Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-05-08

oAN Couuty ~ 20 n8v0 q 0oV
Jail, which has been contracted for q
S25, 900.
| The 24th day Of August has bes,
set apart as reunion for the soldier
of Blair county.
Mrs. Hess has returned from Dun
cannon where she had gone to al
tend the funeral of an aunt.
Priest Phelan of st. Louis, assert
that the Christian Endeavor socie
ties and leagues are but courting 80
cieties.
The Methodist church is being re
rooted. The roof that is being re
moved was put on after the cyclon,
of 1879.
James B. Adams employed in tn,
Watchman newspaper Office at New
ton Hamilton, visited this place O,
Tuesday.
The bill to pension common schoo
teachers, who have taught SO years
has passed second reading in the Leg
islature.
A $50 pound woman recently visit
ed the Huntingdon Reformatory &c
see her husband, who is in the Re-
formatory.
Children playing with matches, set
fire to and destroyed the barn OF
Henry Peghtal in Penn township,
Huntingdon comfy.
On Monday Squire Weidman's Z
time as Justice of the Peace expired,
and the time of the newly elect,
Squire James w. Hamilton began.
Lewistown Gazette, May 2:-The
John K. Metz farm, a ehort distance
south of this place was sold Thurs
day last to Lotus w. .Netz for $S..
O1O.
"Pinkeye' affiicts many people in
Brady township, Huntingdon county.
The eyes become infamed, red in.
famed, and emit burning watery
substance.
Some of the grass fields of the
county. are as well set with grass an
they can be. Other fields of land as
good az the former, are poorly set
with grass.
No more premiums will be paid
for fox and mink scalps. The law
that authorizes premiums on such
scalps is supplement- to dead, re-
pealed act, and is therefore of no
binding force.
Colonel Kasey of Virginia gave a
talk on soap from q store box on Main
street the other evening. 1t will
take Yankee with his eyes open all
day to match the Colonel on meritor-
ious soap.
The Odd Fellows Temple at Phila-
delphia, will be dedicated May 2I.-
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
sell raduced rate excursion tickets for
the German Baptists-Dunkards-
meeting to be held at Decatur, III, =,
May % to June 8.
The McVeytown journal says
A misunderstanding is said to exist
between Presiding Elder Polsgrove
and the Juniata Valley Camp-meeting
Association as to the closing of the
gates on Sunday during the meeting
this year. Rev. Polsgrove says they
will be closed, while the stock hold
ers of the Association say they will
not be. 1t is alleged that the Asso-
cation has lost over $1,000 in the last
three years over the agitation of the
Sunday question and the affair will
be run hereafter 80 as to bring the
most money into the exchequer. The
directors will not do anything to in.
terfere with the running of trains to
and from the camp ground, believing
that the people have as much right
to attend camp meeting as any other
religious gathering on Sunday.
The report of two tragedies come
up from the south within the past
week, owing to the stolen love inter
course of married people. It is the
same old Breckinridge story with
one difference, and that is, all the
parties were married. In the Breck-
inridge case, the man was married,
the woman was unmarried. In the
late Kentucky case, the husband of
the woman followed his wife and a er
lover to a colored woman S house, the
place where the unlawful lovers were
wont to meet, and there the husband
killed both his wife and her lover.
All the parties were prominent peo-
Pile. The other case was in New
Orleans and was identical with the
one Just mentioned with this differ
snce that the wife was not killed.
Her husband did not even shoot at
her, but he put five bullets through
her lover.
On Saturday horse hitched to a
spring wagon in which was number
Of chairs, milk can, &c, stood in
'front.' of Robert McMeen's residences.
The young woman in charge of the
horse and wagon is q member Of the
family tenanting the farm of Mr..
McMsen. The animal, &C., belong
TO MIR. McMeen. All Of sudden the
Presbyterian church bell began to
ing. It was not sweet music for the
beasts ears, but gave the animal
such shock that it started to run as
f shot out of a gun. In turning the
corner at the Commissioner clerks
house the wagon struck post. The
single tree broke, and anchored the
wagon, while the horse ran away but
was caught on Washington street,
and was returned none tho worse for
he Church bell fright. The only
damage done, was the breaking of
The single tree.
A WHALE.
Mr.. Editor:-DEAR SIR: With the