him on the right side of the
head. By Sabbath day the right side of the
face and neck were greatly swollen, and the
right eye was entirely closed. DIR. Banks
rendered such attention as the case required,
and the youth is getting along as wei as
can be expected.
Prayer for the recovery of President Gar
field was offered in many churches along
telegraph and railroad routes on Tuesday,
in accordance with tine request Of the proc
OF Governor Hoyt. A number of
other Governors issued, each, a proclama-
ton for prayer at the same time-l0 O'Clock
ON Tuesday. Other Governors declared
the time too short to notify the people, and
have appointed Thursday, at ~ O'Clock as
the hour to meet for prayer in the churches.
PRAYER, secret prayer, can be offered from
the closet, from the field, from the work
shop.
Intelligence from Lancaster county in re-
gard to the tobacco crop says: The unpre-
drought has resulted in the failure
of two-thirds of the tobacco crops, entail
ing loss in this county alone of over a
million dollars. In neighboring counties
the loss will be as much more. Some Of
the early planted tobacco escaped the dry
spell and matured well, but this has already
been purchased by New Workers, most of it
while still growing in the fields. Larger
prices rule this year than ever before. 1t is
believed the remainder of the crop will only
be available for filters.
An exchange says: The pay received by
of the Pennsylvania State militia
while in camp is as follows: Major General
per day during the encampment, $20.S3
Brigadier General, sl2.2s; Colonel, 1922
Lieutenant Colonel, ss.3S Major, s6.94
Captain, Quartermaster and Adjutant, S.
First Lieutenant, $i.l7; principal musician,
So; First Sergeant and non-commissioned
staff, So; Sergeant, 81; Corporal, sl.75;
enlisted men, $l.50. The commissioned
officers furnish their OWE mess and care for
their own horses, while the others are all
supplied by the State, the rations being su-
perior to those Of the regular army.
The editor of an exchange paper has just
come 10 the realization Of fact which he
in the following item: A doctor
will sill down and write prescription; time,
five seconds; paper and ink, one-fourth of
a cent and the patient pays one, two, three,
five, or ten dollars, . the case may be. A
lawyer writes ten or twenty words Of advice
and gets from ten to twenty dollars from
his client. An editor writes half column
puff for man, pays man from fifty cents
to one dollar for putting it in type, prints I.
on several dollars worth of paper, sends it
to several thousand people, and then sur
prises the puffed man If he makes any charge.
Strange world, this.
Irwin Crawford, e son Of Samuel q. Craw-
ford, residing about five miles west of Nc
coysville, in Lack township, had his right
arm 50 mutilated in a threshing machine
that was in operation on the farm of James
Mairs, that amputation became necessary.
The accident took place last Friday evening.
The Young man is % wears of age, He was