Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-08

PhuddeiphidS .ShdTe OF the GTdM
Fund-Congress.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 4, 1880.
When the telegraph informed the
people of this city, on Thursday, that
President elect Garfield had reached
his home as sufferer from indiges-
ton there was a visible manifestation
of uneasiDess. He is of temperate
habits, and as far as the public knows
has not heretofore been a sufferer
from that cause l do not share the
apprehension of some people, that
perhaps something was put in his
food that should not have been put in.
The General is discreet, but I greatly
suspect that he has not learned to
dine as wisely as he learned to do
many Other things 1t takes wise
man to dine wisely, so that his diges-
ton is always in trim Those who
profess to know maintain that to dine
well does not mean to eat all that is
on a table. but that it consists in the
ability to sit at table an hour or two
at time and so gauge one self that
all the courses may Ee gone through
with, and still be able to arise from
the table without an unpleasant sense
of fullness. The man or the woman
who can do that, may accept all and
every invitation to dinner, and still be
able TO laugh at indigestion and Ill
health. A stalwart Republican says
that it is no wonder that the Gen
erals digestion is somewhat disoi-
dered, for to swallow the whole Dem
Ocratic party was quite enough to dis
turb the digestion of several presi-
dents. The Democracy have been
pretty well swallowed before, but it is
clean gone now, and Garfield viii be
able to digest it thoroughly.
This week there has been diligent
work done to find out the
MoREY LETTER FoRGER.
The prospects of getting to the in
side history of the whole transaction,
as to who stood back of it all, is
frightening, and when the testimony
is all in, the country Will more than
ever be ready to pronounce more EN-
phatically against the Democracy.
The CHR1sTuNcY DIVORCE CASE
has interested a number of people
the past week, and the old Senator
has failed IL his cross suit against his
wife. There is enough in 1t to make
ID chapter with q moral, but so there
is in every community Of the same
kind. Let every community moral
ize for itself
GENERAL GRANT
is expected here some time about the
middle of the month. and he will re-
ceive an ovation such as is becoming
the occasion. The stalwart Tow
Path Club are rejoiced beyond all
others, that they vii nave an oppor-
tuRiity to participate in the demon
strations, for of all other Republi-
cans they were the most ridiculed by
the defunct Democracy. John Cess
na, the Chairman of the State Com
mittee of your State was ridiculed
when he advised that Republicans
should use pictures in the campaign,
''for, said he, people vote through
their eyes. He said, print canal
boat, with driver, and tell the peo-
pie that Garfield was a tow-path |
boy Cessna is a wise man he
realizes what is a fact in the every
day life of people. The only time
that people did not act through their
eyes was in the early days of the
Christian church. Then they were
not allowed to have pictures, nor
statuary, and when they got the
power they tore down all the magni-
ticent Pagan temples and churches,
and destroyed the paintings and stat
nary. But when the Catholic chris
tians got the upper hand, they re-
stored the pictures and statuary, and
now, to-day, all of the christian de
nominations are fond of such things, |
excepting the English and German
Quakers. In this day and genera
ton people are more governed by |
their eyes than ever before. There
is more attention paid to dress, more
attention to house decoration. more
attention paid to the building of
stylish houses, private and public,
than ever before IN the history of
christian people, and it is in many
cases done at the sacrifice of many
other comforts, and all to please
the eye, and that's why Cessna
was right; he was simply giving
expression to a fact that is clear
to all thinking people. The laugh
now is on those who were SO stupid
as not to see the propriety of Cess
mas political order. The "Tow-
Path Boys" Will be compensated by
the demonstrations that will take
place this month and next March.
and the Chairmans observation that
people act for and through their eyes
will be more fully demonstrated to
the public generally than if the atten-
ticn of people had not been drawn
to it by Cessna.
PHILADELPHIA SHARE OF THE GRANT
FUSD
IS the topic of conversation. That
5he one hundred thousand dollars of
contribution that has been
'aised in the Quaker city has shut
,he mouths of such as declared that
Grant had 10 following except from