Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-03-31
SHORTLOCALS.

The voice OF the frog Is heard in
the land.
Some of the wheat fields look
promising.
Gold coin blue fame cook stoves
for sale at McClintic's.
Jersey peach growers are 1ubilsnt
over the prospects of large crop.
Candidates are announcing. Fall
in! fail in! if you are candidate.
Miss Carrie Guss of near Patter.
son, has gone on a trip to Dakota
Chambersburg is to have a beet su
gar factory and fruit canning fac
2 tory.
Huntingdon Presbytery will meet
in this town on the End Tuesday in
April.
J. F. Jacobs Of Norfolk. Va, is Wis.
iting former pcquaintances in the
county.
Snyder county farmers plowed for
corn last week. Ditto some in Juni-
alta county.
Washington Burcbfield of Harris
burg visited his family in this place
on the 2Sth ult.
There are eighty thousand apph
cants for post Office appointments on
file at Washington.
Bark dealers say the price of bark
for tanning purposes has a down
ward tendency in price.
Edison machine for the separa-
ton of iron ore from sand by means
Of magnates is a success.
Professor Dysingsr is preparing
the plan and specifications for tho
=. building Of his Academy.
Babies are scarce in France and
for that reason the French govern
ment pays premium on babies.
By proclamation of the Governor
April 8 aud April % are tree plant
ing days, according to latitude.
Mrs. Peoples of Gresnsburg is vis-
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra G. Doty
Mrs. Peoples is sister of MIR. Doty..
Perry county people claim that
gold has been found near New Buf-
falo in Watts township, on Halt Falls
Mountain.
Democrats in Congress are throw
ing stones at the protective tariff bill
Zthat the Republicans ar > trying to en-
Sact into a law.
w. n. Bosserman, prominent
merchant of Newport, died sfter a
three weeks illness CT a complication
of diseases, March 25, aged 81 years.
Chicago wheat dealers report the
condition of the winter wheat crop
since 1855. The crop was seeded
late and did not secure good root
growth.
John Tyson of this place last week
caught fox, coon and chicken hawk
in his traps set on Shade mountain.
The hawk and animals were all in
different traps.
Black birds came in on time.
Their time to come is on the 2lst Of
March Their time to leave is on the
21st OF September. They rem lin
north six months.
Don't fight. Don't fight! shout the
six nations of Europe to Greece, but
Greece has started the fight for the
Christians in Crete against the Turk,
ha f1rakolA
Nicholas Bitner, formerly of Port
ROYAL was killed in the railroad yard
, at Altoona on the Goth inst, by
:, shift err He leaves wife and two
\ children to mourn his loss at Harris
Sarg.
The function of a newspaper is to
throw the white light of publicity
upon events among the people. The
function of the people then is to cor
rect the bad exposed and sustain the
good.
Congress is making slow progress
IN the passage of a protective tariff
law. Their slowness will give the
business jobbsrs chance to bring a
large quantity of cheap goods from
Europe.
An electric wire fred the floor in
Grace Methodist church in which the
Legislature is holding its sessions at
Harrisburg. Two page boys discov-
cred the fire in time to save the
building.
A bill has been introduced in the
Psnnsylvania Legislature to prevent
prize fighting in this State, and the
fighter who kills his opponent is to
be tried for murder, and if convicted
is to be hung.
Since the premium on fox scalps
has been Withdrawn foxes are not
hunted as much as when there was a
premium on their scalps, showing
conclusively that hunters hunted
them more for pay than for sport.
A great flood is sweeping down
the Mississippi. The weather bur-
eau says, the flood will not be at it's
highest in the lower part of the river
before April 10. Great destruction
Of property is predicted for the low
er valley of the Mississippi.
The aspect Of the Greek and
Turkish questions have so changed
that no one need be surprised, if tn"
boot be slipped on the Turkish leg
and she be ordered to take her
troops out Of Crete. That will be An
entire change of program, which or
iginally intended that Greece should
vacafe Crete