Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-07-25
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.


There is an army Of 10000 teach
ers in the public schools Of this state.
The AVERAGE annual salary that they
receive is $3.50.
LAST Thursday at noon, some nine
or ten thousand telegraph operators
in the United States and Canada,
struck for higher wages.
THI North American is putting in
some favorable words for Arthur as
the next candidate of the Republican
party for the Presidency.
A CATHOLIC priest in Wilkesbarre
has declared that neither bangs or
frizzes shall be worn by the female
members Of his congregation
CHAs. A. AsHBURNKE, geologist is
credited with having announced that
the anthracite coal fields of Pennsyl-
yania will have been exhausted with
in the period of 200 years.
A DYspArCH from the west says:
Jury trials in Colorado are now prac-
tically abolished, an especially de-
manded jury having to be paid for
in advance, and picked up on the
streets.
McCLURK's Times says the extra
session OF the Legislature is not like
ly to be total failure. after all. It
will take something like q hundred
and seventy-five thousand dollars
out Of the Treasury.
CHOLERA is raging in Egypt, and
last week when a ship with load of
rags from Egypt, came into port at
New Haven, Conn, orders were Civ
en- to allow no communication be-
tween the vessel and the shore.
A NUMBER OF Democratic politicians
who profess to be president makers
are in a worry, to know whether Mr..
Tilden intends to be candidate for
the presidency. Politicians are al
ways in q worry about the man that
they are not for.
A CRY paper states that DIR.
Brown-Sequard has discovered new
anesthetic which destroys sensibili:
ty but leaves the patient capable of
working and attending to ordinary
duties. When the flesh is cut no
pain is felt
TIE only set Of people in this
Commonwealth Just now that insist
On working longer than they are
wanted to work are the members OF
the Legislature. If they were get
ting rs cts or 90, day they
would soon adjourn
II Is declared py men VINO pro
Tess to know, that the nomination Of
Garfield for the Presidency at Chicago
was not q nomination that came
about "of its own accord, but that
it was the result of plan of nomi-
nation in his favor gotten up by
Wharton Barker Of Philadelphia
THERE is o talk of o Democratic
and Greenback alliance. Shades of
Andy Jackson tell it not in Gath,
that the hard money Democracy of
Jackson and Benton are about to be
swallowed up by the rag money
men" The sound of Democratic
denunciation OF the greenback as un-
constitutional money, has scarcely
died out.
The surplus distribution plank of
the Harrisburg Convention will do
this year because Governor Pattison's
elO day reform Legislature will be
the cause of the election of anything
and everything ON the other side, but
the surplus distribution plank will
not do for next year state or nation
al convention.
TIE telegraph operators str uck
believing, that their places could not
be filed by other operators. Who
are the next set to strike, believing
that in this land of 55 million peo-
pie there are none to take their pla-
ces and that things will come to an
end if they are not kept in situa-
tionf
TIE State Fair is to be held in
Philadelphia during the 10 years to
come. Buildings will be put up, al
ready, "plans have been prepared
providing for main building $50
feet long by $50 wide, and two ad-
juncts each 200 by so feet. These
buildings will probably be finished
within two months. In addition
there will be 200 stalls for cattle,
200 stalls for horses and 300 stalls
for sheep and swine.
THE.Philadelphia Times says: 1t |
would hardly be the thing for a news
paper to be dogmstic on the subject
of the foot and mouth disease of
cattle, but the American people are
almost as proud of their cattle as
they are Of their President. On gen.
eral principles it is no doubt safe to
assert that American cattle don't have |
any more foot and mouth disease
thar any orner cattle and Mr.. Henry
Chaplin, NJ. p, need not be worried
lest American steers should fail as to
numbers. We have cattle enough |
here to feed the British Empire.
American beef is more popular in
London than English beef. England
cannot begin to compete with us in
raising cattle; and instead of the
House of Commons voting to pre-
vent importations of our beef the
House should consider the bottom |
facts in the case and know that these |
plus the natural craving of the Brit
ish subject, will in due time bring
American cattle to the English mar
ket, whether Parliament says yes or |
no.
The North American says, the cat |
is out of the bag, and the fresh light |
which has been thrown upon the cir