Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-01-09

John Oraer for $1,000. The
daughter of S E Taylor, near Millers-
town, played a good joke on their
parents the last night in the year, by
setting the alarm clock that it would
go off at midnight The mother,
thinking 1t was near morning hurri-
ed down stairs and was about max
ing fire to get breakfast, when her
husband called her back. 1t was fun
for the girls. On Tuesday
evening while Mamie Butturf was in
the act OF lighting a lamp in her
parents bedroom the match went
out and spark fell into the fringe
of mantle lambrequin, setting 1t on
FIRE 1t was soon ablaze and she
hallooed, which brought her aunt,
Mrs David Clark, who was a guest
OF the house, upon the scene, Mr.. and
Mrs. BUtturf being absent At the
same time Mr.. William Wertz, a
neighbor, discovered the danger and
rushed into the house. BY their
combined efforts the fire was ex-
/ tinguished after having consumed
the lambrequin and burned the car
pet One of Mrs. Clark's shoes was
burned through, her dress was
scorched and her hands slightly
burned In her efforts at putting out
the fire
| Potatoes in the cellar covered over
with paper viii not freeze.-Ex- =
= 1t ought to be a red hot political
sheet we presume, and should be
enc that has been paid for in advance,
so that there would be no ''due" on it.
Last Saturday, William Augh-
: nbaugh had quite an adventure with
a steer. They had sold the animal
TO one of the Duncannon butchers
and were delivering the goods IN q
novel way, all of their own contri
vance. They hitched two horses to
a light wagon and chained the steer
to the hind part of the wagon, wher
he took a notion he was not going tC
town and commenced to tug at the
chain, upsetting the wagen on top o.
William and breaking loose, H'
started for home across the field:
, with Jesse in pursuit, the animal ar
, irving there first, with Mr.. Aughin
, baugh In the rear. Now came con
sultation of the two men and the,
decided to drive a couple of COW
along to town for company, whicl
they did and arrived at their jourr
ney's end without any further trou
r bic.
From the Liverpool Sun On Sur
day morning, David >Lenker, hvin
in Jno. Decker's tenant house nea
e the steam saw mill, got up and mad
fire and went to bed agahJn and ovel
; slept himself During his mornln
t nap his fire burt too well Rhe roo
d caught fire and when he was Narou
ed it was all IN a blaze. By hero
k e1ertions it was extinguished-
u On Monday the last day of the oi
e year DIR. Elizabeth Reifsnyder, r
n turned from Shanghai, China, after a
e absence of 81 years. She arrive
: about two weeks earlier than expec
II ed, having started earlier. Durin
X her absence she served as physicia
IS and surgeon in the Margaret William
ir son Hospital at Shanghai under th
X auspices of the Woman's Foreig
Missionary Society with great su
cess, where she performed. surgic
operations that gave her ' orld-wiC
.d reputation. We can well imagil
rs that she was glad to get back TO h
N old home after her long residence
y a heather country among ha2f-civiE
y ed people, and her long and paT-ilo
IN journey. Her mother, brothers, $
ee ters, and many friends, we know, a
nj equally reioioed at her safe retur
ne Her return was the occasion of
IS a family reunion. Those pres
re were L. C. Reifsnyder and family
be Shamokin, Mrs ". n. Eyerly al
ed her children Of Bloomsbury, a
Mrs. J. r. Dunkerly, Of Gettysburg