davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28

u 0 l o.
The Assessors Of the several Wards having DOM
e,ed the Annual Assessment for the year lsi. they
10TH pay OF yEERuAkT, end SIT Q Board of
Aepess from the 18Th dag OF February TO the Ist Of
Appeals ~ tie aboseusut oned ssessment or former
Assessments
Hours Of meeting from Q O. u tospm
fe7-tapl PkTIR HEPBCR&. Prss,dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28
rrNoTICE TO PERSONS REGISTERED

S of II mcCATHRaN as a Candidate for the
Hou.a ~ Delegates for the TWENrY.sECOND
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28

NInE BkICh ANB OSE FRAME UsELtI.
a M Tor sale, On Easy terms one On 81 street
ho'hNe-i. o2f; A. rooms, seven ashingtuu
sI',t, Sguart SlN. i've rooms each one On Nsins
sNF"Ae' slu. seven Tuon4s, a fhrrrH story
Franc. iao 9th street b-fserr Matur aud " sry-
AhI aNthnt seven Rooms, ard many building iafs,
~ run aud Seventh " ards Tor -ss 81 lsss. With
tleht - eo'cha>. b NILBChN.
n N 2i-lm- aGq a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28

toR hENT-One three BRICK HOUSE,.
newly pApered aud painted. niue rrems. gas "a
very r'om. water back of the kitchen: 10 221
18Th street, tetveen and snufh: ten m'nutas'
wax tr m rhe Treasury Build Ing. R.tt 50 Mr.
mouth. Inquire DO a03 Tth street n-rth. ulsD q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28

BRICK HOUsE No. 1880 sth street. between n
and streets, d ~ with rooms, gas AID water
FRAME HOUSE No. ITO g street N. w., with
rooms and cellar eent IS.
Three story BkAME HOUSE on 7th- street rosd
this side Of Howard University with large lot
New BRICK aOUsE No 1921 leh street r. W. q,
between Y snd streets, with rooms, cellar, gas
BRICk HOUSE No. 16 Philadelphia Row, on
nth street east. with hot and cold water Rent ss
Inquire of JOS, n. KELLY, Real E.tate Agent.
10 sOS etn ~. ~. WI ,between I and x SITS. MIST
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28

e z Am TO - 900 TO LOAN, or TO plac.
SCsVVV In . paying and legitimate bushes
State wants. business. and location XIX. jay-tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28

kfcR REhT-Two Handsomely furnished ROOMS,
At 10. 1895 r strset N. ". mhz5 co.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28
LOST AND FOUND.

SeI.on the 18th inst on sth street or Market
~ space pair OF gold Rye GLASSES. <aA
ane nno er will receive suitable rewardSO
lett % No. 1000 18th sfress near X, or TO g. W.
ThORA, 9Th street, bet. d and Penn. ave. m23 81
c. REwARD-strey ed from no. 1905 Rhode
YO Island avenue . small BLACK ami 80
TAn Doe. The above rev ard Will beA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-03-28

On 18Th ~ between and u SIS sd Joining Franklin
square. 4, ntsining IL mons. besides several fus
closets end store rooms complete in al the modern
Inrr' Neinfn's Inside finish black walnut sud me-
Die msntlee throughout Ma le sold on rea.spa-
bic terms by trquirirg II N GREEN corner n ls-h
and streets, " b. re- the Key NAV d. had. or Of
-. hliBpDkN Lara.
Hh-y u lht 81 corner Il sth Af.d n --raa.a
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12
Death from Blowing Down a Lamp
Chimney.

Another of those shocking causaltiee
resulting from the use of coal oil, oc
CURED on the West Side on Tuesday
night. Mrs. Elizabeth Stark, living at
No. IS Mill street. corner of York, dis
robed to retire about 10 clock. She
attempted to e1tinguish the lamp in the
very common manner by blowing down
the chimney. The lamp exploded throw.
ing over her the blazing liquid and in an
instant she was enveloped in flames.
Her husband, who was in bed, sprang
out with all possible haste and made
every effort to smother tie fame by
wrapping around her his coat and other
garments. The screams of the terrified
and suffering woman called the neigh.
bors to her assistance, and the flames
were at length subdued. but not till the
unfortunate victim had been terribly
burned Medical aid was called and
everything possible done for her relief,
but she died about midnight, after two
hours of excruciating agony. She was
the mother of four children, her youngest
babe but seven weeks old. Her hus-
band was badly burned in his effort to
save her. but his injuries are not thought
to be daugerous.-C Cerelaad HraH.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

On Saturday, the lst inst, in the grove
of the Saunders College. Thirty
street, above Market, Philadelphia, the
interesting ceremony attending the dona.
ton of 100000 to the Presbyterian
Church by the Rev. DR.. E. D. Saunders,
of Philadelphia. was witnessed by many
persons. Rev. DR.. Musgrave presided
Mayor Fox and Judge Allison took part
in the exercises. The money was given
to the Presbyterians for the establishment
of Hospital in which "the afflicted will
be received without distinction on account
of creed, country or color" The Hos.
rital will be named Saunders Presby-
terian Hospital" With an exchange, We
heartily wish Dr Saunders great success
in this enterprise, which promises relief
to suffering humanity in all time to come.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

A LADY writing from Eldorado. Kan
sas, gives graphic account of the tornado
of June l6:
81 have often tried to imagine what a
hurricane would be, but | had no idea it
would be like that don't believe a can
non could have been heard two feet
away from the house for the roaring Of
the wind and hail Most of the people
had just retired TO bed. Some sprang
up and snatched whatever came first,
and rushed forth to be pelted and strip
ped by the pitiless storm or hurt by fall
ing timbers. l was more afraid of that
storm than of being crushed by the
house. and l would not 60 The house
surged up and down several times, and
then away it went. The country is
desolate People that were dressed and
their houses blown away had every shred
of clothing stripped off them. One
man was found half mile from his ru
ins. insensible The last he remembered
was the house givin gway An emigran,
wagon was blown into the river, the man
landing in the forks of a tree. We
were not entirely blown away. but every
thing is ruined. There was nearly as
much mud and water within as there
was without"
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12
Death Results from Folly.

A fatal accident happ ened on Leading
creek, West Virginia, last week, which
is sad warning to those who are in the
habit of playing jokes on children. -
The facts are. as my informant stated
them A Captain Ford happened near
Mr. Jessie Hornett's home with a pan.
ther skin. and seeing little boy abou,
twelve or fourteen years of age, a son Of
Mr.. Hornett. in a skirt of wood near the
house, donned the skin with the inten.
ton Of frightening the little fellow. but
as soon as the boy saw what he supposed
to be panther, he ran to the house and
took down his fathers rifle, and went
in pursuit Of the panther He did not
have to 60 far before he espied him.
The boy rested the rife on the fence and
fired. The man-panther gave a dying
shrek, and, with a convulsive spasm,
fell over. mortallay wounded. The little
fellow did not see bis mistake until be
went up to the wounded man. Ford
fingered two days and then died.-Er.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

Tue American Institute Farmers
Club is twenty-eight years of age. 1t
is highly honored Clnb. Railroad com
panles are willing to lake excursions
representing the Club over their lines al
reduced rates. This year deputation
will visit Mammoth Cave, and a portion
of Kansas and Colorado. Last year a
party visited California. Information
relative to everything in agriculture is
asked of them from every quarter of the
United States. In the report made by
the Club at the sessio last June. and
published in late number of the Hearth
and Home, we find the following, which
explains itself:
George E. Hencb, of Port Royal. Pa,
wrote: ave have here what is termed a
snkhole in the ca tn. into which the
sawdust of mill has been carried at the
rate of $50 bushels per annum by a
stream running from the base of the Tus.
carora Mountain. for the term of thirty
years. The streams carries down leaves
rotten wood, soil, pure sand, ETC.. making
a composition of about one half sawdust
of oak and pine in equal parts, and the
articles mentioned above. We can
take this mixture out at the rate of 2n0
bushels per diem, with two men and two
horses, and put it in our manure-y yards
The soil here is a sandy soil. with clay
subsoil. We can get good gray rock
lime delivered upon land at the rate Of
sl2 per 100 bushels. Will it pay to
cart out the sawdust, and, if SO, with
what should it be mixed. and how and
when should it be applied to the land p
He was informed that pine sawdu-t was
of very little value. but that if oak was
sawed at the mill, the chips, shavings,
etc.. would be valuable. The rotten
leaves would add value to the residum
The general opinion was that it would
pay to cart the refuse from the sinkhole,
and to use it for composing or as top
dressing.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

THE Civil Service Commissioners are
still at work at Washington. 1t is be-
lieved that the Board will adjourn about
the last of this month. The great ques,
ton before this commission is one of in
terest to aspirants to Office by appoint
ments. The Commission is expected
to recommend that the appointments now
controlled by Congress and Senators shall
remain under the control as heretofore,
or the Commission is expected to say
that this system Of appointing is not the
right one, and in its stead recommend
the establishing of al examining board
by whom all who apply for Office in the
Civil Service shall be examined as to
their merits or qualifications, regardless
Of politics.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

Col. FoRNsY's Anecdotes of Public
Men are read with great interest every
where. Some weeks ago be devoted
the greater portion of an article to Thomas
Scott, the great railroad man. In that
article he referred to delay that Mr..
Scott met with while on his way to at
tend a meeting of the directors of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad at Pitts
burg The delay was occasioned by a
wreck Of some Is or Is freight cars
directly on the track, obstructing it to
such degree that days time would
have been required to clear the railroad
for travel. Mr.. Scott surveyed the ruins
and then ordered the material to be fired
1t was done and the track cleared, and
the delayed passenger and freiget trains
passed on. Pittsburg was reached, and
Mr. Scott reported to the directors what
he had done The information was not
received by that body with favor, until
Mr.. Scott made a comprehensive state
ment Of the loss the company would
have sustained by the delay of the pas
sage of freight one day. His statement
was SO clear that it was Immediately ac-
cepted with great favor, and he raised
higher in the estimation of the direc-
tors. Mr. Craner, of Patterson. who is
acting train master between Harrisburg
and Altoona, was on the train with Mr..
Scott at the time that the delay took
place. and was forcibly impressed with
the manner in which his superior officer
disposed of difficulties. He thinks how
ever that not every man possesses busi-
ness discerument sufficient to know when
it will pay to clear track, as does Mr..
Scott
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12
LYNCH LAW IN ILLINOIS.
4 Boy Terribly Roasted and then Whip.
ped to death BY His Father-The FienA
lynched.

4 Boy Terribly Roasted and thes Nip
ped to Deatk BY His Fathsr-The Fiena
lynched.
SPRINGFIELD, July, 6-From . gen.
tleman just from Gilman, l learn the de-
tails of the most horrible murder Of this
age: A man of the name Of Martin
Mera, about three weeks ago. beat his
son. aged ten years, in terrific manner,
SO badly that it was impossible for the
little fellow to get out Of bed when called
by his father the next morning. This
seemed to exasperate the brutal fellow.
and, taking red hot poker, he tbrusts
it into the boys side, and. not satisfied
with this, took the boy up from bed,
and, putting him on the red hot stove,
held him there until the little fellow was
burned horribly. He then took him into
room where tho mother lay, having
lust been confined, and beat him over
the head with the but end Of whip,
until death came to the relief of the little
sufferer. The brutal wretch threw the
lifeless body under the bed on which his
wife was lying. and told her if she
breathed a word of the affair he would
kill her. That night he wrapped the
body of the boy in a sheet, and buried
it near the hedge in his garden. The next
morning he went to Gilman and adver-
tised the boy as runaway, offering a
reward for information of his where
abouts.
On Saturday last. suspicion having
been aroused by some words let fall by
the boys sister, the mother and two
daughters were taken in charge. and the
man arrested After the mother found
her brute of husband was under arrest,
she told the whole dreadful story of the
murder. The body of the boy was
found, and the terrible reality and
afrocity of the murder fully demonstra.
ted. Of course the excitement was in
tense, and it required all the nerve and
skill of the officers in charge of the pris-
ouer to prevent his being lyuched. The
man lives on small farm between Gill
man and Onarga, aud has always had
the reputation of being brutal fellow.
A later despatch says a crowd Of citi
zens, to the number Of nearly thousand,
including men, women and children, pro-
ceeded to the Jail and took therefrom
Mera, and proceeded to a convenient
place, where, after giving him twenty
minutes to pray, a rope was placed
around his neck and thrown over limb
of tree, and hundreds of ready hands
hauled him up. and there held him until
he was dead.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12
Real Estate for Sale.
= NE undersigned will sell at public sale, in
4 Perrysville. Juniata county, Pa, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST S, 1871
The FOLLOWING real estnte 1o IA.

Inc following real estate, 10 wit:
No. IA Lot in the borough of Pe-rvs-
vile, bounded by Market street, the Penn
sylyania Railroad, Second Street, and North
alley. This is one Of the best locations for
business IN the town. There is on Il a large
and convenient Sr0RE-ROOM, a Two.storr
Dwelling, with seven rooms and basement;
The lot is well set with choice fruit. and on
II Is an admirable site for a warehouse
No. 2.-One and a half acres in Turbe:,
township. adjoining James P. Johnston. with
Frame House, rough east, and Stable. Has
on 1t Apples, Cherries and other fruit in abun-
dance.
No. "a vacant Lot in PerrysviIIe. On
Iuscarora and Third SITS . numbered 49,
No. 4.-The undivided half Of One Hun
dred and Eighty-6ve Acres. in Spruce Hill
township, adjoining William and Samuel
wharton. Michael Umholtz and Michael Mau-
ger. Good timber tract.
Those who want any Of this propertv vii,
find it to their interest to prepare to buy. l.
must be sold
TERMS.-Ten per cent. on sale one-,bird
OF the whole on the first Of October, 1871:
aud the balance on the first of April. 1872.
Purchasers can have immediate possession on
payment Of or securing the purchase money.
EDMUND s. DOTY,
Assignee of J. ". S,euen,oa.
June %, 1871-ts
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12
COMMUNICATION.


|. The Democratic party. as q party. has
no standard principles. This. with many.
was . question Of doubt until recently.
But we now all have an occular demon
stration of the fact that the Democrotic
party, as a party, is not founded on any
known standard principles. but policy
only, and that policy is in clan who
were once in power, but now are out !;
and, being long out in the cold. are shiv-
ering with cold and hunger. Being rov-
erty stricken. they are ready to cay and
do almost anything to gain their lost
prestige. Last year they proposed to
kick the colored man away from the bal
lot-bo1 this year they propose to kiss
him. and say, Come. vote with us, for
we be brethren" But how futile will
their duplicity prove. Does not the col
ored man know who struck the shackles
from his feet, who lifted the yoke from of
his shoulders, who lifted him out of bon
dage. and said unto him, "Go now, be a
man, for you are free by the action of
your humane and christian friends. The
great national Republican party has made
you free" Is not this truth! Now the
Democratic party approves the late
amendments to the United States Consti-
tuition They. like the young cats. have
only lately got their eyes open. and. yes.
now they see. But. unfortunately for
that party. they can't find an able trusty
man to pilot them through the next Cam
paign and, as they have lost their Ohio
chief. (wbc. by the way, unfortunately
slew bimself.) oh, don't they feel miser-
able /! But. as they are a broken party.
they want new platform. for "old things
are passed away. and all things are be-
come new" Hence they must, if they
desire strength, incorporate in their new
platform at least one article in favor of
the Ku Klux, and another in favor of
trades union strikes, and another in favor
of the Fenians. and so forth, and then
put old Andy Johnston foremost to run
the political machine, for he is good on
the circle. They can't find another al
derman to keep up with him. NJ.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12
Introduction Of American Agriculture n
Janan.

Hon. Horace Capron. United States
Commissioner of Agriculture. resign d
some days ago. Hon. Edward Watts, Of
Carlisle, has been appointed BY the Pres
ident to fiji the vacancy. Gen. Capron
resigned for the purpose of heading an
agricultural mission to Japan to intro
duce the system Of American agriculture
into that ancient kingdom. This is the
grandest mission that the world has ever
witnessed. 1t is many centuries since
man started from his birthplace in Asia
on his westward course of travels, and
now be is about to return to his home in
the East. to introduce to his kindred
there a new civilization. embodying the
experience of about six thousand years.
The Washington Chronicle editorially
thus writes of it:
The mission to which General Cap
ron has been called by the Japanese
Government is not only one of high dig
nifty. but also of incalculable. influence
in the present crisis of the worlds civili-
zation He is strongly indorsed by
Presiden: Grant and bis entire Cabinet.
His task is nothing short of The recon-
struction of japanese productive indus
try.
"For two months past General Capron
has been collecting models of agricultu.
raj, manufacturing aud railroad ma
chinery, and of all sorts of domestic fur
niture and equipment, illustrating all the
phases of American life, business, social
and domestic. One of the first results
Of this movement will be great enlarge
mont Of our trade with Japan. and a
great increase in our manufacturing agri-
cultural implements and machinery.
The ultimate consequences who can
tell Civilz alton in its Westward pro
gress has now oelted our Northern hem
isphere. What will be come of the
sterotyped Oriental nations when once it
leaps the Pacific and sets foot upon the
soil of Asia Will they waste away be-
fore it like our own aborginese The
history of China and India, during the
last three hundred years, might seem to
warrant this supposition The Japanese
nation has apparently learned this lesson
and is fortifying against ii. Instead of
allowing itself to be crushed by the
march of progress it proposes to keep
step with it. Humanity will wish it
abundant success"
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

FROM Southern paper we clip the
following little anecdote, which seems to
be the parable Of the new departure >
A North Carolina negro, who has
been wandering idiot from blow re-
ceived on the skull while servant in the
Confederate army, was the other day
subject to a difficult operation at the
hands of skilful surgeon. His first
CLEAN of intelligence after the result Of
the operation was as he opened his eyes
and said ave was done gone fo' at
Manassas, yesterday. Wha' ia we to.
day ?"
Could anything more delicately Or
graphically picture the condition of the
Democratic party Peas
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12

TaE disposition of many good citizens
Is to neglect the elections, to stay away
from them and not vote. This is wrong
BY this neglect vicious men sometime:
become masters of the political situation
If this neglect is continued, in time, re-
suite of the most deplorable character
will follow. The class Of citizens refer.
red TO is the last one that would do augh,
Intentionally against society, but by their
neglect they frequently do it great in.
jury. So much is this the case already
In large cities that thinking men of all
parties are crying out against it. Some
men 60 SO far as to propose as remedy
forced attendance at the polls, Genera
Sergeant. at Boston, on the 4th, inst.
proposed such as remedy. Here is al
item from his speech:
so We. who think the ballo. super
cedes the bayonet, and would not see il
turned against society by the vicious,
improvident, aud dangerous classes. who
have no interest of property or cbaracte,
to protect, should under the severes,
pains and penalties, compel every citi
zen to vote. Election days should be
the roll call of the nation. The citizen
has no more right to withhold bis uni,
from the cum of law and order than has
the soldier to desert the field where his
nuskes may decide the combat. If we
are Government the governing powe,
must not desert itself"
force in this direction would be a
violation of the spirit of Republican
form of government. Let ever man dis.
charge his duty at the polls and the
talk Of compulsion will disappear. and
the danger arising from neglect of duty
viii no longer exist, and the republic be
reroetIa.ee.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-07-12
A TEXAS TRAGEDY.
A Man Mistakes His Wife for Burglar,
and Cuts Her to Pieces with Bowie.
Knife.

Man Mistakes His Wife for a Burglar,
and Cuts Her to Pieces with O Bowie.
Knife.
A gentleman from the neighborhood
in Grimes county, some FIVE miles from
Navasota, where the saddest occurrence
which, we believe, we have ever record
ed, took place on Saturday night, July
lst, gives us some particulars additional
to those which have already been pub
lished. We refer to the accidental kill
ing of his wife by Mr., Briggs Goodrich.
kind husband, as we learn, and sober
industrious and respected citizen.
There were, it seems several robbers
in the house, and Mrs. Goodrich, hear
ing them. had aroused her husband, and
he not being able to find his pistol, mad
taken bowie knife and was in pursuit
of the thieves He had struck at one of
them, and another had passed him inside
of the house, and he seems to have hast
ened outside and around to the window
of his own bedroom. which he knew to
be hoisted, with the expectation of in
tercepting the escape of some of the
burglars.
1t is said that chloroform had been
used by the thieves. but not sufficiently
to produce stupefaction. Yet it is likely
that the feeling of faintness caused by
the inhalations of the chloroform induced
Mrs Goodrich to rise from the bed where
she had been left by her husband and 90
to the window for air There she was
found by her excited husband, and, as
the night was so dark that he could dis
cern only the outlines of the figure, he
naturally imagined that he saw one of
the robbers about to pass out through
| the window Then came blows, bearing
all the human mind can conceive of the
terrible-blows by which husband took
| the life OF his own wife with the knife.
We learn that he is distracted and
cannot be trusted alone, but is guarded
constantly to prevent the commission Of
suicide. Mrs. is represented as very
accomplished and noble woman, and it is
eaid that she died with words of sympa.
thy for her unfortunate husband upon her
lips. In the utter CONSERVATION and des-
olation which followed the terrible trag-
edy we are informed that the only child
of the marriage. which is still almost an
infant, was seen with its head pillowed
upon the slain mothers breast. begging her
to awake and grant it an evidence of rec
ognition.