Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03

SUR was number Of cars we're wreck
90, one car was pitched across a fence
into held by the side of the road.--
i.o tramps-ons white, and the other
colored-were on one of the wrecked
cars The ooIored tramp was a good
zeal shaken up but not hurt q great
deal.
Everyone knows that the Lower
house OF the Legislature is Demo
cratic' and that the upper House or
Senate Is Republican. If both we're
Republican, how long would it take
70 pass apportionment bills! What
right have a lot of politicians to rob
the state of three Thousand dollars a
day In the effort to gain advantage
Ior one or the other side. The pres
ent method Of obtaining an apportion.
menf rs a failure WHAT SHAH be the
remedy A new method, what shall
it be?
Va Saturday, October 18th, 1888,
.. >. Meyer will sell at his place of
residence at northeast corner of Milf
hntown, lot of personal property,
consisting of household and kitchen
furniture, such as cook stove, coal
stove, tables, chairs, sink, sewing ma
chine and many other articles too nu-
merous to mention. Also, at the barn
OF b. f. Schweier, his horse stock,
farming implements, hay, and many
other articles. A credit of one year
Will be given upon approved security
on sums over $500.
The Sunbury Democrat relates the
following: An odd lawsuit over trade
dollar, has just ended at Sudbury
Some time ago two Hungarians visited
a saloon and ordered 1.-TWO BEERS" in
payment of which they handed the
bar r-keeper trade dollar. He return
ed 10 cents, having kept 10 cents for
the drinks and Is cents discount on
the trade dollar. They brought suit
for damages, and On Mondly a week
the jury found a verdict of not guilty,
aud the prosecutors to pay al the
costs amounting to Sll473.
The Rev DR.. Miner tells a good
aneedote illustrating the popular idea
about the three leading
professions. He says an anxious "a
ther consulted seer to find out if
possible, the destiny of his sons, the
man of knowledge declared: s.One will |
be murderer, another falsifer aud
the third puaper living on the town."
As the good father began to bewail his
ot the seer added: aDo not mourn
hose are the common lots of men. Your
irst son will be doctor, the second a
awyer, and the third country clergy
man,"
On the question of organ or no or
IAN, the Session of the United Presby-
erian Church, of Newcastle, Pa have
ieclded, by vote of Z to 3, to allow
he use of an organ in the praise SER
Ice of the congregation on and after
he first Sabbath in January, 1854
There was a petition presented to the
session, containing 209 names IN favor
f the organ, l30 of which were mem
'ers of the Church 79 we're composed
f young people aud persons accus,om-
d to worship in the congregational
here was also another petition pre-
ented, ON which there we're 81 names
gaiust the Introduction of an organ.
''The Philadelphia Mint pays SCI
erts apiece for trade dollars, which
5 the value of silver in them. And
bat is more silver than there is in
ne coin that Congress has called a
egal tender silver dollar. II will
ot be good for the Republican par
y to go into the campaign of 1884,
nth the trade dollar afioat in tine
ountry at discount below thelegal
ender dollar Now. before the cam
aign opens is the time to cut off
questions. The sur
lus tariff education fund is another
uestion of questionable policy, with
ut considering the fundamental
rrors of such system.
The Philadelphia Record says The
etaiIs of the awful earthquake in the
sland of Java are slow 10 reaching us.
t is, SO to speak, at the other end of
he world, and the means of commuui-
alton are not reliable or rapid But
is known that the first reports of the
,ss of life fall short of reality. 1t is ,
ow thought possible that sixty thou
and persons may have perished.-
'wo inhabited islands sank under wa
er, aud the sea swept over large towns
nd long line of coast. There will, |
o doubt, be intense suffering among
be survivors, whose cultivated lands
ave been devasted either By the ac-
ion of fire or water, or both.
Hipshman, of Lewistown, owns Fir-
inia running horse. The animal was
rought to the fair ground at this
lace last Saturday and put on the
rack. There Is DO discount on the
peed of the horse, but it cannot be :
ept on the track. Wm. Banks Jr., |
ode the animal once around the track
R Hitchcock rode him aud dis
himself for fear that the horse ,
'ould scrape him against the fence
When Hitchcock lit on the ground he
prang so quickly to his feet that Il
umber of people that saw him leave
he back OF the horse thought that he
it on his feet. Tho probability is
hat the horse would do well on a
traight track. but he is not good at
unning curves. I
The Philadelphia Times sums up
THAT 1t knows about kissing case in
Evansville, Indiana, as follows: Much
rouble has come from kiss at Evans
lille, Indiana. 1t is not by any means
be first disaster arising from that