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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
A Doctors Peril.

When VI. ID. was attached To my
name, bowed at two shrines, my pro-
fession and-my Angelina. Her name
was not Angelina, but my wife being a
modest little lady, desires she shall not
be dragged before an inquis.tive public,
Let then, the abstract Angelina repre-
sent the real woman. / conceal my
own name for similar reasons. OF
course | had rival. Name, Richard
Somers; aged twenty-six; general ap-
pearance, striking and handsome; cha
racter, very bad.
Neither my affection for this gentle
man nor his affection Tor me would have
caused a conilagration on any river
which | know. We disliked each other
heartily. Being a much handsomer
man than myself. he might have been
a dangerous rival. However, he saved
me all the trouble. He committed a
forgery that was discovered sooner
than he expected. He was arrested for
the offence, tried and convicted. was
one of the principal witness against
him. When the sentence was passed
upon him he reques;eda moments con-
versation with me. | shall never for
get the looS of hatred upon his face as
he hissed out:
s.You have ruined my love and my
life. Remember that, and fear me.'
We had been married a little oyer
two wears. During that time 1 had
heard nothing of Somers. His sentence
had been a comparatively light one
year and six months. After his dis
charge from prison, however, neither
saw nor heard of him. For go young
man, had been very successful as {
physician. Perhaps my success wa
principally due to my strict attention
/ to business. No matter how late, o.
dark and stormy might was the night
promptly attended summonses to tn
4, beside of suffering. One night, litti
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
Wild Men.

In the Island of Rio there are wild
men who live on trees, and who have
no language but cries, and in Sumatra
there are men who live I'm the forests,
with whom not only the Europeans,
but the Malays themselves, can have
no intercourse. They hunt tigers, not
with a gun, but with arrows, which
they blow out of tube with such
force, and which are so keen of point
and touched with such deadly poison,
that a wound is almost Immediately fa-
tai. Their tiger-skins. or elephant
tusks, they bring for barter. They
never sell anything-for money is
about the most useless thing they can
have. They cannot eat it, nor drink it,
nor wear it. But rs they have no wants,
they exchange. let they themselves
are never seen. They bring what they
nave to the edge of the forest, and leave
it there; and the Malays come and place
what they have to dispose of, and re-
tire. If the offer is satisfactory, when
they return again they find what they
brought gone, and they take what is
left and depart. If not they add few
trifies to tempt the eyes of these wild
men Of the woods, and so at last the
exchange is effected, yet all the while
the sellers keep themselves invisible.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
Too Much of a Hard Money Man.

Recently an old fellow, who for some
time worked at the sluice boxes in Six
Mi,e Cannon sold his Sierra Nevada and
came out 81 900 ahead. He Went to his
broker and remarked that he was going
East to see the folks, and guessed he'd
take the money along
"You want draft on New York, l
suppose"
sNo draft Tor me. want coin. Gold
twenties are what came for"
Here he placed brown leather valise
on the counter, and told them 10 pile in
the money.
81 am going to take this sack all the
way to New York myself"
"You can get the gold in New York,
and save the bother of carrying the coin
along" remarked the CLERK.
'You can't play gold in New York
on me; they don't have any there; the
last time 1 was there | never set my
eyes on even a two-and-a-half piece
Now just dump the coin into this sack
| want good, solid Comstock money,
No paper in mine"
He was given the coin as desired, anC
soon WAS on the train with the carpet
bag alongside of him. The chances arr
that the first three-card monte sharI
that he falls in with will relieve him o.
his pile.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
Washington Memorials In Northampton
shire, England.

In the year 1882, and again in l5i6,
there was n Lawrence Washington,
Mayor of Northamptonshire England
He was the son Of John Washington,
of warton. Lancashire, and member
of Gray's Inn; afterward, however, he
relinquished the profession of the law
and settled in Northampton, where he
rose TO great influence. His uncle was
Sir Thomas Kitson, a merchant of Lon
don, whose daughter had been espoused
by Sir John Spencer, of Althorp. In
1929 he obtained grant of the manor
and lands of Sulgrave, North Hants,
together with other estates, which un-
til then had belonged to the Monastery
of St. Andrews at Northampton. Re
tiring to Sulgrave. he there died at a
ripe old age. Three generations of
Washington only retained possession of
Sulgrave, the grandson of rhe grantee
being obliged to sell it and retire to
Bristigton, where he would be under
the protection of his kinsmen the Spen-
GERS. The house in Little Brington Is
still shown where he is supposed TO
have lived. Over the door is the in
scription: 1.-The Lord giveth, the Lord
taketh away: Blessed be the name of
the Lord. Constructa 1905. The pa
rish register, among other Washington
records, contains notices of the baptism
AMI burial of son of this Lawrence
Washington in 1606-6. The latter died
in 1915, and his remains lie buried in
the Chancel of the parish church. Near
to him, but in the nave, is the grave OF
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
Bismark's Daughter.

Separation from his daughter is said
to have been very painful to Prince
Bismark, who is devOtedly attached 10
this, h favorite child. She had been
his faithful companion for many years.
While her brothes were at the univer-
sity or in the army she rarely left him
In former years, when Prince Bismark
W.. s still passionate hOrseman. she
often accOmpan ed him for hours in
his ride, oyer the plains and through
the woods OF Varzin. Owing to the at
tachement existing between the father
and the daughter many doubted wether
she would ever marry. These suPpO-
sitiOns were not groundless, for she
was no longer young when she cOntrac-
ted her first betrOthal with Count Wend
Won Eulenburg, a young nobleman of
eminent capacities, who had won her
heart during her stay at NarZin as an
attache on the Chancellor's staff. This
engagement was very happy one. The
marriage had been fixed and the invita-
tions were on the point o1being issued, &,
when suddenly tue Bridegroom WAS at
tackled by severe illness, which, not
withstanding the greatest care and at
tenrion, terminated fatally. At his,
the young Counts, burial the Iron
Chancellor was So moved that he 'vept
bit. erly. On the expiration of the time
OF mourning many youths of noble
birth aSpIred to the hand Of Prince Bis
marks only daughter. She refused
however, the most tempting offers, un-
til, moved perhaps by the entreaties of
her family, she finally admitted the at
tetions of Count Rantzau, whom she had
known when child. Some pretend
that he wa, smitten ny her charms even
in heir earliest youth, when he, as a
boy at the GYMNASIUM, waited for the
Young Countess, then a little damsel,
to carry her books from school. Count
Rantzau. a desc, liant of an ancient,
noble, but not very wealthy family,
was af. er an honorable termination of
his university course, for some time an
officer in the THIRD Regiment OF the
, Prussian Uhlans of the Guards. lie
subsequently changed his professionand
entered on diplomatic career. On ac-
count of his great talents and genera
accomplishment, he attracted the atten-
| ton of Prince Bismark, who not only
attached him 10 the Foreign Office, but
often invited him to his house. Dur
ing the Congress the Count acted as one
of its Secretaries, distinction which
gave him rise at the time to some envt-
Gus reports. As Count Rantzau is in
possession of yearly income of only a
bout 5000 thalers, a sum certainly ina
dequate TO maintain household worthy
of Germany's leading statesman, hand
some dowry, asserted by some to be 800
900 thalers, was bestowed by the Chan
celor on the young couple.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
Satisfying the Barber.

One time there was barber. And
one day feller he cum in the shop iUr
to git shafed, and he handed the barber
a card wich was wrote on like this way;
'For my Hair-Taller, clone, lar /,
bergmot, pematum, oil, tonniek, re-
storatif, pitchooly, gum, bceswhacks.
kerriseen and tar
''For my Faee-COle cream, cam
frice, powder, ham fat, sof sope, glis-
sern, poultice, rooje nammel. giant Sc
ment, shoe blackn.
"For my Wiskers-Sames my hair,
only more taller.
ssFor nv Muchtash--Do, starch, glew,
morter and solder.
When the barber heared it he was
lust dlited. and he sed 10 the feller:
"You are the most sensible man wich
has ever set in this chair, yes indeed,
| never see man of sech good taste
And then the barber shafed the fel-
Ter. and told him all the news witch he
cude think, and never stept tockin, the
barber didn't, while ne shafed, COS he
was so delighted. But jest as ne got
dun shafn the feller, and was gitten
reddy to put them things onto him,
cordin to the memmy randem, a man
wocked in and took the feller by the
ear. and he sed to the barber, the man
did: This feller's got TO go, COS ne is
a escape, If you want TO finish him you
mus fetch them things over to the def
and dunn ward of the lunatic sylum.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22

his brother Robert. IL also bears a
shield on brass, showing the same bla-
zon argent two bars gules; i'll chief
three mullets of the second, with the
crescent of younger brother. This
shield exhibits even more plainly than
the other the characteristics which have
caused the deyice TO be regarded as the
origin of the American flag, namely,
the five pointed stars and the alternate
red and white stripes. Robert Wash
ington died without issue. Lawrence,
however, had large family. The first
son was Sir William Washington, of
Packington, Leicestershire, who we'd
ded a sister of the Duck of BuckIng-
ham, through whose influence the for
tunes of the family seem TO have re-
vived. The second was Sir John. Re
peathd mention is made of him in the
household books of AlthOrp, where he
and several of his brothers were fire.
quent guests. He was married TO a
daughter of Philip Curtis, Of Islip,
North Hants, by whom he had three
sons. A mural tablet to her memory
still exists iI the Islip church. Little
is known of Sir John, save tnat he ap-
pears, like the other Washingtons, TO
have taken the side of the king in the
civil wars, and that he was concerned,
along with younger brother Law
renee, in the troubles of 1856, and so
with him obliged to take refuge in Vir-
ginia. Before his emigration he lived
some time in South Cave in Yorkshire,
where he mad acquired an estate. Emil
grating about the year 1867 he settled
at Bridges Creek, Westmoreland COun-
ty, and marrying again, became the
great-grandfather of President Wash
ingtOn. In the red and white bars and
the stars of his shield. and the ''eagle
issuant" Of his crest-bOrne later by
General washington-the farmers OF
the Constitution undoubtedly, too, got
the idea of the stars and stripes and the
spread eagle of the national emblem.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
Exciting Sport.

The men employed about the Wabash
and Lake Shore elevators. near Toledo,
o., were treated to quite time recently
having the pleasure of hunting and
killing a large wild cat. For some time
past the farmers on the East Side have
been complaining of the depredatlous
of some fierce animal, and on several
occasions some of them have shot at an
object that would be seen disappearing
with a chicken or fat turkey. All ef-
forts, however, TO kill the brute proved
unavailiDg, and apparently they were
doomed TO suffer on. At an early hour
Z meh employed in Wabash Elevator re-
Gently No. 4 observed an animal walking
across the Pennsylvania bridge near
the elevator. They had heard of the
my ysterious visitor on the East Side, and
rightly suprosingthstt this was the cause
of all the CONSERVATION, they notified all
the men around the elevator, and
turned out en- masse to effect its capture
or death. Procuring a half inch rope
they made a slip knot, and placed it so
that the wild cat would step into il az
she walked across the bridge. they Sc
creted themselves and awaited develop
ments. the cat evidently intent upon
some object on this side, walked along
and stepped into what was intended to
be fatal trap. As soon as her foot was
in, tho hn Ds ha nrhar .sal
of the rope gave vigorous pull and her
catship was caught by the hind leg.
The men thought they had her sure.
But she merely turned round, snapped
her teeth once on che rope, and sped
away, bearing part of it on her hind
foot, making directly for the swail,
near the elevator. Then there was
sport. About 40 men armed with clubs
and revolvers rushed after her trying
to Kill her. A number of dogs were
brought into r,quisitiOn, but they dar-
ed not approach nearer than seven or
eight feet TO the brute, for she uttered
an ominous screech which warned them
to keep out of the way. At length pus-
sy took another flight, enscOnsing her
self this time under the docks at the
elevator. Here she was safe from the
attacks of the dogs, and her glarins
eyes kept most of the men at respecta-
bic distance. But one of them Georg,
West inspector in No. 4, going cauti-
ously 10 crevice in the dock, took de-
liberate aim with his revolver, anu
shot the wild cat through the breas
making a center shot, and killing her
instantly. Then there was a cheer and
the carcass was dragged out and meas
ured, the body being two feet and eight
inches long. She was very poor, but
weighed 81 pounds. Her teeth were
formidable objects, over an inch long.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
TRUE.

True 70 the promise of thy far-off youth.
When aI vi O loved thee for thee prophesied
A grand, full life devoted to the truth.
4 noble cause by suffering sanctlied-
True TO all beauties OF the poet-thousht
Which made thy youth 50 eloquent aud sweet
True to all duties which thy manhood brought
To take the room of fancies light and heet.
True TO the steadf4st walk and narrow way.
Which thv forefatheTs OF 'he covenant trod !
True TO thy friend in foul or sunny day.
True to thy home. thy country. and thy Col
True to the world which still Ii false TO thee,
And true TO ail-as thou art true TO me.
True TO the vow that bound u in the lane.
That summer evening Wien the brown sird
sang,
Piercing the silence with sweet notes of pain,
While echoes over all the woodland rang.
True to the troth We plighted on that day,
Each TO forsake all other for the one
Cleaving together through the unknown way,
Til death made void the union then begun
True to the love brought by a little hand
True-though the pstter Of the childish feet
Have passed from earth to the silent land {;
Loss hallows love, and love is still complete
can lift up mine eyes from tear drops free,
For thou art true to al these things-sn9 me-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22
A Sportsman and n Setter Dog

4 Young man of Rochester relates a
appreciated by sportsmen. He was re-
Gently in part of the country where
game is very abundant, and nearly all
the male inhabitants are devoted ad-
mirers of dog and gun. Our hero was
stopping at the best hotel in the place,
and intimate with the leading citizens.
They thought stranger should be in
vited to a days shooting, and proposed
to him that he 90 out for partridges,
with two of the best shots of the town.
He neglected to tell them that he was
no sportsman, but accepted the invita-
ton with apparent glee, as il he antic-
ipated days sport, sucn As genuine
sportsmen know how to enjoy. \ gun
and first class dog were provided for
the guest, and one fine dsy he set out
with the two friends who were TO take
him over the ground. They entered
the brush and had separated from each
other but a short distance, when the
dog given the Rochester man ''made
game and in a moment was in a
staunch point. The hunter knew little
about guns and less about setter dogs,
but thought that a dog that would
stand still so early in the day must be
very lazy and deserved punishment.
After waiting short time to let the
dog start again and seeing him rigid as
a statue, the gunner picked up stone
and gave the poor beast blow that
made him howl-and at the same mo-
ment up went brace of partridges
from under the dogs nose. The other
shooters were not far away and heard
the birds rise. The explanation given
by their guest was not very satlsfacto-
nv, and he was invited shooting no
more.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22

and turriedly calling an attendant, he
sent for Bessie to return.
But it was too late.
No trace could be found of the mis-
sing one; and so Paul Gray. the ewner
of great riches, died alone. but for his
faithful servants
In the magnificent parlor they laid
him in state, and in this room, by his
side they laid his daughter.
Two days after. a mournful train OF
carriages wound its way toward the
churchyard, and by the side of mother
and wife was laid all that remained of
father and daughter.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22

The Raitr,ad Gczeae contains in
formation of the laying of track on 2 .2O7
miles of new railroad in the United
States in 1873, against 1877 miles re-
ported for the corresponding period In
1877, 2,177 in 1876. l,277 in 1879, l, ,167
in 1874, 3,507 in 1873 and 6.sS5 in 1872.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22

"A fund has been begun at the Lon
don Mansion house to erect suitable
monument to the memory Of the late
Earl Russell.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-01-22

Never wantonly frighten Others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-09
ENGLISH IMMIGRANTS TO TEXAS.

Among the steerage passengers on the steamer
Helvetia Of the National Line, winch arrived yes
terday, were eighty-fve men, women and children
who are going to settle in the farming districts Of
Texas They came from Durham, near Ferry
Hill. England, aud were compelled TO leave on ac-
count of the depressed condition OF agriculture
there scheme has been entered into by the Ma
tonal Steamship Company with the principal rail-
roads i'm Texas 70 bring families from England to
this country and then to see them safely landed IN
Texas The Galveston, Harrisburg and San An
tonic Railroad, and the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad have secured large amounts OF Land In
Texas. About 5000 farmers with their families
have already immngrated there. For the last two
and "A half years Immigrants have been arriving IN
groups of ten and upward the largest number
was 10 who arrived about wear ago. They are
allowed select their own land aud buy il easy
terms
Tie present grouo comprises some very intelligent
Fnelishmen. and they are all possessed nj some
capifai They will b. kept on board the iielvetia
until "Wednesday, wien they will be transferred To
the steamer state of Texas. These precautions are
taken 80 protect them from landsharks and specu-
latois Burdge T. Mclean, the general passenger
agent of the steamship company, has charge OF the
farmers. and mas cIVen STREET orders III regard 10
tnose allowed t. converse with them All the men
speak very tncOuiaglugiy of their prospects.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-09
THE SYRACUSE CONVENTION.
LARGE NUMBER OF ARRIVALS.

A LARGE NUMBER OF ARRIVALS.
TUE HOTELS CROWDED WITH DELEGATES AND
OTHERS INTERESTED IN THE CONVENTION.
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBUSEI
SYRACUSE Sept. S.-The arrivals here to-day
show an extraordinary degree of interest IN the
Convention. Delegates and others interested have
reached here at an unusually early hour. Remark
ably large numbers are already I'm the city, con-
siderng the fact that the Convention Is two
days distant. At the great hotels the casual trav
eller finds great difficulty now in obtaining aroom,
and the corridors of the hotels are filed with talka-
tive politicians. Most of the delegates here are
from New-York. Each delegate thus far is accom-
panied by several friends.
The following delegates Of Tammany Hall reached
hero to-day, Northumberland Dorsheimer.
Congressman s. s. Cox, ex-Police Commissioner
Nichols, ex.County Clerk Gumbleton. Coroners
Wotman and Croker. Henry l.. Clinton. OK
Alderman Henry ID. Purroy, Thomas Boese Clerk
of the superior Court, Edward Kearney, Edward u.
siOner German, Joel o. Stevens. John ii. Mooney,
General +. Il. SpnOla and Assemblynan
DugrO. Anti-Tammany sent the following
Ex-Assemblyman James DAILY, Charles III. lruax.
Clerk Thompson. Alderman Strack, Alderman
Honghton, General Thomas f. Bourke and Michael
G.. Murphy.
The following Democrats ore also here William
Purcell, chairman of the State Committee, Hiram
Colkns ex-ContrOller Asher L. Nichols, ex-Secre-
tary of State Bigeow, ID. {. Robinson Governor
Robnsons secretary Rufus w. Pecknam, Cicero Z.
Peek Samuel ID. Holiday, Senator Jones, General
James McQuade. General II. A. Barnum, Senator Ec-
clcsinc ex-senator James +. Starbuck, Daniel Man
ningof The albany ArOWs Edgar NJ Apgar. of Ithaca,
T. c. Callicut, eX-Congressman Beebe, OF Sullivan,
and ex Mayor Wckham. of New-fork
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-09
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TILE MAINE ELECTION.
TELEGRAM FROM Mr.. BLAINE.


LARGE REPUBLICAN PLURALITY. BUT THE EXACT
RESULT NOT To BE DETERMINED UNTIL LATER
RETURvs-rHE LEGISLATURE REPUBLICAN,.
AUGUSTA, Nc. Sept. Sat midnight Senator
Blaine sent the following dispatch to Senator ALL
son. of Iowa:
Hon. VIM. B. ALLISON, Dubuque, Iotra
The result OF to-day's election may be briefly
summed mp thus We have carried large majority
of the House of Representatives., and majority
Of the Senate apparently, though not certainly. We
have given our candidate for Governor "A plurality
OF more than 10000 votes over the Greenback cam
didate aud 40, 900 over the Democratic candidate
Whether we have given him an absolute majority
over both will only be determined by further re-
turns. and possibly by the official count.
On the Joint ballot in the Legislature we shall
have large majority. thus controlling the Execu-
tive Council and selection of all State officers.
Tho majority against us last year
was over 1900. equivalent to 10000 majority in
Illinois, to $4,000 in Pennsylvania, or to lCOOOo
in New-York. To overcome this enormous majority
in an off year. with no general election pending.
was of course n difficult task and our Republicans
feel that they have made splendid fight with most
gratifying results J.G. BLAINE.
Chairman Republican State Committee.