Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-15
Letter ffem Philadelphia.

toi inc last Two weeks haS yeen intense
ly hot, so much so as 20 be downright
oppressive, the mercury dancing away
high up III tie nineties, and that, too,
IN shady spots. Everybody, whom ne
cessity compels to perambulate the
streets, studlously seek the shady side,
and the universal salutation that You
hear on all sides; is Whew, but isu'
it hot - No matter how all branches
of btslness and industry may languish,
Under the gloom and uncertainty which
now envelopes cur financial horizon,
there is always a certain modicun Of
work to be done and business transae-
ted, which requires the service Of a
certain number of haplcss murtals, who,
In all seasons, are compelled TO pursue
their endless round, like d blind horse
in bark mill. On these this weather
sets particularly hard, sw-ltering as
they do, eifher beneath the burning
rays of the sun overhead, OF the intense
heat caused by their refractiou from
the plies Of brick and mortar which
everywhere surround them.
But it is not alone on the physical
world around Us that caloric predomi-
mates. The political world circuu-
scrlbed within the city limits is also at
fever heat. Last month the Republi-
catls made their nominations for Con-
gress, the State Senate, Assembly, Ju
dietary and the several city Offices, and
this week the Democrats vii. follow
suit. On the Republican side the NOM
nations tor all the offices wer, bitterly
contested, and in two instances such
angry feelings provoked, that it may
lead TO the defeat of the successful
candidate, although IN what may be
justly styled Overwhelmingly safe dis
triets. l refer to the contest for State
Senate in the 7th District between b.
7. Thomas and Hiram Horter, and that
for Congress in the 9th District be-
tween Leonard Myers and 4. G. Har-
mer. In the FIRST instance two separate
convention were held and two nomlna
tions made, and IN the latter, although
Harmer was nominated, Mr. Myers de-
nounce. the nomination as the result Of
fraud, protests that he was tie honest
choice Of majority of the Republican
citizens of the District, and announces
himself as a candidate With these
two exceptions all the other nomina-
tions seem to give general satisfaction,
and have been endorsed as the best
made, a, whole, for many years. The
Democratic delegate elections come off
this evening and the conventions to-
morrow and Wednesday, and promise
to be still more bitter than we're those
of the Republicans. But why they
should be so, [ can't understand, be-
cause their struggles, in this city at
least, will be as futile as the labors of
Sisyphus, SO long as their traditions
an 4 history, like the shirt of Nessus,
cling SC closely around them. Ia State
politics but little ha. yet been said
here. | understand that NJ. Hall Stan
ton, President of the Board OF Educa-
tion, will be pressed for Lieutenant
Governor, by the people Of the city,
and Judge Paxson for Supreme Judge.
Both cannot be nominated. Now the
question arises which ought to succeed
it beng granted that this city is enti
tied 10 one nomination on the State
ticket. That question must be decided
by the honest voters of the State on
the 18th of August next. Senator
Rutan, through his paper. the BeGrer
.4rgus and Radicdi, demands that Alle-
gheny and Philadelphia shal.. join hands
and parcel out these nomiuatio as
follows "Allegheny Republicans in
structed their delegates in favor of
Hon. James l.. Graham for Lieutenant
Governor. If he allows bis name to
go before the Con vention, there is little
doubt of his nomination. Philadelphia
will take the Supreme Judge, and give
Allegheny lieutenant Governor As
these counties elect the ticket, the di-
vide would be a fair one, provided they
concede the other nominations to the
smaller counties" And the Pittsburg
Curmerriai publishes the above article
without comment What is meant'
But truce to politics. The hot
weather has driven quite a number of
our wealthy citizens to the different
watering places. Cape May, Long
Branch aud Atlantic City are crowded.
Excursions to all these places are of
daily occurrence, and crowd, are rhe
rule. On Friday evening our city was
startled by the report that terrible
accident had occurred at Atlantic City
that forenoon. A yacht containing
party of eight was upset by the surf
while returning across the bar, and
fice persons, all Philadelphians, were
drowned. The lost are Daniel Offley
Sharpless, his wife Esther ii. Sharp
less, bis daughter Carolina Sharpless,