Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-09
The Bradford Era has been reduc-

No black frost has appeared il
Delaware to scare the peach grow
ers.
OsF of the lawyers in the Sta,
Route case talked days to the jury
The jury still lives.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, has an ambition
to eclipse every other city on this
continent in Dramatic festival.
The veteran soldier element of the
Pennsylvania Legislature was off on
an excursion to the Virginia battle
fields last week.
The Prohibitionists in Ohio, pro-
pose to go into politics early this
year, having called state conven-
tion to mese on the 18th OF June.
HUGH j. GILMORE, Democrat, was
elected in Fayette county, to fill the
place of Dukes. Gilmore was sworn
in at Harrisburg. on the LIST day OF
May.
TaE Ohio liquor law has been de-
clared by Ohio courts to be uncon-
stitutional, because it impairs con-
tracts made previous to the passage
Of the law.
The Greenback State Committee
held meeting at Harrisburg last
week, 10 members being present. Ii
was agreed to hold convention at
Williamsport on the Goth of next
August
LEW L. TATE, one of the oldest
editors and publishers of the State,
died few days ago in Williamsport.
He was born in Clearfeld county in
1910 and in fifty years had published
nine different newspapers.
Ok the morning of the 1st instant
over 5000 bituminous coal miners in
the vicinity of Pittsburg struck for
the fractional part of a cent on a
bushel of coal. The operators were
willing to pay 3cts per bushel.
The Pennsylvania Board of Par
dons have recommended the commu-
tation of Israel Erb's sentence from
hanging to Imprisonment for life.
Erb was one of the gang that muir
dersd the Kintzlers in Snyder coun-
ty. few years ago.
The Legislature should pass an
apportionment bill before it adjourns.
1t will not be good for the political
health of such members that have
ambition for Office in the future, if
they allow the Legislature to adjourn
without passing an apportionment
bill.
T1ERE are about 6,000 coal miners
in the Western part of the State on
a strike; the difference of price per
bushel for which they have struak is
a half cent. 4 man has a right to
strike or quit work for an other man.
bat he has no right to molest some
one else from taking his place at the
work that he abandoned.
JEFF DAVIS is out in a letter
claring that if such and ue
1a1 lol-1,a Ctttl "a
60 place the Southern
.--,oueracy would have been a Sue
cess Certainly, Mr. Davis is cor
rect about the ifs. If he had read
the ifs correctly he would never
have resorted to the sword to per
petuate human slavery in America.
INFORMATION from the islands of
the sea relate that, less than centu
ry ago Hawaii was a land of can
nibals and sayages. Now all the
modern agricultural and mechanical
impliments are used there. The
city of Honolulu has 800 telephones,
and several of the large sugar plan
ters on Its outskirts cut their cane
by electric light.
A DESPATCH from California says,
considerable anxiety is felt in Cali
fornia over the appearance of an in
scot which it is feared will prove
disastrous to the crops. 1t first ap-
pears as small green louise, but in |
a few days develops into a fly with
gauzy wings. Some alarmists claim |
that if the appearance of the bug be- |
comes general throughout the State |
the wheat crop will be entirely swept |
away.
THE Philadelphia Times Of May
1 GAYS. the kindest hearted man in |
PENNSYLVANIA lives on a farm near
Erie. When the annual pilgrimage |
of the Gmless tramp begins this !
man fixes sleeping place in one
corner of his barn and throws it open,
free of charge, to tramps of every |
class, sex or color. He claims that |
this method is preferable to the shot
gun, the club or the hungry bull
dog. If the Society for the Sup |
preston of Tramps will now follow
up the teachings of its unwritten by
laws, this easy going farmer should be
sent to the penitentiary for encoura
ging vice and idleness.
The Philadelphia Times remarks
on the question of an extra session
of the Legislature. If Governor
Pattison has really indicated his
purpose of calling an extra session
of the Legislature in case of a fail
ure OF the apportionment bills at the
present session,he has simply de-
monstrated his utter incapacity to
manage the Legislature in reform in
terests. A Legislature that frittsrs
away a one hundred and fifty day
session by indulging in long speech
es, Saturday adjournments and jun
keting expeditions at the State ex-
pense can be depended on to not
pass any apportionment measure if it
sees an opportunity to get paid for
an extra session by such course.
Governor Pattison may have meant
well by his reported threat, but he
has taken the proper course to in