Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-24

Two horses, hitched to a spring wagon
owned BY Mr.. Mumma. we're tied to q rail
ing along Main street last Saturday morn
ing. While the owner Of the team was abb
sent the horses became restless and broke
the tongue of the wagon. The report or
crsck of the breaking of the tongue straight
ened the animals up, and they stood quietly
while boy unhitched them from the wagon.
One day last week cartridge in 1 reTol-
yer in tie hands of Daniel Beshore in Port
Royal was accidentally exploded. The bull
lot struck son of Mr. Beshore on rib.
| The ball was thus diverted from its course,
and instead of passing far into the body il
passed halt way around the body uLder the
skin, making ! painful but not dangerous
4 wound.
There Is one weather sign that has held
| its own this month better than all the other
signs, and that is, as the three first days Of
the month are SO are the majority Of the
days the month ushers in. The three first
days Of August were dry; majority Of the
days Of the month have been as the three
flrst ones. The man who predicts weather
that way is the hapriest of all the weather
prophets just now sll others have come to
grief this dry season.
The question of President Judge in this
district is the subject Of no small interest to
The legal fraternity. There seems TO be no
trouble in the way for Judge Junkin to re-
ceive the nomination Of his party for re.
election, but the question Of party nomi'
nation among the Democracy is not sc
clearly foreshado owed, because Of the mul'
tiplicity Of candidates that is, II all the
men whose names have been mentioned in
connection with the nomination are in poinl
OF fact candidates. II is said that the Dem
ocracy will have in the field as candidates
E. S. Do,y, A. J. Patterson, Chas. a. Bar
nett, VIM. N.Seibert and C. J. 7. Mc!n'
tire.
An exchange Gays: ga singular incident
occurred in store in London, Ontario, 1
few days ago. Three ladies' were standing
side BY side at a counter where one Of the
number had hung her umbrella by the han
die. Another laid down her pocket-book
but when search was made few minutes
. s,xf:srwards, it could not be found. The third
lady was accused of S;ss,ng thief, and wa
arrested and searched, but tha'' Elssinf
property could not be found, and she wal
discharged, still resting under suspicion
Some time after reaching home the owne
of the umbrella discovered that the pocket
book had fallen into it and had been urcon
sciou.iy rolled up and carried home by her.
The Huntingdon Globe says: Talking
about big crops, correspondent sends III
the following from Huntingdon Furnace
We see many accounts OF big crops having
been raised in Blair county, and in justic'
TO the Mother Of Little Blair, We give al
item in the way of oats, and when our crops
are thleshed out will give you some bIggei
reports of wheat and rye. Mr.. Amos Har'
pcr, farmer of one OF the Huntingdon Fur
mace farms, sowed twelve pounds of Russia
white oat, on one-sixth of an acre. HI
thresbed out the crop on last Saturday, anc
had from the twelve pounds of oats sowed
eighteen bushels clean oats by measure
weighing thirty-seven and one-third pounds
TO tie bushel, making by weight, twenty -on'
bushels good, clean oats from twelve pounds
: OF seed.