Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-10-04
SHORT LOCALS.

"a" ph'ii picS.
Shut the door.
Buckwheat cakes.
Read the 18th chapter of Isaiah.
1t was too cloudy to see the comet
Altoona has a handsome female
barber.
Port Royal Fair begins this We'd
nesday.
Sportsmen are out after the Octo-
Der game.
The singing summer birds have
gone south.
Lebanon county, is troubled with
horse thieves.
Barnum's show is to be at Hunt
ingdon, on Friday.
The cases of malaria are two nu-
merous to mention.
TIE time for store box lounging
draweth TO an end.
The number of 500 acre farms in
Pennsylvania is 922.
Harley is off to the city to lay in a
stock of new clothing.
The Stewart Republicans in Sny.
dercounty have organized.
Be posted, by reading Mr.. Alexan-
ders bi-centennial letter.
Port Royal people would like to
have the reunion next year.
General Beaver, is expected to be
here, in Juniata next week.
A prophet, in Canada, predicts q
great storm for next March.
A number of circus trains have
been wrecked the past season.
Samuel Rollman, pulls beets out
of his garden that are over feet long.
A number of farmers have been be-
lated in their wheat sowing by the
rain.
Liverpool, people rejoice in the
prospect of a barber locating in that
town.
Cholera is taking the life of many
hogs in the counties of Snyder, and
Center.
Huntingdon Presbytery convened
at Shade Gap Huntingdon county on
Tuesday.
Wheat sowing has been lengthen-
ed ont. Some farmers are not vet
through.
A number of very earnest Beaver
papers, say Beaver or Pattison for
Governor.
FOR SALE-A first rate, second
hand, Washington hand press. Call
at this Office
The Presbyterian Synod of Penn
sylvania, will meet at Harrisburg, on
the 10Th inst.
Jonas Reno, was offered S1O5 per
acre for his farm in Fermanagh town
ship last week.
The re union of the Grand Army
of the Republic took place in Pitts
burg on Monday.
Samuel A. Tyson, bought the
Kinsely farm South of town, on Sat
urday, for s3490.
The river was high enough last
week, to give the eels a clear run
down to deep water.
The region about Locks Mills Milf
fin county is troubled by a panther.
The beast kills sheep.
The Democratic Fusionist, of last
year, in this county, will not support
either. Beaver or Stewart.
On Monday, the Greenback Labor
Committee, in this county, put a
county ticket into the field.
Mason's Fruit jars and Tin Fruit
Cans, for sale cheap, at McClintics
tinware store, Bridge street.
John Hench. of Port Royal. has
connected himself with an Altoona
newspaper, called the Mechanic.
The Presbyterian Home Mission
ary Society, met at the Presbyterian
Parsonage, on Tuesday evening.
The wife of Major j. D. Howell,
died at Spruce Hill, last Saturday
The funeral took place on Monday.
The communion service in the
Presbyterian chapel, was attended
by quite large number of people.
The stores of Samuel Brown, and
Mrs. Fink, in Patterson, were bur-
glariled early on Tuesday morning.
In places in the State, the ablest
local Republican speakers are speak
ing for the Stewart Republican ticket.
There was no preaching in the Lu-
theran church Sabbath, owing to Mr..
Berry being away in attendance at
Synod.
Over in Bedford a burglar got in
to the house of a lawyer. After a
terrible struggle the lawyer succeed
ed in robbing him.
The moon change was eagerly
watched last Wednesday, by the old
soldiers, that were on the ground
floor of the re-union movement.
Another Lewistown man has twins
in his family. The fortunate fathers
name is Woods; he was born in Lew
istovn. but now lives at Altoona.
A large pane of glass in window
of Espenshade's store was broken on
reunion day by young man being
showed against it by the surging
crowd.
Forty-three babies were entered
at the Williamsport Fair, for prizes,
as the handsomest babies. The COM
mittee had time of it, awarding the
1st and End prize.
Corn is plentier than last year,
and as consequence the village Sun
dor boo committee will have more