Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-10-11
SHORT LOCALS.
Cabbage is bursting.

Cabbage is bursting.
The political kettle boils.
The late wheat comes up nicely.
Port Royal looks neat and trim.
The merchants have scrubbed their
stores,
Jordon Riddle, has raised the lar
gest pumpkin.
Chestnuts are twelve cents a quart
at Williamsport.
The railroad is to be inspected the
LIST week i'll November.
The Lutheran Synod, will meet in
this place next September.
Mr.. Berry, preached in Big Run
school house, ON Sabbath.
The next regular meeting of Pres
bytery will be at Miff1intown.
]. H. Simons had,,a splendid dis
play OF harness at Port Royal fair.
An Altoona woman that scolds on
on the street is called Jumbo" scold.
The Huntingdon Baptist church
has a new pastor from Philadelphia.
Presbyterian preachers are prepar
ing to attend Synod at Harrisburg.
The Republican primary election,
will be held on Saturday October 81.
The Presbyterian church at Port
Royal, is being put in state Of re-
pairs.
Cattle are being gathered in from
the summer grazing on the noun
tains.
There is not much politics among
the people, the wire pullers however,
are busy.
FOR SALE-A first rate, second
hand, Washington hand press. Call
at this Office.
'The Juniata Editorial Associa-
ton, is new organization that is
in prospect.
A number of citizens in town saw
the comet on Monday morning,
about 4 o'clock.
''Tbistle dew" is the name OF the
new whiskey that kills at longer
range than 40.
Evard Oles has sold his farm in
Walker township to VIM. Kurtz.
Price over $4,000.
Mr.. Benaugh, proposes to start n
revival meeting between this time
and the holidays.
Rev. N. L. Smith, of the NJ. f..
church in this place, is on a visit to
his mother in Iowa.
Zach Keim, of Newport, has a
vegetable prodigy in the shape OF a
6 headed cabbage.
There is a talk of work being re-
sumed on the proposed railroad from
this place to Selinsgrove.
Col. Mcfarland displayed some
fine seeding peaches from his nurs-
cry, at the Port Royal far.
Tax payers, in Altoona have organ
izsd to make inquiry as to where the
money that they pay goes.
The sacrament of the Lords sup
per will be observed in the U. p.
Church, in Mexico on Sabbeth.
John NJ. Greer, candidate for Sec
rotary of Internal Affairs on the Bea-
yer ticket, was at Port Royal Fair
last Thursday.
The 49th regiment, will hold their
reunion, at Huntingdon on the 14th
and 18th of November, instead of the
29th of November.
The Democrats say that Judge
Kimmell, of Franklin county, is the
coming man for the Congressional
district nomination.
Mrs. Thomas r. Meginness is the
happy mother, at Williamsport, who
took the prize for having the hand
soonest baby at the fair.
David Altman, and wife, aged citi-
zens, of Walker township, started on
Monday on a visit to their sons at
Silver city, New Mexico.
This will not be a good year, for
doctors, lawyers, and bankers, that
are on the tickets, provided they have
men of other business as opponents.
The Republican Congressional
Conference met on Tuesday, of this
week at Newport, Perry county.
There are no returns as we go to
press
The gun of Huntingdon county
man exploded while he discharged it
at squirrel, his left arm, was hurt,
but he was glad the injury was not
greater.
An exchange says the point lace
stockings just suits the lazy girls,
for the reason that being pretty much
all holes in the first place they never
require mending.
Jeremiah Loudenslager, of Della
ware township, has returned from
Virginia, and is higly pleased with
the lumber trade prospects IN the
/ part of the State that he visited.
| A Boston negro, named William
Hunt, a porter on Pullman car was
arrested on Saturday for bigamy,
he having two white wives; the one
in Boston and the other in New York.
A follower of Nimrod, at Thomp
sontown, seems to have made the
hunting of the ground hog a special
ity, and as a consequence he has cap
tured 26 of the animals, this summer
On the morning Of the 2nd inst, O
house within sight OF town, on the
Patterson side of the river, was des
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