Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-03-04

IT'S just being found out why the aver.
age democrat loves so well TO ta,k .hon,
s economy and temperance habits o.
> Aonas Jefferson. Jefferson while Presi.
I uen'' spent seven tho usand dollars a wear
iof VINE. Do you catch onl
Inc position of the gold men is that the
4 'on'inuance of the coinage of silver will
make II SO plenty that people will want to
nave their payments made in gold. and
: 'Na' VIII cause gold to be more highly val
ued, and place it at a premium.
Wait for the car
Hioer L. 5. Parker, in the Presbyterian
onurch on Sunday requested all persons to
s'and up who favored the session in 4 call
oi congregational meetiug' to select a
pastor. The number that ssstood up'' was
mol majority and the congregational meet
! ing will not be called now.
The Newport News of last week saws
monday evening was ssfarmers' night" at
the rink, no fewer than twenty-five of whom
having come to town with grain that day
and remaining here until Tuesday, were at
tracted to the skating hall. They had a
"big time, You bet,' and .sgetting thereo
was frst-class circus.
Auctioneer, Sartin, says that in the part
OF Erie county, where he has been opera
ing this winter, wood is the fuel that is
used. The stoves are constructed so that
they readily receive sticks ten to twelve
inches thick. The hotel at which he was
boarding consumed a cord of wood every
day,
The Juniata Valley Campmeetng Asso-
citation has requested the services of VIII
liam Y. Lyon, of Reading, as detective at
the camp in August next. ''Bully" Lyon, as
he is known to the Reading people, is as
sharp as a two-edged sword and as quick as
lightning. If he should happen to accept
the offer, how the evil-doers at camp will
vince
A number OF our subscribers are prompt
payers, number are not $50 prompt.
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are in arrears more than one year. By the
LIST of May, 1885. we expect to have a bill
i'll the house of every subscriber who is in
arrears for longer period OF time than the
one stated above. In the mean time do not
wait for the bill. If.
The interest in the Methodist reviv al
meeting in this place has been so intense
that Rev. Mr.. Smith has been required to
keep it up to this time. On every occasion
when 1t was thought proper to close the
meeting on account of the near approach
of Conference, new lot of seekers came
forward and rendered a contiuuaace of the
meeting necessary.
how, when he lived at Richfeld a certain
man in that community had the reputation
of doing all the chicken stealing about
Richfield, till one night, two other men in
that place, were discovered coming to town
in a wagon with dozen or more of chick
ems, that they had stolen from farmer that
lived a few miles from the villige.
Some countryman on Saturday when b
came to town took too freely of tanglefoOt
which caused him TO zigzag in his walk. 1t
was a good thing for nIischevous boys to
catch on, and they pelted him with snow
balls. Sometimes he would charge the boys
but his legs were too unsteady to be of
much use in race. 1t was fun for the
boys but annoyance to the countryman.
One night, not long since, young man
from Port ROYAL, started with young la
dy to 90 TO McAlstervile in a sleigh. They
upset six Zines on the way The mIshap
overlook them so often that .tney became
somew hat USED TO it, and at the last over
throw the young lady swas self possessed
enough TO exclaim, as they were pitched
out, ..well, here We go again!'
The Perry County Advocate says: The
Commissioners of Bedford county have re
fused 10 pay any more bills of the Sheri #
for providing fo- tramps. In Fulton and
Perry counties the Commissioners only pe--
NIT their odgment in Jail over night. Dur
ing the month of January the Perry jail
had in all seventy night lodgers of this
character and the Fulton Jail about half as
many.
Auctioneer, Joseph Sartin, was in town
a few days ago, having just arrived from
Erie cou My, where he says they have been
sleighing since the 18th day OF Decemb; r.
The thermometer there in the middle of the
day registered six to ten degrees below ze-
ro, and at night goes down to twenty aud
twenty-five degrees below zero. His boy
hood recollection of the spring of 1855, is
tia, the ice left this part of the Juniata riv-
or on the 23rd of March.
Members of the horse AMI mule protec-
ton company have a keen sense of gailan-
try about them, which was evidenced by
the fact, that when in meeting last Satur-
day, in the Court House, some one an
nounced that horse hitched to a sleigh
had run away and thrown a couple of ladies'
out of the sleigh, business was cut short By !
the members running 10 the windows, and 1
out of the building, to see what was to be |
seen, and to help where help was needed.
Wait for the car
The Democratic brethren of Juniata are
represented in the unterrlfied, unnumbered,
multitude that surges to-day through /
Washington, by E. D. Parker, Henry Scholl,
X. L. Parker, Judge Watts, Bob Nixon,
Washington North, Samuel Watts, d. D.
Stone, Washington McAlister, Colonel
Harrshorn, Sheriff Shivery and others. Ex-
Senator John J. Patterson is with the party
and is the Republican salt that seasons them
all. Others from Juniata whose names are
not at hand are taking IN the wonders, incl
dent to a change OF administration. Some
are there who expect to bring home with
them the promise of post Office. Happy |
Democracy.
The Lutheran church at Port Royal was
redeG icated last Sunday morning. The
church having undergone state oil repairs,
.,o,- - ona of the largest and finest in the