Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-08-15

AaI AoeAOhdi ucDC Wa6 reduce
the past months $4,000, 900 and stil
the Democracy keep up the shout
"Ths Republicans must go"
In travelling to the west Presiden
Arthur rested over Sabbath. Th,
President is gradually growing int
the good graces of the people of tn
country.
THERE were 500 Grand Army mer
IN procession at the celebration O
the 12Oth anniversary of the battl.
of Bushy Run in Westmoreland coun
ty, last week.
SULLIVAN, of Boston, is the cham
pion fisticuffist He runs a saloor
in the city named, when not knock
ing some other man out of time, O,
when not practicing to do so.
The latest reports from President
Arthur, is, that he has been travel.
ing about in Washington Territory,
in a buck board wagon, drawn by 4
mules, at the rate of 100 miles day.
A MEMBER of the Legislature pam-
ed Horne, from Johnstown. Cambria
county, took two much of horn and
became ''how came you so," and was
expelled from the Methodist church.
The cashier of an Elmira Y. Y,
bank was so successful in speculation
IN land that the bank is short two
hundred-thousand dollars. The bank
is broke, and the depositors are talk
ing about lynching the cashier.
The Legislature is the law making
body of the State. What a specta-
Gle the present Legislature presents
to the world by sitting day after day,
violating the constitutional law by
not passing IN apportionment bill.
TKE Democrats are highly pleased
that they carried Kentucky by 40. 900
majority. They should have carried
it by larger majority for it is one
of the Democratic strongholds.
What's got the matter with the un-
terrified in the Blue Grass state
L. L. CONRAD, a Baltimore lawyer
was shot in the head, dead. BY his
insane wife few days ago. They
had retired for the night, and she
shot him as he lay in bed. The
friends would not arrest the wife.
The probability is that she will be
sent to an asylum.
WEsrMoRELAND county people held
the l20th anniversary of the battle
of Bushy Run, on August 6. It was
the celebration of an important vic
tory won over the French and In
dians by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
Alexander Robson, ancestor of one
of the Robson families in Juniata
was in the fight
The North American remarks that
the Democratic papers complain that
the government at Washington is
now run by clerks, Suppose it is,
what have they to say about the gov
ernment at Harrisburg being run by
clerk ? Pot may as well refrain
from abusing kettle any way. Talk
ing about kettle does not whiten pot.
GEN. GRANT does not like to trav
el on Sunday if he can help it. The
other day Gen. Porter telegraphed
to him il the Catskill Mountains that
directors car WAS at his disposal
for trip to Long Branch on Sun
day. Gen. Grant politely declined
ii, saying: Il always tried not to
travel on Sunday when 1 held Office,
and there does not seem to be anv
reasonable excus. for It now" New
York Tribune.
JAMES o. PARKER, aged about 3S
years, a lawyer doing business in
Willismsport, Pa, but Msssachus-
etts man by birth, left few days
ago, with over $4,000, of money that
belongs to clients of the law firm of
which he was member. He WAS a
pious sort of a man, a splendid Sun
day school worker. He left wife
and son behind, and took an unmar-
ried woman with him. Besides the
amount above stated it is believed
that he has secured to himself twelve
or fourteen thousand dollars more
that belonged to clients.
SPIR1rUALIsTs held a camp meeting
near Philadelphia last week, and had
fine weather for their spook msnifes-
tations. The attendance ran up to
as high as $4,000 people day. Tho
spirit of an Altoona lawyer was con
jured up and announced that be bad
changed his religion. The Muddy
Run school house spook was not
heard from. The boys that ran the
spook business SO successfully in
Muddy Run might learn something
in the art OF spook playing from the
fnliadelpnla camp meeting 6pOok
performers. OF course the pee-wees
were not in the business at the camp,
they being too innocent for such art
full performance. II the Registers
Johnnie Bull was there he has not
sent in his report.
Forty thousand people turned out
at a Confederate reunion at Calves
ton, Texas, last Wednesday, Aug s.
OF course there was time where so
many had assembled. and when the
''late wah' was talked about it WASH I
much of surprise that an old Con
federste general said in a speech,
''he would never admit that the
"bloody chasm" had been bridged
over. He was glad that Butler had
not been invited. Butler was not a
Democrat. The name of Jefferson
Davis, General Lewis said, was the
grandest in American history. The
speaker would never make peace with