Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-04-29

ter and Mrs. Silas M p.t.a. =. sncas
John .' : Joester, n, spent last week with
town. w. aAo vile IN
The Huntingdon Journal :. ~.
h,s hlss 70 mention this season that =
o'ack snake 10 feet long was k;l,ad
April. ~ -'A oay OF
Stewart L. Heuch and Samne, r
"emer received the contract for n.
repairing OF the Jericho bridge acros,
LOST creek for one hundred and s;r
ty-four dollars. A
John Shearsr OF Braeburn. West.
moreiand county, was attacked bv ,
ram no. long ago, the animal buttino
MN IN the stomachs. He has sincs
died of his injury"
The Freedom Literary Society ;r
Iuroatt township, housed new or.
gan for society purposes last Satur
day evening. The society il in q
prosperous condition.
The average price paid for horres
At the Wilson sale on Friday was
$S2.l5. al the horses sold excsnt.
ing three, were bought by mon who
live beyond the limits Of Juniats
county.
1t is a subject of general remark
that the borough authority permits a
filthy and dangerous gutter across
the street at East Point. There
isn't place like it between Nifflin.
town and Richfiel6.
Some nights ago an incendiary set
nre to an untenanted hoxse owned
by Michael Fulkroat in Walker town.
ship. mot far from the Samuel lines
farm. The houss was insured for
two hundred dollars.
An observer of the acts of men, re-
marks:-Thsre are let's of men vho'
II cheerfully spend two hours sny day
teachin dog to jump over a stick,
but If their grown.up children dent
know the alphabet they never worry
over the fact.
Reward, Perry county, has a ses-
sation ovsr tho fact that a letter by s
young lady to married man fell in
to the hands CT the msn's wife. The
wife told her neighbors. She saws
che would almost give her life to see
letter that her kushsnd wrote to
the girl.
The Lewisto~n Gazette of the 23rd
inst, says: A number of cur farmers
hsvs disposed of their last years crop
OF potstoss tie past week and rsceiv-
ed from Is to 25 cents per busaei
for thsm, while others wosld be glad
to dispose of theirs at most any price
in order TO gst rid of them.
'In The latter part of May and the
first week in June there will be big
gathering of Lu1therans in Allsntowp,
the occasion being the meeting of the
ministeriunl of Pennsylvania. Il will
be the ons hundred and forty-ninth
annual session of this BODY. The
session viii continue ono week"
"Word from Henrietta, Blsir coun-
t., is TO the effect that the wheat crop
in that vicinity ia likely to bo almost
total failure. It is thought that it
will not average ten per cent. Many
nf the farmers are narrowing their
fields and sowing them in oats. Like
reports come from other parts of tho
county"
The people of the United States,
spent last year, one billion. two bun
dred million dollars for drink: five
hundred million for tbs national gov
srnment; eighty-fve million for COM
mon schools The returns for the
money spent in keeping the poor.
making roads, county expenses and
borough expenses have not been
summed up.
Thomas Fisher of Treverton, while
calling ON his nother-in-law Mrs
Treon, Saturday evening was taken
with cramps. He took laudanum to
aliay the pain, and afterwards got
violently sick and vonited awful 4
doctor was called in and administer
ed few injections of morphine,
which soon had the patient asleep,
from which he never awoke, dying
Sunday sfternoon.-Sunbury Demo
crAt
Last Friday night storm of des
tructivs force swept through Clay
county, Kansas. Tho storm started
near Clifton and moved in north
easterly direction, 15 TO 20 miles,
destroying almost everything in it's
track, which was one hundred and
fifty feet wids. Wherever a house
or barn was struck, they were demol
ished. Five persons were killed,
four fatslly wounded and tweatv in
iursd as far as heard from. Many
cattls and horses were killed.
"Nrs. DeGroat of Port Jervis, n.
Y, has long suspected her husband
of being to attentive to G pretty
house maid, and arranged a hand
mirror at an angle SO that it would
reflect scenes in the hallway. While
i'll in her room she patiently watched
the mirror, and was at last rewarded
by seeing her husband tenderly ca.
ressing the maid and tho latter re-
turning his kisses. Mr.. DcGroat IS
trying hard to explain matters and
the maid has secured another place .
| John Wallace of Center township,
Indians county. is Profane man.
The other day he swcre at fellow