Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-08-05

Seventy-five thousand citizen soldiers wiz,
be in Grants funeral procession in New
York city next Saturday.
As many as a thousand dollars have been
offered for the one story log house, in which
U. S. Grant was born at Mt. Pleasant Ohio.
Michael Beshore Sr., of Fermanagh town.
ship, had COW killed by lightning on Mon
day afternoon. The animal was in a field
near the house.
Will IL. Banks, has bought out druggist
HamliD, of Patterson, and will hereafter
conduct the store, himself. Success to
you, Will, in our new venture
Don't attach wire fence to house or barn,
wire fence has been known to carry light
ming to barn from a distance of quarter
of mile from where.the bolt descended.
The stockholders of the Juniata Valley
Bank met on Monday and reelected J.
Nevin Pomeroy, President; T. Van Irwin,
Cashier; with the entire old board of direc-
tors.
Lewis Guss caught four pound bass in
the river near this place on Friday. The
boy Is about fourteen years of age and call
ed for help to get the fish out OF the stream
| Charles Francis Adams is reported to
have told reporter that if he reported an
interview incorrectly he would shoot him
full of holes, all of which would be hard on
the reporter.
The rations for the troops of the State
n ational Guard costs less than fifteen cents
per day, per soldier, and yet the cost for
the encampment of each brigade is about
forty thousand dollars.
We take pleasure in acknowledging the
receipt of an invitation to attend the Har-
vest Home to be held in Milliken's Grove,
in Tuscsrora valley, on Saturday August
Is, and hope TO be present.
BY order of the Post Master General, all
post Offices in the United States will be
closed between the hours of and P. NJ,
on Saturday, August s, out of respect for
the funeral services of General U. S. Grant.
1t may be of interest to people who are
saving old dishes TO know that a number of
ladies Of Harrisburg have formed what is
termed Centennial committee on Pottery
for the collection of antique specimens of
that ware.
A college professor claims that woman
| is not capable of persistent effort. She
hain't hey? Wonder if that professor ever
watched her after she had made up her
mind TO lind out who the neighbors are and
where they came from.-Boston Post.
TEEih extracted without pain. Perfect
| ly harmless. Acts on the tooth only.
Toothache stopped in five minutes, without
ext racting. Artificial teeth from $500 TO
sl2.O0.
G. L. DERR, Mifflintown.
| If you want to make the Democracy "get
up and dust" and whoop up civil service
reform, or any other kind of reform, Just
hand around a post Office or some other
kind of office or spoils. 1t is astonishing
how eager they are for reform of that kind.
The curative power of Ayers Sarsaparil-
Ia is too well known to require the speciou
aid of any exaggerated or fictitious certifi-
cate. Witnesses Of its marvellous cures are
to-day living in every city and hamlet of
the land. Wnte fsr names if you want home
evidence.
I he three-year-o son of J. c. Conn,
/ bnt Vrr,f, ia TO fall
apple tree, on July l4th, and impale him
sell on the prong of the broken back of a
chair, died at his fathers hOuse in Spruce
Hill township, on the 29th ult Intermeat
in Ebenezer graveyard.
Democratic leaders have recently been
holding caucuses in town and have been
placing only the most faithful on guard du-
~ at the door, to keep people at distance
from hearing any of the expressions as to
their tricks of trade. What's up among
the brethren is the question that Is asked
c. B. Barley, formerly of this place, but
now a citizen of Altoona, fell from the roof
of house which he was preparing to shin
| gle, on the afternoon of the 18th inst, in
Altoona. The distance of the fall was
twenty-five feet. His shoulder and hip
were badly bruised as well as the right side
of his face.
Last week it was no uncommon thing for
| people who live away from the railroad, to
ask when they came to town, ''who is dead
in that house." pointing the places where
the emblems of mourning hung. They had
not heard of the death of General Grant,
or if they had they had not thought of hang
| ing out the drapery of mourning.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette hears that Mrs. Grant thinks $4,000
would be respectable remuneration for the
medical attendants of General Grant, who
have put in no bill whatever Six thousand
dollars of this money was raised by Stan
ford, Huntington ard Crocker, of the Central
Pacific Railroad, and Mackey and others
raised the balance.
| PUBLIC SALE. w. Hostetler, Ad min
strator OF Jacob Beidler, deceased, will
| sell at the late resii ence of said decedent,
in this town, on Thursday, September 3,
! 1885, one family horse, six years old, COW,
a heifer, carriage, sleigh, lot of carpenter
tools, thirteen hives of bees, cooking stove
and furniture, Law books, "Blackstone's
| Commentaries ssPurdon's Digest" vol.
"Rhones' Orphans Court Practice, !" "Bates
History ofPa, Vol, >" and household goods
| generally.
The Huntingdon Globe issued the follow
ing notice last week There are few sub.
scribers who have not paid cent on their
paper for five or six years, although often
reauested by kind reminders so TO do, and
we find it necessary in 4 number OF cases
IN sue for what is honestly owing us, much