Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-01-13

defective iue caused the destruction
Of the house on the farm of Benjamin Hench
in Juniata township, Perry county, a few
days ago. Nearly all the household goods
were saved from the fire.
Five hundred men were employed SHOW
cling snow west of Altoona, by the railroad
company on Saturday night. All passen-
ger trains were run by two engines to force
them through the snow drifts.
Two dollars and fifty cents will buy
pair of mems gum boots at q. W. Heck's.
Others charge three dollars.
The Friendship Hook and Ladder Com
pany will hold a cake walk in their build
ing on next Saturday evening to raise funds
to make the first payment on the steam fire
engine that they have contracted for.
Easter will this year fall on the 25th day
of April. 1t is one hundred and ffty-three
years since it came so late as the date just
mentioned. Astronomers say that it
will not again fall so late till in the year
l943.
The soft weather in the beginning o last
week put down the price of poultry in the
city. The freezing weather in the latter
part of the week put down the price of fish
and advanced the price of poultry in the
cities.
Gold quartz was discovered in a new well
4 hat uas hair in Irp
Perry county, last week. The quartz was
quickly sent to Philadelphia for ANALYSIS. 1t
doesn't pay, it yields one dollar of gold to
ton OF rock.
On Sunday morning, dye works, woolcn
and CO ton mills, and machine shop, on
Adams and Letterly streets, Philadelphia.
were destroyed by fire, rendering loss of
ST 200, ,0C0, and thaowing 25O0 men out of
employment.
| Subscribe for good newspaper to read
the coming long winter evenings. You will
find a larger quantity, and greater variety
of reading in the columns of the SENTINEL
AND REPUBLICAN than any other paper in
Juniats county.
Thirty-five cents will buy a pair ofladies'
gum shoes at G.. W. Heck's. Others charge
fifty cents.
William Lands, a sixteen year old youth
from Lancaster, Pa, attending the Normal
School at Huntingdon, was killed in the
latter town, one day last week, by stepping
out of the way OF one railroad train into
the way of another.
Some say Consumption can't be cured -
Ayers Cherry Pectorsi, as proved by forty
years. experience, when not already advan-
ced beyond the reach of medical aid. Even
then its use affords very great relief, and
insures refreshing sleep.
The Bloomfield Times says: On Christ
mas morning Mrs. Eliza Thomas, of Mt
Holly, met with an unfortunate and painful
accident. IL attempting to cut off the head
of a turkey she accidently cut the end of
her thumb at the first joint.
The postmaster at Duncannon heard a
noise at the window of his office a few
nights ago, he looked out, and saw a man
trying te get in, he fired a salute with a
revolver at the thief, but with no other et-
feet than TO cause the scamp to run away.
gum shoes at e. ". Heck's. Others charge
, fifty cents.
1t was colder in the sugar belt Of Louis
lana on Saturday than was ever known to
the present race Of people. The thermome-
ter stood at to Il degrees above zero. II
Texas he thermometer in some localities
dropped to 9 degrees below zero. The los:
to cattle is heavy.
No sufferer from any scrOfulOus disease
who will fairly try Ayers Ssrsaparilla
need not despair OF a cure 1t will purge
the blood OF all impurities, thereby destroy
ing the germs from which scrcfula is de
veloped, and will infuse new life and vigol
throughout the whole ply sical organization
The breaking down of the railroad briig'
across Sherman's creek at Duncannon, ha
entailed the loss of several hundred thou
sand dollars upon the railroad company, bu
who can describe the heart anguish of tn
friends and close kin folks of he men VIII
were killed by the train going down will
q. the bridge.
Thirty-fiye cents will buy pair of ladies
t gum shoes at G. W. Heck's. Others charg'
fifty cents.
: The tramps stealing their way on freigh
trains often keep themselves warm by get
: ting in the stool, cars and standing anon
. the cattle. Last Friday afternoon while
D stock train was standing in the yard, on
of the stock-men discovered three tramp
among his cattle, he ordered them out, the
refused to go. and he then assisted theI
4 out with the aid of a pole with sharp spik
on the end of it.
h The Auditors cast up the County account
!, and if the County Commissioners do no
:, order the publication of the report in tn
SENTINEL AND REPUBLICAN, the report wi
be published without their order. The Sen
r,sEL AND REPUBLICAN visits the homes O
many of the heaviest taxpayers in the cour
ty and its readers shall be kept posted
: the way the tax payers county taxes al
paid, even if the County Commissioners d
! ignore its advertising columns.
"Lawyer R. ". J. Smith, OF Highstow
Q n. J., says there is the following law on II
Is statue books of New Jersey ssThst all W.
e, men of whatever age, rank, profession
degree, whether virgins, maids or WIDOW
IS who shall after this act impose upon, scdu'
m and betrsy into matrimony any of his Nj
J. iesty's subjects by virtue of scents, cosm
tics. washes, prints, artificial teeth, fal
, hair OF highheeled shoes. shall incur 4
: penalty of the law now IN force again
gitchcraft and like misdemeanors."