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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
A JAIL Full Of Assassins.

The trial Of the Molly Maguirt
murderers was fairly opened at Potts.
vile on Saturday. Mr.. Franklin b
Gowen, president of tine Philadelphis
and Reading Railroad. is one Of tto
counsel for the prosecution. The five
prisoners we're cool and collected until
Detective McParling took the witness
stand. He assumed the name Of Janes
McKenns, got into the Molly Mcguire
Society, and became an officer. The
Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron Company
are said to have employed him. On
Saturday the Coal and Iron police ar.
rested eleven new principals and acces-
sores in numbering William Major al
Mahoney City, Cover James at Sheu-
andoah, aud Thomas Saeger and VIII
liam Wren, at Raven Run. These
crimes we're committed within a year
and half past. The prisoners are
John Kehoe, Michael Lawler, Shenan.
doah Frank O'Neill, St. Clair Pa
trick Butler, Patrick Dolan Michael
O'Bryan, Frank McHugh, christopher
Donnelly, John Mohn. John Gibbons
and Dennis Canning. The arrests cre-
ated great commotiOn, and many more
will follow. The Molly Maguires are
terror-stricken. The detectives who
are to testify have been in the society
are now making arrests. The WHO'S
of the internal working Of the Molly
Magulreism is being shown up. There
are now eighteen members crowded in
the Pottsviile jail awaiting trial for
murder.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Drew's Decentralization and Van
derbilt's Decline.
country,
IBurleigh's Nep York Correspondence Of III
Boston Journal

[Burleigh's Nep York Correspondence Of the
Boston Journol.l
The friends of Daniel Drew say that
be is completely demoralized. HIS
style of business has been very peculi-
ar, and in the end has been ruinous
to him. Having unbounded confidence
in his own judgment he kept his money
in bis own hands, paying only interest
to parties to whom the money belong
ed. He did not even provide for bis
household Instead of settling his fine
mansion on his wife, as be might have
done, he covered it with heavy mort
gage. A foreclosure of $4,000 has
just been flied with the clerk of the
court. Another mortgage equally large
isready for disclosure. Instead Of giving
his children property in their right he
gave them notes. His son has secured
place in the steamboat Office where,
for many years, his father ruled as
magnate. Of the sad consequences Of
his style Mr.. Drew was fully warned
by his business friends, many of whom
are among the first business men of the
city. He expresses himself very plain
ly about the folly of his business life.
Before his fgh. with the Erie Board
he could have retired with seven mil
lions of money. He is now absolutely
poor, with an enormous debt hanging
over him, sick unto death, and with the
prospect of leaving his family, as thou
sands of spectators have left theirs,
to the cold charity of the world.
Notwithstanding all that is said Com
modore Vanderbilt is very sick man.
He has complication of disorders,
some of which are very serious. He
has lost that erect pose which has DIS
tinguished him for so long time. His
robust leok has departed, and he has
shrlveled up appearance. His step is
slow and measured, and his friends
would not be surprised should he fol-
loE the eminent men who have, since
this year opened, gone to the tomb.
His retirement from business has al.
ready been discounted on the street.
The stocks he controls have substan-
tial value, and it will be only ques-
tion whether there is a man with mon.
ey enough and grip enough to seize the
helm when the Commodore resigns it,
or whether his great power will be di.
vided among dozen lesser lights.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Mr.. Pierrepont on President Grant

Mr.. Pierrepont on President Grant
At the annual banquet of the Cham
Der of Commerce in New York, on the
evening of the 4th inst, Attorney-Gen-
eral Pierreponts said many excellent
things, and among others paid the fol-
lowing just and timely tribute to Presi-
dent Grant
am acquainted with one man-very
well acquainted with hin,-wbo has
been President of the United States for
the last nearly eight years, and have
had some private talks with him Of the
delights Of that place and am able
to communicate something to these men
who are anxious to get that place how
very charming 1t is. When this man
of whom | speak was forty-six years
old you called him from a great Office
which he held for life and insisted that
be should be President of the United
States. And you placed him in that
responsible station when be was utter
ly unused to public affairs, wholly in
experienced in politics, knowing moth
ing Of the tricks and the traitors which
belong to that life You placed him
there at the end Of great civil war,
when You had released from bondage
4,0o0 900 of ignorant slaves, when the
country was utterly demoralized by
war, corrupted by the over issue of ps-
per money, and there you placed this
inexperienced soldier, and, as honest
men, l ask you did you expect that be
could commit no blunders, that be could
make no mistake Z l think you could
not have expected such an impossiblli-
ty and thing so unreasonable. He
will tell you that he has committed
blunders, that be has made mistakes ::
but be will tell you, and every man
will tell you, and when maign.ty has
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Millions of Pigeons.

A despatch from Moscow, Pa, dated
April ii, says: A wilderness known as
the "Beech Woods" covers a large
portion of Pike county and northwest
ern Monroe county, this State. Ike
Bennett and Clint Waters, bark-ped-
dlers, were in the depth of the woods
on Friday LAST, when they we're start
ed by a sudden darkening of the sky
and noise like heavy gale of wind.
At the same time the trees about then
began to fill with wild pigeons. They
came from the northward, aud as far
as the meo could see in that direction,
the air was black with the birds. They
settled down in the trees as thick as
bees, and in an incredibly short space
of time the woods seemed to be liv-
ing mast of pigeons. They lighted in
the trees in such numbers that large
branches were broken BY their weight.
They seemed to take no heed of the
men and crowded the trees under which
they stood, occupying branches almost
within reach of them. Nearly half an
hour elapsed before they all found rest
ing places in the woods. The bark
peddlers killed hundreds of them with
clubs and walked FIVE miles through
the woods without reaching the end Oi
the roost. The men say that with one
swOop of long club they could knock
dozens to the ground, creating only a
temporary panic among the pigeons,
and that only among those directly at
tackled.
The lumbermen and others, when
told by Bennett and Waters of the
wonderful sight they had seen, organ
ized night hunt. Dozens Of men
armed with poles and guns started for
the wooas. and reached there after
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

minor value from his schooimates and
all others with whom be came in contact,
and sil efforts to deter him from course
Of recklessness and ruin we're useless
aud wasted. He would steal the chill
dren'5 lunch from their baskets It
school their books fro@ the desks |;
their knives, pencils and playthings
from their pockets, and all SO artfully
that he was seldom caught in the act.
He would sisit stores and purloin spools
sf thread, bits Of ribbon, and every
thing he could lazy his hands on. Be-
fore be reached the age Of sixteen he
had acquired the name Of the shrewd-
est thief in all the country round. 1t
was said of him that she could steal the
inside of a pie without breaking the
crust" One incident of peculiarly
ludicrous nature, We remember to have
heard. He had stolen pair Of shoes
from a Schoolcraft shoe dealer, end
when be attempted to put them on, be
found they both belonged to one foot.
Being useless to him without mating,
be returned them to the shop, and re-
marked to the proprietor that the pair
of shoes he purchased there few days
previous turned OUT to belong both to
ore foot, and would like to change one
of them. The merchant supposed that
the clerk had sold him the shoes, hunt
ed up the mate TO one and he departed.
As he grew older his peculations in
creased in number and value, and he
became an adept at bank breaking.
horse-stesling, forgery, and the mum
berless crimes that crowd the vocabu-
larry OF organized robbery, until within
the last four or FIVE years be has been
prominently connected with some of the
largest robberies, thefts, and crooked
transactions that have occurred in this
country.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

SPRING fashions in Indiana are de-
cidedly Republican. May cleaning in
the Hoosier cities on Tuesday last was
SO thorough that the Democracy has
been cleaned completely out of sight.
1t has been lead through May dance
which it will long remember. Indian
apolis leads the van, and is followed up
BY Lsporte, South Bend, Franklin,
Wabash, Shel5yvllle, Kokomo, Bloom
ington, Charlottesville, Connorsville,
Lafayette, Terre Haute, Madison, and
even that old Democratic stronghold, -,
Fort Wayne, all sending in good old
time Republican majorities.-.7A .7Aoona
Tribune.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Can the House Play with the At
torney General 2

The report of the committee to in
vestigate the boom bill looks like .
white washing affair, excepting SO far
as it relates to Lynott and Petrof, who
have been made the scape Goats, as 1t
were, to bear off the sins of whomso-
ever engaged in the crooked ways that
the expelled members testified to. The
House needed victim or victims, and
the above named men are the men who
were placed on the altar to save others.
The very action of tie House on the
report, when the committee was dis
charged from further duty, is full and
complete recognition that the men who
were driven out of the Hcuse as mem
bers are not the only ones who are
guilty. The following resolution, which
was adopted on a vote of l54 yeas to Z
nays, tell as plainly as it can be tod
without telling it out directly that In
the opinion of the House it has not
purged, cleansed itself from the i'm
purity of the boom iniquity. But here
is the resolution
ResolUed, That said report, together
with copy OF ali the printed testimony,
he referred to the Attorney General,
with the urgent request that he will use
all the means which the Constitution
aud laws of this Commonwealth place
in his power, for the purpose Of bring
ing to punishment all parties guilty of
corrupt practices in connection with
Senate bill No. q.
If 1t were possible for the defans,
Democratic Lower House of the Legis-
lature of this Commonwealth to do any,
thing to astonish the public just such a
resolution would astonish people gen
orally, for it had just declared by its
action against the expelled members
that they were the only guilty parties,
and then turns about and ask the Attor-
ney General to punish all parties guilty
of corrupt practices in connection with
Senate bill No. 81. 1t is hoped the
attorney General will promptly Go SO,
taking Herdis, Embick, the members,
and all, into court. The people ask,
can the House play with the Attorney
General
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

done its worst, and when the bnunda.
rieS Of the insane asylum have collect
ed their witnesses. bis friends may defy
sny man to end in his entire record Z
single thing that will be blot upon hfs
integrity. And know that the peo-
pie Of his country, remembering the
sertices which he did do, will not allow
his name to perish but they will place
him on the roll ofimperistable fenown,
and they will say that shatever faults
he may have committed be was an hon.
est man to the last.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Brick Pomsroy's Excuse for the
Murder Of President Lincoln
Col. Forney Settles the Excuse

Brick Pomeroy's Excuse for the
Murder Of President Lincoln
Col. Forney Settles the Excuse.
Brick Pomeroy recently published an
article from correspondent in excuse
for J Wilkes Boothe, for bis ssssssins-
tion Of Abraham Lincoln. The SUBJ
stance Of the letter or article is that
Booth, In company with j. W. Forney
and one or two others, called on Mr..
Lincoln one night and asked him to
pardon man named Beale, q rebel,
who had been convicted of the crime of
destroying property OF Northern people
along rhe Canada line, and throwing
railroad trains off the track, and other
infam rus depredations, and was then
under sentence of death. The story
states that Beale was boon companion
Of Booth. and that the persistent en-
treaty of the latter prevailed on Presi-
dent Lincoln to promise Booth that bis
friend, Beale, should be pardoned, and
that the whole party lef, rejoicing under
the promise that the President bad
given them. The story further states
Booths deep disappointment on
the next day, when be was informed
that the President had recalled the
promised pardon on account of objec-
tons urged by Mr.. Seward, then Sccre-
tary of State. Booth then grew TO an
angry frame Of mind, aud thence into
the bitteiest feeling of determined re-
venge; aud thus the broken promise Of
President Lincoln became the cause of
the attempted assassination of Secie-
tary Seward and the complete a,sassi-
nation of President Lincoln.
The story reads we'll enough to thrill
one through and through, but its truth
fulnass, and consequently the influence
it was intended to have, namely, to in
u great measure excuse Booth for his
murderous conspiracy, is entirely broken
up by published statement By Col. j.
W. Forney, that he never visited Presi-
dent Lincoln in company with Booth,
and that he bad no personal acquain.
tance whatever with the assassin.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
News Items.


suicide by tying stone to his body
aud jumping, thus ladened, into the
river He was drowned.
A Pottsvills despatch Of last We'd
nesday says: John Conroy, a miner,
was shot in Spring Brook, Luzerne
county, in January, 1874, snd died in
twelve Gays. Patrick Kelley, who did
the shooting during drunken spree,
fed the country. Though in company
with two other men at the time Of the
shooting, suspicion was fastened upon
him, and John Jennings, a friend of
both Kelly and COnroy, pursued the
murderer Cor two years, finally track
ing him to Mahonoy City, Sehuylkill
county, where be was arrested yester-
day. Kelly at first denied the
shooting, but after being committed ad-
mitted be shot Conroy while drunk.
Three thousand iron workers of Shelf
field, England, who we're on a strike,
have resumed work at reduced wages.
On Monday night week about forty
masked men appeared at the coal mines
north of Mass,llon, Ohio, seized and
tied the watchman, and set the coal
shafts on fire.
India is raising wheat and sending it
to Europe, but as yet it is not known to
what extent it will effect American
trade in that gram.
On the 4th inst, or the night of the
3rd inst, at Warsaw, Kentucky, Ben
French and wife, who we're incarcerated
in the county jail for poisoning an old
and wealthy colored man named Jacob
James, were taken from the Jail by a
mob of masked men and hung to the
limb of tree.
At Lykens, on the afternoon of the
4.h inst, DR.. A. Maurer, physician
of Eminent, in Dauphin county, while
walking on the railroad, was run over.
ard both his legs and an arm we're cut
off and his head badly bruised. He
lived out a short time after the acci
deht.
The girls at the High School at East
hampton, Mass, have formed a base
ball nine.
A 9S-year old tramp stuck fast in a
Lancaster county mud hole.
The present grand jury of Allegheny
county contains one reporter and one
colOred man.
At convention of Catholic societies
in Scranton on Wednesday las, it was
resolved that hereafter at Catholic fu-
uerals no more than FIVE carriages should
be allowed. The priests endorse this
movement.
Osborne, the tramp quack who caused
the death of Mary b. Jennings, in
Crawford county, by giving her medi-
cine for some imaginary disease, has
been found guilty Of involuntary man
slaughter
The Washington Observer says that
DR.. LIE Moyne Of that place is having
q cremated furnace built to calcins his
body after death.
Arrangements were made in Altoo-
ma for reunion of the old Third regi-
ment p. ". to be held in Cresson early
in September.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
The Part of the Kings Fool,

In past days. among royalty, every
noble house had retainer, or man
in it who WIS called the Kings
fool. This individual had almost
unlimited license to say and do all
manner Of ridiculous things, play all
kinds of jokes on his royal or noble
master, or any or al OF their guests
and retainers. He was kept in good
living to create amusement for the
people to whom he belonged Bar
ring exceptions the Office of the
Kings fool is unknown in this coun-
try. and when he viii again become
an officer in Royal and Noble house
holds is question for time to settle.
History does repeat itself, and the
character may repeat itself sooner
than is expected OF all the charac-
tiers least expected and least desired
is man in the character of Kings
fool in a Legislative body in a State
of the Republic IN the United States,
and it is with amazement that the in
.eihgent reading people of the coun-
try learn that the Senate of this
State developed a character who
played the part of the Kings fool,
in going about jesting, joking on the
Boom bill until he had people to be-
heve that it was huge thing of cor
luption. At least he says it was in
jest, or joke that be said money was
paid for and against the bill The
name of the Senator is Boyer; he
represents Cearfeld county and
other counties in that Senatorial dis
trict. Withou. taking Mr.. Boyer in
any other light than that in which
the committee that examined his case
put him, and in which the people of
the State will see him, he viii be con-
sidered as the man who played the
character above named. BY thus
viewing Boyer he is viewed as the
Senate viewed him, for they accepted
the report. They have said that he
WAS jesting, joking, fooling with
members when he talked to them in
such way as to make them believe
that there was money paid for and
against the Boom bill
The report of the committee is,
perhaps, as whitening as if 1t had
condemned the man for corrupt prac-
tees and asked for his expulsion for
by declaring that he did. what he did
In Jest, he Is declared a revised edi-
ton of the Kings Fool, a character
utterly incapable of any sincere work.
1t IS a great misfortune to any dis
trict to send man like Mr. Boyer to
either branch of the Legislature. 1t
would have been infinitely more to
his credit, and saved the State con-
siderable expense, and great dis
graceful scandal, if he had gone to
the woods of Clearfield and cut tim
Der instead of going to the Legisla-
ture.
Barring the fact that Mr.. Boyer is
Democrat, it is a great pity that he
chose to play the part of the Kings
Fool in the State Senate for the
amusement of foolish people ike
himself.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Outrages in Scuslkill County.

The outrages Of an uncivilized char
acter are becoming so numerous in
Schuyl county that the attention OF
the country generally is turning itself
against them, as may be learned from
articles such as the following, which
appeared in Forney's Press Of the 4th
inst.
Schuylkill county is in . coud tion
at the present moment which challenges
the attention of those who are charged
with the maintenance Of public peace,
and adds daily to the horror Of those
who follow the relation of crime perpe-
trated there. We may say that the
entire anthracite coal region of the
State is in the same condition, though
Scbuylkill county for the last six
months has been more noted than any
other portion of the same domain Cor
the sanguinary character Of the crimes
perpct1ated within its limits. This
lswlessness has ceased to satisfy itself
in the destruction of property. Coal
breakers are no longer, or seldom,
burned as a species of revenge, and
even the ordinary branding of an IN
offensive man has ceased to be satisfac-
ton. The fell spirit of murder has
seized large portion of the miners,
and the deliberarion with which men
are shot down there proves that there is
either something at fault with the social
organization in the coalregion, that the
corporations which employ large labor
ing forces are not able properly to man
age them, or that the legal authorities,
police forces, &C., are deficient in power
or defective in execution. If these
sanguinary results occurred ohce q
month they would indeed be awful If
they took place once IN year they
would be far less horrible but as they
form the record of the week aud the
day, they ale well calculated to attract
all eyes to the locality which they
afiiict and fill with mourning. There
must be remedy for this lodged some
where, and the sooner it Is brought
forth as a curb and corrective the
better for Scbuylkill county and the
laborers of the State. lrruptions like
these are prone to spread; they soon
become epidemic, and in the uncertain
condition of the labor market all over
the country it would indeed be fearful
state into winch to cast men to have
them believe that the way te make
" times good" "work plenty" and
"wages high," Is either to shoot EN-
ployers or waylay and assassinate each
other. The men in Schuylkill county
who are supposed to commit these mur-
ders are of a class Of foreigners VINO
take great pleasure In free government,
aud have imbibed strong notions of its
privileges. They are the natives of
lands where they never exercised sin
gle right of any political or financial
Importance, where their industry vas
so poorly rewarded that 1t barely af-
forded item a subsistence, and where
the exac;ions to which they we're sub
jected forced them constantly into con-
ditions Of social degradation or CHM
erical antagonism to the local authori-
ty. There is way to teach these men
to act differently, and the authorities
must find it very soon, or the contagion
will spread. Law has never been known
to fail in correcting such evils, when
properly enforced.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad,
Arrangement Of Passenger Trains.
MAY s.h, 1876.

MAY Sth, 1876.
Tram, isars Hrri.5Rrg a, folIours:
For New York at 20, s 10 a. M. 90 and
= i0p. m.
For Philadelphia at ) 20, 10, 9 45 a. m,
, % and 3 80 p. III.
For Reading at ) 20, 10, I5 a. M, 90,
5 81 ahd 40 m.
For PottsSills at ) ~, 8 10 a. m. aud 80
T. ". std via Schryikii & Susquehanna
Branch at ? 10 p. N.
For Allri.tvsn- at D 20, 10 a. m, 90,
80 nd 10 p. M
Ehe D 20, s 10 "a. M : 90 and = 10 D. IL.
trains have through cars for New York.
The 10 a. IN. and 200 p III. trains have
through cars for Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS.
For New YORK at 20 a. m.
For Allentown and way stations at Goa IN.
For Reading, Philadelphia and wa stations
at ! IS p. m.
Trains for Harrisburg isGre as foi.ops:
Leave New York at % a. M, 90. s &c
and q As D. IN.
Leave Philadelphia at Is a. m, 5 40 and
10 .. m.
Leave Reaaing at 40, 40, IL 20 a. NJ,
so, 8 10 and 10 35 p. N.
Leave Pottsyille at 6 00, 9 90 a. m. and 4 35f
p. NJ, snd via Schuylki,i and Susque-
hanna Brunch at 8 % a. IN.
Leave Allentown at 2 80, so, e55 g. n,
II 20, 4 so and 8 90 p. m.
The 80 a. m. train from Allentown and
the 40 a. m. train from Reading do not
run on Mondays.
SUNDjYS.
Leave New York at 80 a. m.
Leave Philadelphia at 10 p IN.
Leave Reading at 40, 10 g. m. and 10
% p. m.
Leave Allentown at 30 a. m. and SEQ p m.
'Via Morrrs and Esssz Railroad.
JOHN Z. wOOTTEN,
General Superintsndsnf.