Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-17
SHORT LOCALS.

SHORT LOCHLS.
Chicken-pox in Huntingdon
Ice, for ice dealers, is plenty.
Pattison Was inaugurated yester
daY
Sleighing was inaugurated last
Thursday.
They have highway robbers in
Blair county.
100000 people, attended the fu
neral of Gambetta
The comet may now be seen on a
clear midnight hour
Subscribe for the Sentinel and Re
publican and be happy.
It is reported that $500 pensions
are applied for every month.
There are chicken thieves about
Chambersburg, Franklin Co.
The Democratic State Committee
met at Harrisburg, last Monday.
Children are sick in Bedford, with
a disease resembling pneumonia
Miss Rhettie Todd, has been very
sick with inflammation Of the lungs.
Smallpox, and mad dogs, were re
ported in different places, last week.
Some time ago AIiffiin Co. hunter
killed a fox squirrel . teetin length.
There VIII be four eSipses.i in 1888,
two of The sun, and two Of the moon
A teachers institute was held in
the town school house on Saturday.
F. F. Robm, will Pay half a cent per
pound, for bones delivered in Patterson.
81.
Skating was spoiled by the snow,
but sleighing was made good, last
week
On the Bird inst, the thermometer
was 80 degrees below zero, in Mani
toba.
A young man in Huntingdon coun
ty, shot two red foxes in one day last
week.
A protracted mesting, is being
held in the Lutheran church, IN this
place.
14S pardons, were granted, By
Governor Hoyt, during his term OF
Office
A COW killed at Oriental, by Henry
Karstetter, had eight nails in har
stomach.
There is bear around Newton
Hamilton, and hunters are locking
after it.
The rock in the Patterson railroad
yard has been cut so as to admit Of
a third track.
One hundred and sixteen deaths,
occurred in Chambersbug, during
the year 1882.
A number of people from Juniata
attended the Inauguration of Gov
ernor Pattison.
On many Of the railroads or the
country the traffic was blocked by
snow last week.
The Bedford Springs, have been
sold, and a new party, viii manage
that summer resort.
Last weak, in Mount Holly, Cum
berland county, there were seven
cases Of small pox.
The McVeytown band has, well,
up there they call it busted. It was
to good band TO bust.
The State Eucampment of the G.
A. r. VIII meet at NFiikesbarre On
"Wednesday January 81.
The Mason's held business meet
ing last Thursday, and closed with q
banquet IN the evening.
\ new Jail, and a house for the
sheriff is being built in Westmore-
land county for S20,000.
Twenty three persons, aged over
eighty years, died in Huntingdon
Co, during the year 1882.
John and Christian Reno, landed
{ car load, of nice western steers, at
this place last Wednesday
Mr.. Doty was offered $500 for a
colt, and refused the offer. The next
day the animal broke leg,
The snow, last week, brought
country people to town, in sleds and
sleighs, in unusual numbers.
Flour mills, in Huntingdon Co,
had to suspend operations, last week
because of scarcity of water.
The Mercersburg Journal, says, a
hog belonging to ]. H Unger, gain
in weight, 20S pounds in "a days.
Every preacher in Huntingdon was
presented with barrel of -four or
Christmas, by Congressman Fisher.
The peace of mind of the people
of Illinois living near Cairo has been
disturbed by an earthquake shock
Mrs. Mary Coder, aged 95 years
being the eldest person in Lycoming
county, died last week, in Montours
vile.
Robert A. Wharton, of Spruce
Hill, has bought the farm of G. L
Weimer, in Turbett township, fol
$500.
Dispatches, last week, say there
is great drought up in Maine. Wa
ter was never known to be so scarce
Many wooden mills, and other mills
have closed for want of water.