Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-12-11
JErFEssoS DAVIS is dead.

ticket
SEczrTRY Of State Stone and Gen
srsl Hastings are candidates for tn,
Governorship.
SENATOR VANCE has offered a bill il
the United States Senate for the re
peal # the Civil Servic. act
The only two points fit for consid
Grafton IN the civil service of the Re
public are integrity and capability.
PHuADELPHIASs are at the head OF
an enterprise to organize a bank
with a cash capital of twenty-five
million dollars.
GOVERNOR BEAVER addressed the
Huntingdon Teachers Institute last
week on the subject of Manuel
Training Of Children.
II Is said the Williamsport flood
Commissioners Propose;to take pay
for what they have done in the work
Of distributing the flood fund.
The first bill offered in the United
States Senate, is one that provides
for the abolition Of trusts 1t de
elares trusts to be inimical to the in
torssts Of people.
Tx Philadelphia Record appeared
in a suit Of new type and newly ar
ranged form last week, which adds
to its appearance. 1t is one the
great papers Of the Quaker City.
Miss u. CusAcK, Pittsburg Nun,
Is creating n sensation by writing in
the newspapers Of the Smoky City
Of the wrongs that are driving sis
tsrs Of a certain convent insane
THE Sultan Of Turkey spent : hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars in
entertaining the Emperor of Ger
many, who recently visited him and
now 1t Is reported the German En-
Psror looks upon the spendthrift
habits as the work of an insane man.
Nsw YoRk, Chicago and St Louis,
each are trying to secure the Chris
toPher Columbus Worlds Fair for
the year 1892. Washington d. c..
Is a competitor for the fair, and IL
Congressman prefer that place to
anyone OF the great cities mentioned
the show VIII bs held at the capital
of the nation.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, died at l245, last !
Friday, December G, 1889, near New T.,
Orleans. He was born IN Todd :
county, Ky, in 1SoG. He is one of !
the few Americans who has achieved /
enduring fame He VIII be known /
in history as the head of the rebel |
lion in the United States lfor the
purpose sof establishing a govern
ment with human slavery as the cor
ner stone of its labor.
A WASHINGTON, d c., woman got /
away with c. Edward Silcott, Cash
Ter OF the Sergeant at Arms of the
House of Representatives at Wash
lngton and SIleot got away with S75.-
900 worth of government money, he
drew to pay the salery of Congress
msn with. A number of Congress
men had their salery entrusted with
HIM. He took all With him and the
aggregate Of has theft is about one
hundred thousand dollars Reed
the newly elected speaker was so
cleanly relieved Of his nonev that he
was compelled to borrow a quarter
to.huy car tickets. Silcott has a wife.
children and grandchildren. He
left nothing for them.
THERE is n complaint from the
South Of disregard Of the marriage
ties among the people People need
not be surprised over the disregard
OF the marriage ties in that section
OF the United States, after consider
ing for u period Of several centuries
marriage among one race of the peo-
pie was only a mockery of the mar
rlage state \ marriage would be
performed to day, and to-morrow
the husband or wife would be sold |
to purchaser in a different mart oil
the country, who when he .srrTv.d a, /
home would encourage marriage on
tne part OF hls slave, for breeding
purposes. Among people where such
state OF life exists it Is best not to
count much on the bond Of mor
rage ties. 1t viii require sev.raI
generations to work to a higher level
President HARRIsos's MESSAGE 70
congress Is long one, and passes
IN revierssvery subject of national
Importance. He fayors tariff revision
out only to the degree that viii eira
0't and reasonable protection to our
home Industeries. On the question
OF silver coinage, he recommends
such Legislation a, must sornra
equality to the two coins-gold and
silver. He favors such legislation o.
vii secure to the colored man in +ba
South I'm all of his relations 70 ,bo
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