Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-15

and dancing all day for one dollar.
The aoOd in the West Branch Of the sus-
qaehaHHA river broke the boom a, Lock
Haven, Al Linden, and al wG.lamsport,
turning adin logs that contained i've hun
drad aud iiliy million feet oi boards
Large numbers of bass were caught with
hook and line a; the treast OF Cuba Mill
dam last week. Doubtless the fish swan
there to get awa5 from the rush Of the river.
Kurtz ard Frank Stoner caught SO at that
place.
During the late freshet DR.. Graham sue
ceeded in floating $4,000 feet of ash, linn,
and poplar lumber from the head waters Of
Licking creek to his saw-mill in the VALLEY
near where the "old paper mill weed to
stand"
Last Thursday the ;rcleme-t weather
again required the rostpcnement of ths
picnic of the teachers of the Presbyterian
Sabbath school The third time will pro-
duce the charm, and doubtless charming
picnic-to-morrow, Thursday.
Miss Msnie Coaman ard Miss PAMELA
Garman, school teachers in Patterson, were
the first ladies to cross the river on Friday
morning. They went over in a skiff, to dis
charge their duty az teachers in the Pstter-
son schools. iohn Fasick rored tte skiff
j. Brodie Crawford has returned from
Silver City, New Mexico. He reports the
Juniata people there all well, and flourish
/ ing. The elder Altman is dsing a business
Of over three hundred thOusant dollars a
year. Mr.. Crawford was slcs all the time
that he was there.
! Scene at the sssA-ShOrt sleeves. No.
thank you, Mr.. B., Pm not dancing this
evening" (Rashly) 'I'ye just been vac
cinated." Mr.. B. (Unacquainted with re-
sources of feminine Ingenuity g Really
Didn't take, did it? Don't see any mark
on your arm" Short sleeves (Behind her
fan and thinking of her remarll.j "No, l
guess it didn't take '"--7ibany .5rgus.
There was no preaching in the Presbyte-
rim and Lutheran churches on Sabbath, for
the reason that the preacher of the former
was up TO Waterloo, administering the sac
rement of the Lords Supper to Presbyte-
rians OF that part of TuScarora Valley, and
the preacher of the latter was up to Altoona
attending the General Synod of the Luth-
eran Church.
Rain last week prevented swinging on the
gate moonlight rambles; put down the
grass; stopped bass fishing; took away the
trestle-work across the riveri stopped the
working of the growing corn washed tons
of ground of the hillsides of pIowed fields
stopped the ravases cf the fy in the grow
ing wheat, and prevented the maturing or a
great deal of wheat that was in blossom.
Such, at least, arc said to be some of the
effects OF the late rain.
Looking across the river from this shore,
to the vacant lots ad accent to the railroad
shops, prominent object that greets the
eye is a large cOnically shaped pile: The
first thought that it awakens is that it is a
pile of lime, but when an inquiry is made
in regard t6 e, the information is impaired
that it is a pile OF sriIll stones that have
been broken by tramps that have beer Pro-
vided for by the authority of the town.
Tacitus writes from Fayette township as
follows: Died-May the -, 1881, in Mon
roe township, Juniata county, Jacob Lau-
yer, aged 90 years, months and - days.
Mr.. Lauvcr's father was one of the pioneers
who settled near Richiield when he was i
child about j Years of -gC, and could relate
the early history of that section of country
very well from memory. He said he was
born about midnight as the old year expired
and the new year WAS ushrred in 1883.
Jefferson Meyer aud Mrs. Meyer started
in a carriage to LewistOwn on Saturday
afternoon. They did not reach their desti
nation. When they got to the Narrows they
found the pike covered by the river to such
a depth that it was not safe to drive through
the water that covered the road. 4 man in
a high-seated wagon came through from
Lewistown, and he reported that the water
was foot deep in the bed of the wagon.
lie stood on the scat.
The reports of the Illinois wheat crop are !
unfavOrable. In the southern division of
the State fully l6 per cent. Of the wheat |
has been plowed up, and that left standing /
will not yield halt crop. In the central |
division of the State the crop is poorer |
still; 40 rei cent. has been plowed up, and |
what is left unplowed viii scarcely yield a
halt crop. In the northern division OF the |
State the prospects are poorer still 81 per /
cent. has been p!owed up, and the balance |
will not be a half crop.
Some of the most outrageous acts are
committed by New England boys. An
other dreadful occurrence among Massachu-
setts boys is reported from Springfield,
Mass, under date of the 9th inst, as fol-
lows: Dwight Kidder, jr., who fatally shot
his half-brother, c. d. Kidder, was yester-
day held in default of sl0,0 600 for examine
tion next Wednesday. Interviewed by a
Union reporter yesterday the prisoner said
" 1t all comes of carrying pistol. have
carried one for six years. 1T | had boy
who carried one / would break hi. neck"
The prisoner said his mother overheard the
murdered man saying that she wanted his
father to die, so she could get 5000 in-
surance on his life. The prisoner asked
him if he said so. lie said lie did. The
prisoner threatened to kill him II the re-
mark was repeated, and was pu; out of the
house. The prisoner ran; the half-brother
pursued and struck him, and the prisoner
then fired tie fatal sEUt.
The Northern description of the costume
in which jeff Davis sought to escape from
his captors was that he was robed in his
wife's petticoats. Davis, in his new book,
differs a little in his description Of what lie
n al IN whan hp nnada the effnrf tn escapa