Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-06-20
Crook extended his staff and Crook
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Crook extended his staff and Crook
ed in the Indians.
The Jury in the Star Route case
brought in verdict of not guilty
last Thursday. The ending OF the
trial caused quite an excitement at
Washington.
DEMOCRATS are poking fun at the
Republicans of Kentucky for opening
their State Convention with prayer.
Perhaps it would be as well for Dem
ocrats to pray once in a while.
FLORIDA is pronounced by New
York paper to be fortunate state,
for the reason that it raises two crops
every year, one of oranges, and the
other of Yankee boarders in the Win
ter months. Both yield handsome
profit to the state.
GENERAL CkooK, who but a few
days ago subdued a hostile Indian
tribe. is described by writer who
claims to know him as follows: Gen
eral George Crook is about fifty-three
years of age, but he looks little more
than forty He is about five feet ten
inches high, wiry as a greyhound,
and can outride and outmarch any
man in the American army. 1t is a
historical fact that he lived for three
days on no other nourishment than
tree bark during one of his cam
paigns against the Indians.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has al
ready issued an order to prevent the
use of fire crackers and toy pistols
within the city, on the 4th of July,
and city paper in support of the
Mayors movement against the sense
less fire cracker nuisance, says, that
if the men and boys that are so eager
to endanger fingers, eyes, property,
and even lives, should go out into
the fields or woods, where there are
no people but themselves to injure
in person or property, and there
crack away to their hearts content.
WHEN a man, like Dukes violates
the proprieties and rights of society,
and then employs the machinery of
law, which is presumed to be enact
ed for the protection Of the proprie-
ties and rights of society, to escape
justice, men will fall back on their
natural rights for protection, as did
James Mutt. On a large scale ma
tions do the same thing, and it may
be well for the men that are practic-
ing law, and running the machinery
of courts to read Alright the lesson
of the Uniontown Tragedies. The
large majority of people sympathize
with Mutt, ii will ever be SO in simil-
ar cases.
IT is amusing to hear Democrats
talk about Governor Pattison not
being a ring Governor. The most
amusing thing about it all is that the
men that are, seemingly, most posi-
five in their declarations that the
Governor has no ring connections,
are themselves of no account outside
of ring connection. 1t is hard to
conceive of closer ring than Gov
ernor Pattison has about him was
there ever a closer ring in this Com
monwealth, than that formed by
Pattison in the executive chair, Cas-
sidy in the Cabinet, and Gordon in
Senate! 1t isn't treating the inno-
cents of the unterrified fairly to have
ringsters, and tricksters of their fold
tell them that Pattison, Cassidy and
Gordon, are not close triunvirate.
A CERTAIN Major Nickerson of the
regular army was divorced from his
wife by Pennsylvania court, on the
plea of desertion, 1t seems that the
Major was in love with an other wom-
an and he freely gave consent to his
wife to go to Europe to stay several
years. 1t was while she was away
that he instituted proceedings for
divorce without her knowledge. By
manufactured evidence a decree of
divorce was issued. 1t was after
wards set aside by Judge Thayer of
Philadelphia He earnestly recon-
mends that the divorce laws of Penn
sylvania be changed SO that such
frauds cannot be perpetrated. 1t
seems queer that a Judge cannot pro-
tect himself against sham evidence.
If a Judge has suspicion of the truth
of evidence that is put before the
Court, is he rendering justice by rul-
ing, in the case, Just as if the evi-
dence appears as of the most unsus-
picious quality? Is court power
less to protect itself against sham
evidencel
The Philadelphia Times remarks:
There is said to be boom in Con-
federate bonds at Richmond. Peo-
pie are paying 81 per $1,000 for
them and one house has bought over
S20,000,000 of the worthless securit-
les. The most striking feature of
this revival of the traffic in Confed
crate Indebtedness is to be found in
the fact that nearly all the old Con
federate holders of the bonds want
to get rid of them. What anybody
wants of the exploded bonds is past
finding out, but it is very certain that
the buyers are very callow lot of
people Bonds of government that
doesn't exist must be of little value,
when it is remembered that even
some of the State governments il: the
old confederacy are trying to make
their State bonds as worthless as
possible. The fool and his money
are soon parted and the buyers of
these antiquated frauds are putting
long distance between themselves
and their surplus cash.
The state of affairs at Uniontown,
Fayette county, is deplorable enough
to excite the attention of the whole
country. and all on account of the