Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-11-15

NEAR SEvEx SfAR TAvRRx, I
Novemher IL. 1871,

Letter from Al O1a Jaekso0114 D60ocrat
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NEAR SrvEx SfAR rAvERx,(
November IL, 1871. )
My Dear NJ. Editor FL got let.
ter from you to-day, and its al right
now again betwess .yos sad ne. ! an
right we'll eatis6s5, since l read the letter,
that you did not-pst Asdy Johneon'.
name where Andy Jackson's ought to
have been, on purpose. didn't know,
you know, that the fellows in . printing
Office. that You call comPositors, some.
times pick up the wrong type and stick
them, and make mistakes in that way
l knowed that you didn't like Andy
johnson. and l knowed that you knowed
that didn't like him, from what l said
in another letter. 1t makes me feel bad
to think how near the Tennessee Moses
came to splitting you and me asunder.
If it hadn't been for the good sense Of
Mrs. Speak I wouldn't now be writing
for your paper. What blessed thing it
is to have a good wife. and oh golly
what curse it is to have a bad one. ]
don't believe that all the matches are
made in heaven, by the Good Man. i
amt church member guess / ought
to be. though the preachers say that all
ought to be- l have kind Of 4 leaning
toward the Methodist church in some
things, and in some things l lean in an
other direction but on the question Of
making a match between man and woman,
[ lean far out toward that old Methodist
who Travelled nearly all over creation on
foot, and made appointments years ahead,
and was put in Jail like thief. by them
tarnel Southern fellows, because he said
that slavery was not godly and was
wrong. Them fellows always Kukluxed
a fellow il he didn't gee when they said
'Gee," and the only thing about Andy
Jackson that wasn't perfect was that he
didn't straighten them fellows more but
you know that he hadn't the chance. If
he now stood in Grants place he'd fetch
them up a whoopins. Dow, was that old
preachers name-Lorenzo Dow. I've
got his life in the house-that's where l
read all about him. I've got the Pill
grim's Progress in the house, also, and l
tell You mighty good books they are, if
the one is dream.
Well. preacher Dow didn't believe that
all the matches were made in heaven. If
they had been. he said. they'd been all
good, and smooth, and happy. He
thought that the Devil made a good
many, and | think SO. too. I'm a Dow
man on that score. Somehow or other l
think that Mrs. Speak and me made our
own match. tell you it was a mighty
good thing for me. She had some money
and lots of good eense, which is a good
deal better, und if she does give me fury
sometimes, l just cay nothing. and the
storm then soon blows over. The other
evening just about dark, after had come
in from the cornfeld and was upstairs,
she called in very excited way and told
ne that there was light up towards Mif.
Ain, and che believed that the other part
,f Milllin was burning down. Of course
| looked out as soon as could. and soon
'aw that Mrs. Speak was wrong. saw
that it was the Northern lights" After
we went into the house and got down to
supper, we lad a general talk about the
ire. We talked of the mighty big fires
hat have been all through the country
since the first of the year, and felt sad
'ver the great destruction of property
md life, and rejoiced that it wasn't as bad
Is Sodom and Gomorrah, where, you
know, it rained fire. The tears stood in
Mrs Speaks eyes for poor Mis- Lot,
Who was turned into stone for looking
It the FIRE. That seemed hard; but it
vas right-she was told not to look.
1t does my heart good to hear of how
he people do send the sufferers help. If
Inythipg will open the purse strings great
Tres will, and they are the best things to
make quiet people talk that l know Of.
You know that last winter our quiet and
,reat working Senator stood up in his
'lace, which bad not yet got warm by
lis presence. and made a great ana elo-
!uent speech Of quarter of column of
newspaper. on the great fire in Mifflin
L had powerful effect. The Legisla-
ure voted twenty thousand right away
keep a scrap book, and l have the
pcech in that book Fires will make
my one talk and now that l am talk.
ng about the fires, l just want to say to
'ou fellows at Mifflin-and l don't want
'ou fellows to think hard of it either If
wasn't your friend I wouldn't talk 80
lain friends always talk plain-that
,ou fellows had better not let another
uch big fire break out in your town.
or the Legislature won't do nothing for
'ou after that fight about the $4,000 !
You can just set that down to be true.
That feeder is dried up as sure as guns
can't help but tell yon how good I
eel over the news that I got to-day as l