Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-08-23
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ishsble By imprisonment in q stat
prison, for q period not to exceed two
years Eighteen hundred years ago
among the Romans, then the mos
highly civilized people in the world
ID was considered virtue to have I
desire not to survive a great calamity
10 ones family, or self. and it ws'
no stigma on ones name if he com
rnitted suicide, to escape the respon
sibihty OF calamity or misfortune
Brutus, when overtaken by defeat al
every turn, after the assassination Of
Caesar, said, suicide, lis a deed Of
fashion" and threw himself upon his
sword. Queen Cleopatra, when she
realized that the scepter that her
fathers had welded for 800 years
was about to be taken from her, pre-
fersd to not witness the humiliation.
She exclaimed, "Give me my robes,
put on my crown; I have immortal
longings" which when given her, she
committed suicide. But Brutus and
Cleopatra were heathens. Civilized
hesthens. Long before their day
suicide was considered an honorable
relief for the calamity and misfortune
of this world. Saul the first King OF
the Jews followed the fashion of the
times, and when defeat overlook his
army, he committed suicide. Fash
ions change, and now in this day and
generation, II York is to set the
fashion for suicides, everybody that
attempts il is to be declared guilty
OF a felony. Hadn't York State bet
ter get off deliverence as to what
shall be done with the people that
succeed In committing suicide. Non
sensical Legislation.
TrIs is the year when candidates
for the Legislature will be asked
questions az to how they will vote on
certain measures that are expected
70 be brought before the Legislature
for enactment Candidates are often
DETAINED by men to whom they have
made promise, and not kept the
promise, simply because the men
thst required the promise OF them,
did not tell them of all the tacts In
yolred in tho question, which If they
had done, instead of getting prom
iss to do 30, and SO, they would have
been told point blank that their pur-
noses OF scheme could not be endors-
cd Sometimes man will ask OF an
other. q promise. to do so and SO,
stating certain facts, and then after
,he promise has been obtained pro-
osed to surround the case with a
chain ofcircumstances that 80 change
the situation that it is not like the
situation to which a promise OF sup
port had been given. A change OF
circumstances may release man OF
promise, and put the party that e1-
pected to hold him to it clearly IN the
wrong. 1t is the experience OF law
yers. that sometimes men IN seeking
advice state their case IN such way
that the right seems clear, but when
all the surrounding circumstances
are brought forward in court the sit
nation of affsirs is different, and to
the CONSERVATION of both lawyer and
client they have no case. In Wow OF
such plain every day facts, 1t may be
as we'll to Just now suggest, for the
future respect for each other, OF all
parties concerned, that whenpromlses
are asked Of Legislative candidates,
that the questions be comprehensive
enough to embrace all circumstances
tha. NAV probably arise in the CON
sideration Of the question when be-
fore the Legislature.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, died
last Wednesday.
SENATOR DoS CAMERON, lost S1O,-
900, by bsiling General Burnside.
GEsxRAL BEAVER, attended the re-
union Of the siIteeners at Harris
burg, last week.
FRANK MouLroN, the Beecher, Til
ton mutual friend, has bought the
Governor Sprague mansion in r. 1.
CONGRESSMAN BAYsE, of Pittsburg,
savs that he expects to carry off the
nomination, regardless of the full
power Of the machine opposition.
FRox the number approximations
that the English and the Sultan issue,
one would think that they expect to
put to rout Aribi Bey by proclamation.
The river and harbor steal bill, as
IL is called is not a party measure.
Tho President vetoed it. In the Sen
ate, only 8 Democrats voted against
the bill They were Saulsburg, Pen
dleton, and Baysrd.
II il said that the ladies about
Washington charge it against Presi
dent Arthur that he desires to marry
for money. Doubtless the charge
produces broad emile on the face
of the President.
The Commission for the revision
OF the tariff, has been holding meet
ings at Long Branch, and there has
been hearing, what manufacturers of
different kinds of goods have to say
on the question of tariff.
The Chambersburg Reposlfory,
seems to be excited over the fact,
that the Public Opinion of the same
place, has taken down the name Of
Beaver for Governor, and put up in
its stead the name Of Stewart.
A READING lawyer, has been found
guilty of criminally liheling citizen
Of Berks county, against whom he
argued before the court. A reporter
took down the abusive language of
the lawyer and on the printed report
Of the Arguments the suit was
founded.
TEE latest sensational story, from
New York, is TO the effect, that Conk