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Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
A Southern View of Negro Suffrage.

It is seldom that we of the North have the opportunity of seeing the exact position taken by influential and intelligent Southern whites regarding negro suffrage. In the March num- Der of the North American appears an article from Chief Justice Chalmers of Mississippi, from which we make the following extracts
 POLITICAL REORGANIZATION.
 Never was the atmosphere of American politics so rife with charges and suspicious of bribery and fraud in conducting elections and ascertainng their results as in the last ten years, and these thing seem to increase with each recurring election. At the South, there can be no doubt that bad men engage in and good men shut their eyes to political practices which, in other days, all parties would have made hast to visit with exemplary punishment. At the North, the raising of large sums of money is deemed essential to the inauguration of every canvass, and the question of how much money the friends of candidate for nomination can raise, is more often asked in party conventions than the question what are his qualifications for the office.
 Returning boards organized to count in the party candidates, ballot-boxes surrounded by swarms of paid party officials, shameless as- sessments on the salaries of public officers, cipher dispathes breathing corruption in every line, electoral commissions composed of the highest in the land, where. each member is sworn to decide like a judge, and where each member votes like a partisan, these are the new devices, these the confessed practices which shame our recent politics, and are fast breaking down American reverence for the ballot.box. Some of them are the immediate, and all, perhaps, to some extent, the remote results of negro suffrage.
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
HARPER'S PERIODICALS.

The Volumes of the Weekly begin with the frs. Number for January of each year. When no time is mentioned it will be understood that the subscriber wishes to commence with the Number next after the receipt of order.
 The last Eleven Annual Volumes of HARPER's WEEKLY in neat cloth binding. will be sent by mail postage paid by express, free of expense provded the freight does not exceed one dollar per volume), for $7OO each.
 Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for binding will be sent by mail, postpaid, receipt of $1 0O each.
 Remittances should be made by Post Office Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance of loss
 Newspapers not to copy this advertisement soit o~t the empress order ef HARPER & BROTHERS.
 Address -|t
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
RECONSTRUCTION.

The reconstruction acts manifestly if not avowedly proceeded upon the theory that the whites were unfit to rehabilitate their upturn ed governments, and that this duty must be devolved upon the negroes. While the whole of the latter were suddenly enfranchsed, large classes of the former, embracing the most cultured and experlenced, were disfranchised, and as the ingenuity of President Johnson's legal advisers sought to limit the number of the disfranchlsed classes, successive acts of Congress made them yet more sweeping. While the scheme was nominally submitted to the vote of the people of the States affected by 1t, no election was permitted to stand that did not result in It's favor, and in some of the States repeated elections were ordered until the desired result was compelled. When negro domination had by these methods been established, there ensued scene of incompe- tence, profigacy, and pillage, the like of which has never disgraced the annals of any English speaking people,
 It was wealth plundered by pauperlsn, in telligence dominated by ignorance, America ruled by Ethiopia.
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10

There never was day during the time that they were permitted to live when five hundred resolute men could not have overthrown them in few hours, And this fact was as we'll understood by the rulers as by the ruled. It found signal illustrations in the city of New Orleans, on the 14th of September 1874, when few hundred members of the White League" in less than fifteen minutes put to route the whole force of the State government, who were advised in advance of the intended attack, and had prepared to resist it. After few ill-directed volleys, the State forces (ne- groes with a few white allies) fled in every direction, ,-the rank and file to the swamps
 and the leaders to the United States Custom. house, ,-and in all the State of Louisiana not hand was raised to restore them to power.
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
THEIR ELECTION FRAUDS.

As easy as it was to throw off these shackles by force, it was well-night impossible to do so by the hallot-box. Apart from the numerical majorities which the blacks possessed in,sev- eral States and large sections of other States. so skillfully were the election laws framed for the promotion of fraud, and so interruptions the men who counted the votes, that it was simply impossible by any ordinary method of conducting elections to dislodge them from power.0 Mir. Pike thus clearly states the situ- ation in this regard: t,EE~F
 "Ohe of the great discouragements to regu- lar and sustained efforts on the part of the whites to resist negro sway in South Carolina has been the frauds practiced on the ballot-box. These have been so great and audaciotls that voting became farce. The party in the majority counted i'll whenever they wanted elected. without any reference to the votes cast. The following testimony discloses a worse state of things in South Carolina on this subject than ever was before seen since voting was invented. It shows that men who were elected by majority of thousands were deliberately counted out, and their adversaries declared elected by overwhelming majorities, The result has been that at the last election no voting was done in numerous districts, ex- cept by the dominant party in the State"
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
CLIPPINGS.

Small dishes are decorated so handsomely now that pickles look unhappy in them.
 The fool buyeth an umbrella. but the pru- dent man knoweth trick worth two of that
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
THEIR OVERTHROW.

At length, when longer endurance became impossible; when taxes, already swollen thousand per cent, on former rates, were mounting still higher and threatening confisca. ton of all property when. despite these enor
 nous ievies, the bonded indebtedness grew year by year more enormous when millions Of acres of land had already been forfeited for unpaid taxes; when all industries were nara. iyzed and the very soil seemed reluctant to bring forth its accustomed fruits, the maddened whites burst their bonds-burst them under the forms of law and the guise of the ballot box, since federal power would not otherwise permit. but by means in some instances. cer. tainly, which firm believer in the efficacy of the ballot-box would find it difficult to defend For crimes against liberty, which by compari- son sink into insignifcance, the people of England brought king to the scaffold and drenched their island in blood. Fer misgoy. ernment and corruption far less disgraceful and ruinous, the people of France guillotined royal family and exterminated the flower of their nobility. Let not those who have not felt the bitterness of such a tyranny judge the whites Of the South too harshly. Let it be re- membefed that in no time orsclime have the Caucasian race ever consented live with the inferior ones sGOe as rulers. The British in India, the French in Guiana, the Dutch in South Africa, the Spaniarde Tn South America and our own forefathers on this continent have abundantly demonstrated that the white man will not be governed by the black man or the red. Sentimentalists may depiore. but statesmen must recognize this as fixed and irreversible fact. rI--.'7 - - ->
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-10
EDUCATION AND PATIENCE NEEDED.


 The men of the South must understand once Ior Aii .hse the negroes, as negroes, and be- cause their skins are black, can never he dis. franchised. Their right to vote, as race, is as fixed and irreversible as their freedom, and the fifteenth amendment to the national Consti. tuition is no more likely to be repealed than the thirteenth.
 They must understand further that govern ments cannot live by the means which revoiu- tions justify, any more than health can be maintained by the strong medicines necessary to preserve life. The ballot-box must speak the unbiased verdict of all the lawful electors and that verdict must be made wise, not by force or fraud, but by such limitations on the right Of suffrage as will no longer leave intelli- gence and virtue at the mercy of brutality and crime. Standards of education and proprety must be enacted which for time will disfran- chise manyo and to the attainment of which,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21
THE PhladeIpbia Recordwrites tbus

The Philadelphia Recordwrites thus !:
"a journalistic fossil who used to be
connected with Western newspapers
|nany years ago is of opinion that
General Taylor was deliberately poi
soned at the instigation of the pro-
slavery men, In order to let in Fill
more, who it had been ascertained
was favorable to the passage of the
Fugitive Slave bill. He also believes
that President Harrison was murder
ed 30 that John Tyler might come in
and change the policy of the Admin
istration in the interest of the Dem
ocrats- He suggests thai some sim
liar political view may have been at
the bottom of the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln, inasmuch as An
drew johnson, after he got warm ia
the Presidential chair, went back on
1 the Republicans. Going on from
these assumptions this shrewd stu
dent of the undercurrent of Ameri1
Ican history sees suspicious signifi-
Icance in the fact that Vice President
Arthur belongs to Republican fac
Etion adverse to that headed by Pres
|ident Garfield Upon such data be
becomes prophetic and formulates a
rule that whenever the President and
Vice President happen to represent
seriously conflicting policies there
! will be great danger that an attempt
will be made to pht the President out
|of the way.
There is a great deal more ingenu-
sity than sense in this idea of the
Western ink-slinger. 1t will serve
however, as an illustration of the
'crankiness that is now generally com
:ing to the front in all sections of the|
country. The fools are not yet dead
sTheir tribe appears, on the contrary
Ito be increasing.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21
PRIVATE SALES.

AFARM OF ~ ACRES, MORE or LESS,
|in Beale township 50 seres clear, under
good state Of cultivation. Log house, bank
barn, outbuildings, orchard, well of water
|at the door, running water near the house
and barn for stock. ALSO, Farm OF 30
|seres, adjoining the above. Ten acres clear.
la good stone house with frame kitchen,
frame stable, fruit. These farms make de-
|sirable country homes. They are only six
|miles from Niff1in station on the Pennsyt-
|vania railroad and only one mile from Johns
Istown, Juniats Co., Pa. ALSO, the undi-
Ivided half of 300 acres Of mountain land in
|Beale township. ALSO, Lot of Ground,
about oue-fifth of an acre, in Johnstown,
having thereon erected a two-story frame
house and q wood-house. Fruit ou the lot.
THESE properties can all be bought together,
Ior separately, al a bargain. For frrther
particulars, call on or address John kauff'
man, or Benjamin Shellenberger, Johnstown'
EJuniata Co., Pa.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21

PRAYER for Guiteau was delivered in
a Cincinnati church. Who would want
to attend such a church 2 The peo-
pie that pray for such wretch as
Guiteau are esentimentalists, and waste
their pity. They do worse; they in
directly wrong society by praying for
such wretch as Guiteau, for every
other wretch in the country takes en-
couragement from the pity that is
manifested toward the murderer, and
instead of being Inundated and made
to feel the enormity of their bad acts
they are elated and feel proud over
them. Let the murderer pray for
himself. The Lord will mete out
Justice to him in his own good time.
Pity expressed and help extended to
such human devils as Griteau only
make them bold and insolent, and a
man owes it to society that such
iiends are not encouraged. 1t is
only the realization of responsibility
that causes them to cry out. When
the public sentiment against Guiteau
cropped out through the shot that Ma
son fired at the murderer the wretch
for the first time stood face to face
with the fact that the people of the
country have Lo feeling of sympathy
or pity for him, and then he prayed,
''Oh, God, why did L shoot the poor
President7 Be merciful to Inc, a
poor miserable assassin-the assassin
of the President of great country
could not help it. The devil seized
me and was compelled to fire the
fatal shot. Oh, Lord, if I was only
ont of my misery. Take me now.
oh Lord take me now" During
this prayer he wept bitterly.
The people of the Republic are in
need of no churches where men meet
and pray for such assassins as Gui-
ieau. Such places ought to be
stunned as the door direct to ruin.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21
GENERAL ITEMS.

John b. Raymond, of Fargo, Dako-
|ta harvested the present season $50, 900
worth of wheat from . farm that orly
cost HIM the same amount of money
one year ago.
The Sultan Of Turkey lives 10 q con-
|stant fear Of assassination, aud an extra
guard of black eunuchs surround the
apartments he occupies both night and
day.
A case o! hydrophobia from an unus
ual cause is reported from Texas. A
|eolored woman while going for buckle,
|of water, near Hutchins in that State,
was attacked By panther, which BIZ
her severely On the hand and neck
She went to East Dallas for medical
treatment, where she died with all the
symptoms of bydrophobla.
A number of American capitalists
have authorized General Frisble to ap-
Fply for charter for q bank in the City
|of Mexico with branches throughout
the country. The application will be
made at once.
Among the pathetic incidents Of the
Michigan ERE it is related that . local
relief committee met farmer travelling
eastward with an old horse and wagon
containing four boxes contained the
|cbarred remains of his wife and six
children. He had lost everything.
Andrew Weisbacher, who killed bis
Il year-oid daughter At New York on
Sunday week while shooting At youth
who was stealing bis fruit, was dischsrg-
led from custody the Coroner's jury de-
'eiding that the shooting was accidental.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21
WESTWARD FAST TRAINS.

Pacific Express leaves Philadelphia II IS
b m; Harrisburg Is q m; Duncannon 4
l43 m; Newport S 06 m; Mifhin 5 As
|m; Lewistown 6 OF am; McVeytown s ~
IA IN; Mt. Union 6 SIS an; Huntingdon
|l7 an; Petersburg 30 N Spruce Greek
q A m; Tyrone II 2am; Bell's Mills
y 81 ami; Altoona 8 50 mi Pittsbux
II As pm.
Pittsburg Express leaves Philadelphia as
IS 25 m; Harrisburg 10 rs M; Rockville
|lO 80 PM Mimin Il - pm; Lewistown
|f- O9 q m; Huntingdon Is u IN Tyrone
II SO III Altoona 25 q m; Pittsburg 10
IA m.
Fast Line leaves Philaieiphfa at l2 10 .
IN; Harrisburg 4 05 pm; MiftiiR % pm;
|Lewi,town 5 IS pm /; Huntingdon 50pm,
Tyrone 80 p IN; Altoona . 70 P NJ Pitts
|szrg 1901 pm.
Chicago Express leaves Philadelphia at
700 m Harrisburg II 20 p m; Nifhin 10
|p m; Lewistown 81 y IN; Huntingdon
|54 p IN; Tyrone 81 p IN; Altoona 4 03 p
I'M; arrives at Pittsburg 80 p IN.
Fast Line West, on Sxnda,,, ,riH .top al
Duncannon, Newport, McYey.o,v., Mt. Unioa,
Petersburg and BeiP' Mills, 'rhsn Fiagssa.
EASTWARD FAsT TRAINS.
Cincinnati Express leaves Pittsburg ss
"A 20pm; Altoona 20 p nj Bells Mills
- 36 pm; Tyrone So pm; Petersburg 10
IN p m; Huntingdon 10 81 p m; Mt Union
no SO pm; McVeytown ii 80 p m Lewis
town IL 5S m; Mifflin II Is m; arrives
at Harrisburg at 40 m, and Philadelph;s
lat Is N.
Pacific Express leaves Pittsburg a; 4 %
I'm; Altoona s IS am; Tyrone $50 am;
Huntingdon S22 IN; Lewistown 10 20 IN;
Miffiin 10 SO am; Duncannon 90 90 a IN;
Harrisburg 1901 p q; arrives IN Philatel-
Iphia 20 pm.
Pacific ErPre,, Esst o. Sunday, will stop
lat BelPs Mills, Spruce Crsek, Pstsrs6rrg,
Mil Creek, nj. Unon, McVsytown and Ses-
port, rhea Fias.sI
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21
CENERAL ITEMS.

Finger nails two inches long are the
bride of Baltimore woman.
One Of party of girls who ran .
fve-miIe race at Bio, Texas. died from
over exertfos.
The States viii elect State oalcers
this year, while only six will elect Gov
ernors, viz; Massachusetts,, Minnesto,
Mississippi, Ohio, Virgins sEd Wis
copsin.
Annie Martin, sgec 1S yesrs the
daughter of . respectable farmer nesr
" mona, MINI Was shot and instantly
killed by an unknown party on Wed
nesday eight. She Was returning home
from q neighbor's residence. walking q
few yards ahead of her parents, when
the shooting occurred. Suspicion rests
on discarded lover.
Benjamin Beatty, of Newburg, Cler-
mont county, Ohio, on Wednesday night
shot DR.. j F Abrams, a practising phys
elan of that place, on account Of his
suspicion thar there WAS too great an
Intimacy between Abrams aud Mrs.
Beatty. The wound is supposed to be
fatal.
John Hooten, Marshal Of Corning,
Holt county, Mo-, was killed on Wed
2ussdsy night while attempting to arrest
Ia druakeh man named JEFF Williams.
lTbe murderer was arrested.
Colonel Frank Byler has sold his
ranches on Champion creek and Colo
RADIO river, in Mitchell county, Texas,
with $4,000 head of cattle and eighty
saddle ponies, for S130, 900 in cash.
A San Francisco physician, believ
ling that be has discovered q cure for
| by ydrophobia, and desiring to test it,
!, has had himself bitten by rabid dog.
An uncommon occurrence is related
as having taken place at Cleveland
| Ohio last Wednesday night September
la. The statement relative thereto
reads; A we'll known conductor on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad who lives in ColIingwood, q
4 short distance from Cleveland, has for
1 some time suspected that his wife was
mot at all what a wife should be. On
W ednesday night be returned home
suddenly, and believed as be neared
sihe house that some other man was at
that moment usurpiog his own place
IIn the family. He entered noiselessly
and proceeded at once to his chamber.
| He heard a mans breathing from the
bed occupied by bis wife. Turning up
the gas suddenly so that every corner
(of the room was made visible, be dis
covered the Colliugwood station agent
|of the railroad lying beside bis
guilty wife. Pointing q revolver to-
ward them telling them to remain mo-
|tionless, be called into the room all the
people in the house aud the neighbors
Ito view the thorough ID ashamed and
frightened pair. After this novel re-
|venge the husband left the house. The
station agent resigned his position and
fled the county.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
PRESIDENT JUDGE.

Editor Sentinel and Republ,eon-Dear Sir
As the rules OF our party require candidates
mary Election, allow us to name Hon B. +
|Junkin as a candidate for President Judge
He has been an able and impartial Judge
land as Perry county las declared over
|whelmingly for him Juniata will bs almos
sure to record her vote the same way. Iii:
Denomination and election will give us ;
Judge second TO none in the State, and on,
|who can in his official capacity afford to dc
Ionly what is just and right. The hope o.
the country and its main stay is an unbiased
|and incorruptible Judiciary. If nominated
There is no doubt of his election.
MANY REPUBLICANS.
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FARM OF 400 ACRES, MORE OR

FARM OF 400 ACRES, MORE OR
less, of limestone and shale land, in Milford
township. in Licking Creek valley, Juniata
county, Pa. about l60 cleared, 4O acres
|timberland sunder fence" The improve
|ments are Large Double Stone and Frame
House, Large Bank Barn, Wagon Shed,
Large Hog Pen, Sheep House, Carriage
House, Wash House, Spring House within
|never-failing water at both house and barn.
This is a desirable property, and is only two
miles from Mifflin railroad station. Terms
|easy. For particulars, call on or address
John Robson, Patterson. Juniata Co., Pa,
|or Shelburn Robson, same address.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-21

The Ciief of the Bureau of Sta
|tisties at Washington reports that the
total values of the exports of the do
|mestic breadstuffs from the United
States during August, 1881, were
!S27, ,547, ,52l, and during August, 1880
1881. .734, $50; for the two months end
led August 81, 1881, S45, 5S4, 22S, and
for the two months ended August
81, 1880, S62,964, ,537: for the eigh,
months ended August 81, 1881, S157,
565, ,205, and during the correspond
ling period in 1850, S1S5,321, ,222
The exports of wheat were about Z,
100000 bushels less, and of corr
about 100000 bushels less. o.
breadstuffs New York exported dur
ling the eight months ending August
81. S6S, 100000 worth, loss of $50,
500, 900 as compared with the same
period last year: Boston, S11,000,
g000, gain of S500,000; Philadel
phia, S12,S00,000, a loss of $500,
1000; Baltimore. S28,100,O0O, a Loss
! !of Sc, 100000; New Orleans, S9,1OO,
1000, a gain of S1,000,000, and Sar
Francisco, SIG, 100000, a gain of 81,
100000.
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Executors, Notice.

EsIuIs V JUN OutsWdn, dtcedsed.
II ETTERS TESTAMENTARY ON THE
IL estate Of John Sausman, late of Fayett.
township. Juniata county, deceased, having
been granted to the undersigned, all per
sons indebted to said estate are requested
70 make payment, and those having claim,
or demands are requested to make know
the same without delay to
JACOB SAUSMAN,
JOHN K. SAUSMAN,
Executors.
Aug. q, 1881.
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TREASURER.

Ed,tor Sestr.sf and Repsklseua Sir, 1t II
= well recognized fact everywhere that the
office Of County Treasurer is an important
office. Jnniata county cannot be an excep-
|tion, for there are no exceptions. On two
occasions in the past, Mr.. Jacob Lemon. oi
Patterson, came within few votes of be-
ling elected to office. He is not among thc
Iclass denominated as I" office-seekers. u
His friends desire that be again be placed
las candidate for the nomination OF County
Treasurer, at the Republican Primary cleo
|tion to be held Saturday, September 24tt
inst, believing that if he again becomes the
standard bearer, he will be elected by the
people at the general election in November
MIFFLINTOWN.
Sept. Z, 1881.
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ASSOCIATE JUDGE.

Editor Sentinel and Repubitcan-Dear Sir
Among the important offices to fill by elec
|tion in the campaign of 1881 is that of AS
.sociaic Judge. At the solicitation OF I
number OF citizens l present the name o.
Jacob Smith, Esq, of Fayette township, a:
IA suitable candidate for the Republicans t.
nominate for the Office of Associate Judge
subject to the rules Of the Republican party
Respectfully yours,
|June29l PAYETTE.
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COUNTY AUDITOR.

Editor Jsniots Sentinel and Rspubi;can
Many citizens OF Juniata county are so wei
satisfied with the manner in which Captain
Lewis Degan has discharged the duties o
|the office of County Auditor that the.
would almost deem it public loss to no
have him in the board Of Auditors There
fore they are constrained TO ask for bis re
as cand idate for the importan
position which he has filled SO acceptably
His denomination and election will be 70
THE financial good of the whole county.
TAX-PAYER.
Aug. "A, 1881.