Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-24
ADDITIONAL LOC.ALS.

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.ADDIT7ON.AL LOC.ALS.
The Salvation Army is doing Ty-
rome.
1t was slim equinox on Saturday
night
! Drop into Pencils store for nice
goods.
The communication from Locust
Run came too late for this issue.
Charlie Stone has accepted clerk
ship in Harrisburg clothing store.
Edgar Strayer is home from the
State Normal School at Chester
spending his vacation.
Bargains are to be had at all times
at Espenschade's store, and that's
why he does such large business.
Wide awake. don't stand on the
corner long enough to gather
crowd about you, is what the proc
lamation of the Chief Burgess means
when read between the lines.
Thomas MeCamant and Col. Nor
ris are candidates for the Office of
Auditor General. Mr. McCamant is
the present chief clerk in the Audi
tor Generals Office. He has been in
the Office many years, and has been
an efficient officer.
The Huntingdon Journal says: We
frequently receive notices from post
masters informing us that ''the Jour
nal. addressed to Mr.. So and So, is
not lifted, he having moved away.
And Mr.. SO and So by his conduct
proves beyond the question of
doubt that he is not honest, and
down goes his name on our "black
list, which we may lay before our
honest patrons in the no distant fu-
ture.
Charlie Mcclellan and number of
other bows from this place, Jumped
freight train" on Saturday and went
to Lewitown. After sporting around
the place till evening, they started
home. The boy in his effort to get
on car got his right foot under the
wheels and had the toes so badly
crushed that amputation became nec-
essary. He was brought to the home
of his father. Captain Cornelius Nc
Clellan, in this place, where the am
putation was performed on Saturday
night. He is doing as well as can
be expected under the circumstances.
He is aged sixteen years. The boys
all along the railroad lines are pay
ing shocking prices for unnecessary
experience in freight car jumping.
The subject of the Soldiers Or
phan Schools has widened from the
consideration of the meals, bedding,
clothing and bath tubs, to the morals
Of the schools, and just now an in
quiry is being instituted to find ont
who spirited Rebecca Jackson from
the school at McAlisterville, and kept
her at the Rosire institute home for
unfortunate women, near Philadel-
phia, since 1888. 1t is reported that
she was betrayed by relative while
away from the school on vacation,
among her relatives. The point for
the investigation, is, by what means
was the girl of fifteen years spirited
from the school, and to what degree
was the school management or EN-
ployes concerned in the transaction. |
John Muntzberger was polling his |
skiff by the west end Of sand bar
in the Susquehanna river about two |
miles below Duncannon last Sunday |
morning. He noticed some peculiar
object ON the point of tie bar, and |
on approach he found it to be the |
body OF man. He pulled his boat |
to the main land and informed friends /
of what lay on the point of the is
land. The railroad agent at Dun
cannon was notified. He fastened |
to the place, and the body was towed |
from the sand bar to tbs shore on .
the railroad side of the river, and |
there an inquest was held, and the
were identified as the body |
OF Abrsm B. McCaheu, who went
down in the wreck of the Duncannon
railroad bridge, on the evening of !
the 4th of last January. The one
side of his face was broken and bruis-
ed, but aside from that his remains /
were in a much better state of pres |
ervation than might be expected.
His remains were taken by Superin- |
tendent McClellan's orders and pre-
pared for interment, and sent to his |
family at Huntingdon, for burial. 1t |
was relief TO his family to find his