Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-03-31

parties of miners leaving different
points for the Black Hills. In reply to
telegram for a miner who recently
came out CT the hills, whether he would
be permitted TO return With reinforce
ments and provisions, General Ord
says 'fTroups from Fort Laramie and
hostile Indians having both gone for
your miners, for their sakes hope the
troops will reach them fret, as the mil
itary ordet5 are simply to bring in the
party, coufne the leaders, burn the
wagons and destroy their outfits" Gen
erai Ord has been authorized to put all
his cavalry at once in the Sioux coun-
try, ON which the miners are trespas-
sing, aud to employ fifty Indian scouts
to advise the cavalry of the advent of
miners.
A despatch to NcClure's Times, uH-
der date of the 24th inst, from viii
Transport, tells how the people of that
town cut a passage through an ice gorge
to save their town from flood, which
would be ineTitable should .he gorge
remain and rain fall. The despatch
says: 4: If the city is saved from a dis
astrous overflow it will be owing to the
fact that the weather has been such as
to hold the ice from sudden break, up
and the timely action of the citizens,
nuder the directions of the committee
appointed at meeting On Monday
Two hundred and twenty-three men
have been employed to-day cutting
away the ice from the Boom dam. Ii
fcats away very readily, and hopes are
entertained Of getting cat enough of it
to clear channel for t1at floating from
above. Already channel sixty-6ve
feet wide, extending mile up the river,
has been opened. The ice is found to
be thirty inches in thickness and as
firm as in midwinter. Tomorrow work.
men will cut TO the mouth of Lycom-
ing creek. and by letting the ice from
that stream into the main chaEnel: pre-
vent a gorge at that point, which would
result in the overfowiug of large part
of the city. The weather permitting,
a channel will be cut up as far as Lin
den, four or five miles. A bridge of the
Philadelphia and Erie railroad crosses
the river at that point against this a
gorge would certainly be formed should
the immense food of ice above sud-
denly loosen. Meantime troutle is ap-
pretended from the ice blocks floating
below, and lodging against the lower
railroad bridge Below this structure
the ice is firm, and there is no outlet
for that which is gorging down. 1t is
probable some action will be taken in
this direction tomorrow. Superinten-
dent Baldwin has just returned from
the scene of the gorge at Glen Union.
The ice is packed from there to Renovs,
bat is not as dangerous as has been
represented. At Lock Haven they are
engaged in cutting channel and float
ing the ice over the dam, but between
here and there the river remains un-
broken.
The Legislature of Delaware goes
Sll, 900 for the Centennial.
The Republicans of Rhode Island
nominated Henry Lippett for Governor.
Last Friday a boy at Border;Own
was arrested under the impression that
be and Charlie Ross were one. Such,
however, was not the case.
Boston is fitting out an expedition to
90 to the Black Hills.
A despatch from Trenton, n. j., uu-
der date of the 25th, tells how a case
under the Civil Rights law was disposed
of in that town: 4 week ago the propri-
eter OF the Trenton House refused two
colored men the privilege of playing
billiards at his saloon, which his attach
ed to the hotel. The colored men made
complaint, under the Civil Rights bill,
and the proprietor. Mr.. Matzenbach,
wa. arrested, and the hearing of his
case came of to-day before United
States Commissioner, f. Mercer Shreve.
The decision, which vas an elaborate
one, dismissed the complaint as not
coming within the law. The commits
sioner says: 1t is true the public may
visit a billiard saloon, so they may go
to a store, but every one cannot play
there, as every one cannot buy in GER
tain stores. The storekeeper may SUI.
his customers. Every place which is
accessible to all is not necessarily
place of public amusement. To say
everybody can go to a billiard saloon
does not determine its character, nor
does the fact that license is required
make it place of public amusement.