Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-27
SHORT LOCALS.
.McVeytown has a wife beater.

Col. Robison's grape crop is promising.
Yesterday was circas Cay in Lewistown.
The penalty for telling big fish stories is
Grapes In some of the vineyards are rot
ting
Smallpox RACES in many places in thi
State.
A mad dog WAS shot in Altoona few
days ago.
Farmers say that il win take long fall I,
make corn.
The piers of the river bridge are nsarin;
completion.
Flowing for the fall wheat sowing hal
commenced.
Speculative insurance is now over-rrn
ming Huntingdon county.
The dry weather prevailed long epougl
TO prevent full corn crop.
Harvest Homes Of olden times have giyer
way to the modern picnic.
Many people are expecting a good tim,
TO come in with canp-meeting.
The Post G. A. R., got Off in fine styl,
last Friday night for Gettysburg.
People in the vicinity of Lock Haven be.
lieve that they have found coal oil.
Huntingdon authority have concluded tc
put tax on the commercial traveller.
A lunatic is called crank, which is al
n.ost as smooth in its sound as hades.
Cyrus Morrison IS the only colored mem.
ber In the Post G. A. r. in this place.
c. B. HOrning and George Smith have
been putting their oak bark into market.
A seven pound salmon was caught in q
stream in Clearfold county not long since.
The hail in Newton Hamilton played
havoc with window glass several days ago.
John Cessna has been nominated for Judge
in the Bedford and Somerset Judicial Dis
trict.
Professor EIien5erger will teach class in
vocal music in this place in the early au-
tumn.
The encampment OF the Grand Army of
the Republic at Gettysburg is largely at
tended.
People that have been in the woods re-
port the prospect for large chestnut crop
as good.
Nearly all the cases of sun-stroke are
cases of stomachs overloaded with victuals
or wafer, beer or whisky.
James North has resigned the Presidency
of The Middle Pennsylvania Mutual Relief
The Burlington Hdwkeye man is shocked
that women are compelled to sleep i'll the
same cars with men.
s COW ran over Mrs. G. W. Wilson in
West township, Huntingdon county, and
broke the woman's shoulder.
The corn crop in Henderson township.
Huntingdon county, was seriously damaged
by hail storm a few days ago.
John Meyer, aged 81 years, citizen of
Adams township, Snyder county, made q
full hand during the late harvest.
There is heavy legal penalty attached to
the act of minor going to drinking bar
and representing himself to be of lawful
age.
The camp of the Grand Army of the Re-
public is located on Cemetery Hill at Get
tysl,urg. Three hundred tents are occu-
pied
Another sunken boat in the Farrows be-
tween this place and Lewistown caused the
water to be let out of the canal last Thurs
day.
Tie Harrisburg Telegraph remark 'sToo
many young girls on the streets of this city
at night. 1t does not speak well for their
Astronomers say that the approaching
comet will soon be visible to the naked eye,
and will be nearest the earth about the 10Th
of August.
People that believe that comets portend
dire Calamity are busy specializing as to
what dreadful event the approaching comet
may introduce. -
A Sabbath-school celebration will be held
in the grove adjacent to the Lost Creek
church near McAlisterviile, on
July 80.
Harry Woodnansee, an employe in the
Philadelphia Times office, is home to see
his parents in this town. Mr.. Woodmansee
is speedy type-setter.
"a Chicago banker telegraphed to Detroit
asking about a draft The reply was, 'Man
on whom draft is made is all right; look
out for maker, he's bad"
Col. Theodore Burchfield, formerly of this
town, now a citizen of Altoona, has ten
dered his resignation as Colonel of the
Fifth Regiment, to Governor Hoyt.
The Chambersburg Public Opinion says,
II. w. hCoS StooANASNS'Hs
was twice struck by lightning during one of
the violent storms of last week. The DAM
age was slight.
Take Ayers Pills fer all the purposes of a
for Constipation, Indigestion,
Headache and Liver Complaint BY uni
sersal accord, they are the best of all pur-
gatives for family use.
The completion of the trestle-work across
the river came just in time for foot passen-
gers, for the river has become SO low that
fer5ins by fat was attended with consider
able labor at polling.
The Committee have sent out invitations
for the .7nuuaI Basket Pic Mic to be held in
Thompson's Grove, at Thompsontown, on
Thursday, August 4. 1881. Miller's string
band will furnish the music.
Exchange papers report that all circuses
this wear are followed by large company
of biacklegs, that inveigle innocent countr,