Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-14
SHORT LOCALS.

er, Of Patterson. The farm is about mile
and half from this town, and lies between
the McAIisterville and Cedar Spring roads.
Price, one hundred and twenty-five dollars
per acre.
Almost all the people in town were out on
the street and at their doors on Monday
evening to look at the 50 Northern lights"
as they waved and brilliantly flashed in the
Northern sky. Old people tell that from
their earliest youth the lights have thus oc-
casionally displayed themselves.
FIG. Frafoiscus and wife, of Lewistown,
while making a tour down 10 New England
took passage on a steamboat that was
wrecked on rocks in Penobscot Bay. All
passengers. however, were safely landed on
little island called Mark Island, from
whence they were safely taken.
A large wolf frequents the wilds of the
Within the period of a generation a large
wolf took up its habitatIon in a strip of
woods between this town and Van Vert.
The woods in which it had its lair was not
over four miles distant from this place.
A law was enacted lest winter by the Leg
isiature, proviiing for the punishment of
frauds at primary elections. How many
suits will be brought after the primaries are
over cannot be told, but from present ihdi-
cations many suits will be brought. In a
number of counties suit has already been
brought
Mary Hover, nine year-old daughter of
Francis Hover, a citizen of Fermanagh
township, while on visit to her grand
father, Jacob Hover, last Sabbath, fell fror,
the ''over-hcad" to the barn floor and was
seriously hurt about the head and shoulders.
DIR. Banks was called and gave such atten-
ton as the case required.
Warren Emminger, boy aged about 8
years, living in Patterson, was almost
drowned in the shorse hole'' in the river at
the third pier of the river bridge, last We'd
nesday. William Wright, boy aged about
! , years, caught the drowning boy by the
hair and drew him to shore. The lad was
rolled on a log till he 50 revived that he was
able TO walk home.
The Lewistown Gazette of last week pub
lished the following item: During last week
the corn fields of Charles Bratton. in Brat
ton township. were visited almost every dag
b. thousands of black birds, which destroy
ed or eat bushels of corn. They stripped
the husk off, eat the grains and left the bare
cob. They have since disappeared.
There are many people that believe that
the two comets that exhibited themselves
this summer are the cause of the dry and
parched season. 1t is of no avail that they
are told that Great Britain was nearly del |
uged with rain They attribute the excess
sive rainfall there to the same influence. !
citing on that Island in the sea. aud for all
anybody knows to certainty they msy bc (
right.
John Motzer, citizen Of Walker town I
ship, discovers that his wheat yields II 1
bushels to the acre, remarkably large yield I
for this year. He sowed the wheat en and
after the 25,h Of September, and to the late |
sowing he attributes the satisfactory result. /
He has been prosperous man, and his OBJ |
servation is that in seasons when fly put in |
an appearance the best wheat results are
reached BY late sowing.
'sInd;ans get their queer names in The !
following manner When IN Indian baby /
is born, the medicine man or some one of
the family looks out of the door aud casts !
his eye upon some object. The first thing |
that he sees furnishes the child's name. |
Hence 50 Sitting Bull" " Red Cloud,' etc. |
If this rule vas followed by the whites,
most of the children would be called "Hoop- |
skirt-in-the- Back Yard," or g Man-Going !
ms Saloon"
The pump at the foundry got ont OF re- |
pair. Frank Noble was called to repair the |
pump. but as the well is deep one il re-
quired considerable force to manage the |
heavy wooden stock. Neighbors Z. W. II. |
Kreider, George ". CRIBS, John y Howe, 1
Henry Hawk, Philo Pannebaker, Joseph |
Martin and David Watts lent helping hand 1
TO take the pump out. and on Saturday |
helped to put it in the we'll. During the op- |
Grafton TWO hats fen into the well, that of
Frank Noble and George W Cribs.
Vcnnor said frost, and the thermometer |
went up to lo6 degrees. Perhaps Vennor /
meant frost in the Black Hills, for it is
fact that last week while the weather was so
intensely hot here, it was cold enough in
the Black Hills to produce snow storm. !
There is such an uncertainty hanging about
the weather business that perhaps the dis
patch that herslded the snow storm meant
to say that snow storm prevailed up on the
high peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Snow
lies up on peaks all the year round.
On Saturday night Ellis Free, of this /,
place, youth aged about 10 years, was
knocked Off the railroad by locomotive /
near Tuscarora station. The young man
had ridden that far east on a freight car,
anu iutcuutu W fttuTu sOlHc time uuiihS
the night on freight train. The stroke !
from the locomotive so shattered his left
arm that amputation became necessary. !
The arm was amputated on Sabbath evening |
about O'Clock by DR.. d. N. Crawford, as
sisted by prs. Banks and Sandoe.
Chicago is a long distance to bring home
news from. but the fact is that g Chicago !
paper says that the Greenback party in Ju-
niata county, Pa, is alive and has nominated |
the following ticket: Associate Judges, |
chm Kelly, of Pattersonboro, S. r. Price,
Tuscarora township; Prothonotary. James I
Stewart, of Milford township; Treasurer,
Anthony SaDdoe, of Gifflintown County .
Commissioners, Hugh Palm, of TuscarOrs 1
township, N ii. Zimmerman, of Fayette 1
township; County Auditors. Seth kerch- I
per of Walker township Joseph Obcghu!fz-