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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-06
An Old Kentucky Duel

A duel was fought at Soap Island, in
Bridgeport, in 1896. The participants
were Shelton and kingsbury. Shelton
thought it was real; kingsbury knew
it to be joke. The guns were loaded
with soft soap. Shelton won the first
fire, banged away and dropped behind
a log. Kingsbury walked up, put the
muzzle of the gun against the head of
Shelton and pulled the trigger. Such
a looking man was never seen. Soft
soap covered his head entirely. In the
agony of despair Shelton reached up,
got handful of the soap and exclaim-
ed: ''Oh, my poor brains! my poor
brains,' Realizing the hoax. he sprang
up and chased kingsbury off the island
with rocks, swearing all the while like
a sailor. Shelton afterward enlisted in
sam. Houstan's war, and made good
soldier. Coming back from Texas, he
passed through Hardinsville with his
gun on his shoulder. One of his old
friends cried out Halt He did so.
present arms,'' He presented. ''Make
ready - He did so. "Take aim"' He
aimed. Fire. He wheeled, fired
right at the fellow, the bullet just miss
ed his head, went through the door and
dropped on the floor inside. Shelton
took to his heels.
In the civil war he made a brave sol
dier, was unfiinching in his attention
TO duty, and died likea soldier at Mis-
sionary Ridge.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-06
Wild AuimaIs in India.

According to an Indian newspaper
2l ,39l persons and IS ,234 head of cattle
were killed by wild animals and snakes
in British India during 1873. As to the
destruction of human life, we learn that
wolves had bad pre-emiDence among
the animals, for they killed l.06l per-
sons, in the year, while tigei. killed.
but S2S. The y. W. provinces avenged
the loss of al human lives bv killing
2,525 wolves. LeOpards slew 2O4 hu-
man beings, and 3,5l2 of these animals
were slain, the reward being about rs
35 per head. Bears slew ST persons,
and | Isl of this class of wild animals
were slain, though the average reward
was only RS per head. Hyenas slew
6S human beings, and / .3S6 of the tribe
were killed, the reward being about rs.
3 per head. But wild beasts commit
small havoc as compared with the loss
sustained by snakes. In the year under
notice these reptiles killed IL ,010 of our
fellow beings. On the other side of the
account we find that 270, lS5 snakes were
killed. The reward offered for the de-
struction of snakes amounted for all In
dia TO but rs. 49, .54S. As TO the loss that
the country sustained of cattle, we find
that 3,166 deaths were attributed to
snake bite, and 45,O6s TO wild animals.
Madras has an unenviable pre-emi-
nence, for it sustained loss of 1900
cattle from leopards, in addition to ~
human beings, and they paid in reward
for killing leopards only rs. l6, ,6S6. The
y. W. provinces following Madras with
the loss of :, ,693 cattle from leoPards.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-06
Is Friday an Unlucky Day?

Some peoplerwill persist in demon
strating Friday as unlucky, notwith-
standing that it is the date of some of
the most important and most fortunate
occurrences on record of human trans
actions. Let us see. On Friday,
August 2lst, 1892, Columbus sailed or
his great voyage of discovery. On Fri
dry, October 18th, 1495, he first dis
covered land.-On Friday January l4th,
1893, he sailed on his return to Spain,
which, if he had not reached i'm safety,
the happy resalt might never have been
known which led to the settlement of
this vast continent. On Friday March
18th, 1495 he arrived at Palos in safety.
On Friday, November 22d, 1893, he
arrived at Hispaniola, on his second
voyage to America. On Friday, June
18th, 1894, he, though unknown to him.
self, discovered the continent of Amer
lea. On Friday, March 5th, 1896, Henry
Will, of England, gave to John Cabot
his commission, which led to the dis
coyery of North America. This is the
first American State paper i'm England.
On Friday, September 9TH, 1905, was
founded ST. Augustine, Florida, the old
est town In the United States by more
than forty years. On Friday, Novem-
Der 10th, l62H, the Mayflower, with the
Pilgrims, made the harbor of Province
town; and on the same day they signed
that august compact, the forerunner OF
the Federal constitution. On Friday,
February 22d, 1882 George Washing
ton, the Father of American freedom
was born. On Friday, June 10th, 1875
Bunker Hill was seized and fortified.
On Friday, October 9Th, l777, the sur
render of Saratoga, was made which
had such power and influence in in
ducing France to declare for our cause.
On Friday, September 22d, 17S0, the
treason of Arnold was laid bare, which
saved us from destruction. On Friday,
October 18th, 17Sl, the surrender at
Yorktown, the crowning glory of the
American arms, occurred, On Friday,
June 9TH, l776. the motion in Congress
was made by John Adams, and seconded
by Richard Henry Lee, that the United
Colonies were, and of right ought to be
free aud independent. Thus we see
that, Friday is not so bad a day, after
all.
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| early went to hear Webster. |
heard him in 1886, when in Washington
for the first time on my way North. /
was delighted to see and hear him. He
spoke very slowly, without emphasis or
gestures. | was entertained by his
talk, but did not suppose he was max
ing a set speech, and saw nething in 1t
that marked the orator. Twas surprised
when the papers here heralded this
speech as Mr.. Webster's great speech on
the finances and to find it so regarded in
New York and elsewhere. The Grafton
is published in Mr.. Everett's collection
of great speeches. These facts set my
mind to thinking what is it that makes
an orator. When | was at college there
were half dozen lads belonging to the
Phi Kappa Society who could have
beaten that speech, to use Georgian
expression, .'all hollow" in eloquence.
| heard Mr.. Monroe more than once.
He never entered on anything except
in a conversational tone. He never
gesticulated and used only plain and
simple language, but his speech was so
logical and intimately connected as to
require close thought to keep up with
him. So, too, with Mr.. Clay. Doubt
less in his early days he was declama-
tory. | never heard him in the Senate
until 1850. He was then slow in his
delivery, clear and perspicuous in his
language, but there was no declama-
ton; but occasionally he would give
evidence of how great he was when the
internal fires were aroused. Webster
was also occasionally excited, and when
so, he was as the ocean tempest stirred
10 its lowest depths. / have come to
the conclusion. from my experience in
Washington, that bare elocution does
not make an orator, but the palm is
given to the men who control the
minds of others. Imuch doubtif Cicero
or Demosthenes, the most gifted elocu-
tionists, captivated the crowd by sound
only. This would be as music, a
charming combination of sounds. The
opera ceases, and there is no trace or
idea left; no mental emotion remains.
But the men that speak to multitudes
and shape public opinion, these are the
real historical orators.
When | reached Washington in 1S43,
in addition to the great leaders l have
before named, there was a number of
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Food i'm England

1t is well known that England's food
power is very smsll compared
with other countries, and were it not
for her large imports the state of things
might be serious, Mr.. Mechi speaking
at an agricultural meeting said that
there were AZ, ,OOO, 900 acres in that coun-
try and 80, 600, 900 inhabitants, and only
As per cent. of those 32 1000, ,0c0 were fed
with British food, and the 60 per cent.
would be without their bread, and a
good deal of their meat, butter and
cheese but for foreign imports. This
was not a creditable state of things, for
there was no doubt that If a larger
amount Of capital and intelligence were
invested in the land enough would by
grown to feed the people without ane
foreign imports.
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circle on the ground and say to the awe
struck bystanders: ''Dig deep enough
within this circle and you will find a
pot of gold" But he never dug him
self. He had a good share of the rising
generation of Palmyra out digging in
the suburbs, and to this day traces of
the pits thus dug are pointed out to
curious visitors. As he claimed to be
the author of the "Book of Mormon"
his story was that by the aid of his
wonderful stone, he found gold plates
on which were inscribed. the writings
in hieroglyphics. He translated them
by means of pair of magic spectacles
which the Lord delivered to him at the
same time that the golden tablets were
turned up. But nobody but John him
self ever saw. the golden tablets or the
far-seeing spectacles. He dictated the
book, concealed behind a curtain, and
it was written down by Cowdery. This
course scenes to be rendered necessary
by the fact that Joe did not know how
to write. Otherwise the book might
have gone to the printer in the hand
writing of Old Mormon himself. 1t is
now pretty well established that the
Book of Mormon" was written in 1872
by the Rev. Solomon Spalding of Ohio
as popular romance. He could not
find anyone TO print it. The manu-
script was sent TO Pittsburg, where it
lay in printing Office for several
years. Spalding was never able to
raise the money to secure the printing
of the story, and after his death, in 1924,
it was returned to his wife. By some
means, exactly how is not known, it
fell into the hands of one Sidney Rig
dom. who, with Joe Smith, concOcted
the scheme by which it was subsequent
ly brought out as the work of Smith.
The dealings with the outside world in
respect to it were manipulated by Hiram
an elder brother of Joe.
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An Irish jury has had the audacity to
assess a woman for damages done to
mans heart. Mr.. Egan, a linen draper's
assistant, of Roserea, was Tilted by a
winsome young lady of 30; and, after
hearing the sad story of lovers woes
from his own lips, tine generous jury
awarded him 81 $50 as damages. so that
the consolation afforded him is of very
solid kind. The lady cOolly admitted a
promise to marry the plaintiff, but
pleaded that she was not very much in
love, and that she "declined to be
dictated to" during the courtship.
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"A POOR RULE THAT DOESN'T WORK
BOTH WAYS"

Come back. come back TO me. Charlie
Come to the old elm-tree.
Twas only jest your love to test.
To see if you loved but me.
i DO not care for them, Charlie
For Willie, or hob or Ed,
Or snv one twas only for fun,
For no one else could i we'd"
Thus sang bonnie maiden,
With tear in her bright brown eve,
And 3 look of care in her face SO fair,
and voice 'twixt laugh and a cry.
But down by the brook. in the meadow,
S,roIls form that she knows full well;
And lady fair, with golden hair,
Is with him-some city belle
Down in he fragrant grasses
Sinks the maid with a smothered moan;
..Ah. me :" she sobs, .'how my heart tbrobs
To be left alone-alone."
WHY these tears, my Kitty
Starting. her Charlie she saw.
d. Twas only jest your love to test,
And that my new ster- n-law."
And under the dropping branches,
Where none but the wild b rds saw,
She smiled through her tears and whispered he
fears
And blessed Charles sister-in-law.
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should entertain mean opinion of
If all men, or the most part,
praised and admired me; it would prove
me to be somewhat like them. Sad and
sorrowful is it to stand near enough
for them to see us wholly; for them to
come up to us and walk around US
leisurely and idly, and pat us when
they are tired and going of.
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6he farmer.
Cultivation Of Onions.

In the single county of Essex, Massa-
chusetts, which contains thirty three town
ships, there were raised 1861 bushels
of onions last year, valued at $4,000.
The great bulk Of the onions used In the
United States Except by farmers for their
home use) are raised in Massachusetts and
Connecticut, OF the value of which some
estimate may be formed by the result in
the single county named. Like cranber-
ries, it is crop that can be held over
without danger of perishing, and alwas
sells at good price. An experienced
gardener gives the following - his mode
of cultivation: -sss-
'sThe ground is dug or plowed early in
the spring and well pulverized and leveIled
with rake or harrow; than open shallow
drills about nine inches apart, not deeper
than one inch and half, having alleys
about four feet apart It is we'll to smooth
the ground after sowing with light gar
den roller. This prevents the too great
evaporation from the soil, and so preserves
the required moisture for termination of
the seed. Hoe frequently during the sum-
mer to prevent the growth of weeds, and
keep the soil in fine tilth. When prepar-
ing for the crop bear in mind that the soil
can hardly be made too rich. The manure
applied must be well composted aud rotted.
1t should be kept near the surface. The
roots of the onion do not strike down
deep into the soil, but gather its food from
the entire surface by its wide-spreading
fbrous roots. A soil rather light is most
suitable for the onion crop, but other soil
can, BY good tillage, be made to bear good
crops
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F armerS and Planters

Nov is the time to buy your Farming
IN Implements cheap. l have on hand a
large Stock of Machinery which / am deter
mined to sell. Iwould make special mention
Of my two and three horse Furrow Flows.
Ny two-horse Plow / am selling as low as
$500, and for strength and steady running it
cannot be surpassed, while my wrought shear
plows connot be beat. The Clipper Rake
with some important improvements is also
being offered low. The all (wrought) Iron
single and double Shovel Flows and the three
Shoveled Cultivator, which became so popular
and gave such entire satisfaction last year, are
now ready for the Spring trade at low figures
Remember the Lion Feed Masticator is the
best Feed Cutter in the market, see it.
Reapers and Mowers promptly repaired unless
new parts are to be ordered which must be
done from the company who manufacture the
machine as there is no one keeping repairs on
hand. So in order to have your machine
ready for moving and reaping bring them in
early so as to give time to order repairs. All
other repairing done well and cheap.
mar Sl-tf i. WAGNER.
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associate attorneys We make preliminary
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ability, free ofcharge, and allwho are interested
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send for copy of our "Gnide for obtaining
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and contains complete instructions how to
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We refer to the German American National
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SILVER Hull BUcKwHEAT.-D. N.
Kern writes to the Practical Farmer in
the year 1873 | procured one pound of
this buekwheat, and from that pound
got one bushel. In 1874 sowed half a
busheI and got twenty bushels. In 1875
| sowed two bushels and got City bushels.
In 1876 sowed four quarts and got six
bushels. This year, 1877, sowed four
quarts on one-fourth Of an acre and got
twelve bushels. / found one stalk that
stood by itself, some ten feet away from
the main patch, that measured three-fourths
Of an inch across at che bate, it had enc
hundred aud fifty branches; each branch
had on an average six spikelets, and each
sPikelet had on an average tea grains-in
all nine thousand grains. l would like to
hear who had stalk Of common buck
wheat that had done better. This buck
wheat makes more and better -four than
the common kind. But still there are
plenty of farmers that sow the common
kind and say it is no use to pay two dol
lars for a bushel when you can get the
common kind for one dollar.
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1hree and one-half pounds of milk are
equal TO oae pound of meat, and only esti-
mate COW to giTc 1000 pounds of milk
IN year, this wOu'd make the cows pre-
duet in milk equal in food value to ! 1000
pounds of meat, and this 900 pounds of
meat would require steer under ordinary
feeding, four years TO produce, so that the
COW produces as much in return from her
food in one year as a steer in four.
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THE QUTNcE.-No fruit is so much
neglected as this is. The ounce tree
will bear in three years from planting if
properly treated It should be put in a
clay soil, well manured, the ground well
pulvcrised before planting. The tree
should be pruned in November, when pro-
perry grown, of superhuous branches, to
keep the top from becoming too dense and
so shade the fruit as to prevent maturity.
Manure ought to be forked in, from time
to time, and quart of salt to tree in
eorPOrated with the SOIL All fruit trees
ought to be lightly and carefully cultiva-
ted, aud the ounce is no exception. If
treated in this way the fruit will be large
and free from knots, comparatirely.-EDs
Dem. ADVOCATE.
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How TO GRow PoTAToEs. stem
end Of potatoes are said to be more pro-
duetive than the tseed ends" A Massa
chusetts farmer, few years ago, planted
four rows Of equal length side by side,
with two varieties of potatoes, Pinkeyes
and Peachblows One row was planted
10 @seed ends" Of Pinkeyes, another to
the stem eu athird to tue aseed ends"
of PeachbIows and fourth to stem ends
of Peachblows. The raw planted to stem
ends Of Pinkeyes yielded PIT pounds of
potatoes, while the row planted to aseed-
ends" yielded no pounds. The row plant
ed to Peachblow stem ends yielded 325
pounds, and that to "seed ends IT'S lbs.
This is result worth bearing in mind.
One cause Of the result may have been the
fact that the seed ends containing more
eyes sent forth more shoots than the stem
ends, and that the number Of shoots d.
minished the yield of the potatoes.
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To RESTORE THE Fertility OF PAS
TuEEs WITHOUT PLowING.-A good way
is to apply bone dust flour of fresh bones
at the rate Of two hundred to four hundred
pounds per acre, harrow lightly, and SOW
10 mixture of pasture grasses. Early
spring is the best time to do this. Do no,
harrow enough TO destroy the sod. Fine
ly pulverized stable manures will answer a
similar purpose, but are more difficult to
apply, and are not SO satisfactory. Pas
lures run over with brush must be plowed,
burnt over, or fed with sheep.
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TREATMENT or RoUP IN PoULrRY.-
Remove the affected bird to quarters by
itself, then administer one teaspoouful Of
castor oil. Care shoad be taken to have
the oil warm enough, to nake it as thin
as possible, and not to give it all at once;
allow the bird to swallow little at time
or it win strangle. Battle the nostrils
with a weak solution of carbolic acid, and
feed only soft food aud but little of that,
with iron in the water as a tonic.-Aner-
Scaa Poultry Journal.
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RULESiaF SELF MEASUREMENT.

and full line Of samples from their immense
stock of Cloths, Cassimers, Coztinps. Shirt.
lngs, &c, thus enabling parties in any part of
the country to order their Clothing and Shirts
direct from them, with the certainty of re-
eeiving garments of the very Latest Style and
most Perfect Fit attainable.
Goods ordered viii be sent by Express to
any part of the country.
As Is well known throughout the Middle
states they have for Forty-Three Years EX-
CELLtD IN all departments of their business,
which is substantial guarantee as TO the char
acter of the Goods they will send out.
large and well assorted stock of
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GTOCK FEEDERS, LOOK To
~ YOUR INTEREST

am nov manufacturing Feed Cutter for
fodder, hay or straw, that is superior to any
other cutter ever Invented. Il cuts faster and
brushes the fodder, putting the stalk into such
a condition that cattle will eat all up, The
fodder after being cut passes through acrusher,
thus making the hard corn stalk as soft as the
blade; while all other cutters leave the stalk
in short hard pieces, and the chewing of such
hard pieces by your stock produces sore mouths
which, instead of benefit to your stock, is
an injury. ] claim this machine to he superior
to all others. To satisfy yourselves, feeders
of stock and farmers generally, are respectful
ly invited to calland see this Cutter & Crusher,
to be found at the foundry, near depot West
ern Maryland Railroad. rs
E. WAGNER,
jan9tf Successor TO Wagner & Matthews.
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CHAs. BILLIEGsLEA,D.D.s.
DENTAL NOTICE.

nR. GEO. S. FoUKE, Dentist. offers !
IL services at his Office.
Saturday -Doy anu
Emmlttsburg-Fourth Wednesday After.
noon till Thursday Afternoon.
noon and Friday. 1Ai'ei-
Rocky Ridge-First Wednesday Afternoon
Double Pipe Creek-First Thursday.
Middleburg Friday.
gniontown-Second Wednesday A fternoon
Ianeytown-Secohd Thursday Afternoon
Union Bridge-Third Wednesday Afternoon
and Thursday Forenoon. 40 O''
and Friday Forenoon. fsh 90
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st. Johns Parochial School,
WESTMINSTER, ND.
j. J. 80 - a.-sf
SELECT PREPAYMENT.

CLAssIes and MATHEMATICS taught.
~ Particular attention paid TO English
Composition. Terms per quarter of 10 weeks,
from 50 to SIS according to the studies pur-
sued. T. A. McGIRR, A. NJ, Principal.
A Night School for Young men viii be open
from ] TO 9, p. m, on Monday and Thursday
of each week, beginning October 18th, 1876.
oct IL
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LOOK AT THR PRTnES

On Cars at Westminster, Nd, 5-horse
"Clipper" Engine on Wheels, weighing 26O0
pounds, price $3.50. 6-horse, do, weighing
$3.50 pounds, S4s5. s-horse do, weighing
1000 pounds, 500. Extra for Hand Pump
to fill Boiler with Cold Water, SIS.
Every Engine is carefully tested and run
with 40 lbs. Steam until known to be perfect
and complete in all its parts and is warranted.
They are furnished with Pump and Feet
Hose, Heater, 8 Speeded Governor, Glass
Water Gauge, Steam Gauge, Whistle, Blower,
Try Cocks, Safety Valve, Blow-off Cock,
Smoke Stack with Spark Arrester, Double.
trees, Neck Yoke, Drivers Seat and Tool
Box, Funnel to fill Boiler, Ash Pan, Wrenches
and Fire Irons.
n. B.-f you want an Engine, please to
order at least 4 weeks before you wish it
shipped from Shops, giving full and clear d.
rections for shipment, your Post Office,
County and State.
Clipper off of Wheels horse $500; do.
5-horse $3.50; do. G-horse 1885; do. S-horse
$3.50.
Bar State where you saw this. aug &c.