Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-12-06

A CITY paper says, that the way to
catch Phipps is to annex Canada.
The Democracy are dividing on
The tariff question. Let them alone.
THERz wasa fall Of snow from North
Carolina to th, North Pole, last
weak.
4 SUNBEa Of Democrats are urging
Mr.. Pattison to appoint W. S. Steng-
er, as Secretary OF State.
PEOPLE are taking to praying for
everything. The Lord will answer
all the prayers worth answering.
II has taken the Democrats 20
years TO find out that Ben Butler did
not steal spoons. AS party the
Democracy learn the facts slowly.
AT Columbus Ohio, last Wednes-
day, jury was hung in the case of
j. d. Watson charged with Offering
bribes TO members Of the legislature.
AFTER asking fer prayers for clear
weather TO ses Venus pass over the
face OF the sun TO- day, who will say
that scientists do not believe in pray
eTs.
0S The first inst, a Baltimore man
under sentence by court of justice
was sent to jai. yard, and received 13
lasles on his EsAed back. He was
whipped for beating his wife.
TX. GovEsEos CURTIN. is credited
with having SAID that the present
tariff Is too high. The ez- Governor
represents the Z0th district In Con
gress, and trains now with the Dem
ocrscy.
KELLOGG in the 3rd Congressional
district Of louisiana, IS not having a
smooth time Of it. His right - g
seat IN Congress has been chaileng-
cd on the ground that he is not ie-
gal resident OF the district
FRoM present appearance it looks
as II some queer combinations NAV
take place at Harrisburg when the
Legislature meets One part Of the
Republican party may unite with one
part of the Democratic party, and
the two remaining parts Of the re
spective parties viii then as a matter
of course unite which VIII produce a
queer political combination all
around
TIE Washington Post says that the
children of nigh naval officer, who
married the second time barely s
year after his wife's death, are about
to bring suit against him on the
charge OF his having wrongfully and
fraudulently deprived them of their
share IN their mothers estate, and
that the Hon. T. d Wright, late of
The Supreme Court of ONO, the Hon.
II. I. Merrick, and h ". Garrett,
OF Washington, have been retained
b. the plaintiffs, to conduct the suit
REv. C. HER3ERT RICHARDSON, pas
tor of Methodist church in Wash
ington. preacheda Thanksgiving ser
mon that has excited Washington
people to an uncommon degree. He
denounced the Attorney General Of
the Government for having provided
for = private Interview with the Mar
sLal OF the District of Columbia
The Marshal thought he WAS alone
with the Attorney, but such was not
the case, Tor a reporter was secreted
in the room and took down the con
versation as il took place. The preach
er denounced such methods on the
part OF the Attorney IS abhorent.
As unintentional tragedy was en-
acted in q theater in Cincinnati o.
on The evening Of Thanksgiving day
an actor named Frayne, in the conrse
of a play WAS to shoot an apple from
the head of an actress. The shot
was backward one from a rife b.
aid Of mirror. The distance be
tween the parties was 30 feet.
When the shot cracked Miss Annie
Won Behren fell TO the fooN and
was dead IN fifteen. The bullet pierc-
Ell her brain. The scens that follow
ed cannot be described. Frayne fel
n svoon over the body of the dead
actress.
& MEDICAL College Hospital has
been uncarthed in Mass, where sys
teInstic maIDractice is carried on
Alslpractice upon a young lady OF 8
high strung family Led to the arrest
OF hospital officers. The record OF
the concern, II is said, contain the
names Of number of well known
people OF that community, and the
excitement is correspoadingly great
The concern viii Of course be broker
up, but the fact of It's existence, is
an unfsyorable commentary on the
morals OF that part OF the country
that kept up such an establishment
UEDER date OF November q, Can
adian Astronomer sent the following
10 President Arthur: MAY it please
your Excellency: On the 23d OF Sep
tember last I announced through th'
Canadian press that great storm
would occur III March next; that /
would first be felt in the Northern
Pacific, would appear in the Gulf o
Mexico on the night of the 9Th and
being reelected by the Rocky Noun
tains, would cross this meridian iron
the West at noon of Sunday, Marcl
Ii, 1888. No vessel, whatever he
Dimensions, will be safe out of han
Dor and none OF small tonnage ca
hope to survive the tidal wave an
fury of this tempest. As the win
viii blow from the southeast, th
planetary force viii be sufficient t
submerge the lowlands of the Amer
can coast, especially those borderin
on the Gulf of Mexico and washed b
the Gulf Stream, while the air Gu
r.,te for cavaral hundred miles alon