Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-01-11

HoME.-We we're pleased to see the
friendly countcnance and patriotic face Of
Ferdinand Rohm, of Co, F 10th Cavalry
in our sanctum the other day. We wish
him lots OF enjoyment during his brief fur
/ lough.
CongacT rnR EsnoLLMsSr.-The en- :
rol!meut in Amy towos is by far to o
large. aud the draft will b, u1mevciful
unless corrections are mlde. The follow
III, classes should be stricken oil:
Dead men,
Men in the service,
Non-rcsiients,
Those who have served two years.
All drafted in 1868 who paid $500,
! Those under 20 years of age,
Those over 10,
Aliens, ...-.,-.
Those having manifest disability.
Many are enrolled twice or more, and
some are not enrolled at ali. These
ought to be corrected Every town
should have public meetings to examine
its list OF the na mes enrolled, to detect
the errors and frauds.
A OrEER CAsE-The Altoons T,-ib tn,e
saws il has the names am reliable auth ori
" FOR the following:
1t appears that with one Of the compan-
les organized IN this place, (for the nine
months service, in the summer Of lSc2,
went a man who left "a wife aud small
.amily. Ga the bloody Geld Of .Antietam he
fell. was buried, snl his wife afterwards
had his body dlsinterred, brought home
and re-interred in The suldicrs lot IN the
Cemetery. \ year Afterwards she mar
RED acain. and in dIc time child was
( horre, .he irut Of the second marriage.
| When the call for 500 ,0e0 troops was be-
i,i- filled up, last fall, The second husband
/ enlisted and is uow in the army. \ short
Tim. since. the first husband returned,
alive aud well, having been taken prisoner
at tn;e,a,n ;usiead Of icing Killed. lie
had been he'll by lie Rebels until The
la:e exchange at Savannah. OF course
the parties are ia queer fix ; but all will
arrec that the soldier who was once killed
twice Surie !, starved two years in Rebel
prisons, and yet came home alive, IS
certainly entitled to lis wife. Truth is
stranger than fiction" Tie query is,
who was buried ia the Cemetery: -
CAEXL.ss WRITiNe-We note from
/ the recent report Of tlte Postmaster Gen
eral, ~ extraordinary amount Of careless
ness ca lie ,art Of the Letter writing
community. Three million five hundred
sud eight Thousand were received Of dead
! letters daring the last year; many OF
which contained money, leeds, checks
! iewclry aul other valuat!es. Some Of
them we-e iaisiireosed, others nossdlfect-
! 81 al slL others unstanlped and others,
only p4r.ially directed. Thousands of
! tle=e were returned to the writers, 5u t
! he srea. majority we're destroyed. These
facts should teach the public to be more
careful in their correspondence for the
amount o! suspense and suffering occa-
stoned by these lost letters is incalcuiabie :
and officials are censured where the .aut
rests with the authors.
sag We again solicit our friends to fur
nish local news fgrour columns from all
part. Of the county Those who have kind
/ ly favored rs in tai, particular have our
thanks. Hope they will continue to DO
so. La. others DO likewise. Those IN
sercs.ei in reading local items can greatly
aid Us in this department by taking a
little pains.
House BURNsD.-We regret to learn
that the dwelling house oe Michael Ston-
er Of Fermanagh township about one
mile from town was totally consumed by
fire on Thursday morning last. Mr.. Ston-
er was absent from home, and the fire was
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