Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-16


died this "wednesday morning.
The Literary Convocation will convene il
the Court House on Thursday, and con.
tinue its sessions till on Saturday.
The high water on Friday drove the musk.
rats out of their hiding places. Grant + ink
shot five along the river shore in a short
time.
The ice food was not confined to Penn
sylvania; il was almost everywhere, where
water fiows-in the east, in the west, in the
north.
Two hundred people were Hooded out OF
their homes in Crawford county last Friday,
and boats were run through the streets OF
Mesdville.
d. W. Harley still has few stylish over
coats for men and boys, at greatly reduced
prices. The discount will pay you TO buy
now and keep over for next winter.
A bridge was first built across the river at
this place in 1927. Since that time the
structure has been four times-including
this time-partly destroyed by flood.
The school house in Greenwood town.
ship, known as Straight Water school house
was burned down in some days ago. Stove
pipe acciieat or carelessness was the cause.
Jacob SnlorG began to ferry people across
- Il,
to get skiff through it. William Mccoy
and William keiser are the oarsmen.
Ii is eighty years since there was so great
a food in thu VALLEY of Ohio, as that OF last
Friday. Thousands of people along the
various streams had TO leave their homes
and flee TO higher ground.
1t is said that a great deal of the timber
that belonged TO the Newton Hamilton
bridge, the MiII'int.wn bridge, and the Mil
lerstown and Newport bridges lie scattered
along the shore of the river from Newport
to Rockville on the Susquehanna.
S. NJ. Shelley, of Norristown, has been
elected Senatorial delegate from Monfgom-
cry TO the next g Republican State Conven-
tion." Mr.. Shelley is a native of this
county, and WAS at one time a prominent
teacher in the Common Schools here.
The bridge was swept away on Friday
afternoon. The next morning William Nc
Coy brought the mail across the river in a
foot boat. George Wagner, the carrier, ac-
companIed the mail. They were the first
parties that crossed the river after the bridge
was swept eff.
Do not buy cheap medicines on the score
of economy. The best are none too good
for the sick, and are the cheapest. Such
are the Cherry Pectoral, the Sarsaparilla,
and other standard remedies of DR.. j. Z.
Aver & Co. They are worth all they cost,
and they should be in every house.
The snow had melted enough on Friday
in places to show the ground, and give veg
citation chance 10 peep out. Where the
grass appeared, it was fresh and green. and
catnip had actually grown to the length of
six or eight inches, fully developed, leaves
green like in the summer. Dock had also
grown 10 the length of i've or six inches.
| An ice gorge in the West Branch of the
Susquehanna river, beyond Lock Haven,
covered about eight miles Of the track OF
the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad with ice
to the thickness of about eight feet, aver
age. One thousand men on Saturday night
and on Sunday cut a passage through the
ice for the trains to pass. The track was
uniniursd.
TINE EXTENDED.-M Many subscribers
of the Sentinel ard Republican, that were IN
arrears more than one year, paid up then
arrearages within the past month. mum
Der of others who are in arrears more thar
one year have requested an extension o.
time. After the first of May, 1881, bill
will be sent to each and every one that is il
arrears more than one year.
Sheriff Walls and George Marks and som'
strange lady from Altoona were in th'
bridge when it began to fall. The lady haC
desired to cross to the Patterson side. Sh'
had stopped them and asked as to the safe:.
of the bridge, and while they were stating
the danger, the danger itself appeared. AL
ESCAPED. Had the woman not stopped &
make the inquiry she would have gon
down with the bridge.
A citizen in the vicinity of Richfiel'
writes: A Cabinet of Minerals and Natrra
Curosties will be put on exhibition, and
Real Estate Office opened under the auspice
of Mr. S. V. Mills at Richfeld. after the Is
of April. Leases have been taken by ex
perienced parties in the business of land
, and buildings for the establishment of veg
etable oi-works on a large scale. A Lif
Insurance Company has commenced busi
ness there, and mineral Developments ar
contemplated IN the vicinity.
Unexpectedly Briton Fasick's peanu
stand became the point around which
crowd assembled last week, to bear a tray
cling preacher. He did all the singing an
PRAYING himself, because there was N
one in the crowd in srch close FELLOWSHIP
with him as to sing and pray with hin
at the stated intervals for such exc
cises. The same gentleman preached
Arch Rock school house, in Fermanag
township, last Wednesday evening.