Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-12-18

| 4oesuon ob Tort Royal lg, will
the Pennsylvania Railroad lay anoth.
sr track through the town.
People who claim to be weather
wise, say the waters will continue TO
60 lower and lower till the January
thaw takes place.
"Ths law abolishing days of grace
in Pennsylvania, takes affect January
l. and will apply to all paper made
on or after that time"
The thermometer registered zero
on Saturday morning, the coldest
weather experienced hero in q mum.
Der OF years in December.
Holmes, Hayward and Durrant,
were all men of fair education and in :.
tsllsctually capable men, but they
were immoral monstrosities.
Moonlight reflection from . grave
stone in the Elliottsburg, Perry Co.
cemetery, gave rise to . first class
spook story in that nsighborhood.
MoVsytown people are talking
about organizing An electric light
Company The people who put in
the plant here might get job there.
For the harvest of 1896. tho Aeri-
cultural department at Washington
says: 1854, 900 acres in the United
States have been Gown to winter
wheat.
There ia saloon or drinking place
far every 27S people in the United
States, and there is q school house
for every 2s6 people in the United
Statss.
The cold weather OF last week froze
the Springs that supplied the town
of Shamokin with water. It affects
every family and atreet railway lines
and colleries.
Landisville, Nsw Jersey people are
agitated over the proposal that some
of her citizens are making to abolish
the borough Of Vineland and return
to tho township government.
Miss Rebscca and Jean Trimb!e,
have returned from Carlisle whore
they attended thu wedding of their
cousin Miss Jean Bcsler and Mr..
James I. Chamberlain.
The Commissioners have fixed the
county tax rs last year, that is Al
mills for current expense ratio that is
to run the county sffairs, court &c e.,
and 1 for debt reduction purposes.
The State Grange held its conven-
ton in Williamsport last week. Memo
Esh represented Juniata county .nd
will be able to tell his fellow Changers
in this county what took place in the
State convention.
Now that his majesty. Cleveland
the 1st, has returned from duck
shooting, Congress will be informed
of the state OF the finances of the
country, if his MAJESTY pleasss to irn-
part the financial information.
Bodies stolen from cemeteries at
Topeka, Knnsas, were found in the
Kansas Medical College, which go en
"a rod the people Of Topeka, that they
with difficulty were restrained from
destroying the college buildings last
week.
A Frenchman ramed Jabez Bal.
four, inveiglsd many people in Paris
in financial scheme and then failed.
Many were made poor by his failure.
and Isl Of his victims committed
suicide, and he WAS sent to the peni
tentiary last week.
Tho Snp Francisco Minstrels un-
der the lead Of Will e. Nankev;lle,
composer and tenor singer, played to
q full house and appreciative audience
last Friday evening in this town. A
Mifflintown audience is hard to please,
but they were plsassd with the enter
tainment Of the San Francisco Min
strels.
Lsvistown people are uneasy about
the break in the river dam. They
are uneasy because they know if the
break is not repaired, it will grow
larger, and in the sweet by and by
lot all tie water out of their dam and
thus destroy the handsome sheet Of
water along the south front of the
town. The dam will not be repaired
unless the town people repair it At
their own expense.
Some ono is again after the millers
for pay for using some kind Of pat
ent milling process. The millers
seem to be unfortunate for as soon as
they adopt a new process in comes
some fellow and claims that the new
process is An infringement of his pat.
ent, and if they don't pay 30 much,
they will be sued. It might perhaps
bo we'll enough to find out whether
the claim against the millers is OR is
not made by a bunco man.
Lizzie Jackson nee Jones now OF
Steelton, but formerly Of Port Royal
was arrested at the former place by
Sheriff Calhoun, last Wednesday,
charged with having stolen SIS 90 in
gold from thu house of John G.
Moorshead in Port Royal. The pris-
oner demanded hearing on Mon
day the 10th before G. B. Hornipg,
J. z. The Squire after listening to
the evidence, bound the prisoner ov-
er to appear at the February Sessions
Sixteen years ago the coming New
Years, s. Boyd Murray, while cole
brating the going out of the old year
and the entrance of new one, acci-
dentally discharged revolver which
resulted in tho loss Of the fore finger