SENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFFLINTOWN :
Wedor Hilar, June 6, 1SS3,
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rear.
SHORT LOCALS.
Dr. Derr, is a sufferer with
mat ism.
rheu
There cau be no worse man than a
jury fixer.
Teacher W. I. Hibbs, was in town
last week.
Port Royal has the Musical Con
vention fever,
Tattersonis going on with the
macadamizing of her streets.
Henrv Auker, of Walker town
ship, is afflicted with malaria.
The County Sabbath School Con
vention opens to lay at Academia.
Ihe bass anglers have been busv
but the number of bass caught is not
large. j
The Port Royal band will hold a !
cake walk next Friday and Saturday
evenings.
Samuel Wilson has had his fill of
the west, and lias returned to Mif
lliutown. Wayne Caveny has bought the
house of Miss Jane MeAlister in Mc
Alisterville. 11 D. Parker and vifo, attended
on the day of the opening of Brook
lyn Bridge.
D. B. Sieber, keeps a lot of nice
horses, for hire to such people as
desire to drive.
The Lewistown Gazette informs
its readers that the '-Czar of Russia
is glad he is living."
A number of farmers have sent
their young cattle to the mountains
to graze there till fall.
(). P. Robison to meet the requir
meuts of an increasing business has
enlarged his store room.
There will be no one to decorate
the grave of the reform Democratic
Legislature of this state.
Go to McClintie's tin and stove
store for first rate garden hoes,
garden rakes, and spades.
Samuel Auker, of Walker town
ship, has prolific cattle, a cow last
week brought him twin calves.
J. B. McAfee long since a resident
of Kansas, has been visiting his na
tive home iu Tuscarora Valley.
Teachers of the common schools
aro to hold a State pic-nic in Carbon
county, at Gleu Onck, July 13.
Brides in Chicago wear white silk
nigh tgowns not all the brides in Chi
cago wear white silk gowns. No.
The Democrat and Register notes
the fact that one of its subscribers
paid his subscription, 3.00 in gold.
Thirteen prisoners down with
small-poi, causes the Lancaster conn
ty jail to be shunned more than ever.
The Red Star, Patterson fire com
pany escorted the Port Royal band
to the railroad lroin tue tjouit yarn,
on Decoration day.
Hardware merchant Guss, cau'dit
a weasel on his premises in Patter
son, the animal wasn't napping eith
er, Jacob Sulouff is suffering with ma
laria, the fresh mountain air of Lis
home in Fermanagh, one would think
should cure him.
A silver mine in Lebanon county,
that had 5520,000 dollars expended
on its improvements, sold some days
ago for ten dollars.
A stream of filthy water has been
running from the jail yard, across
the pavement along the south side
of Court House square.
George Henderson, of Patterson
sports a cane that beljnged to an
Indian ihief. His brother in law
eent it to him from the west
Solomon Sieber of Fermanagh
township, re-harrowed Lis t orn field
and after that planted the field to
corn the second time this spring.
The dude masher should go to
Illinoise and try his mashing -game
on the Sucker striking miner girls,
there would be somebody mashed.
On the 2Sth of May, Captain Ho
soa Ballon, aged .0 years died at
Washington. D. C. He was the old
est living Free Mason iu the United
States.
The Sentinel and Republican gives
it3 patrons a larger quantity, smd a
greater variety of reading matter
than any other paper in Juniata
county
David Sieler a citizen of Ferman
agh township, has 6old a large quan
tity of bark that ho had peeled on
his woodland, to George Goshen of
Patterson.
Four horses, each pulling a cart,
under the management of two driv
ers, passed through town on Wed
nesday on their way from Clearfield
at Harrisburg.
General Bell has been actively en
gaged in filling orders for agrlcultur
al machinery. Give the General a
call when yon need an implement, or
machine for the farm.
Thera was a concert in the Court
House on Friday and Saturday even
ings, but the canary birds in town
were not stunned to death by the
music of the occasion.
The graves of the soldiers were
decorated ;at Academia on Decora
tion day. Xcviu Pomeroy and Squire
Howell each delivered a speech ap
propriate to the occasion.
There was preaching iD the Pres
bvterian brick church last Sabbath
morning. There will be preaching
there every other Sabbath morning
at 10i o'clock. Kev. Ir. Benaugh
preaches every Sabbath in the Pres
byterian Chapel church.
Landlord Foorman, took a trip
west, through the states of Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio, and on his way
back he bought 'a lot of cattle 1:1
Westmoreland county, shipped them
to Montgomery county, and there
made a public sale of them. It was
all done within the period of four
weeks.
SHORT LOCALS.
r xrT,D ff?m New York glit T.
J. Middagh8mare,Little Mary, for
1,200 and a citizen of Philadelphia
bought his mare Maud, for 00, the
first named has a record of 2.23.
Maud s record is 2.47.
An attempt was made to enter
Pennells store by the front door
some nights ago, the thief made an
effort to pry a pane of glass out of
one of the doors. The thief could
explain why he stopped work.
The Philadelphia Record n
general principles, at this distance
from the equator it is a mistake to
quit work durinsr th l- j..
Have the strikers bethought them
of the short days and cold dayB that
are coining f
are counm
The Fermanagh township road
supervisors have the past week been
making road. The tax rate has been
wuiiciueraoiy reaueeo, it is yet too
high by a number of mills, but ow
ing to some debt it has been kept up
W V 411111
There was a badly scared panther
up in Canada last winter, if what a
ixuui in i. com land says is
true. He tells it thus: I was in Can
ada last winter. Tiie family had just
finished the usual slaughter of hos
and nan nung tiie beet against a pile
of lumber to cool off or freeze.
A catamount crept out in the nio-hf
i . - ... o -
to get, a piece, m pullin'' down ih
quarter of beef he upset the pile of
lumuer, wuicu camo down with
ingntlul noise, and he made three
tremendous leaps from the spot
saw the tracks in the snow ; ther
was not a mark between them; I did
not measure the distance, but a man
tud, and 1 believe correctly. The
first jump was uphill, thirty feet : the
6econd, horozontui. to a large rock,
nity iour leet; tue third down
hill, seventy-two feet.
On the morning of the 29th day
of May, while passing from one room
to an other, Mr. John Book of Walk
er township, was seized by heart dis
ease, sank to the floor and died in
few minutes time. He was ajjed 77
years. He was one of the successful
men of his day and generation, and
above all other worldly considera
tions. He was a good man. His wife
3 sons and 5 daughters survive him,
A Boston newspaper says that
workingmen in that city do not
smoke cigarettes. If the Boston
cigarette is as villainous in its smell
as the cigarette smoked in Mifflin-
town, it is no wonder that the Bos
ton workingmen do not smoke them
the smoke of 'vut and dry" is a para
dicial smell when compared with the
smell of the cigarette smoked in
these parts.
BO NOT FORGET.
Do not forget that at Hess's Pho
tograph Gallery you can get any
small picture enlarged for 75 cents.
Also anything that is made in Pho
tography, you can get here done up,
in first class style. All the latest
style pictures, such as Cards, Cabin
ets, Promenade, Pannel Boudoir,
&C !ic. Frames of all kinds cheap.
Tl.e people down in Georgia are
digging pita as a protection from f u
tme tornadoes. "I hear you have
dug a pit to protect you from the
storms," said a Methodist to a primi
tive Baptist, on Saturday. "Yes, I
have," was the reply. "Well, if you
llardshrlis, who believe that what
ever will be will be anyhow, have
gone to digging pits, it is high time
that we Methodists were at it."
Cleveland Herald.
"Ain't you ashamed, sir, to come
home a drunken man at this dead
hour of midnight, to your wife f
Who elsh would yer viec' me to
come home to. I ain't that sorter a
man. Sharra, you claimsh to bo a
"specable 'oomau, don't yer "Of
course I am a respectable woman,
you shameless num." "Then, if you
are a 'specable 'ooman, ain't you
'shamed to be talking to a drucken
man at the dead hour of midnight ?
Fh, whatsbcr given" us .'" Texas
Sif tings.
Men that arc 10 years of age have
a distinct recollection that at a cer
tain time during the war against re
bellion, when change became scarce,
business men issued scrip, or individ
ual "shin plaster currency" as it was
commonly called, as a help to make
change with their customers. In
Mifihntown, B. F. Kepner, druggist,
was one of the business men that is
sued individual scrip. Last week
Edward Kepner, druggist, successor
of his father, i. r. Ivepner. deceased,
received a five cent note from Wash
ington, whither it had found its way
into the dead letter office. The scrip
was sent to the post miosler in this
n'. 'cc. and by him presented to Mr.
ho redeemed it The note
reads, No. 3. Due the bearer, payable
on demand, five cents, when present
ed in turns of one or more dollars.
Aliiliintown, January 1st, 1863, B. F.
Kepner. Edward Kepner was too
voung to have a knowledge of his
father's financial transactions of that
dav and the 5 cent note is the first
that he has seen oi me ncuy.
.t ita lwen married for several
weeks, and my husband and I can
not decide whether we should retain
our old love letters or burn them.
What would you advise t ' Mrs. C. :
"Put them in a pasteboard box m
the servant girl's room. A supply
of old love letters has been known
to keep a girl contented in one place
for three months at a time."
County Recorders in Ohio are held
to a strict accountability for neglect
of dutv in their office which may be
learned from the following, which is
a reproduction from the Circleville
Ohio Watchman of May 25 : In Bel
mont county, F. J- Bowers bought
some property, thinking, after he had
examined the index at the Recorder s
office, that there were no incumbran
rcs on it Although it did not appear
on the index, a mortgage was record
ed. Bowers then brought suit against
T.i,itrc 4 Kiirnes. who was Recorder
-i t; nl1fnnr that he bought
Ut tile "'" o - . -
property, relying on the index, and
Ii.f.fns the Recorders dnty to
Ac The defense
claimed that wi employe recorded it,
reorder was not rcsponsi-
1 1- of his clerk. The
Die iui i"" ,
. -i ui 'l.iisimle. last week, re
bulted iu a verdict for plaintiff.
s'.itJj.:?;!, the full amount.
for
SHORT LOCALS.
Communion services will be held in the
Presbyterian brick church on the 2nd Sab
bath of July.
Miss. Minnie MeAlister was organist for
the choir of the Presbyterian chapel congre
gation 1 a&t Sabbath.
One of the indispensible things is a cook
stove, go to McClintie's and buy a cook
store.
A dressing to beautiful gray hair every
family needs, barker's Hair Balsam never
fails to satisfy.
Kev. Mr. Hunnicut preached in the
Lutheran church at McAiiatcrville and Cen
ter last Sabbath.
Hubert E. Parker bought the house of
Miss. Kate Uallagher deceased, at public
sale, on Saturday lor $701,00.
Colonel Bell is introducing the best of
twine binders, ills machine bind the
grain on the platform. Call and see him.
Aron Leidy of Fayette two., aged 74
years, walked lroni his place, to this town
a distance of 8 miles, iu 1 hour and 3 quar
ters. Mr. Leidy tias been assessor in r ay-
ette since 1S03.
Johu Smith aud Edgar Musser boys aged
about 10 years bad a wrestling inatcD iu ihe
Court House yard, on Saturday in a tall
that took puce iu lue wreatliug Edgar had
aii arm br jkcu about midway between the
elbow aud ahouUer.
Keep the horse thief companies well in
haud. U itliiu the past :! weeks y horses,
several buggies haw bceu aiolea in luu vi
ciuiiy ol JacOonnellsburg t., Last Thurs
day au miporuut capture was made w Ucu
Isaac Shatter was cauitut, he is aboui Si
years ol age aud has siolju over liMJ horses
lu bis time.
At a jollification in Moscow on Saturday
the Jud iust., in houor ot the coronation
ot the Czar, in oue of the parks ot the city
oer 1,WW,WU people were preseut. Four
theaters aud a circus was k"pt runuing all
the l.me lor the amusement of the people.
Oue hundred aud tourty wagous loaded
with barrels ol beer were brought on the
grouud aud all consumed before noon,
despatches say there was no disturbance or
druiikeness among the multitude.
-
Attestios. Housekeepers, you may find
a large assortment of cook stoves at Mc
Clintie's An awful tragedy was enacted in Penn
twp., Cumberland county last Thursday
uight. Mr. Martin Douglass, with .a razor
cut the throats of her 3 children, the old
est being 5 years, and the youngest G
months of age, and her own throat. They
were all dead when found in the moruiug.
The children were in bed side by side, aud
the mother on the door.
G. W. Smith, Capt. McClellan, and W.
II. Snyder were sued before Squire Parker
for a certain sum of money that they sub
scribed when the project of building the
railroad from Seliusgrove to this place was
organized. They pled the statute of limitat
ion. A verdict was rendered in favor of de
fendants last Saturday. People in these
parts have lost all confidence in the ability or
purpose of the management of the concern
to build a road. How can they believe,
else than that the thing is a farce, when
there is nothing doing, exceptiug a move
ment here aud there to squeeze a subscript
ion out of some one. There is nothing in
the world to prevent tno road from being
built if railroad interests want to build
it but if a nug have a hold of it for Ihe
purpose of squeezing a little money out of
it, the soouer it is quashed the better. It'
the so called railroad company Las. a legal
existauce the mauageiueut should be re
quired to turuish a sutemeut of the
ilair of the concern. People that feel
interested in it w illUicu kuow more about
it. They will know whether confidence has
been misplaced.
Grand Jubilee.
The Sehnsgrove Times, in recom
mending a place for people to stop
at uuring the Grand Jubilee at Se
hnsgrove, June 12, KavR. we have
again been compelled to make men
tion oi the wed ebtablis-hed hcusa
known as the Riehl House- This is
one of the bet.t together with the
most accommodating Landlords in
the beautiful town of Selmeg rove, it is
located in the center of town with
beautiful shade trees, causing every
pa&ser-by to drop in and see our
new landlord, Mr. J. H. Riehl Mr.
Riehl has made considerable improv
ements to accomodate the traveling
fraternity and is now prepared to
accomodate every one high 6r low
lienor poor. He has also made
extenoive arrangmeuts to accommo
eUte those who come here during the
Grand Jubilee, which is to take
place on the 12th of June next, Lav
ing gone to special pains t o accoui
moetate these who desire lodging
during the week. We would thcreloro
very lughly recommend Mr. J. U.
Riehl believing you will lecc-ive first
class accommodations.
Standard Farm Implements.
60L1) BT W5I. litLL.
Office opposite the Court House, Miillin
town. Machines manufactured by the Xewark
Machine Co. Newark, Ohio, to wit: The
W orld renowned Victor Clover Iluller, Ha
gerstown Horse Hakes, Kellers Improved
brills, &c.
The Invincible Thresher k. Separator
manufactured by Roberts, Throp a. to
Three Kiveis.Mieli.
The Eureka Mower, the only direct draft
mower. It leaves the cut grass in better
condition for drying than auy other mower
in use; Of light dralt and easily handled.
Shiremau's Separating and cleaning at
atlachment tor Ihe purpose of attaching to
any threshing machine. It cleans grain tit
tor market.
Spsngler's force feed fertilizer attach
meut, easily attached to any grain drill or
cornplanter, and easily operated.
Uauck &. Comstocks fodder cutter and
gri nder. G rinds and cuts fodder as sol t as
chad.
Liliz Plow Mfg., Co., Cultivator., and
feed cutters.
The Milton Seive Nfg., Co. Grain and
Seed Seives.
A full line of Syracuse Tlows and extras,
for the same.
The Marsh Whitney Platform Twine Bin
der. The first successful platform binder
on the market. It is of light draft, neat
appearance and easily operated. For sale
by W m. Bell, Mittlinlown, and John F.
Jacobs, Port Koyal.
The Ellis Champion thresher and cleaner,
and low grade tread power sold by Win
Bell Mittlintown, and John Bcrgey Oak
land Mills.
June 6 o it.
Since the women's riot in Illinois
the country at large is beginning to
get a glimpse of the catne of so
many divorces in Illinois. The du
de and the cigarette 6inoker should
go to Illinois, and mate with the
sucker girls.
The school board in town organiz
ed on Monday evening by electing
James Simons President, John
Kirk Secretory and C B. Horning
Treasurer. It is a board of guodolli
cers.
Goblins.
"Up and down, up and down ;
I will lead them np and down ;
I am fear'd in field and town ;
Goblin lead them np and down."
"Tea it is the pee-wees that have a nest
np yonder in the spout that have scared the
people," said lawyer A. J. Patterson to the
editor of the Sentinel and Rtpublicau as they
together came around the north west cor
ner of Muddy Kun school house, in Milford
township, about a mile and a half from Pat
terson, last Friday evening. We looked
up and saw a pee wee Uy away. It was the
first time to our knowledge that the little
bird had been accused ot playing at spirit
rapping- It has been told over and over,
ot how long ago, a married preacher and a
single woman were seen in tue twilight at
the back door ol Ihe cellar of the Lutheran
church in this town, and when the young
lady was asked what they were doiug there,
she said that the preacher took her there to
show her a pee-wee nest that was in the
cellar of the church. But the preacher was
not playing at spirit rapping. Ihe school
house is a substantial brick building that
will seat bO pupils, 2 in a seat. There is
no cellar under it. The tloor is IU inches
to 3 leet from the ground, aud the founda
tion wall is as tight as a drum with the ex
ception ol 4 veuulators, to on the south
side, two on the north side aud they are so
high lrom the ground that neither toad or
reptile can get up to pass through even
it they were open enough lo pas such liv
ing things through. '1 he purpose of the
ventilators is to allow air to circulate under
t he floor. The floor of the school bouse is
as close as a tloor of pine boards- cau be
laid. There is no possibility of any
thing larger tliau an humble bee passing the
bars ot ventilators so as to get under the
tloor to create a noise, and yeliu that drum
tight building au mi-accountable noise was
heard by the school of Al:sa Eiuina McCacb
reu on the -i.d of May lbS.S. The teach
er aud pupils thought ihe sound came from
under the floor, jet they could not definite
ly locate it. It could uot come from be
neath the lloor unless it had been seut in
through the veutiiatois from the outside or
down thro'.igh the floor through a tube, and
w ho in the school could have art enough to
do such a thing' The pupils were all to
young to engage in such work.
What could it be That was thequestion
when Mr. Patterson aud the writer visited
the building. W'e called on Miss McCach
ren at her lather's house on our way out to
the building. She had taught a mouth and
beaid no noise. She advanced no theory
as to the cause ot the noise. From the -2nd
to the th, noises coutiuued. Uu Mou
day the 2Pth, the excitement in the com
munity was wide spread aud many people
visited the school house. The superstition
that had come down from the grand par
ents inaiiilestcd itself iu Ihe most remark
able talk ot spooks, goblins and so forth,
aud it w as deemed best to close the school,
till the disturbiug cause could be louud
out. Some that were less superstitious thau
others maintained that the uoise was caus
ed by some imprisoned living thing under
the floor, and soou ihe the theory got
abroad that a foul deed bad been perpetra
ted, and a human being had been murder
ously delt with aud had been put nuder the
house as a dead person but life was uot
extinct and hence the uoise or groans. The
excitement was intensitied on the evening
the -iSth after dark by a number ot the youth
from this town goiug over aud plajiug oil'
a scries ol gruang ou the witling hearers.
The boys Uid it up completely. A number
of tlieiu that were iu Ihe secret of the trick
would lorui a close circle around a ventila
tor so that the p-rty that was to moan
through tue grate could not b-: detected by
one not in the secret ol the movement.
It did not require miiy groans to cause an
almost general den and lroin the crowd that
the hour of the building be raised aud that
the poor imprisoned thing Uatever it might
be, set tree. Men we:e appointed t call
on the nearest director and have hi:u raise
the tloor aud examine the cavity underneath
but lhat was not done then. Ou Tuesday
May however, ihe diicctors met and
directed that an examination ol the under
part of the building be made. A hole large
enough to admit ol the body ot a nun was
cut m the door iu the mirth west corner ol
the loom. A man was sent down, mid of
courre he found uothing not even a toad.
1 hat examination settU'd the. question of
the lmpi :.-,un:.u nt oi a wounded man, wom
an or child, but only to bring the supersti
tious iieople to the trout. Une person came
tornatd with the story that a former
school board had cheated Mr. Hursh, aud
that his spirit bad come back lo torment
tuem ami ineir chilureu. An other person
came forward with a statement that some
years ag-jaii effort was made lo have the di
rectors build a school house not i;;r from
Milford railroad station, but that they
would not do it, hut built ihe present sub
stantial house. Thequestion then, as to
the location of the sitj was such a warm
one that it caused a law suit, aud Mr. Pat
terson whose suggestion about the birds,
w hich we have mentioned above, was one
of the lawjtrs iu the case. Mr. Cioyd
Guss, deceased, who was killed ou the rail
road near Black Log station, w.isoneof the
parties that w as opposed to the present build
ing, and thu superstitions men of the com
munity have taiked around that perhaps his
spirit had come lo toimeiit them tor building
the house where it is. There seemed to be
scarcely a:i end lo the talk and excitement,
even tiie children were talking about the
ieculiar noise heard in Muddy Kun school
house. It was no wonder that lawjer E.
I). Paikr cot.cli.did to go over. He tool;
with li im is companion Daniel Pannabaker,
of this town, a most titling thii g lo do, for
Pannabaker is the grandson ol a laiuous
witch doctor that usd to live wliere bavid
Sieber lives iu Fermanagh township. in
Ihe da s of l'aunabjkei" graud-lather the
belief iu goblins, spooks and witches, was
so general that n ite!i doctors were necess
ary and they held a most influential posi
tion in the community. Ol course the
grand-Son could hot be scaiey ou the sub
ject of witches. When he aud Parker
leached the scene ol file disturbances the
school hohse wa,, epen. A number of peo
ple were there. Pannabaker obtained a
lantern and light at Ihe house of Mr. Kuoch
McCruni, near by and w ith it, went down
under ihe building to see lor himself, as he
went down ui.der Ihe Louse he did not say
but he leit like saying,
'Weaving spiders, como not here;
Hence you long Ugg'd spinners hetice,
Black snake approach not near ;
Worm, nor snail, do no oifoiice."
When he was aown, some one in the
building called for him to look lor a grave.
He said yes, and when he had made a
thorough search became up and r potted
the thing a humbug, and then went outside
and discoveied the pee-wee 's nest that
Patterson drew our attention to. Parker
came home as proud as it he had Uie Csar
of Bussia by Lis Side, and declares bin to
to be as good a witch doctor as his grand
Daddy. 1 he Pannabaker of three genera
tions ago always doctored thiiu out of a
spook trouble, aud that is what Daniel has
done in this case. The trouble about it now
is it will not pay to follow wiich doctoring
as a profession. It is one of the lost profess
ions tor the reason that people are learning
not to believe in witches. Panncbarker's the
ory is that th pee-wees sometimis get out
in the open part ol the spout and run through
it and the sound runs along the spouting
to where ever it extends telepbonically,
and lhat is, he says ail there is in it. home
months before his death W. W. Wilson
stated to the writer that within his
recollection the grandtather Pannebakcr had
been ca'led to doctor a Miss. McCachan lhat
had been bew itched, of course he called to
see the patient. He told the family that the
young lady, was iu point of fact bewitched,
and that the first woman that would csll to
borrow something would be the witch.
'I he first call that was made for the pur
pose of borrowing was made by a Miss.
Meitlin a bosom Iricnd of the girl that was
bewitched. The belief in the word of the
doctor w as so strong lhat the young lady was
told to stay out of the house and go home,
she went home weeping, lhu Mettiins
were among the very lew in that day tbat
did not believe iu witehus, and tho result
was that Mettlm aud McCachan had a most
desperate rough ai.d tumble fight over
it al Kelly's school bouse iu Millord twp.,
in which Mettlm was the victor.
Patterson had heard of Pannebaker's
discovery of Ihe J-ee-wce's nest and that is
bow be came to walk as soon as we arriv
ed al the building uixicr lite nest and pass
Die rcuuik tint he did. While no were
at the school house Mr. Washington North
and wile came there, and Mr. McCachren,
brother of the teacher unfocked tne aoor
and wa w ent into the house. K o noise
was heard excepting what we made our
selves. The pee-wees were not then run
ning along the spouting ol the house. And
the young men that were there, it they ev
er did play spook, the probability is that
they never did refrained from any mani
festation, and were so modest that they
could not be prevailed on to give us their
names. On our way home Mr. rattcrson
staled tbat he often heard the old people
tell ot how a house owned by David Hoke
about a half mile from J. L. Barton's place
at Pleasant View was haunted by a noise like
that made by dragging a heavy chain up and
down a stair-way. They seut to Adams
county for a witch doctor, he came, aud
shot a black cat in the garden with a silver
bullet and that put an end to the noise in
tho house. He said it waa the belief that
the Hoke house was hauuted because
years before somebody had cheated some
one out ot the property, aud that reminded
us of a story that B. F. Kepaer deceased,
told about a year before he died. Over,
not far f rom where Pannebaker bad his
residence in Lost Creek valley thtre lived
a family by the name ot Burge. Vie believe
the Burges lived where lieorge Uower lives.
Mrs. Burge was a reputed witch. Acoiumit
tee w as appointed by citizens of the com
munity to select one of their number to
mould a sliver bullet and with that shoot
Mrs. Burge. Ihe man delegated by the ig
norant people of that day to commit murder
thought that he was doing God's service
w hen commissioned by the committee to
shoot Mrs. Burge. He went near the house,
bid himself aud w hen she came out and sat
dow n to milk a cow in front of the door, he
tired, the cow ran away and Mrs. Burge fell
over and he tlcu from the scene aud report'
ed to his superstitious contederales that be
had shot the witch, but whether she was
struck by the bullet or whether the cow in
its fright kicked her over has never been
found out. She lived many years afterwards,
and the ignoramus that shot at her lived
long enough lo realize bow nearly he came
to being a murderer.
The maiiilestalious at Muddy Run school
house are miid when compared with the
McCachan and Meitlin trouble; the Hoke
manileslatiou. and Ihe constiiracy to mur
der Mrs. Burge. The people are growing
to be more intelligent, and as a consequence
less superstitious. Three generations
ago there was a great deal more aupersli-
ious belief than now, and several genera
tions previous to that time superstitious
belief was stronger still. However, during
Colonial days the hot bed of superstitious
beliel and manileslatiou was a.uong the
English Yankees of Hew England, lu
16SS hundreds of people in ievt England
were imprisoned as witches and wizards,
many w ere hung, and many were driven
lrom their homes. To raise the cry of
a witch on a woman, or wizard on a man
was to ruin them for life. Men that were
supjiosed to be learned wrote to prove the
truth ol witchcraft and other gobliug man
testation. Ihe president ot Harvard Col
lege, the college that last week refused to
conler the degree of L. L. D., ou Governor
B. F. Butler, wrote and published a book to
prove the truth ol witchcraf t, the book was
reprinted in London jnd was prefaced with
au endorsing article from the pen ot Kich-
ard Baxter author of Saints' Kest.
Commend us to some other author's Saints'
Kest. W hile the people of Pennsylvania
have been somcwnal troubled with super
stitious belief it was of a mild typo, be it
said, to the credit of their judgement, when
compared to the crazy bvlicf ot the .Now
England Yankee. The noises that have
been heard in Muddy Kun school house have
been made by people or by the pee woe's,
with the help, perhaps, ot chimney swallows.
The teacher Miss McCachan should gather
her school a-jd go on with the teaching and
say,
'Let not frolic, not a mouse ;
Come to disturb Ihe school house;
But to the birds warbling notes ;
Hand in hand, with native grace,
Slug and bless the place."
The Patterson Hook ami Ladder
Company will be glad to see you nt a
strawberry festival to be held m l'at
tersoii on the 14th, 13th, and 10th of
June.
With the advent of summer, comes
the re appearance cf the tea .sciT'tnt
A li'inp l iiptam in coming across the
Atlantic rt ports having seen one sev
eral hundred leet lon. Its aniear-
ance created an exc'temeut ou ship
board.
Tort Roval people, and pooil
from the vicinity of I'ort Rjyal, held
decoration service liming liie fore
noon last Wednesday. Jcromo Ail
mau delivered an address after the
iloral decorations had been strewn
at Cluucli Hill gravj yard. After
the ceremonies were concluded there
the Fort Koyal band in full uniform,
accompanied by a number of citizens
came to this place and participated
iu the cei e'ii'jiiit s here during the
uf:emGou. Union Cemetery, JLath
eran grave yard, and the 1'iesbyter
ian grave yard, were all visited, aud
the soldier graves decorated. 1 v.ra
Doty t.eliveied an address appro
priate to the occasion.
NEW MILLINERY STOKi:
I would iiilorni the public tlut I will open
a new millinery s,ore at my place ol res
i Icnce on Water-street, Mit!liiitwn, second
door from corner of Bridge street, on Sat
urday May 5th. Ilavftg just returned from
the city wiih a full stock, of !priTg, and
summer, millinery poods, all new, aud
of the latest ttylea, and kavii.g employed
first class milliners, I am prepared to sup
ply the public with every thing found in a first
class milliner store, come and examine my
fleets. I consider it no trouble to show
good?. J1U3. PEIIIL.
ilay S-83.1 .v.
DIE It:
S WARNER In Lark township, May
lllih. 1NS, of brain disease, Mr. William
Swarner, aged about o years.
MARSHALL. On Friday, May 18,13,
in Monroe township, at the residence of
l.cr m in-law B. F. Kanglo, Mrs. Mancy
Jane Marshall, aged 81 years and 3 months.
COMMERCIAL.
MIFFLINTOWN MARKETS.
lhrrLixTf wit, June C, 18;1.
Butter H
Eggs 15
Lard 15
Ham 17
Shoulder.... 12
Sides li
Kags 1
MIFFLINTOWJT GRAIN MARKET.
Corrected weeRly.
QrOTATioas ro To-at.
Wednesday, June 6, H5K3.
Wheat 1 10
Corn,.. 5-i
Oats, 42
Kye 65
Timothy seed 2 m
Flax seed 1 40
Chop , 1 B0
Shorts 1 25
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
Cattle extra choice 7 good r j common
h fat cows at 4 to 4J, slippery cows 3 to
?. Milch cows $35 to te-5. Sheep extra
capped 0 to 6 J good at 9 to medium at
4. ilogs extra It' common i'l.
Wheat, $1.21. Corn, 05. Oats, "0.
Hogs in the Cincinnati market last week
sold common to lig'-tattt to 7c per hundred ;
packing and Diiti hers h;s rj to 7J. At
Litwrcy Fa., butcher hogs sold at 7J
to $7.i0 r hundred.
Jfew Advertisements-
P. ESPENSCHADE.
AT THE
CENTRAL STORE
MAI STREET.
2sn Door North of Bridge Street,
Mifllintown, Pa.,
Calls the attention of the publio to the
following facts :
Fair Prices Our Leader 1 The
Best Goods Oar Pride !
One Price Our Style! Cash or
Exchange Our Terms !
Small Profits and Quick Sales Our
Motto!
Oar leading Specialties are
FRESH GOODS EVERY
WEEK
IX
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS, GROCERIES, BOOTS
AND SHOES, for Men, Women and
Children, Qucensware, Glassware,
Wood and Willow-ware, Oil Cloths,
and every article usually found in first-
class stores.
COUNTRY PRODUCE taken in
exchange for goods at highest market
price.
Thankful to the publio for their
heretofore liberal patronage, I request
their continued custom ; and ask per
sons from all parts of the county, when
in Mifflin to call and see my stock of
goods.
F. ESPEXSCIIADE
Sept. 7, 1881.
KENNEDY & DOTY,
(Successors to Buyers & Kennedy,)
DEALERS IN
ORAIaV,
COAL
I.UMBIaR
CEMENT,
Calcined Plaster, Land Plaster.
SEEDS, SAL.T, &.C.
We buy Grain, to be delivered at Mifflin
town. Port Royal, or Meiictj.
We arc pn-parcd to furnish Salt to dealers
at reasonable rates.
KENNEDY t TOTY.
April 2!,lS82-tf
Agents .ranted Tor The
CELESTIAL SYMBOL
KTERPBETED. i? RV. H, W. 'OBBI. D. D.
The grandest object it (.rcuiuii is tnO
M'X. Centre ot Lite, Light Heat, Attrac
tiou and Chemical Action It natural
wonders and spiritual teach
ings) are alike iuar eous, auu make a book
ot aosorbirg and intense interest. The
great problems of the Material l uiverse un
loldtd and illustrated. Xature shown
to be a Itev elation of (.od in
the noblest and most perfect
sense- Highly eouiinenl'-u. ' I.very fact
ol nature is made to reieat some. !:sson of
His gi;t.iel." N. Y. Evangelist, iloth
tcieiitilic and devout." Kev. A. C.George
D. I., Chicago. "A siartlitig rerelation
concerning the wonders and glories ot the
Sun." Elder J. W. McUarvey, Lexington,
Ky. "Interesting, instructive and very
suggestive.1' Bishop Jaggar, of Ohio. It
sells last and pleases ail. Address,
J. C. .MeCL'KDY fc CO., Philadelphia, Pa. ;
Cincinnati, O.; Chicago, ill.; or fct. Louis,
Mo. I-Ii;-Jiu.j
.Miscellaneous.
."O A week made at tome by the in
4 aidiistrioiis. Best business now be
fore the public. Capital not needed. We
ill start you. Meu, w omen, boys and girls
wanted everywhere to work lor ns. Now
is the time. You can work in spare time,
or give your whole time to the business.
No other Lusiness will pay yon nearly as
well. No one can tail to make enormous
pay, by engaging at once. Costly outlit and
terms free. Money made fast easily and
honorably. Address Tki e & Co.
Augusta, Maine.
PIMPLES.
HJlIaOItS OF YOI TII
V Gentleman who snflered for years from
Nervous Debility, 1'rcmature Decay,
and all the e fleets of yonthtul indiscretion,
will for the s.ike of suffering humanity,
end free io ail who need it, the receipe
and direction for making the simple remedy
by which he wasenred. Sufferers wishing
to profit by the advertiser' experience cat
do so by addressing in pcrfec. confidence,
JOHN B. OG-DEN, 42 Cedar St., N. Y.,
June 14-82 1 yr.
1 will mail (Free) the receipe for a simpl
Vegetable Balk that will remove Tas
Fbeckses, Pimples and Blottbfs, leaving
the skin soft clear and beautiful; also in
structions for producing a luxuriant growth
of hair on a baldhead or smooth face. Ad
dress, inclosing 3c. stamp, B.:s. Vasdelf
I i. Co., 12 Barclay St., N. T.,
1 OfTnot, life is sweeping by, go
CIla O X and dare before - you die,
something mighty and sublime leave be
hind to conquer time." $ii a week in your
own town. ir outfit free. No risk. Every
thing new. Capital not required. We will
lurnish you everything. Many are making
fortunes. Ladies make as much as men,
ami boys and girls make great pay. Read
er, if you want business at which you can
make great pay all the time, write for par
ticulars lo 11. Hallet It Co.,
l'o.tland Maine.
A DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT.
There are dangerous counterfeits in cir
culation purporting to be " Walnut Leaf
Hair Restorer." Tho strongest evidence of
its great valno is the fact that parties know
ing its great cflicacy try to imitate it. Each
bottle of the genuine has a fac limile of a
walnut leaf blown in the glass ; and a Green
Leaf on the outside wrapper. The " Re
storer" is as harmless as water, while it
Ksses.es all the properties necessary to re
store lite, vigor, growth and color to the
hair. Purchase only from rcjonible par
tita. Ask your druggist for it. Each bot
tle is warranted. Joii!to5, Hollow.it &
Co., Philadelphia, and 11 all & Kickel,
N'w Yoik. wliel"ale agents.
M1SCELLAXE0 US
D. W. HARLEY'S
Is the place where you can buy
THE BEST ANI THE CHIaAPEVr
MENS' YOUTHS' &
HJTS, C.1PS, BOOTS, SHOES, JtXD yURXISIUSH HOODS.
is prepared to exhibit one of the most choice and select stock tror offered 1 1
this market, and at JSTOX1SIUXUL Y LO IK V RICES !
HE
Also, measures taken for suits and parts of suits, which will be made to ordo
at short notice, Yery reasonable.
Remember the place, in Hoffman's
Water rects, MIFFLINTOWN, PA.
SAM'L STRAYER
IUs'constantly on hand full variety of
MEN & BOYS' CLOTHING,
HATS & CATS, BOOTS & SHOESALL SIZES,
GENTS' Ft'RMSniN'Q GOODS. Goods of all kinds are low Come and see mo
and be astonished Pants at 75 cents. E7 SUITS MADE TO ORDER.3
Tatterson, Pa., April 1G, 1379.
Professional Cards.
Lons E. Atkissos. Gko. Jacobs, J :
ATKHSOI & J ACOns,
ATTORNEYS -AT -LAW,
M1FFLIXT0WN, PA.
CCollecting and Conveyancing prompt
ly attended to.
Orrici On Main street, in place of resi
dence of Louis K. Atkinson, Eq-, south of
Bridge street. Oct 16, 18S1. ,
jjjdRWIN
ATTOENEY-AT-LAW,
M1FFLIXTOWX, JCXUTJ CO., PJ.
All basiness promptly attended to.
Orrics On Bridge street, opposite the
Court House square. jan' i 80-ly
JACOB BE1DLER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
MIFFLIXTOWN, PA.
CColIections attended to promptly.
Of fice With A. J. Patterson Esq, on
Bridge street. Feb 25, "SO
THOMAS A. ELDER, M. D.
Physician and Snrgeon,
Mlt'FHXTO H'A", iVf.
Office hours from 9 A. . to 3 p. v.. Of
fice in his resilience, on Third street, op
posite Methodist parsonage. oct22-tf
D.
M. CKAWF0RD, M. D.,
His rcsnmod actively the practice of
Medicine and Surgery and their collateral
branches. Office at thr old corner of Third
and Orange streets, Mifliintown, Pa.
.March Z'i, 187S.
J M. BIIAZEE, M. IX,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Acultmia, Juniata Co., Pa.
Orrice forrnerly occupied by Dr.Sterrett.
Professional business promptly attended to
at all hours.
Jons JTrLArr.ni.1. Jostra W. Ptimmkl
3ICXAI GIILIX & STMJIEL,
INSURANCE AGENTS,
PORT ROY.1L, JCXLiTA CO., PJ.
C7"On!y reliable Companies represented.
Dec. 8. 1K75-Iy
yynLLMM eell.
AfiENT AN D DEALER IS
Farmers and mechanics Slachincry.
Miillintown, Juniata County, Pa.
Office on Bridge street opposite South
side of Court House. j
Nov. 8, 1S2.
Sjiea'rl .Yuttces.
0-ieat Causa of Emnm Misery
I the I. of
an v . a i
How Soit, How Restored.
Just published, a new edition of DR.
CVI.VEKWELL S CELEBRATED ESSAY
on the radical enrt of Sfkbuatorriiwa or
Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Seminal
Losses, Impotenct, Mental and Physical
Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc. ;
aiso, Cmsi upTio.t, Epilepsy and Kits, in
duced by self-indulgence or sexual extrav
agance, &c.
The celebrated author, in this admirable
Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty
years' successful practice, that the alarm
ing consequences of sclf-abnse may be rad
ically cured; pointing out a mode of cure
at once simple, certain, and ciTectual, by
mparts of which every sufferer, no mattei
what his condition may be, may cure him
self cheaply, privately, and radically.
K?Thi.s Lecture should be in the hands
of every youth and every man in the land.
Sent, tinder seal, in a plain envelope, to
any address, poit-paid, on receipt of six
cents, or two postage stamps. Aldress
THE (XLYEHWELL MEDICAL TO.,
4 1 Ann 3 1., New York, N. Y. ;
nnel"-ly Post-Oflice Box 450.
PHILADELPHIA
SINGER 3IACIIIKE
Eqnni in mntf Sin&rr im fhr Mnrkri.
The alove cut reire?.?n4S the most popolr-r
style for the people whii h wer.Serforyeu for
the very low price of Pempnilirr, we d4.
not ask yon to pay nntil you have wn the
mai'hii. After havintr exinninrd it, if it
not all we represent, retf-n it to us at on?
expense. Con.ult your intert. and onlrr at
uce, or send for e'rrTilnr nri'l fetiT:inrii;.!s.
Address i IIAIII.K-S A. V h f .,
No. 17 N. Tenth it., Philailelphia. Pa.
Important To Traveller.
Special inducements aro offered yon by
the Burlington Route- It will pay you to
read their advertisement to be found else
where in this i?sur.
AD VRTISEME.TS.
BOYS CLOTHING
New Building, corner of Bridge as2
Jan. 1, 1. -U
SAMUEL STRATI. k.
PARKER'S
EAm B ALS ASf.
tSKg. ThiMV-TMlt.i
Jfi' ?S3 prewr-t! by Hum j
' -' ff on!r thai an? tnelicit j
X7-.-vi to the temlo acd hjil
' tr aad iwy
Restores the Youthful Color to Grey or Tatttd Italr
Parker's Hair Eilum i nney perfumed and b
warranted to prevent failing ot' the hair and to re.
more caiuirutl anaucmng. micox at
SQe. BD4 1 ifMa, InIm la eroe I
PARKER'S
GINGER TONIC
ft Superlative Health and Strength Rntortr.
If ar a merhantc or farmer, worn oat with
o.rwork. or a mother run !own by mily or keuto
bold dulir try Pak Oock Tome.
If yon are a lawyer, minuter or buineas paa r
aiamtrd by mental strain or nxioi crrv do dm tk
tixicaiii.srimu!ants,butU9e Parker'iOuiger Tonic
if voti hare t."oiimption Pytpetia, Rh:ma
km.K.iwyCorniihnmsy wanycijrirof:ielun?r
stomach. !mw!, bbotl or nerve Fah-'s i l.iacra
Tonic w.llc'ireyf.u. ItithoOrcatt fc'od PuriAcr
Aff3 tts Ecst and Surest Cough Cura Ever Used. .
If vtti ire watr a-oMy from fwpntion or
try tiLitrae, or we.iWinsand rei;ims a Kimu'ant tnao
IjiM.EitToMC atowc: it tm' ice rat im1 baud
y-l up f;o-n tli-? first dose rw:t wul never ir.toict.
U h fc-ived hundred of Hre; it cny tavo yoara.
CAl'TIO"1 ' T.'fWjfI MUbttitta. Pr.r".tf.inr"iml:
crrl of lS V rodiii mfli in liworM.fK. ItMaaaf1?
rfWat'ii f-mtt prfntA.-of i.:craloti. Swm. Vtittu.
c :r. at s vViNrt swing poi lati sits.
tT. h Jt-id laving fr. .prance iu ma.!e tlu
dfltjhrtti! nrfnnieexcredi..!;;y p yular. Tra
i m.li:lu iifce ini: u; ou hunnt FLuRa-
J ' i. .:...:' i.: tv. :je.
THE BEST ON EARTH
&
These celebrated Stoves) will
ROAST. BAKE and HEAT IRONS
In less time and with LESS FUEL,
than any other vapor Cook Stovo
made.
Be sure and buy the Dangler
Non-Explosive Vapor Cook Stove.
3t?rcTAfTraao nr rmz
DanglerYapcr Siisve & Refining Col
CLEVELAND. OHIO.
Foa Bah it Ocb lent
D.S.MGRGAS3&C0.
aUSrCTaCTrsl TBI
re
;j.'at",f
. DURABLE LIGHT DRAFT
Triumph. Reapers
f.HO THS NOISELESS
New Oiippsr Mower.
Th TH1' im I.F.xPrP.51 are nwrnal.l f"
BimilicitJ iu roiiafnu-tifm. v f niiui.meti,
light woi-jM. .lurluiil J and gyOd walking tapacl! J
in ail con't:tiorn 'f vriin.
Tt HtVf Cf.IPVKB h all the aTaBtagaa ol
thOLI CLIIftil HuWiJt iui man valuable
Iniprnvamanta.
fcKND won li.t.rtnuTiro CrarrTA.
(mob AGN' IS WAJi lii) m unoucuplad territory.
D. S. MORGAN & CO.
Brockport.MonroeCo.aN.Yt
j
! T C pcplo are always on tho
; V J O X-iiiH.!iuiil for chances to in
crease lln-ir earnings, and in tune becomo
.'wealthy; tlinse wii do not iir. prove thoir
! opf ortniiifies reoiain ill Mvertv. tVr offer
' a great chince to iiinkn money. We want
many men, women, hoys and girls to work
fur us rilit in their own localities. Any
one can do the work properly from the first
start. TliK hiisiiiess will pay more than ten
f tunes ord inarv m:. KNj'nNive outfit
! fnrnihml free. No one who engages fails
to inak" nmm-v rapidly. Yon can devote
j your hole time lo tin- work, or only your
spare moments. Kiill information and all
' that Is reeded sent tree. Address
Sri.i..s JL Co., P-trliawi, Maine.
i TO CONSUMPTIVES.
I The atlvertiser having been permanently
;cud ol that drvad disease, Consumption,
l by a simple remedy, is anxious to make
known to bis fellow-sufferers the means ol
! cure. To all who desire it, he will send a
I copy ef the prescription used, (tree of
charge.) wnh the directions for preparing
'and using the same, which they will find a
j sure CiaKtor Coion, Colds, Coh.iupt
! ion, Asthma, B"m hitis, fee. Parties
! wishing the Prescription, will please ad
j dress Rev. E. A. WILSON; 104 Pcnn St
j Wiilianisbnrgli, N. Y.,
The, Sentinel and Xcpnhliran offioe is the.
place t4get job work done. Try it. It will
pjv yon if yon tevi auyl'tiiug iu '.hat line
mmmm