Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-17
SHORT LOCALS.

Mrs. Frederick Espenschade is in pocr
health.
Mifiiin county Grangers held picnic last
Friday.
II. q. Bcchtel will enlarge his tannery at
Newport.
The green apple and verdant youth pro-
duce the gripes.
A fatal hog disease prevails In parts of
Franklin county.
The 2sth day of this month WIN be the
end of dog days.
Preachers in Lewistown hold open.air
meetings on Sabbath.
Exchanges report counterfeit Is cent
pieces in circulation.
A locomotive consumes barrel of water
every mile il travels.
Some Of the city bells part their hair on
the side Of the head.
Hocp-skirt factories that have long been
closed are re-opening.
The river bridg. will be ready to drive
over before many days.
East Waterford people will indulge in
cake walk on Saturday.
The new court honse in Mexican county
cost ten thousand dollars.
All last week vegetation had the appear
ance as if stricken by frost.
There was a cake walk near the Seven
Stars on Saturday evening.
Vennor predicted frost, to appear between
the 18th and Goth of this month.
1t is not an astronomer that says that
lot of comets are out on vacation.
Western exchanges report the movements
OF man and performing bear.
The reports say tobacco has advanced two
cents per pound within Few days.
The Democratic State Convention will be
held in williamsport, September 2Sth.
There are in this country one hundred
and twenty-fonr theological seminaries.
Vennor is not an infallible weather guide.
The late warm spell upset his predictions.
The Grand Lodge of the knights OF
Pythias meet at Reading on the 18th inst.
The band on Saturday evening attracted
considerable attention. 1t had not been out
for considerable time previous.
The cake walk held In Patterson on Sat-
urday evening for the benefit of the Post
Band, was largely attended. Twenty-Five
dollars were realized.
Another almanac sign has failed. Mary,
in coming across the mountain, should have
brought rain, but she did not.
II Is said that tea made of three or four
leaves of the peach tree or blackberry bush
vii. stop or cure cholera mor5us-
An old newspaper man says, "The man
who discontinues his paper because OF
dun, is usually the borrower of his neigh
boris new spsper until again trusted.
w. Laughliu, of Philadelphia, was IN
town last W cuhcsudt, anu SahcN on nN
Der OF his friends.
DR.. Stroup, of Lykens valley, Dauphin
county, removed a cancer from the right
cheek or Rev. David Moist, ON Sabbath a
week.
H.H. Brubaker and Samuel Bergy bought
a car load of western cattle from the Wilson
Brothers at Oakland Mills, and shipped them
east on Saturday.
Rev. David Beale preached in Lost Greek
PRESBYTERIAN church at McAlisterville last
Sabbath.
Ezra Wagner, a lad aged about years.
SON of John Wagner, ran the prong OF
dung fork into his foot several days ago
The boy has not been able to walk since.
The gas generator in the Methods
church in this place sprang leak last week
| and that prevented the holding of sersie
on sabbath evening.
One white policeman in Philadelphia re
signed his place on the force because fou
. colored men were appointed and placed o
/. the police force
: Sleeping in church is fashionable. Bot
I men and women yield to the somnihc IN
e auences as readily as to the sermon Of th
S preacher.
Hess. the photographer, has returne
: from a visit to his friends, and is now read
to take your picture as natural as life.
Eastern exchanges report a new kind {
potato bug. which does not eat the top
i the plant but goes for the potato.
= 1t is reported that the wheat crop in tn
country is less, by one hundred and twent.
Eve million bushels, than last year.
An infant child of VIM. Haines, in tn
towr, died last Wednesday, and was Il
tered in Union Cemetery on Friday.
The Red Rock U. r. Sabbath-school wi
uicnic on Adams ridge on Saturday, A
gust goth. A cordial invitation is exten'
!. ed TO all.
I, Superintendent Smith examined feache
D. in the Borough school house last Thursda
}. The examination was for Miffiintown al
= Fermauagh township.
j. Women in Lewistown are not the on
10 people of the gentler sex that smoke cig'
IS ett.s. the fashion has been adopted by
& men in Selinsgrove.
:. The bass eater draws consolation from
Ii. fact there are Worms in peas, in ches'nt
Id and in apples, and in other things oesid
Is bass.
~ There are five vacant Presbyteri
churches in Perry county. namely, at La
d,sburg, Blain, Center, lckesburg and Sh'
mandale.
=, The editor of the Lewistown Gasefte 50
lv people need not be alarmed about the wor
in bsss. that when the fish are thorough
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