The tiumtingdon Journal. MAUCH 12, Istio F;iIU.IV li.Fs\UINl7 MATTER ON EV E 111' ;; L. F(1 sent of the Pennsvivzinia. nd Vieginut Press A Is the only tiersiin in Piusiwn• ,uthorizen receive vivetti.,«lnent, , or the jt,1721.N.1L oar bes SALE fiEtiiSVE . st —Bil!s r.lloc.t jig pi l);1.! s,i;es Lave becu printed at the JOrIZSAL Jon Rooms. Persons intending to bare t..a.:es durin;; the earning, spring, and wishing hand-hills printed, shonid giv the JOURNAL a ice arc prepared better than ever to do such %cock. Ali those favoring this officc wi;11 gill receive a tio tice free of charge, in this eoluton. ll'ustcated s al e Lit: 3 a specialty with us. Our prices are low. I saac D . (Porter Ill..) sale of personal properi that was billed for the has lc a pt.seponed indefinitely. Tlifirslty, Mardi 18th—Walker tp—Geo. W. Kyper s.ll at 1 o'clock, 3 horses, 3 cows, younit cattle, and a. lot of tanning, imple ments awl lionA.liold goods. ' Nlarch 13-11vhders , m tp., 21 tulles miles from tile Union Claud), at 10 clock, Mrs. Annit P.ituer will sell 2 horses, 1 colt, 2 cows, 4 yearlings, and a general variety of farming tools. - - - - - Monday, March 15—Jackson tp.—Charles T. Cummings, Ex'r. of the estate of J Olin Cum mings, dec'd., will sell 3 cows, 18 hogs, 6 cattle, 8 yearling, calves and n lot of farm ing utensile. Sale at 1 o'clock. Wednesday and Friday, March 17th and 19th —Jackson tp.—Thonats Mitchell, executor of Robert Barr, deceased, will sell personal and real estate property. See advertise ment in another column. LOCAL AND PERSON AL Brief Mention---Home-made and Stolen 111th The roLins have come. The trees ore bulding,. March snows this week. Read the advertisements Prune your grapes vines. The flies have come again. Easter Sunday on the 2Sth. Spring colds are prevalent. "13-15-14 :" can you solve it. "Banged hair" is out of style. Moving time is drawing nigh. The ice crop is iu for this year. The coming fun—to make garden: A heavy fall of snow this morning. W. F. Bathurst will go to Colorado. Shirleysburg contains seventeen widows. In three Weeks more you can fish for trout. Some lunatic has predicted a hot summer. Sloppy weather the fore part of the week. Some of our people are busy pruning shade trees. The new selool board will be organized in June. The Methodist parsons are attending Con- fereuce Mt. 1. 7 01011 wiil 80011 hare a cigar manu factory. The new borougb datig go into office on April Ist. Look out for the Spring equinox about the 20th inst. The morning concerts given by the birds are grand. Hen fruit is plent and retails at . 121 cents per dozen. Our carpenters seem to have all the work they cau do. St. Patrick's day in the morning," next Wednesday. Now is the time of year to clean up your surroundiu;;;s. The thunder gust saw mats of this county are in fal: lohtst. Very few passengers get on the 11:1(3 P. It train at this point. The Smiley & Carother's c,►rpeuter shop finished and occupied. Numerous persons are putting repairs or their dwelling houses. Soon Aisne for circuses to plant their "ads. in the rural newspapers. Quite a number of Methodist Ministers were in Huntingdon on Tuesday. They arrest bad boys for throwing stone, through windows in Altoona. Numerous Methodists parsons preached their farewell sermons last Sunday. The Hollidaysburg iron works are booming ditto, our glass and water works. The steel wire for the new Brooklyn bridge is now being made in Johnstown. Dr. Jackson solved the "Gem Puzzle" three times in succession, the other day. Dr. Vincent and "That Girl" of his will de. light a Lewistown audience to•n:glit. The "Brighton-Grip" and "Sonthsencukidie are the popular American dances now. Since the opening of Lent, oysters and fresh fisu have somewhat advanced in price. Bellefonte will not have glaps works—we can condole with the people of that town. A Telephone Exchange, whatever that may be, is being agitated in the Mountain city. We have had no buildings burnt or injured by fire since the beginning of the new year. The end is not yet in the Clearfield coal re gion the miners are still out on the strike. Notwithstandi❑g the many accidents nowa days, persons will still jump on moving trains In Gaysport they arrest the boys who ob struet the pavement when shooting marbles The boys, and for that matter the girls too we laying away eggs for the Easter occasion West Iluutingdon will lose many families this Spring, they having fouutl work elsew here The rattling of the windows during a wind storm is nut the u2ost pleasant music at best "The coming man" is what agitates the Methodist congregation of West Huntingdon. The G. ♦. IL hereaways is notified against a fraudulent "comrade" who is tramping ti.is way. Our friend T. W. Myton, expects to go West in a short time, to be absent until the first of June. A handsome assortment of elegant and cheap box paper just opening at the JounsAL Store. A number of railroad employees bold a regular Sunday afternoon prayer meeting iu Altoona. When the summer days come, Murphy will visit the scenes of his childhood in "ould Ireland." The Llow fly was around last week; time for meat dealers tip put their stuck in refrig- erators. If we have not said so, we say it now : The taking of census will begin the first Monday in June. The increase of H. Er B. T. R. R. Co. coal shipments for week ending March 6 were 4,368 tons. Chinamen are leaving California and going to the east, principally New York State, by the carload. An Altoona Min has been lying in a trance for several days past, brought on by religious excitement, That harbinger of Spring—the organ grinder —was hereaways last Friday, grinding out miserable music. Snow, rain and mud on Sunday, and not withstandintr. all this the sev.ral churches were well attended. The doings of Conf,-recce are reported daily far that sprightly sheer, the Altoona Tribune, by Rev. Air. Pardoe. Allegheny street, at elevtm Satur day night, was retry quiet, an unusual thing for that thoroughfare. A-number of our "oldest inhabitants" when boys, went to school at the old stone sitriog house et the rvstrvoir. Our old friend, G. W. Cornelius, esq., of Shirleysburg, is attending Conference this week a 6 a l;y delegate. Large congregations at the dedicatiot of i it should have been. The lecture was good, the Lecture room of the Baptist church, Sun- , and was quite interesting to those who were day morning and evening. 1 present. We expect to hear "somedings drap" about tile “Nrwion Camp" bef re tact y ,inys, 1.1:1W Vint Oniference is in session The largest of the best and cheapest v.,ekf•t cutlery ever brttu,:ht to nunthiedou is L. be tonna at the JOURNAL Store. The tnidnig•it mechanics are at work to Lewistown. Be prepared to give them a re ception when they visit our town. Ont,ider3 of the denomination, pro , ounre the interior finish of the Lecture rainn of the new Baptist church vety fine indeed. Cif y Orommers, with their Sprin• sa,oples re dronaning up trade preity here.' ways, for the houses they repre,,eut. 1100. Thad. Bantis, of lloilidaysioirg. the Standard says, is Oil the high road to recovery aid expects to get out in the Spring. 111llida:v shurg i:as its rows.. Luc lately '.tali litre, pistols etol knives were usel, none of thie e•tnabatauts were injured. Anon; the iist of postmasters eppoi,:t,tl I , tek we find the name ofßobert S. Caw mint, a q., for M'Alavey's Fort, this eoun! . The demand for building material is on the ocrease. A Ilarrisburger has a 5,000.0U0 ,rick order in, to be filled by the tat of April. .1. M. Felt - , of Belleville, lii purelnt3eti he li;•frt..gilt Lotel proper•y in Petersburg. Its counry. uod has leased it to Joint Ei,t•rty. The odoriferous onion has tnacie its appear .nce in this toarket, but when a person pay, ,is money for his choice, he gets nothing after The Coleman Sistcrs fille.l an engagement of three nights in Altoaaa this week. At eac ,, of their performances large audiences greeted them. Philip Schneider, who lives a short distance from town, having sold his farm to a Maryland gentleman, will remove to Missouri in the Spring, A portion of the fenco that marks the di viding line between Mrs. Abner Lamp's and Henry Snare's premises was blown down on Friday. A dancing master in Hollidaysburg is en deavoring to teach the young bloods of that town how to dance. He has a sweet name. Daisy I Quite a number of middle-aged persons are scii abed in this bailiwick., all of which ran be attributed to the fickle-mindednes- of the weather. It looks to us as if our down-the-road con teuiporary was "spilin' for a fight" with some of the "great big mud-slinger machines" in this place. There will be Divine Service and preaching n St. John's Epi,copsl church, by Rev. A. J. ,;arrow, next Sunday morning at half-past ,en o'clock. • The Pennsylvania railroad employes will receive an advance iu wages after the Ist of April. This is official, and will be cheering news to him An Everett gardener planted onions, and sowed cabbage and lettuce seed during the last week of February. He Ott to know what Le's doing. Bodkin wants to know by what right -a member of the Town Council demands pay for services rendered. This is the• Tweed plan of doing things. The Smith farm containing 200 acres, ad joining Gaysporl, in Blair county, was sold the other day, for the nice sum a $25,000 cash in hand. The barefooted boy was visible last week, but to-day he toodles around in his cowhide Loots and wears a piece of dark red flannel around his neck. John F. Fowler, of Centre county, the other day purchased the Ward House of Tyrone, at Assignee's sale, paying $14,000, subject to a mortgage of $5,165. Dr. Bushey, the eccentric individual who was sentenced to the alms-house, at a recent session of Court, escaped from that institu tion a few days ago. Old Boreas held blab carnival on Friday and Saturday, making the head gear of the just as well as of the unjust whirl along the streets at a terrible rate. Mr. J. C. Akers, of El nllidaysburg, and known Lere, will be a candidate for County Treas urer at the next Republican County Conven tion held in Blair county. 't is reported that the Pennsylvania Furnace in Franklin township has been leased by the Cambria Iron and Coal Company, and will be put into operation at once. At the present writinz, March 9th, no deep snow has been "panned out," notwithstandinz the weather wise Canadian predicted a heavy fall of snow for the Bth inst. Per;:ons who are in the habit of punchinz holes through coin 11114 better look a "leedle out." Tile penalty for &tine so, is-two years imprisonment and a fine of $2,000. In 1876, a Cambria county family pulled tic scales down to the tune of 1,180 pounds, and now the same party, it is supposed, will draw 2,000 pounds. Rather hefty ! At a sale in Henderson township, on Sat urday last, a horse was knocked down to Jack M'Caban. at $1.60. Before leaving for home he disposed of him for the same sum. The trees in front of the Catholic church property have been trimmed of their branches. When the hot sun comes booming down, the shade will not be so dense as heretofore. Our colored brethren have formed a deba ting society, which meets every Monday eve ning, in the public school building, on the banks of that famous stream, Muddy Run. The Chinamen seen going through this town on the trains are leaving San Francisco on account of the treatment given them by the 'Wild Asses of the Sand Lots"—the hood lums. Rev. J. S. McMurray, of Clearfield, was hereaways, Tuesday, handshaking with his many friends. The lumber regions of Clear field agrees with him, as he looks extremely well. Judge Ball, of Bedford, returned from his Southern trip the latter part of last week. In this age of sti•am, a person is not many hours making a trip to the extreme southern portion of our country. A gentleman informs us that Saml. J. Jor danotsq., formerly of the Bedford Inquirer, likes Florida and its people so well that it is more than likely he will settle there and grow fat on the country. Mrs. Mary Millburn, of Bedford, died the other day at the ripe old age of 94 years She was the mother of ten children, 79 grand children, 117 great grand children and 5 great great-grand children. A temperance meeting was held in Penn street Ball, and an address was delivered by Rev. Cyrus Rightmyer, the first pastor of the Lutheran church in this place. A reasonable audience was present. Since times have got to "booming," the stockholders of the Clinton County Agricul tural Society have re•organized,and will hold a county fair next fall. [low about the Hun tingdon County Society ? On account of a few members of Council having received free passes to the swiss Bell Ringers' concert, on Friday evening, the monthly meeting of that body, called for•that evening, went by default. Dr. Stockton is agent for the Magic gas— burner, one of the nicest inventions this side of sun-down. No man, or woman either, who uses gas, should be without one. They must be seen to be appreciated. The "boss" hog in Huntingdon county was purchased by Geo. A. Port, the Fifth street butcher, on Wednesday last. It weighed nine hundred pounds, and was the largest porker ever brought to Huntingdon. Eg".; thieve: are around ; at least some of the stables of Ibis town have been entered and egze taken from hens' nests. The only rea son that can be given fur this petty thieving is that Easter is drawing near. It is more than probable that the pulpit of the First :11. E. church will be filled by a stranger, next Sunday morning and evening as Rev. Llinkle, the regular pastor, will be at Altoona, attending Conference. "It's a child's play," said be, as be sat down to solve the "Gatue of Fifteen." And for two hours he scratched his cranium and bit five cent segars into pieces, but he solved it not. "child's play," and he gave it up. Styles Bell Ringers were greeted tcitii a fiiir house, Friday evening, in .this piaci . Tbey gave a good performauce, which is more than can be said of nine-tenths of the traveling concerns that pitch their tents here aways. Rev. Mr. Hick's lecture "The Yankee Preacher in the South," at the West Iluntingdon Chapel, Monday evening, was not as well attended as The tuinn Temperance Prayer Meeting will held in roe !Zei*Arrhel 'ln next Sal. .c.l; ;ifiturioon '0 Cour t,'cloc Exearsi , o)i:os from Califoloia are goin2. eaid hv 'he cir onid. !Ander the ex,iirsi , m rate of S:l5. (lo Mood:is t-er:. a ; _r,o two Cu' Weill thron2;i nn Ito. A !1;,t; Co, aild ,llir mg ;IR! pext week tw will pass 11:i: ;1 clI,llCe to (ElS it liaviti , „: cited to enter conte,t Lo be held on Ma. 13th 14'n. If the members ikcide to enter. ,vi!l 111., fist, 11 ize Allt oda i - - •) ov,r Lt 4 1 ,1 :I and killed z‘ltort ti;nc a:4o, in ioi,a,:own, Ilan had • trial, 1)N.l corivleted cf -,unlzr lii the I :. , r years it,ep at ,:. il ! (• :,e-t looking' 1* mly or may An ex .•.11 f;; tep dukvo . ;owl Miss S:rih ;. 1 . Grafton, his et,upty, lo:11 p.2itr: has mail,. tel Ill.the W;1 (i,,,r;:e Smith, near •,;;.!ty, died at the latter Sa,,i 1;.:),,,tt. 31 re.zpi - .42ted lady. The tae ticivioiz a 1)11-1 - . trade iu old Itece,:tly s,one of them broke into the ear shops of Henry Co., and stole therefrom Mlle Valli:1 1, i:: IEOII Ca?lillgS :tad patterns.— They sold the t,ilett articles to J. 11. Priest, and they are tiLcie to ;;et into trouble about it. Rev. Hinkle, attending Conference, in Altoona, wili have his home with Mr. John Boyne, 1304 Avenue. Revs. Thompson Mitchell and F. Rogerson are assigned re- Teettudy at J. IL 1):-. 12:h Avenus and street, an Mr,. E. Price, Chestnut Aye uue and 9th streets. The Tyrone Herald says the Woodruff Bo hemian glass blowers should stop at a town where their skill in the glass business would 'be fully appreciated—Huntingdon Vrinstance. Yes, send them this way, and if you come along we will get you a permit to go through our extensive glass works. The chances are good for ie erection of a New Court flouse in lifiensliorg, the county seat of Cambria. as a vote of fourteen out of the seventeen Grand Jurors, who were sitting on the grand inquest, at the March session, condemned the prese , ,t structure. The De cember Term Grand Jury did the same thing. Our esteemed and clever friend, 'Squire Ralston, of \Varriorsmark, dropped in to see us a day or two ago, to tell us that their rail road is a fixed fact. Workmen will com mence at once to grade the track, and ere long the scream of the iron, horse will be heard in that. region. The future of Warriorsmark looks promisii.(s. A petition, signed by numerous citizens of Altoona, against the erection of a new post office building . in that city, wets presented to Conress urn Mouthy a week . ago. The peti tioners say that the present building is large enough, and that there is no need of a new building. A great howl has went up by those in favor of it against the signers of the re monstrance. Between this time and the first of the com ing month, a new store room will be erected ou Fifth street, between Friedly's meat market and the Post office, to be occupied by C. Alder as a clothing emporium. We guess a wooden awning will he put up in front of it. If not, why not? Now that side of the street, be tween Penn and Washington streets, is built up and occupied. Tho other day the Carnbila 'lron Company at Johnstown, received a lot of condemned cannon from the government, which, during the "Isle unpleasantness" belched forth fire and smoke from Union fortifications. The iron in them is of the best charcoal quality, and after having been hammered to pieces by the skull cracker will be utilized by the moulLEug department of their works. People who hare been in the habit of taking their wail to the train and giving it to our oid friend Isaac Fisher to put it aboard for them, will have to hring it to the post office here after, as the Post Master General has issued an order forbidding the posting of mail mat ter on the trains. All mail must pass through the post °thee. This order <