Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-09-21

i First Lawyer-"You are shyster p
Bis Opponent-"And you are black
|guard ~
! The Court-"Now, gentlemen, let u.
take up the disputed points in the case. ;
l-Phliadelphia North American.
Maryland newspapers report, thai
Mr. Emory Thowers, near Portertown
Washington county, Maryland, has q
peach tree that grows peaches 8 inche.
In diameter, as large as good sized
pumpkins, for certainly a pumpkin
that is q inches round is not little
pumpkin.
There are 100000 Spanish troop.
on the island of Cuba. AS rapidly a:
the Spanish troops depart from posi-
after post the American troops will take
their place. 1t is believed il will take
till the 1st of next March before Spain
can get the last of her trco-s out OF
Cuba.
The Fifth Regiment returned &c
Pennsylvania last Sunday from ihei1
late camp at Lexington, Ky. Austin
Calhoun ard William Gusbard be.
loDged 10 the Regiment. and are
home, Calhoun is not well, being in
"a stare Of slow recov ry from an at
tack of cImp fever.
-FoR SALE-The Board Of Di
recfors nf ;Ea Farr,arc Mar.a,t;Io Ae
socistion in Patterson, limited, tffers
for sale, or rent, their Store in Pat.
terscn. Terms easy-For particulars
i,qu;re of W. n. Sferrett, on the
premises By order of Board,
Aug. II, st. LEWIS DEGAN, Sec.
The Cuban insurgent shook his head
sadly.
"And is it for this we have been
fighting?" he asked.
whats the matter ?" said his com.
panion.
''The Americans say we must go to
work"
! BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, John
Howard Harris. President. College
leading to degrees in Arts, Philosophy
and Science. Academy, a preparatory
school for young men and boys. In
stitute, a refined boarding school fol
young ladies. School of Music, with
graduating courses. For catalogue, adj
dress the Registrar,
WIN. {. GRETZINGER,
Lewisburg. Pa
The total number of blind in the
United States is nearly 40 600, or 976 il
each million of the population. The
number of blind reported as receiving
:. instruction is 1851. The number oi
/. blind who are also deaf mutes is
Whites, 81 males and l07 females; col.
ored, 2s males and % females. Blind
and idiotic: Whites, 595 males and
463 females colored, 66 males and 6:
females.
The Adamsburg band on its way
home from the Port Royal Fair stopped
in town, on Friday evening, and play.
ed 4 tune or two of good music, and
then the men sang song that pleased
everyone who heard it, after which
by way of McAlisterville and Shade
mountain. Unless they had lanterns
for their wagons the drive must have
been dark one across the mountain.
Recently, 81 car loads of Califorhia
melons were shipped to jersey City
When they arrived there the health
officers condemned the melons. The
railroad company opened the cars and
invited the people to help themselves
They did and loaded themselves with
cholera morbus making stuff. The
night of that day there were not doctor.
enough TO attend to the belly ached
and cholera morbus people in that sec
ton of the city
Mrs. Abram Stoner, died at the home
of her husband in Grove county, Kan
sas, OH the 9th inst after an illness OF
an hour, of heart aiiment. She was 3
daughter of Michael Bashoar, deceased
who lived about miles east of Mifflin.
town. She was a sister of Mrs. John
Zook, who, with her husband live CT
the Bashoar homestead. Abram Stonel
is Il brother of John and Michael Stonei
VINO both live not far from Mi!HintOwn
i'll Fermanagh township.
The boys of the Fifth Regiment are
all home again. They did not smell
Spanish powder and feel Spanish steel
They were not out of the United States
but that was not their fault, they are
none the less soldiers than if they had
been in the front and had gone through
the baptism of leaden hail and grim
death. They were at the post of duty
and that was enough. Though they
were in the reserve, it is a place rs
honorable as the front for the front OF
to-day may be the reserve of tomorrow
The army was the army from the front
to the rear, equally entitled to shars
of the glorious achievements.
The session Of the PresEy terian
church has engaged Prof. and Mrs
}. J Lowe, of Philadelphia, to hold
: services If song for enc or two weeks
, in October, III the Presbyterian
church in this town. Prof. ard Mrs
Lowe have been engaged in this
kind of work in Philadelphia for ten
years, FIVE years With DR.. E w
hiurLnll and FIVE years with Rev. j.
Wilbur ChspmaD, D. D., hoth noted
evangelists. It's expected that thei,
coming to Mifliintown will be an
event in the history Of the place
Due announcement of the date oi
their coming viii be made.
TIE war Of the United States
against Spain IN the interest of hu