Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-01
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The Military Academy at Chester,
Pa, was destroyed by fire few days
ago.
THIRTEEN hundred people died OF
smallpox in Philadelphia the past
year.
ST. LOUIS millers last week sent to
California for 100000 bushels OF
wheat.
Russian Jews are coming to Amer
lea IL great numbers, to get away
from persecution.
The ablest statesman in Congress
is puzzled as to what to do with the
Mormon question.
THERE was a racket among grain
dealers in Chicago last Friday, and
prices tended downward.
PHILADELPHIANs are eating fresh
shad that We're caught South and sent
to the markets of Northern cities.
Mr. Dill has friends among the
unterrified for the office of Governor.
So has Mr. Hopkins; ditto, Mr.. Pat
tison.
The Legislature in Wisconsin abol.
ished capital punishment, and now
the cases of hanging by the hands OF
mob is becoming alarmingly fire.
quent-
Two ladies, Mary E. Mumford and
Rachel L. Bodley, were elected school
directors in the 29th Ward. in Phila
delphia, at the spring election, yes
terday week
A DISPATCH from Europe indicates
that the Pope will soon leave Italy
and take up new quarters in Ger
many. The probability is that the
report is not well founded.
The water in the Mississippi and
its tributaries was uncommonlv high
last week. Houses and fences in
many places were swept away. Peo-
pie and cattle were drowned.
The National Board of Health
having declared that small-p is cpl
demic, it is no wonder that foreign
nations require all ships coming from
the United States of America to lie
SO many days off port before landing
passengers or goods.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR sent the name
of Rosco Conkling to the Senate for
the vacancy on the Supreme Court
bench. Conkling would bring n dig
nifty, and quality of integrity to the
bench that is not found lying loose
in every place these days.
THEY are getting things into shape
for a confusion, political time, in the
State of Maine next fall Republi-
cans, straight Democrats. Fusionists,
and Prohibitionists are all organizing
Everybody is already asking, :" Have
your heard the news from Maine ?"
Miss E j. CUMMINGS graduate of
New York State Normal School,
robbed the house of Mr. Taylor, of
Fredonia, \. Y She pleaded guilty,
but said that she could not help it,
that she was irresistibly inspired to
commit the act. That is Guiteau's
theory.
Spring is approaching, and the In
dian, that has been taken care of and
kept comfortable in his wigwam, is
preparing his war paint for bloody
summer excursion against the settlers.
The Blackfeet Indians have already
gone out on the war path and slaugh-
tered lot of people.
The Supreme Court of Pennsyl
vania has reversed the judgment of
the Dauphin County Court, and the
members of the late Legislature will
thereby get five hundred dollars each,
more than they had received. They
had been paid $1,000 each, but they
demanded $500 extra pay. The Su-
preme Court gives it to them.
Born Houses of Congress, the
President, Justices of the Supreme
Court, Cabinet officers, the General
of the Army, the Admiral of the
Navy, Newspaper reporters, and as
many other people as could get tick
cts of admission, assembled in the
hail of the House of Representa-
tives at Washington last Monday, to
listen to the memorial address on the
life and character of James A. Gar
field, by James g. Blaine.
The reform movement in Philadel- |
phia did not sweep William McAiullen
off his political feet. He withstood
the tide, and his successful election
to a city Office was made the occasion |
of a grand Democratic jubilee in his |
ward The billy, club. sling shot and |
pistol were freely used among the re- |
joicing host A city paper calls it an
old d-fashioned Democratic jubilee No
one was killed, but quite number of
the participants were hurt
The jury Gxer question is not dead
it has in fact not yet been fairly |
brought before the public The ques-
ton is just being fairly put under
in the cities. A city paper
says that it is fact that Jurors have
come to a decision by "tossing up a
penny" and by "game of cards.
Once the question is fairly started |
and put before the country it will be-
come apparent that in no thing in
the country is reform needed SO
greatly as in the machinery Of the
Courts. There are men in this coun-
ty of Juniata, in Miffiintown, that de-
clare that they can name men that
say that bargains, political and busi-
ness transactions have been conclud-
ed by certain men promising to put
the names of other certain men in
the jury wheel.