Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-04-18
SHORT LOCALS.
Lawyer Lyon has been on the sick list.

Lawyer Lyon has been on the sick list.
John Shafer of Susquehana township.
while cutting kindling wood so me evenings
ago fell ever dead. Aged about 6S years
A citizen who was up the railroad on
Saturday, says, that he saw plowing, har-
rowing. oats sowing, and corn husking, all
going on in one field at one and the same
time, on the IA th day Of April 1888.
A meeting of the executive committee of
the Veteran Association of Juniata county,
will be held in G.. A. K. Post room
Grsybilrs hall Miffiintown, Pa, on Wed.
nesday, April % 1888, at 2 P. 4. all mem-
bers of Veteran Associations are requested
to meet the committee, as the question
will then be decided whether a reunion
will be held this year. By order Of COM
mIttee. J. W. HUoHEs, Chairman.
| There was a case on the list for trial at
Court next week, entitled, Miffiin and Lost
Creek Presbyterian Churches, VS.. Thomas
Van Irwin. II was an action TO recover
pew rent that had been paid into the
Treasurer, and paid out by him, for the
use of the Miffiintown congregation. 1t
was not claimed that Mr.. Irwin had misap-
propristed the money further than to use it
for the bene fit of the Miffiintown congre-
cation. The people who brought the suit
claimed that they could recover because
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cations together the pew money should
have been appropriated to the use of both
| congregations. Considering the fact
that Lost Creek congregation won the
property under the charter, there wa.
ground for the belief that under a close
construction of legal technicalities, Mr..
Irwin could be made responsible as Treas
urer for the money that the Miiiiin congre-
CATION collected and used from the pews or
seat in the brick church in this place.
In point of fact or truth, Mr.. Irwin was as
guiltless of any wrong in the transaction
as man that has never heard of such
pieces as Mifilintown and Lost Greek.
The suit has been withdrawn by the peo-
pie who instituted it.
A LIE ebanon county farmer, named
George Yihgst fell over dead while
plowing.
About 4 clock on Tuesday after
noon, the 10th inst, the gable wall
of stone stable standing on the
bank of the creek in McAlistersville
fell into the stream. The stable
stands on the Dr. Harshbarger lot.
When the wall fell, a daughter of
DR.. Harshbarger, deceased, and a
daughter of DR.. Fisher, were cross
ing the creek on stepping stones
The children Were aged, each, about
6 years. They were crushed into, al
most, a pulpy state. To describe
how the little girls were mutilated
by the wall under which they were
buried would be too shocking. Their
death was IN instant one, and it has
cast a gloom over all that communi-
ty.
There is lesson to be learned
from the following, which the Hunt
ingdon Journal of last week publish
ed: \ hanging coal oil lamp explod-
ed in the residence of Jack McCahan
in Walker township, on Sunday even
ing, doing no other damage than
breaking the lamp and giving Mr..
McCahan pretty bad fright. When
about to retire for the night he took
the lamp out of the brass cup in
which it rests for the purpose of ex-
tinguishing the flame, and i'll order
to do so he turned the wick low and
blew down the chimney. BY some
means the flame got down into the
bowl of the lamp and igniting the oil
exploded the glass with report as
loud as that caused by the firing of
pistol. Mr. AIcCahan can thank
his stars that lie escaped serious in
jury.
The Lewistown Gazette says: Bar
nard Rynack, an embezzler, who es-
capped from car window of the mail
express when near McVeytown,
Thursday night. while in company of
Detective FL. T.. johnson. on their
way to New York, was captured late
Friday afternoon near Mount Union.
The prisoner was badly cut up by
his Jump from the car window, but
no bones were broken and he could
walk without much trouble. The
wonder is that he was not killed out
right. He jumped whilst the train
was flying through the Jackstown
narrows at the rate of thirty-fi
miles an hour. Rynack lost his hat
in the jump and when he appealed
to some countrymen near Shirleys-
burg his face was bleeding and cut
His fine dress and hashy look started
a suspicion in their minds and when
the detective made search they di-
rected him upon the embezzlers
track. Rynack is now in New York
registered at the tombs
There are many good people who
consider 1T personal a!front to be
notified by mechauts and other bust
ness men of the standing of their ac
counts at stated periods Now this
IS all wrong,as nothing but mutual
self-interest is intended. There is
not in this country, or elseware, for
that matter, merchant who does
not receive a statement of his account
with his whole sale houses every
thirty days, and if the case is not
fcrthcoming, interes! j. charged on for
the principal, and sent to the bank
collection. This is recognized as a
great business principle in CONNER
cial circles everywhere, and the only
safe one for creditor and debtor; but
just why patron of n retail dealor
should feel insulted at receiving o
statement of his account once a year
or every 6 months, is question we
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