Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-12

The naFrows between Niflintown
and Lewistown il . popular resort
for picnic parties.
Tho Hollidaysburg gas company 10
in the hands Of the sheriff on an ex-
ecution for over twenty-five thousand
dollars.
Help for the bite of the kissing
bug. Apply ammonia to the bitten
part and Afterwards laudanum and
and sugar of lead
The 10th Pennsylvania volunteers
have. left Manila for home. They
are expected at San Francisco, Cali.
fornia about the LIST of August.
The Be)lwood Bulletin Of the 7th
inst. mentions the death of Al Mel.
son of near Gardner's Mills, Blair
county. aged - years Of membran-
eous Group.
Lightning recently burnt q barn Of
Henry Hopple in Black Log Valley.
A COW, carriage and farming imple-
ments were consumed in the fire.
Insurance $40O.
The city man longs to live in the
country and the country man longs
to live in the city. Be contented,
virtuous, and you will be happy,
whether in city or country.
Chicago newspapers report over
seventeen hundred 4th of July fire.
works accident. If that many peo.
pie in MiAiintown and Patterson were
laid up in one day what would you
| think.
The Ohambersburg Repository Of
July 5 says:-On Friday, June 30th,
Coyle aud Diehl received the first
new wheat of the crop of 1899. The
quality of the wheat is rather poor
and the yield very discouraging.
There has not been as much wheat
raised on the farms in Pennsylvania
as will supply the people of the state
with bread the coming year. It takes
twenty-five million bushels of wheat
to bread Pennsylvania one year.
WANTED - Agents for Mifflintown
and vicinity to sell our teas, coffees,
spices and baking powders to con-
sumers. Liberal commission paid
Address Grand Union Tea Co. IS N.
3rd street. Harrisburg, Pat
The noise patriots exploded dyn-
amite on the night Of the 3rd and
broke lot of window glass in the
buildings on the North farm and
glass in the windows of house own
ed by DR.. Atkinson and occupied by
Noses Pannebaker.
It is number of years since the
''bicycle heart has become known.
Excessivel bicycle riding developes
the bicycle heart, but it is only re-
Gently that the bicycle kidney has
been discovered. What will the bi.
cycle next developed
Miss Sadie Fenicle of Perry Co.,
while picking berries by the side of
q worm fence on a farm in Rye town.
ship encountered large rattle'snake
on the fence. She took a piece of
fence rail and killed the snake. It
had II rattles and a button.
The kissing bug is name recent
ly given to almost any and every kind
OF bug that stings. The kissing bug
is an old native residenter with new
name. It has been stinging people
every summer. 1t isn't as bad as the
southern "wood tick" bug.
Talk about watering enterprises.
The champion Of watered affairs lives
ia Chicago. His name is G. B.
Brown. His business was that of a
promoter. He had over Q million
and half dollars debts and five dol
lars with which-to pay them.
A troubled but trusting subscriber
recently wrote to the editor of the
Huron, Kan. Herald: "What ails my
hens? Every morning find one OF
more of them keeled over; to rise no
more" The reply was: "The fowls
are dead It is an old complaint and
nothing can be done except to bury
them" Boston Transcript.
Two ladies while encamping at
Roaring Run in the narrows with
other ladies and gentlemen from this
vicinity, killed q ssven and a halt
foot blacksnake. Charles Noble
gives the names of the ladies who
found and killed the snake at q
spring some distance from the run az
Mrs. Clara McNanigle and Mrs. Har-
ry Tyson.
The valley of the Brazos river II
Texas, was flooded by rain last week
All the fiat land was under 6 to 3C
feet of water. The valley is about
500 miles long and 50 milee wide
The loss of life and property is large
Some three hundred people were
drowned. Live stock by the thou
sand we're drowned and property Il
the amount of millions was washed
away.
| Postmaster Geo. G. Wagenseller o
lSelinsgrove was returning home from
Shamokin Dam the other night wher
two highwaymen stopped his hors'
in a covered bridge across PENN
Creek, and demanded bis money
he had left his pistol at home 80 b.
handed over the SIG he had in hi
pocket. He wanted to give then
his watch, but they refused to take il
. He invited bim to 60 with him Il
Selinserove and have q drink, but
they declined.
The first nights din Of the 4th O