Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-10

State 1t may be of more interest tc
the people of this Commonwealth
than they have any idea of, to give
more attention to the United States
Courts now in operation, than they
do.
The North American of last week
in an article about the animals and
reptiles in the Geological garden
says, that the snake keeper called at
tention to several detached fangs oi
a rattlesnake. Beneath one of the
fangs five others had been found
which were SO placed as to succeed
each other as those in use were lost
A LETTER of a threatening charac.
ter has been found In the bedroom oi
the Car of Russia. Wouldn't it be
Just as well for the Gar to disband
all of the present band of courtiers
and surround himself with new peo-
pie. He could scarcely surround
himself with more unsafe people than
seem to have access to his most Sc
cret chambers.
TEE politicians are more than nib
bling at the question of the election
of school directors. Certain trick
sters are doing their utmost to SO
set things up here and there through
out the county, that sufficient num-
Der of men who they may control
may be elected, and in that way they
hope to make good the bargain and
sale of the County Superintendency.
Forewarned, is to be fore-armed.
The Philadelphia Record has this
word OF warning for the prohibition
lists: Many good men and women
who pride themselves on their prin
ciples of total abstinence do not hes
Itate to take bitters, although analy-
sis has proved that the ordinary bit
ters contain from to 43 per cent. of
than beer and heavy
wines and almost as much as whisky.
Prohibitionists beware of bitters.
As exchange remarks that Gov
ernor-elect Click, of Kansas, denies
that the number of persons in the
peDitentiary has decreased under the
prohibitory liquor law, and makes
the counter statement that there
were Is more convicts at the close of
the first year of the prohibition than
at its beginning, and now the ques-
ton is raised, that bad morals, and
defective home training of the chill
tren, has more to do with filling iails
and prison houses than whisky.
THERE was a noisy debate in the
House at Washington, one day last
week, over proposed appropriation
IF S70O, 600 for incidental expenses.
The Democrats took the position
that it WAS to cover Deficiencies. The
Republicans said that the Democrats
TO make party capital, had crippled
The appropriation bills, Just as much
rs they could, and from those two
stand points, members worked them
selves up to state OF high excite
nent.
The North American remarks:
1t has been truly said that the prac-
tical result OF the recent three-cor-
nered struggle in Pennsylvania has
given the State thoroughly Demo
cratic administration, that cannot be
IN any way altered before the year
1884, and even then the result will
depend on the contingencies of a
great national election campaign,
which may, or may not give US once
more Republican State Legislature.
This is sort of independence that
always delights the heart of the
Democratic party, bent as il is on
ifectionate devotion to loayes and
fishes.
TEE lower house of the Legislature
Is Democratic, and that party signal
zed its reform ideas by electing Mr..
Faunce, speaker. Mr.. Faunce is a
PhiladeIphian. The reform school,
that the able Hensel belongs too.
was given backset in the election
Of Faunce. The Josephs school of
Democratic politics viii rule the low
sr house this session. Mr. Faunce,
is a man of considerable ability, and
IN able parliamenterian. His order
Of craftsmanship is of that quality,
that would legislate state into the
payment of riot damages. He was
riot damage act member few years
ago.
AT this distance. IL seems that the
republic of France had lost one of
its greatest supporters, By the death
of Gambetts, which took place on
the 1st day of the year, from the eff
feet of a pistol shot, discharged it is
said by woman, with whom he had
been living as with wife 1t was
the German war that dethroned Louis
and among the agitators
and able advocates that arose for
the establishment of a Republic on
the ruins of the Monarchy none was
more earnest than Gambetta. If it
bad not been for the war with Ger
many he would never have been
known out side of his district. He
had nothing to do with the shaping
Of the events that created the Ger
man war. He will be long remem-
bered in France. He WAS young I;
not As years old.
TIE following lively scene, was re-
ported from Washington under date
of the 5th inst, as follows: Deering
Fosdick, an employe of the Interior
Department, married a very estima-
BILE daughter of Commodore of the
Navy. For a while back Fosdick
has been showing attentions to a
young lady clerk of the Department,
and his wife, hearing of it, became
much incensed, and yesterday after
noon the Land Office was complete
ly upset by the appearance of Mrs.
Fosdick. armed with a rawhlde. in