Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-04-04
SHORT LOCALS.

J. E. NcCahan viii furnish you with snch
kind Of frame lumber as you may need, if
you give him an order.
Tho Barretts, a club Of young ladies
that attend the Academy gave liv ely en-
tertainneat on last Saturday evening.
The Rugby club, club of young men will
give an entertainment at the same place
on Saturday evening.
We are under renewed obligation to
Senator Smiley for public documents
send us.
Mrs Weidman's bay window is decorated
With beautiful flowers.
Mrs Mcdonald, mother of sx-Recorder
Mcdonald has been quite ill.
Measles a ffiict great number of children
in town.
Last week one day, colt jumped through
store-window in Bloomfield Perry county,
Bloomfield has not yet recovered from the
excitement that the incident awaked.
Lewisburg, Union county, with popula-
ton of $500 inhabiten.s, has but one beer
saloon four licensed taverns.
1t it reported that the Vanderbilt railroad
bridge at Harrisburg is to oost S3,000,O0o.
A lady in Trough Greek Valley, Hunting
don county, has gout.
The youthful color, beauty and lustre are
gradually restored to gray hair by Parker's
Hair Balsam.
A lO-year-oid boy named Stillwagon acci-
dentally fell into cokr-oyen near Bridge
water, Westmoreland county, on Wednes-
day, and was roasted to death.
| Shirts which button behind find no sale
in Europe. The Germans say thsy might
as Well Wear coats aud vests winch bu tton
wrong side to, and the Engiishman wants
something to growl about undsy mornings.
Detroit Free Press.
Last Wednesday aft rnoon William
Prtsch, of Stowe township, Allegheny
county, in drunken rage fatally shot a
: young man namsi Jacks On Gesser. \ num-
/ oes OF boys AID men were tormenting
Pcitsch, who, alter Submitting tor time,
pulled out 4 revolver and fred, with the
aboye-stated result.
SIX Secretary Everts has thirtecn
daughters. It Is reported that ne
never locks the front door on Satur-
day nights until after L o'clock, and
even then he lies awake an hour wor-
ring for fear there may be stay
couple in the dining room, which he
has overlooked.
The Philadelphia Simes remarks:
At 4 TooIcuttng contest in
Mexican county few days ago two
women Won the first prize for cross-
cut saving. In spite Of this signiti-
can't occurrence there are people yet
/ who claim that the trades and the
professions are not open 10 woman.
Chicago, March 29.-The Suprsme
Court, sitting at Springfield, has fled
an opinion in the case of Lester and
others against the Chicago Board Of
Trade in favor OF the latter. The
>lits-twenty in number-graw out
OF what was known as the July
! wheat corner thha m.rkat prIee Tor
July wheat at the close of that
month having reached S1.36. A large
number ofoperators refused to settle
at that figure, and the amount thus
held back is estimated at between
S2,0o0,000 aud -, ,000000. The lower
Court decided that members were
smenable to the rules of the Board,
and that the Obligations voluntarily
taken en- joining upon the Board.
/ The 5uprsme Court sustains this
view.
I The New York corresponds of the Boston
! Post finds that the negro in New York
is success. He wiRs in the struggle for
life where the irishman and Italian. No
better equipped than. he, make failure.
And he feels his superiority. OF all Amcri-
cans the negro Is most thorcushly Ameri-
can. And not only as an ;ndig;duai, but
also as community, rather as race he
/ has OutdORe the lower class OF whites,
! whether foreign or native. The several
4 ''quarterS" of Ney Tork-the Italian quar-
ter, the Chinese quarter and the like-have
no corresponding negro quarter. You new
er see beggsr. The Police Courts are not
often darkened with black face, Their
crimes are not malicious, aud their poverty
never becomes plinfnl