Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-07-13
SHORT LOCALS.
A cold wave Is coming.

In Catholic churches mass waa said
Tor the recovery Of the President.
James Murrow, prominent citizen of
Philadelphia, died on the 29th ult, of what
'he doctors pronounce as genuine Asiatic
Cholera. He was in health and in death in
period Of eight hours. No other cases
are reported.
A celebrated preacher makes the recon-
mendation Of Ayers Pills a matter of reli-
gious duty. Wh,n people are bilious and
dyspeptic, what they need is the Gospel of
Health. In such cases, the best creed TO
swallow consists of the thirty sugar. coa.ed
articles in pill-box.
A bre-cracker Get FIRE 70 some intiamms-
BILE material in the town of State Line. ten
miles from Bradford, Pa, on the 4th inst.
and resulted in burning the town to ashes.
1t was a new place. About forty houses
were destroyed. The railroad depot was
burned, and trains were detained quite a
while.
The Executive Committee of the
Juniata Valley Prirters Association
visited Bedford Springs on the 9Th
inst, and while there fixed upon that
place as the most suitable at which to
bold the printers picnic September
2ud and 3rd.
Miss Patterson, daughter of Robert
Patterson, deceased, is on q visit to
Peru, this county, at the home of her
uncle, John Patterson. Miss Patter-
son is one of the teachers in the In
dian school at Carlisle. She has with
her an Indian girl, and an Indian
boy.
A bill was passed by the late Legislature
to repeal an act that provided tor the pun
ishment of such persons as sell light weight
butter, sausagt. lard, sc. Governor Hoyt
vetoed the repeating bill, and closed his
veto with Bible quotation, as follows: ga
false balance is an abominaticn to the Lord,
but a just weight is his delight"
"Just as the news was bulIetined that the
Presidents life was despaired of, a band
passed down Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
playing lively music The sorrow-stricken
citizens wanted TO mob the musicians, but
the music suddenly ceased, and beyond
some expressions of disgust by the indig-
nant populace nothing further took place."
The Indian School management at Car
Isle, Pa, is securing homes for as many of
the Indian boys and girls a. they can dur
ing the months of July and August-vaca-
ton months. Many boys have been taken |
by farmers, to work on farms till the vaca-
tion period is over. For further particulars
address Captain Pratt, at Carlisle.
The prophecy, that the world is TO come
to an end in November next, is said to be /
derived from a prediction made in the four
teenth century, that in the year 1881, in No
vember, between the lst and 18th of the |
month, the world will be deluged with water
aud the atmospheric change will smother all
the people, and this globe itself is to fail to
pieces.
Jesse Howe, a boy about IL years Of age,
was picking cherries the other day. off
tree on his fathers property. He lost his
hold and fell. broken limb caught the
lower end of pant leg; the goods of the
trowsers was strong and held the weight of
the boy. II was a most unpleasant way TO
hang, by one leg, head downward. The
cries of the lad brought to his assistance
William Hawk, who helped to unloose him.
On Sabbath a week the treasurer of the
NJ. f. church was not present to receive the
envelopes that had been handed in during
morning service. The envelopes were left
lie in the collection baskets, near the pull
pit. The church was not locked between
the time of the morning and evening SER
vice. During the afternoon two boys, aged
about eight years, entered the church aud
stole the money and invested it in fire.
crackers on the 4th of July.
DR.. Banks and John HolIobaugh can 60
out onto the river and be the recipients of
lHC lhOol hdpit VI Ish iiCon1s oth AOA
solid fishing, with substantial results, Mason
Irwin takes the feather. Ee can catch
greater variety of fish, suckers, eels and
bass, than any other man that goes to the
river from these parts for days sport.
However, the champion bass fisher lives
down at Thompsontown; his name is Will
liam Mcknight. He celebrated the Fourth
of July by showing the boys how 20 catch
bass. He caught 35, several of which
weighed over three pounds.
When the sad news Of the assassination
of President Garfield reached the Veterans
Home at Dayton, Ohio, one Q: the inmates
to express JOY at the shooting of
the President, and boasted that he had
served in the rebel army before joining the
Union forces. The offender was at once
before General Patrick, the gov
ernor of the Home, his discharge written
cut -nd he was marched out of the institu-
tion under guard, with fife and drum, and
expelled from the gates at the point of the
bayonet. The fellows name is James Nc
Bride.
Last Thursday afternoon the New York
Chamber of Commerce raised fund ct two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Mrs.
Garfield, Gas a token of their sincere es-
teen and sympathy and as q means of re
lievipg the mind of the President entirely
from anxiety with regard to the future of
his family" When the President started
on the trip that ended so disastrously In the
Washington depot on the Ind inst, it was
his purpose to meet Mrs. Garfield, and with
her go to the home of Cyrus ". Field, on
the Hudson river, and remain there over
Sunday till the 4th. Mr.. Field is one of
the large contributors to the fund he sub
scribed five thousand dollars. In the event
of the death of the President, Mrs. Gar