Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-09-20
SHORT LOCALS.

On Saturday evening, lawyer Ar
mold, of Richtield will deliver lee
ture in Newport-Subject-The diff
ferent effects Alcohol has on different
persons and the causes of it,
Last week. in the make up of our
court proceedings; the following ap-
peared John Erenzeller vs. Jacob
Schreffler. Verdict for plaintiff. "
Instead of verdict for plaintiff, it
should have read. continued.
John Hawk, was overcome by ex-
haustion on the pavement along
Main Street, few days ago, and
sank to the ground His sons William
and Henry, seated him in an arm
chair and carried him home in that
way.
Some Lewistown people are blam-
ed with having stolen during the late
encampment y sets of hospital tent
poles, 10 wall tent flies, 81 common
tents, Is camp kettles, As mess pans,
Is picks, 81 axes, II spades, 134
mallets.
1t cannot be possible that the men
of this country. that labor WITH their
hands can be bought by the polite
ians like sheep in the market place.
1t is an insult to say that men that
work with their hands can be bought
for election purposes.
IT is aua0Upeed that the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company has issued
orders to all ticket agents to refuse
to sell tickets Ito persons who are
intoxicated" and ali gatemen are in
structed ".Q pass no one who Is un-
der the influence of liquor.
a brother of President Garfield
has lived for many years in northern
Michigan on u small and sterile farm.
The Grand Haven papers say that
he is now building fine house and
barn with money given him by Mrs.
Garfield. She gave him $4,000"
Lawyers, Parker, Patterson, ia
cobs, Irwin, and Crawford, Sheriff
Kelly, and Captain Mcclellan, were
off to the Seven Stars, last Friday.
If they had notified US several days
previous to their going, we woald
have requested our correspondent,
Barton Speak to drop in among them
at the Stars.
There are queer reports from
Washington as to the efforts to bribe
Jurors in the Star Route case. Re
ports are to the effect that efforts
were made to bribe the jury to not
convict The case needs investigation
If the object of all the work was to
hang the jury, the effort was success
full, for the jury could not agree.
1t is amusing to read the deliver
ances Of town councils, just as if a
disease in q community is to be dis
posed of by a resolution or two, and
the shovel of the scavenger. 1t is
creditable to the counsil when they
keep a town clean. But no amount
of cleanness in street or alley will
atone for uncleanness or gluttony.
1t is gluttony or uncleanness of the
inner man, that causes so many dis
eases. The edicts of town councils
cannot reach gluttony.
The Chambersburg Repository says;
The Carlisle barracks being insuffic-
lent for the entire number of Indian
children that have been sent from
the western reservations, about SO of
them have been hired ont as servants
to citizens of Carlisle, one of the
conditions being that they are to at
tend the common schools. The school
board and the citizens generally are
inclined to object to this condition.
The State Superintendent has been
asked for his opinion as to the right
of these children to attend the pub
lie schools.
The Philadelphia Record says. The
result in Maine is sockdolager for
the Greenbackers. By contriving to
prevent the reapportionment of the
State into new Congressional districts
they have succeeded in sending a
straight Republican delegation to
the next Congress elected on the
general ticket. Thus the country is
left to get along as it can without
the services of Mr. Ladd and Mr..
Murch. The Greenback allies, the
Democrats of Maine, we are pleased
to know are rs fat on their backs as
they deserve to be, with Jimmy
Blaine walking around among them
and not caring where he steps.
The fact is often forgotten that
the farther north the longer the suns S
rays shine during the months from
March to September. 1t is this fact
which carries the latitude of success
full corn growing far north of what it
would otherwise be. Corn loves hot
weather, but the average product per
acre in New England is considerably
more than in Southern States, where
its home might naturally be suppos-
ed to be located.-fmerican Culttra-
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