Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-06-30

There is bill in Congress that has the at
tention Of all the lawyers of that body. The
import of the bill is to prevent Congressman
from acting as lawyers for companies that
are asking for Congressional legislation. 1t
is no uncommon occurrence for a lawyer in
Congress to act as the paid attorney for a
measure, upon which he is to vote. If thew
are charged with bribery, In such cases they
try to shield themselves by declaring that
they were professionally engaged.
David Davis, of Bloomington, H., died
at o O'Clock on Saturday morning. Ii was
he who successfully coached Lincoln into
the nomination for the Presidency in 1850.
Lincoln appointed him to the Supreme
Court. he was elected to the United States
| Senate from Illinois, and resigned the no.
sition on the Supreme Bench. After his
term in the Senate expired he lived quietly
IN Bloomington. He was born in Cecil coun-
iy, Maryland. He died from the effects of
kidney troubles and carbunclo on the back
of his neck.
Some one in Altoona has been in the hab-
1t OF stealthily approaching girls from be-
hind ami cutting off their plalts of hair. On
the evening OF the 25th OF June about 8 o.
clock while Lottie Kreider, aged about
twelve years, daughter OF 4. W. Ii. Kreiier,
formerly Of this place, but now of Altoona,
was walking on the pavements of that town,
this hair cutting rascal stealthily came I'D
from behind and attempted to cut off her
splendid plait OF hair almost two feet long.
The bsir thief did not get the hair. Two of
the strands were cut through, the third
strand was not cut and that tact saved her
hair from being stolen.
despatch was sent from this place last
Sunday to a Harrisburg paper, giving AL ac-
count of the poisoning of a lot OF men EN-
ployed at saw mill in the vicinity of Wa
terloo, this county. The story stated that
they had taken the poison by drinking from
stream OF water that ran by the mill, and
that 1t was believed some jealous person had
poisoned the water. We are glad TO an
nounce that there is no foundation in the
story further than the fact that five of the
men employ ed on the mill have taken sick
al different times within the past month.
One OF the men has typhoid fever. The
other four men are afflicted with different
ailments. So Sheriff Fowles, who has been
in that vicinity within the past few days,
reports.
The Philade lphia Bulletin of June "a, re-
marks: A letter from a Kansas druggist to
student OF a univ ersity who applied for
situation as a prescription clerk reads as
follows
"Perhaps you understand the nature of a
Drug tore in kansas We Do Some liquor
Business IN a Back Room By the Drink our
Prescription trade Runs from two 10 three
Thousand Pr Year Some Clerks objects TO
the Back Room trade give you the facts IN
| the case So that you will not be Disappoint-
ed.
This shows how the s'liquor Business" is
conducted in a 5 State where liquor-selling is
prohibited by law II is the State also OF
Mr.. ]. P. St. John. High license laws, pre-
perry enforced, would do much more TO sup
press the liquor traffic than prohibition as 1t
exists in Kansas, Maine and some other
| States.