Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-14
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

SoOu-
WHAT the politician ''sets up" tn
people will dispose of by their votes
Joseph Long of Fayette township
is selling ground lime stone as a fen
tilizer,
IT is reported that 35 lodges o
Indians III Dakota, are reduced t,
the point of starvation.
A PANIC is predicted on the ground
OF over-production and the balanc,
of trade being against us.
JAMES G. BLAINE, has declined tC
become candidate for Congressman
at-large IN the state OF Name.
OK ONTAesday,-yesterday,-Repub
1lcans that favor the Phiiadeip pima
ticket held Ratification meeting at
Pittsburg.
GUIrEAU is full of hope that Presi
dent Arthur viii pardon him He
now is willing to have preachers pray
with, and for him.
Ii Is reported that Secretary of
State Frennghuysen viii tenuer his
resignation to President AIInur. lie
does not enjoy the Office.
HENRY W. OLIVER, Jr., of Pitts
burg has been appointed by the
the President, as the Pennsylvania
member OF the Tarif Commission.
II is reported that A. J. Cassett OF
the Pennsylvania ialIroad has made
up his mind TO resign. HIS fren1s
are deslrous that he do no such thing.
GENERAL BEAVER, was not instruct
ed by his Congressional district rs TO
what he should do at Chicago. The
only Instructions he had was from
the stale convention
A. g. CURTIN, has introduced bill
in Congress, that provides Tor giving
a medal to each OF the first volunteer
soldiers from Pennsylvania that went
to the rescue of the nation in April
1861.
The Democrats claimed Oregon as
their own, but at the eiection neId a
few days ago, the Republicans swept
the State. 1t Is the first State eiec-
ton held this year, and it may be
set down as an omen OF good, for
the Republican cause.
A dispatch from Danville, Va, last
Saturday says, that 5,UOO people IN
Patrick county, Va, are IN a starving
condition. The crops there last year
were total failure. As much as two
hundred dollars has been paid for
barrel of flour within the past ten
days.
The Philadelphia Record says; Out !
of $50 cases OF smallpox III the town
of South Bethlehem there were 119
deaths The last patient has now
been discharged and the trouble Is
ended. We do not know of an in
stance where the terrible scourge has
done more deadly work.
General ID. Stewart Elliott, editor
of the Everett Press, and delegate
from Bedford to the Harrisburg Con
vention that nominated Beaver, viii |
not attend the dead convention that
Cooper proposes to resurrect at Har
burg on the 2lst. He denies Coop
er's right to call dead convention.
He will not become party to an
usurpation.
THERE is time in the Treasury de
partment at Washington. A man
named Doyle is under arrest for hav-
ing printed and circulated $1,000 u.
S. bonds. Doyle says the plate that
the bonds We're printed on is not a
counterfeit plate, but genuine gov
eminent bond plate, but how he got
it out of the Treasury department, he
has not told.
IT is said that a number of poiiti-
Clans are urging Governor Hoyt to
reconvene the Legislature SO that
the State may be re-districted and
the troublesome office of Congress
man-at-large removed Governor
Hovt. however will do no such thing
He has too good judgement to put
such an additional expense upon the
people of the State, simply, for the
purpose of gratifying office seekers.
MICHAEL DAvITT has come to the
front with new plan to settle the
Irish question, and open the lands
of that unhappy country to the pur-
chase of every Irishman that wishes
to buy landed estate. He proposes
that the English Government borrow
500, ))0.0J0 at 5 per Cent interest.
the fund thus raised shall be used to
buy out the large bond holders, and
the Government shall then resell the
land to such Irishmen as desire to
to buy, and who may be able to con-
form to the conditions of purchase
laid down by the Government.
An action has been instituted
against State Senator Roberts, of
Titusville, charging him with perjury
in taking his oath as Senator. The
information is laid by Patrick Boyle,
of Richburg, n. Y, who claims that
the Senator obtained his nomination
by improper means, and consequent
ly could not legally have taken the
oath. The hearing has been fixed
for June 13. Thomas NJ. Wilson,
editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph,
gave bail for Roberts appearance at
the hearing-Boyle who makes the
information, is editor of the OIL Echo
and is under indictment in Mexican
county for libel, Senator Roberts be-
ing the prosecutor.
SECRETARY of State NJ. S. Quay is
oat in document, to ''offset' Mr.. |
Lear's denial of the right of the Har-