Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-01-09
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There is vacancy in the Naval
Academy for this, the 18th Congress
sIonal district, and Congressman At
kinson has called for competitive ex-
animation, open to all boys of IA to Is
years of age, to take place in this to wn
on the 10th day of next April. 1t
will be qualification if some Juni-
ata boy can take the prize. Perhaps
the boys of this mountain ribbed coun-
ty have no ambition for the life Of q
''sea faring man."
REMOVED.
NOTICE THE CHANGE.-We are now
occupying the new and beautiful room
on Nam street, In the new building
that ]. S. Thomas has recently built,
where we are once more to furnish the
trade with large stock of dry goods
and groceries, boots and shoes. We
receive new goods constantly and sell
cheaper than ever. Give us call
G. F. HINKEL 4 Co.
Nov. %, lSS3-tf.
1t has just been discovered how
Blair county hunters manage to shoot
so many rabbits in one day. They first
find thicket where rabbits are plenty
Then they send boy through it jung
Cling string Of sleigh bells the mu-
sic of the bells seems to charm the rab-
bits and the little animals will hop out
of their hiding places and sit up on
their hind feet, evidently to listen, and
in that way arc easily seen by the hun
ter who is on the lookout for them.
Between this and the lst Of Febru-
airy, 1884, bill will be sent to each
aud every person who Is owing this Of
fee for more than one years subscrip
ton. Don't wait for the bill A
printer, you know, is human like other
people aud can't afford 10 work quite
for nothing. We have large list of
subscribers that are almost all the
time ahead with their pay. We have
large list who are a lit:le slow, but
the larger number of them will be in
on time, before the lst of February
George Frvsinger, who owned the
Lswistown Gazette since 1916, sold
the office to the Stackpole Brothers, on
the lst of the new year May good
health, peace OF mind, and plenty, al;
tend the veteran editor 70 the last hour
of bis life in this "vale of tears" and
may the young men who have gone in
where the elder editor sat during 30
many years. receive the same bounsi-
full reward for their labor as was re-
ceived by their aged predecessor, is the
wish from us all, and again, so say We
all.
List of letters remaining in the Mif-
fintown, Pa, post Office, not called foI
JaG. l, 1884: Letters-William Barr,
DR.. Biglow, Nary Cleveland, Col. L..
f. Copeland, (2); James Gibbony,
George Gibson, Thos s Hill Mr.. Minis,
Thomas McMurtrIe. r NJ McNeal, (2);
VIM. j. Roe, David II. Sbirk, Chris
tian Shellenberger. Mrs. Callie Wilmer,
Salie Weik Postal cards-George
Barnes, Kate Light, Prof. r. NJ. Nc
Neal. Persons asking for letters in
this list will please say they are advsr-
tised. W. II. RODGERS, Z. NJ.
They are wrestling with the free rIv-
er bridge question IN Perry county, as
NAV be learned from the following,
from the Newport Ledger: The view
ers appointed by the Court to examine
the toll bridge over the Juniata river.
at Newport, and assess the damage of
the Bridge Company if it should be
made tree county bridge, reported in
favor of free bridge, and estimated
the value of the bridge at SIC, 500
The stockholders of the bridge claim
that it is worth $4,000. Should the
Newport bridge be made free, the one
at Millerstown will be apt to put in a
similar claim.
The proof sheets of the forthcoming
report of the secretary of the State
| Board of Agriculture show that the
value of dairy products for the past
ye,r was $40, ,64S,l06. The average
price of butter was 25 cents per pound
of chese IL cents milk, per quart, 4
cents, aud of dairy cows, $40, while
the cost was 90 cents for butter. 8
cents for cheese, 3 cents for milk and
$50 for dairy cows. The totat value
of the grass crop. 2.623, ,30S tons, is
placed at Ss4, ,349,620. The annual
vaue Of cereals is said to be S72, ,4Ol,-
I 1856, which included 43S 900 bushels
of barley, 593,326 bushels of buck
wheat, 53,62l, bushels of rye and 49,
| 462. .4Q5 bushels of wheat. The num-
Der of horned cattle in the State is ],
740, ,22I, and their value, S5l ,9S9, 100.
There are 2.S27 establishments for
saving lumber value of sawed lumber,
| S22. AL ,359 Nine silk manufactures
value of raw silk, 1901 .I95. The
gross value of manufactured products
| S3,49l, $40.
The Harrisburg Telegraph makes
the following sensible comments on an
old subject: We presume that some
people think newspaper men are per-
sistent duns; let farmer place hm
self in a similar position and see If be
would not do the same Suppose thai
be raises one thousand bushels of corr
and his neigbbOr should come and buy
a bushel, and the price was only the
small sum of one dollar and half oil
less; and the neighbor says 81 will
pay you the amount in few days. y
As the farmer does not want to bt