Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-21
ORIENTAL, Pa, Feb. Is, 1877.

to pen few items of news from this
neighborhood.
Business is dull in every depart
ment, and people generally seem to
be of the opinion that if money does
not get plentier, there will be hard
times, and your correspondent rather
comedies with that opinion. As to
that article getting scarcer, we have
no fears, because there is none circu-
lating now. Notwithstanding oil
this, people manage to keep in mo-
ton, but mostly on more economical
plans than heretofore. No doubt the
lessons learned by the present strin-
gency in financial matters will be fol
lowed by results which will be bene-
fetal to all those to whom education
will do any good We are now being
educated in the school of economy,
and, no doubt, the lessons learned
will in many cases prove to be lasting
ones.
Oriental will have change in the
location of the Post Office shortly.
Mr.. Augustus Dinger has been ap-
poinied Post Master in place of H.
K. Frymoyer. This viii cause re-
moval of the Office to point better
calculated to accommodate the com
munity for which it was established.
The change is approved by the peo-
pie of the neigh5orhood generally.
Mr.. Abraham Stroup met with a
serious accident the other day. He
cut one of his feet with a hatchet
that flew out of his hand while using
it, making an ugly cash across the
instep. He is doing well.
Mr.. Frederick B. Stroup, formerly
citizen OF Susquehanna township,
and at one time engaged in the mer-
camille business, died a few weeks
ago, at Downingtown, Pa
Our new Sheriff, ". D. Walls, Esq,
was down here few weeks ago, hold
ing an inquisition on the lands for
merly owned by Ephraim House, de
ceased, to appraise the dover award
ed by the Court to Margaret House,
one of the widows of said deceased.
The Sheriff was engaged in the inqui-
sition for three days, and during that
time a goodly number of our citizens
had an opportunity of becoming ac-
quainted with him. He made quite
a favorable impression among our
citizens. They do not now hate him
any more than sheriffs are hated gen
orally.
In the proceedings of our last term
of court / see that the Grand Jury
to nave some kind of
work prepared for ''tramps, who are
now fiocking in without number, to
be fed at our county jail, at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers of the coun
ty. In my opinion it would have
been better if the Grand jury had
said, stop feeding them" These
are all calculated to
encourage vagrancy instead of dts-
it. 1t is not at all amaz-
ing to see the country overfowed
with such characters, when it is no
torious fact that perfect chains of
are prepared throughout
the length and breadth of the coun-
try, where they will be fed at public
expense. The only wonder about
the matter is that there are not more
of them. In 1875 the taxpayers of
the county paid $3.50, and last year
1896, for feeding tramps. But Juni-
alta county is not an exception. for so
it is in all the counties through which
main lines of travel pass. 1t is an
outrage on the people of the whole
State. Why is the tramp law allow
ed to lie dead letter on the books
Why do not some of your Justices
and Constables, who are sworn to
maintain the majesty of the law, ar
rest the tramps and hire them out,
as the law provides If any tramps
come around in the country, and are
fed, we are told that we have no right
to collect from the county; neither
would it seem right to send them a
distance of twenty-five miles to the
county jail to get q meal If they
are worthy at all of our charity-as
a few no doubt are-let them be fed
wherever they call at meal times
but I ain speaking of that innumer-
able host who are induced to life of
by the aforementioned ar
As long as the Scrip
tural injunction holds good that those
'' who will not work should not eat,
just SO long these arrangements are,
in forty-nine cases out of fifty, an i'll
charity. Stop this at once,
and those who are worthy will be
taken care of in the districts where
they properly belong, and those who
might be more appropriately termed
scamps than tramps, would be com
pelled to find more honorable means
of livelihood, or be taken care of by
some other means. Make more az
IN feed them. and the