Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-31

mr. bryner, who has been buying live
STOCK a number of years past in Tuscarora
'aiiey, came to the east side of the river
iast Thursday, and bought several fine cows
al the sale on the Banks farm.
Anthony Hoelble. youth of TWENTY-FIVE
years, who, within the past four months has
burned i've barns in Lebanon county, has
peeh arrested and lodged in Lebanon iail
mere is no mistake in his case and there are
earnest threats of lynching him. The pity
'na' 'here is no lawful means provided for
'he hanging of such an incendiary. Under
'ne law he can be sent to the penitentiarv
out that is no compensation for the WRONGS
that he has perpetrated.
howard Funk has been busy moving the
TWO story frame house from the Presbvte-
ran church lot. The building now stands
In the middle of Third street, but does not
present quite as an imposing appearance as
'he public buildings do in the middle of
broad street, Philadelphia Funk PROPOSES
to move the building to another 10, an
eisn'h oil mile away. The novelty of mov-
ing whole house attracts considerable At.
! tention.
lie strike among the railroad Knights of
LABOR In the West, began because a rail.
road receiver, who was appointed by a Uni
'ed . tates Court, discharged knight from
MS position on the road 1t is not necessary
10 state the verdict of 10000 people on
the work of the knights The railroad man
agement and the strikers agreed on Sunday
TO arbitrate their difference. Strikers who
injured the companies property were not to
go TO work. Persons employed BY the COM
panies during thesstrike are not to. be re-.
moved.
The Bloomfield Advocate of last week
says man well known to residents of
buhAi" township was Mr.. George b. Cum
bier. number OF years ago he sold IN,
farm IN that township, and purchased a
limestone quarry near Steeiton, Dauphin
county, aud to-day he is considered a veal
thy man. From his quarries, which extend
over hi'y OF more acres, he supplies the fur
haceS IN anu about Steelton and furnaces
IL distance. On Friday a week ago, after
"eeAs oi drilling AT his quarries, blast of
Mo Thousand i've hundred pounds of pow
der were discharged shatteriug mass of
rock one hundred feet long ard seyenty-fye
ieet high, and, II Is not known how lar back
1t Is disiudged, but II Is estimated that as
much rock MAS broken loose As iorty m-n
working SIX months could take out.
In short article On political support the
Huntingdon journal SAID 1t felt like SUD
porh6g those ~ho support it, Which re
mark causes the Lewlstown Gazette TO fur
ther remark follows Those few words
OF the Journal state our position. There
are some republicans in this county who
never patFonize Us Tor anything whatever
We have no iault to find with them Tor that
but We do object 10 having these persons
think We are bound to cry out their vii tues
because they are republicans, or support
them merely because they have been nomi-
mated by publican convention. We are
puolls hung republican paper, and will
stand by the nominees of our convention. |
" here we have received recognition at their
hands, but it is not human nature TOR a nan |
10 wolk as hard for stranger as it is for
friend, especially where ii would have been |
very easy for the stranger 70 make our ac-
quaintance, and InankInd generally and re-
pubiicans particularly may if they see fit
govern themselves accordingly. We will |
consider their standing aloof from US an |
evidence tnat they have no use for US un
Ger any circumstance.
The Bloomfield Press of March "a says
Last Friday morning early, news reached
Us that the barn of Mr.. Adam Herr, in
Howe township, was totally destroyed by
fire, about noon on Thursday. Mr.. Andrew
Collier had run his engine up At the end of
the barn to fill the water tank and draw the
wafer wagon around the barn preparatory to
threshing the crop in 1t, when Mr.. Herr no.
ticed smoke issuing from the hay NOV, and
rushing into the barn dashed bucket of
water on the fire. He thought he bad ex
tirguished it, but in short time fire broke
Dut in different places, and the whole struct-
lre was soOn enyelopei in flames. The
CROPS consisting Of eight hundred bushels
Of corn. five tons of hay, one hundred and
ity bushels of wheat, one hundred bushels
Of rye. two hundred bushels of oats-all es-
timaied in the sheaf, five hundred shesfs of
corn fodder, Colleer's hulier which bad been
pulled into the barn, W. W Wright steam
separator which had been stored in the
barn, and which is estimated TO be worth
$500. were all destroyed together with some
harness. There is an insurance OF SliO0
on the barn in the North American 1nsIr-
,nca Comnauy. but none on the crops.