Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-24

down east debating society Is about to
wrestle with the question: "Wbjch goes
the fastest after being broken, q colt or
$5 bill2
The Chambersburg Repository says, of
the Wilson College examination: The
young lady scholars all came out of the or
ceai with nyiDg colors. A number OF young
ladies' from Miffiintown attended Wilson
college and We're in the number spoken of
by the Repository.
General Grant WAS taken in a special car
TO the house OF Joseph w. Drexel, Of Phil
adelphia, on Mt McGregor. about twelve
miles from Saratoga, York State. The
place is HOO feet above the level of the
ses. The Generals throat is troublesome
and he speaks with difficulty and scarcely
above whisper.
Avoid by all means the use of calomel for
bilious complaints. Ayers Cathsrtic Pills
compounded entirely OF vegetable ingre-
dients, have been. tested for forty years,
aud are acknowledged TO be the best RENE
dy ever devised for torpidity of the liver,
costiveness, and all arrangements OF the di-
gestIve apparatus.
woman after the first day of next October,
unless they present redentials, that they
have the consent OF the state TO the mar
risge, which may oe obtained by going to
the clerk OF the Orphans Court OF the
county in which the marriage is to take
place and obtain from him a marriage IL
cense.
s'The Wet worm," is reported at work
destroying young corn in certain parts OF
Kansas. 1t Is SAID to be a scOurge equal
10 the grasshopper. Large fields OF corn,
eight To tea inches high, looking fresh and
green IN tue morning. before night become
wIthered and dead. The worms are an
inch to eight inches long. The egg from
which the worm Is produced is supposed
To be deposited by small yellowish white
miller.
"a few evenings ago lightning passed
down the rod ON the house OF Mr.. Randolph
oI acCOysyille, while the family were ~
supper. The family were shocked into a
state Oi Inconsistencies for a lew seconds
and did not know Nhat had taken place,
but they experienced no injurious effects
from the stroke. The knives aud forks
that had been on the table were scattered.
4 he lower part of the house was flied with
smoke, bur no ire was started"
The editor of the Everette Press and
lady irieuu, visited the South Prunsylva-
MIA haIirOsi tunnel that is being put through
the Siding Hull, in Fulton county. Though
the place Is ..liI up' by electric light, and
fresh air is forced 10 by AID of achinsry,
and the drills are run Dy an engine that is
outside Oi the tunnel, 1t is a place that lie
7 H.. .usrb.F
sounds and dangerous appearance OF the
place generally, causes him TO conclude
that 1t Is one ol the most un-inyiting places
ior one 10 enter. The tunnel viii be uile
long.
Some weeks ago thieves blew the safe
open IN the office OF th Doty warehouse II
this place. Among the ruobish of the explo
siOu around tue safe a few tools were found.
A number vi trOis were missing at that time
from tue shop OF Robson and Wagner, car
riage makers al this town aud II was cou-
lectured at The time that the tools hal been
used At the ware house to aid in the rob
berry Henry GoShen WAS indignant over
the loss Of valuable steel sledge. Last
week there was a break in the canal below
town and the water ran out OF the ditch.
Some one .OOked over the wharf between the
ware houses aud saw some peculiar lOOS-
ing things projecting from the mud. The
articles were hshed Out anu proved 10 be
GOshen's sledge, two hammers, oagsy ak
letrce. a brace and bit, couple of cnl.eis,
a piece OF dat iron, piece OF round iron,
and a screw driver, articles that the thieves
hai stolen from the shop vi Robson and
Wagner. On- Oi The queer acts about the
WORK oi the thieves Is, that they did not
leave the Ioo!s lie IN the ware house but
took them out and down 10 the canal aud
threw them mo the water. he conceal
msnt vi the tools could not couceal the rob-
berry OF repair the broken sale.