Juniata Sentinel: Tidbits 1873

2/12/1873

The Lewistown papers say: We know a young young man in town who will soon have somebody to stick his feet against. He is going to marry, but we shan't tell his name....

Rev. T. McRae, of McVeytown, we are informed, lately received a call from the Presbyterian congregation at Renovo, Clinton county, but he declined to accept it...

We learn that a man by the name of Wm. Search, recently a hostler at the Union House, on Saturday week, borrowed a horse, sleigh and buffalo from J. L. Himes to visit Snyder county, but next going to Reedsville, then towards Centre county, induced the owner to follow the fellow and he was caught this side of Lock Haven, having sold the horse to one man for $30, the sleigh to another and the whip and robe to a third. He was committed to Bellefonte jail, and will be brought here for trial.

3/14/1873

Mifflin county papers write: George White, one of the passengers in the ill-fated steamer Atlantic, who was reportedly among the lost, arrived here yesterday, and took up his quarters with his brother at Logan, where he will take a situation on the steelworks...

Duiring the storm on Saturday evening the lightning struck the stable of John Barr, at Lilleyville, kiling a cow and calf. Some other cattle in the stable were uninjured...

Beatty Henry, while returning from a sale an driving a colt over the creek bridge at Milroy, the animal slipped, falling on Mr. H. and breaking his thigh. Drs. Harshberger and Mitchell attended to his injuries...

The tavern licenses expired yesterday, and now we go back to the first principles, water...

On last Saturday a week, the stable of Joseph Parsons, in Black Log Valley, was blown down. The horses and cattle were all in the stable at the time, and strange to say, nothing was injured but a calf, which was slightly injured. The wind got under the building and lifted it from its foundation. In the morning the horses and cattle were running around in the barnyard. The grain in the granaries was scattered over the yard. Loss about $1000.

4/23/1873

The Lewistown Gazette says: The borough constables were told that there was too much corner loafing by men and boys, and that it was their duty to stop it...

Esq. Aaron M. Shoop, of Yeagertown, may be set down as the most venerable patriarch in Mifflin county, he being now the happy father of his twenty-second child...

The farther span of the bridge across Blymyer's dam, half a mile from town broke down with a team belonging to Thomas Mayes on Monday, both horses and wagon sustaining some injuries, though not as much as might have been expected....

James Wayne, a young man in the employ of Louis Houser, of Armagh township, was badly injured from the kick of a horse last week. The wound was on the forehead, making a V shaped cut about four inches long, and into the skull...

Judge Bucher, in his charge to the Grand Jury, dwelt at some length on the local option law, and gve his hearers a very clear idea of their duty. From the moment it left the legislative halls with the Governor's sanction, the time for dalliance with its provisions had passed away from the court in every county where a majority has voted against license,leaving but one duty to be performed in cases that might come up before the jury and court, and that was to carry the law into effect. He warned all persons tht there was no one now in this county who could dispose of liquor as a beverage, and if they did so it would be done at the peril of the law.1

• 1. Juniata Sentinel, various issues, 1873