Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-27
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improving rapidly.
J. H. Simons is just getting over a spell
of cholera morbus.
John Mclaughlin insures growing tobac-
CO against loss from hail.
Z. d. Parker, Mason Irwin and sister,
Miss Maud Irwin, have gone to the Sulphur
Springs. at the head of Tuscarora valley.
Tho ''false works" of the bridge are safe
from flood now, and will remain so till the
middle of September. After that date
there ic no telling how soon flood may
Gems.
Ella Stevenson, an insane girl, living with
her father near Pittsburg, on Tuesday a
week became enraged at her father and
kicked MIN in the stomach, killing him in
Stanily. He was aged 65 years.
The question of smallpox or chicken
pox is agitating the doctors of Sunbury.
How are the people to know which, wheth-
er small or chicken pox, if the doctors dis
agree as to which!
An exchange remarks ElderSerries are
not so named because they are older than
other berries. They derived their name
from the fact that an elder of a church first
discovered their color by sitting down on a
bunch of them at a picnic.
The stones obtained from Jacob lie mons
quarry in Milford township give satisfaction
when put in the piers of bridge. The
stones are about eight inches in thickness
and may be taken out in desirable lengths.
Michael Yoder will sell at public sale, on
the premises, a farm o: l09 acres of lime
stone and gravel land, about one mile north
of Oakland Mills, Fayette township, on Fri
day, August ~, 1881. This will be fine
opportunity to buy farm.
On Monday night fock Of sheep from
the country and smill drove of town cows
found their way into Miss Lydia Stouffer's
well-kept garden. at East Point. The de-
structive work Of the animals among the
nice vegetables can be more satisfactorily
imagined than described.
Prints, pantstuff, dress goods, gloves,
skirts, hats, ribbons, tubs, general assort-
ment Of store goods, and many useful arti-
cles for the household, and for personal
wear, will be sold by W. II. Nc Alister, at
his place of residence at Cocolamus, Fay
ette township, on Saturday, August 6, 1881.
The Snyder county Tribune of July 2lst
says: ssFsrmer Joseph Walters hogs. of
Franklin township, got into a neighbours
potato patch and destroyed potatoes to the
amount of $50, so said three men who were
appointed to assess the damage, and like a
good citizen Mr.. Walter paid the till."
Rev. T. J. Sherlock paid this place fly
ing visit last Thursday. His preaching
place now is at Lewistown. A few years
Congregation. He has circle of warm
friends outside of the membership of the
church to which he belongs.
The Hamilton Fishing Club returned from
their annual excursion to the Long Narrows
| last Saturday afternoon. They we're quite
successful in catching fish. They disposed
of their surplus of provisions such as mack
erel, ham, chow-chow, &C., by auction, on
.he wharf az the canal on Saturday evening.
An eastern newspaper reports that a new
industry is now reported in Berks county.
Some farmers are about TO manufacture figs
out of tomatoes. The process consists OF
drying them and pressing into boxes. 1t is
of figs and meet with entire satisfaction, at
the same time can be sold at half the rates
of the genuine article.
John Bardell has a tract of about eight
hundred acres of mountain land beyond
Johnstown, this county. How many whor-
tleherries there are on it cannot be told.
Mr.. Bardell has six children. In the morn
| ing on a fair day the children turn out to
pick berries, and they average between 200
and 800 quarts every day that they go out.
The berries are sold by the father in the
Miffilntown market.
The North American has this TO say about
cigar making in Lancaster county The en-
terprising citizens of Lancaster, with that
irrepressible energy for which they are ia
nous, are said to have gone extensively Into
the business of manufacturing first-rate
Havana segars, made out of the best Cuba
| TOBACCO, raised in Lancaster county, just to
show that Pennsylvania industry in that line
is fully equal to the manufacture Of Havana
segars at Key West. Florida.
Our neighbors in the village twelve miles
from this place up along the Juniata, tell
| that a ssLewistown girl stuffed the sleeve of
an old coat with straw and placed it around
| her waist as she sat in the bay window wrap
ped in the soft June twilight. 1t looked all
right and natural from a distance and broke
the neighbor girls all up with envy, but the
satisfaction She derived from the hug was
about as :hin as strained moonshine."
"Your mind is in twilight state," OBJ
served the good man. '.You cannot differ
entiate the grains of distrust from the mole
cules of a reasonable confidence. You are
travelling the bulder land, the frontier be-
tween the paradise faitk and the arctic re-
gIons OF Incredibly You are an agnostc." j"
"Di3il bit, said Pat, with mingled amaze
ment and indignation. "Pm Dimmycrat,
livery inch of me."-Brooklyn Eagle.
1t is cisimed that the recent arrests of
liquor dealers in Wiikesbarre savored of
blackmaiI. So says an exchange. The Ii
quor business is licensed business, and
when men violate the laws to the de5auch-
nen. of men and boys, they should be pun
ished but there is no virtue or good in
prosecution instituted for the purpose of
blackmail. The blackmailer is bad men,
ber of society he ranks with the thief:
This year farmers cut their oats when in
greener state than is their usual custom.