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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26
The Consumption Of Timber.

We have now about 10000 miles of
railroad; the annual consumption for
ties or sleepers alone is 10000, 900, or
thirty years growth of $4,000 acres. To
fence these roads would require at least
100000 miles of fence. We have TO-
900 miles of wire, which requires in its
putting up 10000 trees, while the an
nual repairs must take 300,0 more.
The little, insignificant lucifer match
consumes annually in its manufacture
100000 cubic feet of the finest pine.
The bricks that are annually baked re-
quire 100000 cords of wood, which
would sweep the timber clean from
$4,000 acres. Shoe-pegs are quite as
important an article as matches or
bricks, and to make the required an
nual supply consumes 100000 cords of
fine timber, while the manufacture of
lasts and boot-trees takes 100000 cords
of maple, beech and birch, and about
the same amount is required for plane
stocks and the handles of tools. The
packing boxes made in the United
States in 1874 amounted S12,000,000
while the timber manufactured into
agricultural implements, wagons, etc,
is more than Sl0O,OO0,O 900. The farm
and rural fences of the country con
sumo an immense amount of lumber
and timber annually, but as we grow
older as nation this consumption,
may, and probably will, be reduced
by the more general use of live fences
or hedges. Our consumption of tim
Der is not only daily on the increase,
but our expectation of timber is also
rapidly increasing. Our slaves go by
the million to France annually; walnut,
oak, maple and pine to England, and
spars and docking timber to China and
Japan.-Latmbernan'S Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26

POSTMASTER JONES, of Crook City, in
the Black Hills, has fallen into disgrace.
A local newspaper tells the story: " The
people of Crook City believe. he has
gone for good, and petitions are being
circulated for the appointment of new
Postmaster. At the lastgam of poker
he played there he made grab for the
pot, said to represent Sl25, and claimed
it as his money, accusing the other
players Of cheating. He made good his
grab by refusing to give it up at the
point of a revolver, daring the holder of
the weapon to shoot him. 1t was a
clear case of desperation, as he had in
variably lost, and probably this was his
only chance to secure sufficient money
to leave the country with"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26
AUTUMNAL PICTURES.

! SEE the fields where cattle craze.
The hills soft-meshed in silver haze,
The gold-brown brook and ancient bridge,
And old red mill beneath the ridge,
And dim lights on the orchard side
With moss-grown trees low branching wide;
The hamlet nestled in the glade
A drowsy nook that loves the shade.
The dusty highway, long and brown,
Slow creeping out beyond the town
To breast the hillside in its strength,
A silent treeless mile in length
Far to the hanging woods on high
That with their verdure soothe the eye
With myriad dyes OF dusky green
That wear September's richest sheen.
Ger old stone wall, the blackberry twines,
1nlaced with wanton gadding vines,
The clematis,and wild foX-grape.
The shad- bush and the feathered brake,
And woedbine curled in ceder spire
That soon shall glow in line of FIRE;
Nor darker could the elder CLEAN
With fruitage dipped in stygian stream.
All freaked and splashed with guiltless blood,
The sunach flares along the wood
The mullen takes its lonely stand
Upon the billy pasture land,
Where slow the crlckets voice is heard
Planning some monltory word,
Shrilled by a small black-coated friar
Who breaches meath the furze and brier.
The golden rod from myriad whorls
Its sunny oriflamme unfurls,
And triumphs DER the dusty way,
Companioned by the thistle gay,
That spreads disc rosy fair
To feed the pretty birds of air.
And foremost with twittering note,
The dainty goldfnch swells its throat.
The noontide warns the quiet air
With scent of apples spiced and rare,
And ounces by the messy well
Feel in their veins old Midas spell
While clusters on the bronzng vine
Breathe out an odor half divine.
From thick embroidered, bosky trees
Comes now the murmurous hum of bees.
Far off the golden stubble land
Lies in a warm and glowing band,
As If old earth, summed through and through,
Had ripened to a richer hue
Clouds notified like the ringdove's breast
Move softly onward toward the west,
With riffs of deep and tender hue,
A nameless depth of gentian blue
In perfect beauty, flushed and sweet.
Dear autumn comes with glowing feet:
Her tanned cheek wears a sunset dye,
A laughing light is in her eye;
About her shapely ankles brown
Swells out modest russell gown
With here and there a color dash
A breast-knot of the mountain ash.
Her round arms globed melons bear
And scarlet leaves have crowned her hair.
augusta Larned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26

An innovation in modern civiliza-
ton has occurred in San Francisco. A
citizen has beaten gas company at
law.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

Mrs. Csvanaugh, the wife of a we'll
known citizen Of Martins Ferry, o,
came to horrible eud on Wednesday
the 10th inst. While putting coal on
an open CRATE her dress caught fire, aud
AS she was alone in the house she was
so burned that she died 10 few hours.
The flesh on her lower llmbs. arms and
neck was literally Toasted aud fell from
the bones when she moved. Her agony
was beyond description. Death fortu-
nately soon came to end 1t.
A fire on the lsinst., destroyed j.
W. Clarke's residence at Caketown near
Sudbury. Loss $4,000; insured.
Jessup's packing house, at Waterloo
Iowa, was burned on Wednesday. Loss
$50, 900 insurance, $4,000.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

Two o.oGne. sin iaw. Robert Fish
burne and Walter s. Harley, of Wal
terboro, s. c., fought duel with re-
volvers near Savannah, Ga, on Sat
urday a week. Harley received u
fatal wound. Fishburne escaped.
A dispatch relative to the same
duel, under date of the 18th inst,
says: Walter S. Harley, the duelist,
died yesterday morning. An inquest
was held upon the body, and the yer
diet was that the deceased came to
his death from gun-shot wound, in
fiicted by some person unknown to
the jury. This is the second mem
ber of this family who has lost his
life in a duel. Thomas Harley, his
brother. was one of large party Of
Southerners who moved from Charles
ton to Texas at the close of the war
He had been in Texas but a short
time before he became involved in a
quarrel. A duel was the result, and
Thomas Harley received a wound
from which he died soon afterward.
Col. Harley, the father of the family,
was known as an uncommonly pas.
sionate man. At one time he became
enraged at one Of his female slaves.
and at once sold all her children to
punish her. In her sorrow and an
ger she cursed her master, telling
him that the children of a man 30
merciless IA he would surely come to
some bad end. Walter, the son who
has just been killed, was commonly
considered the best member of the
family.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
News Items.

Pottstown horses are affected with
diphiheria.
Cider drawn through q lead faucet
poisoned farmer in Amherst, n. II.
Thirteen lives arc known to have
been lost by the railroad disaster at
Tar,ffSille, Conn.,, on Monday night q
week.
1t commenced showing on the 18th
on the Sierra Nevada mountains, aud
steadily increased, aud became furious
from Virginia City to Sacramento. The
sheds were blown down at Colfax and
communication with the west entirely
cut of, west Of Emigrant Gap.
A meeting of bricklayers; plasterers,
mach'nists, blscksmiths, tsiiors, cris-
pins aud cigar makers, in New York,
on the 10Th, predicted dire disaster il
the silver bill was not passed.
Robbert Bonner, OF New York, ha,
purchased the tro,'ing horse Mazo,nan.
Ia at Milwaukee for twenty thousand
dollars.
Peter Wslcott, proprietor Of tho
Kingston House, Kingston, was arres
ted on Saturday evening a week for
passing a counterfeit Eve dollar bill.
According to the Eagle, Reading has
remarkable ghost which recently ap.
peared to y woman, touched the sleeve
Of her drsss aud nearly paralyred her
arm.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

To enable married women who's,
husbands are lunatics to dispose O
their separate real estates. Recon-
mitted to Judiciary General Commit
tee.
The following bill was passed sec
ond reading:
Requiring the prothonotary of the
several courts Of common pleas O.
this Commonwealth to keep separat.
dockets in certain cases.
FRIDAY, JANUARY Is, 1878.
The following bills we're afirmatively
reported:
To prevent and punish the rehypoth.
ecation Of stocks, bonds or other secu
rites pledged for money lent and bor-
rowed.
To relieve charitable devises and be.
quests from the pay ment of collateral
Inheritance tax.
For the better enforcement of mon.
eyed DEGREES in equity.
Authorize justices Of the peace to
determine cases relative to securing
stolen goods.
Authorize assignment and satisfac.
tion of records, etc.
Repeal act providing for appointmen,
of special detectives.
Prevent the wxnton and cruel use oil
poisons.
Relative to the preparation Of cour,
indices.
Give married women power to pur-
chase or sell all kinds of real and per-
sonsl estate.
Provide for the retirement of Su-
preme Court judges
The following bills we're introduced !:
Regulating tees OF county treasurers.
Relating TO commitment by the courts
Of quarter sessions to county workhouse.
For the reorganization of the State
militia.
To authorize the courts TO correct
detective certificates Of scknowledg-
ments in certain cases.
A bill requiring the prothonotary Of
the several courts to keep separate
dockets in certain cases, was passed
finally.
The following bills were considered
on second reading:
To require all private corporations
applying to the State for aid to file in
the Auditor Generals nffice their ac-
ceptsnce of the provisions Of section 2,
article l6, of the Constitution.
To extend the time during which cor
porations may hold and convey the title
10 real estate bought under execution
or conveyed to them in satisfaction Of
debts; recommitted to the Judiciary
Committee.
Mr. Gazzam moved that when the
Senate adjourn it adjourn until Monday
at 7:30 P. NJ, and that the session be
confined to the reading OF bills for the
first time. Agreed to.
The consideration of an act to fur
ther regulate the pay of county com
mis,ioners was interrupted by the hour
Of adjournment.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
CHURcH:

It 10 estimated that the proper ty
held by the Roman Catholic bishops Of
this country aggregates one hundred
and ten millions Of dollars in value,
nearly slf Of which is untaxed.
New York State contains 6,243
churches, with a seating capacity OF
1881, ,476. The cIergymen Of the
State have an average salary of eigh,
hundred and thirty. nine dollars year.
Scotch Presbyterianism is making
considerable progress in London.
The Roman Catholic Church is
stronger than all the others in San
Francisco.
The Rev. Luther Hasley, d. d., is
now q resident of Hammogton, N. j.,
and Is in the eighty-fourth year of his
age. He still breaches occasionally.
A debt Of Christ NJ. 4. burch,
Pitrsburg, amounting to $500, was
raised last Sunday at the rate of SlOO
per minute.
The Messiah Lutheran Church,
Pittsburg. has extended q unanimous
call to Rev. DR.. John Mcrron, OF
Bloomsbury.
The Sundsy-Sehooi Of DR.. Eggles-
tons Church of the Christian Endeavor
Brooklyn, numbers over one thousand
children.
Rev. j. Hoberle, Of Titusville has
entered on bis duties as pastor OF ST.
Paul's reformed Church, Pittsburg.
There are now 900 missionaries and
ordained native pastors in ludia, eIclu-
sive of Burmah and Ceylon.
Tie Methodist preachers Of New
ark, N. j., at q recent meeting discuss
ed the question: els the belief in fu-
tur. punishment on the decline in or
thodox churches 2" The discussion
thowed that difference of opinion exls-
ted among those present IN regard to a
literal "bell fire." The subject is to
cUme up again.
Rev. james Trimble, Baptist min
lister of Maine, has fallen heir to $780,
600.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
FOR EIGN.

The Queen sympsthizes with the Sui
tan.
To day King Alfonso of Spain will be
married.
Five thousand six hundred and sew
enteen males suicided in France during
1877.
King Alfonso has reformed. He
goes to bull fights no more.
Stanley's African expedition cost
$ll5,000 aud he discovered IL, 900, 900
uncovered Africans. The orchester
Press ihluks SIX heathens for FIVE cents
extremely reasonable.
Russia has II 900 miles of railway
nearly all built since 1868.
Russian troops were supplied with
$l1 ,444,i ~ worth of tobacco last year
The Turks are beginning to fear that
The Russians intend to push on to the
capital. The defense Of Adrisnople
will, probably, not be attempted. The
remaining Turkish forces will be rallied
al toustantiuopie-
The utmost terror aud disorganIza-
tion prevail throughout the country be
tween Philipopoiis and Constantinople.
Panic stricken fugitiyes continue to
crowd toward the capital by thousands.
The Turkish government and the Eng
lish Relief Committee have great diff
Guilty to prevent Wholesale loss of life
from hunger and exposure
Gen. Garibaldi has written to King
Humbert l begging him to follow in
his fathers footsteps.
Mr.. George H. Boxer, the United
States minister at St. Petersburg, hard
ed the Emperor Yesterday his letters of
recall. aud 'lr +. W. Stoughton, who
succeeds Mr.. Boxer presented his cred
entails to bis majesty.
Late aovices Of the suffering in China
caused hy the famine are appalling.
People OF all ages are dying OF actual
starvation by thousands. The famine
extends over district which includes
at least Eve thousand villages, and 1t
Is said at least five hundred die daily
Houses are pulled down in every vii
iage 20 sell the timber and thatch IN
order to get food. Those who can ge,
husks aud dry leaves, ordinarily used
tor fuel, are considered we'll of. Most
OF the poor young glrls have been sold;
old men, middle aged men and young
men and children die daily Of sheer
aud others freeze. The
dead cannot get burial they are too
many. and none eau afford the expense;
so they are cast daily into large pits.
The people at Shansi are SAID to be
living on the corPses Of their fellow
beings who die of starvation. And the
strong are killing the weak for the sake
of obtaining their flesh for food.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
News Items.

There are one hundred and sixty. five
prisoners in the York Jail; nearly all OF
whom are tramps confined under the
vagraut act.
Another party of colonists leaves
Reading March for Florida. They
go in search of orange groves, and will,
IN all likelihood, have to be content
with cane brakes aud crocodilss.
AT the annual meeting Of the Phila.
delphia Insurance Patrol held yester-
day the secretary submitted q state
mcnt showing the number Of fires dur
ing the year to have been 6i9 involv.
ing losses amounting to $Ils,l25.l9,
she Insurance on the praperty affected
smcuutiug TO sS ,023, 2i0 sS 2
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

GERMAN military critics say that
Germany could easily invade Eng
land with 100000 troops without
serious opposition from the English
feet. German experts generally
know what they are talking about,
especially in war matters. A signif-
cant fact in this connection is that
the publication of this item has
caused great Joy in Berlin In view
of these statement-Germany's abil,
ity TO invade England, and the evi-
dent desire of the German people to
pitch into ''peridious Albion" 1t be
hooves the war element in England
to have a care how it provokes the ire
of Russia and Germany-Harr,s5urg
Telegraph.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

INTELLIGENCE from Washington
says: The Secretary of the Treasury
on the 10th inst, made a public an
nouncement, asking for popular sub
scriptions to the 4 per cent. loan,
The bonds are issued in sums of $50,
500, $500 and $1,000, and are offer
ed at par with accrued interest in
coin. One-fourth of one per cent.
commission will be allowed on all
subscriptions of $1,000 and over
Persons on subscribing can advance
two per cent. of the purchase money
and can have their own time to pay
the balance, for which interest will
be required at the rate of 4 per cent
When the payment is completed, the
bonds Will be forwarded to the pur-
chasers.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
COUNTRY PEOPLE. who live between

COUNTRY PEOPLE who live between
cities, have no objection to urge
against through mails, from city to
city without single stop, if it SO
pleases the management to run them.
The part of the mail service that
they are displeased with, is, that part
that discriminates against them.
They consider that they are as virtu-
GUS and as good as their fine cousins
in the cities. Their letters and news
papers are as deserving of consider
alton as such missives from the cities,
and while such an acknowledgment
is made, from all sides, there Is a
discrimination in favor of the cities,
in that the United States mail
service is made exceedingly accom-
modating to the cities, while the
country is neglected. Let them
have through fast trains; who cares'
but give us country folks between
cities mail on the way trains, and We
will be satisfied" That is the senti-
ment of the country Mail on way
trains is all the local people ask. The
country people say, give the cities
mail delivery on lightning trains if
YOU choose; we wish none of their
in our delivery, for one
third of the time it is no delivery at
all, but give us mails on way trains,
and run them ON lightning or any
other time to suit yourself.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
lSANk MS.

The Danville Banking and Trust
company lllinoise has closed its doors
1t Is stated that its only assets are
bonds Of Paris and Danville railroad,
VIII oh was built by the bank. II this
is correct, the deposltors will be gu,
about $500, 900. The banks coudi.
tiou has not, however, been officially
made public.
j. VI. Patterson, banker, Sterling,
H., has made an assignment. liabil.
tiles, $50, 0,oO0j nominal Assets, $780,.
600.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

II has turned out that the suit
againt Governor Tilden for the re
covery of unpaid income tax, was one
of the greatest blunders that law
yer can be guilty of, such a blunder
as will forever render briehess the
blockhead who made it. The suit
was brought for the recovery of in
come tax for the year 1861, a year
for which no income tax was ever
collected. There was no law author
izing tax for that year The lawyers
name who thus biundered is Bliss.
It's a nice name he has, but he is too
vicious q man, or to dumb a creature
to ever reach the happy land of bliss.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

Ex-GovERNoR BULLOCK, Of Georgia,
has passed through court, on charges
of bribery, and the "dear knows
what else, and been acquitted.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

SAFE MAILS on way trains for the
country is what the country people
are anxious for. When postmaster
or mail agent writes to headquarters
that he is over-burdened with work
now, his case had better be looked
into. Such looking into will reveal
the fact that there are as good peo-
pie as he, who will discharge the
duties of the office faithfully, con-
scientiously, for the same salary, and
not grumble about overwork Of the
Office. Give the country people a
mail on way trains.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

An exchange relates that MIR. Oil
yer p. Dunn, aged "a, wanted to
marry Mrs. Elizabeth Way, aged so.
They both live in New Brunswick, n.
j., and are members of the First Bap-
tist church. Mrs. Way consented,
but the parties could find no minister
who would agree to perform the GER
emony.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23

a RESOLUTION was introduced in
Congress, authorizing post-masters
in towns Of over five thousand inhab-
itants to sell u. s. bonds"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-01-23
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