Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-10
SHORTLOCfLS.

Forty-nine electric lights will make Chest.
nut street in Philadelphia the best lighted
street at night in the world. The light:
will be placed 33 feet from the ground.
ga colored girl in Washington Territory
recently ran away with q white man who
wanted to marry her. The father of the
cOlored girl prosecuted the man for abduc.
| tion."
Two Altoona policemen were in town or
Monday, and three citizens went away with
them. The public have Lot been informed
whether the visit was one of business OF
pleasure.
A lot Of boys set fire to fence between
two fields owned by the editor of the Sssti
mel and Republican, and before the fire was
extinguished seyeuty-odd panels were de.
stroycj.
The intense heat was broken BY rain or
Saturday evening. During the great heat
of that day the thermometer stood at l02
degrees. By Monday the thermometer
stood at SO degrees.
Tanner says that he will fast 95 days
without partaking of food. Every person
will say that can't be done. Tanner says
that he expects to Eve on electricity, and
! not on what people call food.
The Grangers are preparing TO hold a
grand picnic in Cumberland valley about the
last Of this month. Their grounds will be
lit up at night by electric light of the capa-
city of twelve thousand candles.
Mrs. Samuel Buck, of Fayette township,
died on Sabbath, after lingering illness OF
two years. She was aged Al years, ii mos.
and 3 days lnterment in Union Cemetery
near this town on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 1881.
The new moon stood on horn, and still it
did not rain. go much for the moon sign /;
and the wind for days blew over oats stub
BILE, and it was not the least bit like fall, but
it was hotter .han before The oats was cut.
On last Wednesday little daughter Of
John Foster, of Milford township, fel from
the top of fence to the ground, fracturing
an arm at The elbow joint. Dr. Crawford
rendered the necessary surgical aid, and the
child is doing well.
The Newton Hamilton camp meeting reg
lister of tent-holders embraces the follow
ing citizens Of this county: W. d. Cramer,
Miss Beckie Diven, George Goshen, Rev. W.
V. Canoe, John 5. Graybill, James North,
Mrs. Angie Shaeffer.
On Saturday, short distance below Lew
istown railroad station, two men were Sc
riously hurt by bank of earth falling On
them. The men were at work preparing
road bed for a third track, to run from
Lewistown to Bixler's Gap.
Last Wednesday a man named Barclay
was seriously hurt, at Marshal Furnace,
Newport, Perry county, by the top of pile
of ore falling on him. He was digging into
the bank Barclays left jaw-bone was
broken, and his nose was crushed.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the
Lutheran congregation in this place held
meeting in the Lutheran Parsonage on Mon
day evening to offer up prayer to the Divine
Being for the recovery of Miss Kate Boggs,
a Lutheran missionary at GuntOor, India.
On Saturday last William S. Reynolds, a
railroad track hand, was thrown violently
from hand-car, and sererely injured his
left leg and the back part of his head. DR..
Crawford was called and gave such assist
ance as the case required. Mr.. R. is doing
well.
A crash is heard in the kitchen of house
on Galveston avenue. The head of the
family calls out to the cook: I" What have
you broken now, you - black idiot ?''
Matilda stops singing hymn to answer !:
faint de fort commandment, bress de
Lord. .'-Galreston Ne,rs.
There is a rage for the antique. 1t has
reached such height now, says an ex-
change, that the girls are taking to the in
dustrious habits of their grand d-mothers,
and knit stockings, sew on buttons, and
patch trowsers, and do all manner of things
that shoddy habits had almost oblite-ated.
The people of the Vest owe debt of
gratitude to DR.. Aver for the production Of
Ayers Ague Cure. Its timely use will save
much suffering and much encouragement,
and we recommend il with the greatest con-
tidence in its ability to do all that is prom
ised for il.
A Philadelphia constable followed tie
Mayor of the city several squares, directing
profane and scandalous language against
Mr.. King. The constable was put under
arrest, fined for drunkenness, and held in
the sum of ST ,40U bail for breach of the
peace. Some parties in the city baiied him.
A burglar put ladder up to the second
story window of house in Sunbury. and
thereby entered the bed-chamber of the cit
izen and carried off suit of clothes and
the money that was in the pants-about
forty dollars-and gold watch. The win
dow was raised about two feet, and through
that aperture the thief went in and oft.
1t was circus day; and he told his wife he
was going to Lockport just to "purchase
reaper" The wife followed him, unbe-
known, and at the proper time, when she
met him going to the show with girl hang
ing to his manly arm, she smashed an nm
brelia over his head, lectured the girl, ship
ped her liege lord and took in the circus
and the lemonade all by herself.-OH City
Derrick.
The picnic in FanneDaker's grove in Tus-
carora township, on Saturday, was attended
by at least one thousand people. People
were there from Perry, Franklin and Hunt
insdon counties. Speaking began at II
,o,oot, nj and was kent ND till 8 O'Clock