Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-21

Ger to examine into the Pennsylvan'
ia border claims.
TIE French engineer, If. de Les
eeps has project on foot to conyer!
the desert OF Sahara into an inland
sea.
TIE German Government desires
to buy 100000 acres of land in
Mexico, on which to settle COLONY
of Germans.
What is state, or organized so
ciety worth ? when it fails to protect
family, and give redress, when an
outrage has been perpetrated, such
as that perpetrsted by Dukes upon
the Mutt family, in Fayette county.
A traveller writes: In some parts
% Spain where butter is rare arti-
Gle Of merchandise, it is sold not by
the pound but by the yard. It is
brought from the mountain district
in Sleeps intestines, Ike ssusages
chat are "tied off with strings in
lengths as required by the buyer
Governor Butler has crested sen
satioD in Massachusetts by vetoing
the bill apprOpristing money for re
formatory and charitable institutions
of the State. Ths objection to the
bill is thst the appropriations are
rot distinctly pointed out, ana that
the money msy be diverted to var
ious uses
STATE Senators Emory and hIc-
Night had Est fight after the Sen
ats adjourned last Thursdsy, because
one OF The Senator's told tho ether
that he had lodged voting when oil
pipe line legislation was before the
Legislature. After one round the
men were separated, neither wsre
hurt. They shook hands .sftsr the
Sghs
TIE Fayetts county lawyers have
petitioned the court to strike Dukes
name irom the roll Of practicing lay
yers at the bar The Judge granted
a rule On Dukes, returnable on The
1st Of May TO show cause why he
should not be disbarred 4 large
indignation meeting wGs held, and
resolutions oondemniDg Dukes, and
the jury ;hat acquitted him. were
passed, also resolution of conf
dance in the virtue of the giri that
Dnkes 30 villisnOusly abused.
/ DESPATCH from Eorristown, Pa,
SAYS: David Harner, of Weldon,
Montgomery county, has been de-
posed from his position as superin-
tsade1t Of the Methodist Episcopal
Sunday school of Harrner Hill Church
because Re signed hotsl keepers
application f0l hcense to sell liquor
and afterwsrd vent on the liquor
sellers bond. Mr. Harmer says that
no felt justified in his action because
the hotel IS 3 rscessity 10 the village
and e benefit t. the reighborhood
The notes Of Philadelphia Times
reporter. who Was in the Hcuss at
Harrisburg On The 18Th inst says
Among he bills that passed insily
In the house were Chadwick's meas
ure 10 repeal the act authorizing
Clerks OF Markets to weigh butter
end con6scste the short weight
Jumps and the bills TO exempt char
liable Institutions from collateral
inheritance tax, to provide fund to
be used fog the apprehension Of Grim
inals IN cases cf murder, and to reg
ulate the businsss of intelligence
offices. Hothersall's bill requiring
ropes 10 be kept ii readiness to let
down from the windows of al build
ings upon which the law requires
Ere escspss to bs erected passed
third reading, with an amendment
by the author making the owner re-
sponsibls for failure to comply with
the Law. The bill TO prevent the rU-
raj district school term from being
less than SIX month long, wss de
tested, az were slso the bills to sup
press the propagation of the wild
daisy and to divide boroughs into
wards, under the act of 1874. The
bill 70 regulate the ssle Of deadly
weapons wss indefinitely postponed.
Dukes, the Democratic member
Of the Lepislsture, from Fayette Co,
who shot Captain Matt, cashier of
the State Treasury, in a hotel IN
Uniontc,n, the day before last
Christmas, was put upon tsiai for
murder last wees, and WAS found not
guilty by jury of II Democrats.
Dukes wrote a letter or two 70 Hsr-
risbure, TO Mutt confessing thst he
had held improper relations with
Miss Matt ard charged that other
men had received tbs same ffvors-
Mutt cana home, called to see Dukes
IN his room Ia the hotel: a fight
took place other parties rushed in
to the room the men were separ-
ated. Mutt leaned against msntel
and while there Dukes leveled RS
volyer and shot Mutt dead. The
acquittal of DGkes excited the Peo-
pls Of Uniontown 10 such degree
that threats Of lynching wers freely
made and Dukes placed himself in
the hands of the sheriff for pro
lection, Dukes vas hanged in efhgy
in a number of places in the town.
The Judge Of the court denounced
the verdict of the jury. The press
of the State is loud in its dsnuntia-
ton of the jury for having acquitted
Dukes. The North American in its
comments last Thursday, on the YER
dict said. No language can adequat
" express the feeling Of amazement
and indignation with which the COM
munity will this morning learn the
intelligence OF Dukes acquittal. Ii
ever the crime of murder wss clesrly
proved and the murderer convicted
by the evidence, it was proved in
this case, and Dukes, whom a per-
iured iury has released, was so con-