Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-08-28
Brother Alison Gained.

Brother Alison Of the Herald has
had two narrow escapes from death
/ this summer.
The first escape was from the
rushing rage of the river in June.
/ The second escape was from the
rushing rage of fellow citizen. In
the first case it was his search for
news for the greatest paper on earth
that plunged him into the food.
In the second place he had the
greatest paper on earth to heavily
charged with vitriolic personal thun-
der, and the hbelous stuff took a
back action movement and almost
broke his head. Since Brother Ali
son is not certain of his pass to the
happy hunting ground beyond this
vale of tears, he is to be congratulate
ed, that fate snatchcd him away from
the Jaws of death and continued his
life here on earth to be popped at by
bushwacking writer's, and caned and
threatened with death by fellow citi-
zens whom lie peppered and salted
with the best personal vitrol IN the
hbelous calender of the greatest pa
per on earth
DIR. Brown Sequard's elixir of life
is tame in its rejuvenating influence
compared with effect upon the ten
der sensibility of brother Alison,
when he was thrust into the very
gate OF the other world and ruthless
" rescued by officer Lapp and Hen
~ Schol, from getting his dainty
feet firmly planted on the beautiful
shore beyond the things of time and
sense.
His late discontinue took place on
; the evening of the Goth inst, at the
corner of Main and Bridge streets
where he and lawyer b. +. Burch-
field met. Burchfeld invited him
over to his office for & talk. Alison
plead want Of time Burchfield took
- hold of Alison's coat The editor
l sent out one of his soft velvety, but
sledge-hammer looking fists after
the fashion of the great John l..
! Sullivan, but the agile lawyer was
5 too far off to receive the full force of
: the stroke, and 1t fell in the region
I of his right eye rs a spent blow, and
only raised slight puff both below
: and above that organ of sight The
{ puffs We're plainly visible the next
day at noon.
! The lawyer didn't say ''an eve foI
I an eve and a tooth for tooth, but
c lie brought down his cane on the
head Of Alison with such force that
{ the editor was dazed and knocked
) out Of ability to defend himself.
}, Officer Lapp and Henry Schol
n rushed IL and put an end to the
g Gaming process. Alison walked Il
V the Banks drug store and was spong
n ed and fixed up and as far as appear
e ance goes Is none the worse physI
), cally. The origin of the trouble il
il found in the fight among the West
Il minister Presbyterian congregation
l. over the retention and Withdrawal
IS of their late pastor L. y. Hays Al
d ison was not with the HAYS people
/ and when the preacher left for For
% Dodge, iowa, where he now Is, n
published several defamatory arti
. cles against Hays, among them, on
. charging the preacher with having
zone away without having paid hin
E. in full for printing. An anonyomou
article purPorting to have been writ
III ten in Patterson appeared in til
5. Tribune in answer to Alison's articles
The Tribune ambush writer took Il
a wide range and DETAINED a numbe
of the members of the congregation
who desired Mr. HAYS to Withdraw
from this field of church labor.
The ambush writer brought re
sponse from Alison in the Herald
i, charging the inspiring off no
n tbe writing of the Tribune eommuI
= ication to Mr.. Hays.
- TheTribune professedly Patterso
:, writer came again to the front, wit
e a long article defamatory of thos
=. -. who favored Hays going away an
~ urring indirectly that the full fore
Of church law be brought to bear o
- :. such of the members as are accuse'
= bafors the session and at the sam
- time gave brother Alison the COZ
" tents of ambushed personal fuslad'
Alison believing ne had dlscovere
the id ntitv of the cloaked writers {
the Tribune opened his v1trloL
personal battery, ana IN the Heral
N charged two lawyers with hbertinisl
m and one of them with unprofession'
- conduct. He mentioned no name
id but the pnblic without knowing al
II more about the truth Of the charg'
ON than Alison himself settled upo
AZ Rurchfield IS one of the accuse
re- B1rchfield was indignant, denied Il
he charges, and declared he had n
All written line for the Tribune on u
iv. Havs church question, and becau