Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-04-29
CHOLERA has broken out in Spain.

have captured and destroyed Fort
Pitt.
THE British government is about
TO issue a lot Of new bonds for a new
loan
The Irish still keep a rsusing left
hand reception wherever the Prince
of Wales appears.
THERE is quite a large force of
American marines and sailors on the
Isthmus of Panama.
TIE Legislature of Illinois is still
wrestling with the United States
Senatorship question
TIE French and British each have
a number of men of war in the wat
-ers OF Central America.
EUROPEAN politicians are wonder
ing whether France and Russia are
about to work together.
GENERAL GRANTS health has i'm
proved the past week, he has been
out in a carriage almost every day.
THE French seem to be displeased
on account of the landing of Amer
can troops on the Isthmus of Pana-
ma.
UNCLE SANS soldiers that were
sent to Central America, have moth
ing TO do but to parade, which is
better than lighting.
President CLEVELAND has bought
ex President Arthur's pair of seal
brown Hambletonian horses, for car
riage purposes at Washington.
The Republican State Convention
TO nominate a candidate for State
Treasurer, will be convened at Har-
risburg, on the 10th day of July.
THE rebels and Canadians indulg-
ed in battle, out in the Winnipeg
region, last Friday. 1t is reported
that the government troops were de-
feated.
Miss MAUD OSWALD, a circus rope
performer fell from a rope distance
of thirty five feet, in a circus, at Bal
timore, last week, but was not seri-
ously hurt.
LAST week S warm weather played
havoc with the ice in Canada and in
the lakes. The streams have been
longer ice-bound in Canada, this year
than any time since 1886.
4 RUSSIAN man-of war anda British |
man of war sailed into the waters of
Norfolk harbor, Virginia, one day
last week. An old sailor said, "they
are going one eve on each other.
TIE British government has bor-
rowed S55,OOO,0OO dollars. S22,000,-
900 has already been consumed in
the Soudan war. Perhaps she can :
force Egypt to foot the bill. She
will if she can.
THERE is talk of European Con t
ference to settle the dispute between
Great Britain and Russia, There is
not soldier of fortune in Europe, ;
to-day, and all the established gov {
ernments are shy of opening war, '
that no one can tell how it will end.
Under Grants administration of
flee broking was broken up, Since
Cleeelands election, Office brokers
have opened Office again, at Washing t
ton. Some of the Office brokers for
q fee will agree to get almost any
kind of an Office that you may want.
The British suppressed a French
newspaper in Egypt for having crit
icised the British governments poh
CIV in the Soudan, and now the :
French and British governments are {
in a worry over the matter. The
French maintain that the British .
must make up the loss
The Rebel Congress voted large
sums of money for secret service
work. and when the war was over,
there was over five million of dollars
to the credit of the Rebel government I
in certain banks in London and Par
is. Some of the Confederate bond
holders made an effort to reach the
fund to have their bonds redeemed.
For once the talk has been knock
ed out of the British The British
are the greatest blusterers in the
world, when they have some one else
to do the bulk of the fighting. In
their present trouble with Russia no
help has been secured and the Brit
ish blusterer is quiet. Gladstone,
who is the head of the government,
under the Queen cannot be induced
to speak on the subject of the war.
The Philadelphia Bulletin remarks
Every day makes it more evident to
the whole country that the Demo
cratic campaign of last year was a
a gigantic fraud upon public credul-
ity. 1t was based upon the whole
sale assumption that the Republican
administration of affairs was one vast
mass of corruption, dishonesty and
inefficiency. This was the staple of
a l.Il