Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-15
SHORT LOCALS.

Daniel Sieher is preparing to build barn
on his farm in Fermanagh township.
Miss Kate Lybe died at her mothers home
On Third street, on Sabbath evening.
Two colored men will serve as Jurors al
the April term Of court in Miffin county.
For Sale-Five shares of Odd Fellows
Hall Association stock. Call at thi, office.
The newest post-ofiice in this county is
in the east end, and has been christiaued
Knousetown.
The detective that found ont the Kintz-
Ter murdercrs, received from Snyder county
the sum of sl7lO.35.
J. NJ. Mcdonald bought the stage-route
to Selinsgrove, at public sale, as property,
Of S. c. Frank, deceased.
David Hamilton will go to a New York
State bookkeeping school TO perfect him.
self in the art of bookkeeping.
Henry Ward Beecher ssys: "Not only
do most men over-eat on the week -davs.
but on the seventh they gorge like anacon
das.''
A tally party of young folks was held at
the residence OF Squire Loudon on Friday
evening They wound up the festivities
with hop.
Harry Derr entered Pencils store as a
clerk, in place of d. K. Hamilton, who goes
to Poughkeepsie to attend a business COL
lege.
Rheumatism, disordered blood, general
debility, and many chronic diseases pro-
nounced incurable, are often cured by
Browns Iron Bitters.
A Chinaman would rather tiy kite than
go on drunk, tear down doors and thump
a bartender. And yet some people regard
the Chinese as the intellectual equal of the
white man.-BosfOn Post.
The DuncannOn rolling mill WAS destroy
ed by fire on Sunday evening after night
fall. 1t is believed that the fire originated
by the explosion of a lamp in the oil room.
Loss, SIS ,0O0i insurance, $4,000.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian congregation of this
place will hold festival in Patterson, in
the house recently occupied by W. Ii. Egoif,
on Saturday afternoon and evening.
Mrs. Mary 4. lIorning died at the resi-
dence of her son-in-law, w. IL Aikens, in
this place, last Friday evening. Mrs. Horn
ing was aged about 16 years. Interment in
the Presbyterian Cemetery on Monday.
The Congressional Committee on the ex-
penses that grew out of the illness of Pres.
ident Garfield after he was shot by the mur-
derer Guitcau are not unit on accepting
the large bills that have been handed in.
Last Friday, Blackburn, one of the Com
mittee, denounced the bills of the doctors.
"He declared that it would be a burlesque
and al insult to the intelligence of the
country to pay a man 81, 900 for treating a
pus cavity for two months as a gunshot
wound and never discovering his mistake
until the dissecting knife revealed it after
the victim was dead"
IT causes the young man that writes sweet
love letters to his girl to turn pale when he
reads the true story that comes from Akron,
Ohio, that flirting belle of that town has
caused a social excitement by having all the
love letters she has received bound hand
somcly in morocco volume, which occu-
pies prominent position on her parlor Ia
bic. There is Young lady in Williams
port who takes the sswestest" of her love
letters, with photographs of the authors,
has them framed in gilt and hung up in her
hibiting the trophies as an Indian does his
scalps.
A countryman with big dog at his side
walked into the store of jefferson MiiGigh
in Patterson, last Monday afternoon. When
the countrymsn went out he forgot his dog,
but the dog did not forget his master. The
upper part OF the double front door i, glass.
The dog had no experience with glass doors
He saw the way clear to the street in the
direction that his master trod. He ran, and
jumped into the left-hand glass. The pane
was broken to pieces, but the dog fell back
into the store He was daZed a second or
two, as if some one had struck him on the
head with club. HIS experience ON that
side of the door made him shy of it, so he
selected the right side through which to
make an exit. He jumped with great force
against the window in the right door. He
went through, clean and clear, to the pave
ment, and the jingle Of the glass that fell
around him was loud enough to arrest the
attention of people that were on the streets
a square away.