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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
The Transvaal Raid.
rwep,y worh,nen Drowned.

CLEVELAND, July 17.-Several lives were
lost in an accident which occurred about
7:3O O'Clock last evening on the old river
bed near the ore docks of the Cleveland
and Pittsburg Railway company. The ore
..>5lers had just quit work for the day
and were waiting their turns to cross the
branch of the river on the fiat bottomed
ferryboat which they had provided for
their own use. A number of men had
crossed, and the last time at least thirty
men crowded upon it. When half way
over the boat capsized, and it is believed
that twenty of the men were drowned.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered. Nearly
all leave families
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

BRYAN denounces the issue Of more
government bonds, but he don't tell
that he helped to bring about the
state of affairs that makes the selling
of the bonds necessary, therefore he
unwittingly denounces himself. It
is his funeral. He and his friends
want to cover up their incompetent
work under the banner of free silver
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

The declaring ineffective the Kansas
law under which divorces have been
granted for twenty-five years, hopelessly
tangling mp families and children and
properties, teaches us how wiser than Solo
mon in all his glory are Kansas and N>-
braska lawmakers in general, who are at
present asking the people to turn over the
governments 70 their keeping.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
DUBLIC NOTICE.

In order to change the bonded deh.
sunista county from per cent. intas..
bearing bonds to bonds bearing .
cent, the Commissioners will sell Count.
onds, running from TO 10 years In LIZ
the purchaser, bearing 8 Der cent ;ns.sH suH
clear OF all taxes. Interest coupons msSs
Psysole 70 bearer and arc paid bv -.
psns OF dealer, great convenience n ~
nolaer' .;,U Bonds can be purchased at s.v ~.
Time. Parties wishing bonds in the No.. y
iature viii please mske application .S.s 80
tney will be retained for them. s"e
Aaoress al communications to the Com.
missio1ers' Once, Aifiintown, Penns
Done, January 26, 1897
w. H. NooRR.
NEAL II. SrEwARr.
Attest: c.'
W. h. G.oNnozR,
Clerk.
mintown, Pa, Jan. 20, ls06.-sm.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
Challenges Law, Order and Dccency.

Challenges Law, Order and Decency.
The platform adopted is opposed to the
teachings of the fathers of Democracy
from Jefferson to Cleveland. Its free silver
plank is child stolen from the Republi-
can household. In other respects 1t chal-
lenges law, order, decency, honesty, good
govornment.-Utica IN. W Observer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
Who Can Heat 1f3

This is the summer for tall oats.
Samuel Warner who lives ou :he Es-
penschade farm, cut an oats stock the
ether day that measured 5 feet, 10
inches, and contained I36 grains Of
oats. Who can beat it?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

WITH Secretaries Carlisle, Olney, Her.
bert and Morton, not To mention Ambas-
sador Bayard, Comptroller Eckcls, Assist
ant Secretary Hamlin and scores of other
Democratic officials, opposing the Chicago
ticket, there is great danger that Vice
President Stevenson will be lonesome as
he treads the perfumed path of POpulism.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
LEGAL.
ExECUToR's NOTICE.

whereas Letters Testamentsrv h.x.
1een issued in due form by the Register os
!uniata county, On the estate of Rarh...
app, late OF Susquahsnna township. decso.-
ed, to the undersigned, this is to notify an
persons indebted to said estate TO MAJ.
immediate payment, and those b.v;rS
CLAIMS to present the same properlv antSe
enticated for settlement 10 ~"'"-
JosKPH SKBER,
u.a,,u..,, Erecs&ov.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

Tho true friend Of his party is the ono
who refuses to be bound by its political
blunders and crimes. The best party man
owns his party. The bad party man is he
who mas transferred his intellect and con-
science TO the keeping Of a party machine.
.Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

AS DAYS stalk silently and sullenly into
the past and sad eyed sorrow trcads spite
fully upon the heels of grief Mr.. Whitney
more and more appreciates the awful mis-
take he made III not going 10 Europe in
accordance with his first impulses.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

Ex-MAYOR HOPKINS, of Chicago, having
repudiated both the Peoria and Chicago
tickets and resigned from the Democratic
state central committee of Illinois. the
Populist fight from within may be said
to have begun
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

Train leaves Bloomfield at 6.lO a. m
and arrives at Landisburg at CAT a. m
Train leaver Landisburg ct 6.l4p, m. and
arrives at Bloomfield at 6. 50 p. m.
Trains leave LoysvilIe for Duncapnon at
Z. 22 a. M, and 2. Is p. m. Returning.
arrive at 10 81 a. M. and 4.56 .. m.
Between Landisburg and LOUISVILLE trains
run as fellows: Leave Landisburs for Lows
vile = 66 a. m., and so p. M, LovsyilIe
Tor Landisburg II 10 a. M, and 8 O9 o. m.
All stations marked 60 are flag stations.
a. wnict trains will come to full stop .on
signal.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
HON. VIM. .NIcKIN LEY.

AS THE old English barons used to boss
the king. SO have the silver barons of the
west set up young silver king for their
amusement and profit, and therefore to
act under their instructions.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

Mr. Bryan was offered special car by a
railroad company for the purpose of visit
ing his native place. He is reported to
have thanked the railroad managers and
to have expressed the desire to travel as
an ordinary passenger.
1t can he readily understood why Mr.
Bryan pursued this course. Populists hate
railroads and all other corporations. They
are opposed 10 the man who has made a
dollar. Mr.. Bryan having appealed to the
Populistic sentiments, took the first op-
portunity to show his detestation Of rail-
way corporations.
But what Is this story that comes to us
by way of the New York Sum- This dis
c,ple of jefferson and Jackson has discov-
cred that Mr.. Bryan has long been in the
employ assistant states attorney Of the
Missouri Pacific railroad. Whatl Mr.
Bryan receiving n salary from George
Gould and Russell Sage! Mr. Bryan, the
Populist, actually taking money from u
soulless corporation!
What are we to learn from all this9
That II Populist is Populist only when
the other fellow has dollar.
The Transvaal Raid.
CAPETowN. July 2O.-The select COM
mittee of the house of assembly of Cape
Colony to inquire into the circumstances
of the Jameson raid has made q report
It finds that Cecil Rhodes was fully ac-
quainted with the preparations for the
raid, and that Alfred Belt, director in the
South Africa company. DR.. Jameson, the
administrator for the company in Rhod-
esia, and DIR. Rutherford Harris. secretary
for the company at Capetown, were active
promoters of the raid. The Chartered
South Africa company, the committee
finds, supplied all the funds for the raid
with the knowledge Of its London office.
Cecil Rhodes afterwards refunded this
amount to the company.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

THE Populist National Conventicn n
and the Silver Nltional Convention,
will both be held this week in st.
Louis.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

Trains Nos. ard 9 connect at Port Roy a
with Way Passenger and Seashore Express
CnP. r. r., srd Ncs. and with Mail east
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

Trains Nos. and 3 connect with Stage
Line at Blair's Mills for Concord, Doyles.
burg and Dry Run.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
Legal
LEG.1L
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.

Estate of Ddpid IPearer, decd.
Letters testamentary on the estate of
David Weaver, deceased, late of Walker
township, Juniota county, Pa, hay ing been
granted to the undersigned. All persons
indebted to said astate are requested to
make immediate payment, and those hav.
ing claims to present the same without de.
lay. JOSEPH WEAyrR.
JACOB WEAVER,
April Is, 1895. Executor,
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
DERRY COUNTY RAILROAD.

The following schedule went Into effect
May ls, 1896, and the trains will be run as
follows:
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-22

d. GRING, President and Manager
q. x. MILLER, General Agent.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-01-22
The Largest Mail in America.

Chicago, Ill.-[Special. ]-Postmaster
Washington Hessing, referring to the
Chicago postoffice, in a recent speech at
the Auditorium, made the following
statement: "This Office is not second
to, but is equal to New York in its i'm
portance, in the character of mail han
died, in the volume of the same and in
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-01-22

the mum ber.'of registered packages. Be
not surprised when | tell you that ths
largest patron of the postoffice in tht
United States is in Chicago-Montgom
cry Ward & Co."
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-01-22
A Reduction of Taxes.


The following com municat:ons whic
explain themselves will be read with in
terest by the people Of Florida.
Treasury Department., State of
"Florida, Com ptroller's Office,
Tallahassee, jan 2, 1885,
"Governor H. L. Mitchell, Executiv,
Office, Tallahassee:
"Dear Sir-The States finances are il
such a satisfactory condition that | ar
more than gratified in being able to rec
ommend a reduction of the tax rate TO
1896.
1.-The State tax proper is now 81 mill.
on dollar, and would respectfully re
quest that you exercise the authorit /
vested in the Executive, under section l
chap. 1923, Laws of Florida, and empowi
er this office to instruct the assessors t.
assess only p mills for the year 1896.
"This will make a reduction of abou
SIS, 900 on the State tax proper for tn
present year. l have the honor to re
main, very respectfully,
''W. D. BLoxHAM, Comptroller.
estate of Florida.
Executive Department..
Tallahassee, Jan. ID, 1896:
"Hon. w. D. Bloxham, Comptroller:
Dear Sir-I am in receipt of yor
comm unicatlon of the I'd inst, In whic
you state:
1.-the States finances are in such i
satisfactory condition that am mo-
than gratified in being able to recon
mend reduction of the tax rate ft
1896.
"'The State tax proper is now
mills on the dollar, and I would respec
fully request that you exercise the a
thority vested in the Executive, und
section 1, chapter 1928, Laws of Florid
and empower this Office to instruct til
assessors to assess only q mills for II
year 1896.
"This will make reduction Of aboIk
SIS, 900 on the State tax proper for tlf
present year
''This is most gratifying showing
the financial condition of the Stat
and under the authority vested in t.
Executive by said section of the La
of Florida, have the honor to directt
reduction of the State tax proper for ii
present year to d mills on the dollar,
you recommend; and request that y.
instruct the assessors in regard to
matter. Most respectfully, H
''H. L. MITCHELL, Governor.
The information that The taxes for +
coming year will be reduced will
most gratifying to the people of Floril
for obvious reasons. The reduction
not very large, but every little helps
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-01-22

(Florida starr.

winter contemplates leaving the
country in quest of a place where
disaster never strikes, he has a task
on his hands that no mortal has
yet accomplished. When we look
back over the past eight or ten
years and note the condition that
existed up to the time of the freeze,
we are forced to the conclusion
that we are enjoying advantages
from a financial point of view that
no other section of the State
enjoys.
Everything was moving along
satisfactorily until the freeze of
last February called a halt in the
proceedings. From green fields of
fine pineapple plants just putting
on their blooms, we were reduced
to dismal sight of brown stubble
with no vestige of green nor indica-
ton of life; everything instantly
came to a standstill. Men who
had invested their all in a few
acres of pineapples looked upon
their fields in dismay. There
was a solemn look throughout the
country that would have been a
credit to conscious-stricken alder
men. 1t looked as if there would
be a panic and stampede. There
was no employer and consequently
no employee. Grits and fish were
being discussed as the probable
articles of diet. Times dragged
slowly on, and beneath a
tropical sun and from under the
dead leaves of our pineapples a
green shoot was seen to protrude;
examination proved it to be pine
apple sucker; further investiga-
ton revealed the fact that others
were coming, and there was much
rejoicing; every one was outlook
ing for suckers and they were not
disappointed; things were not so
bad as they looked; our spirits
rose, we went to work, bought
fertilizers and to-day we challenge
the State to show anything that
compares with an industry that is
such a factor in recuperating the
losses of last seasons disastrous
freeze as our pineapple business.
If it can be found please 'trot it
out"
This matter is worthy of special
notice from the fact that the pine
apple business was looked upon
by many as very risky, as it was
universally conceded that freeze
of the severity of last winter would
kill every plant in the State to the
end of their roots, Even the most
sanguine thought that everything
was irretrievably gone.
The freeze has demonstrated
the fact that we have the safest
business in the State. We only
lost this seasons crop, while the
orange and lemon growers are,
generally speaking, several years
behind us. This does not apply to
all oranges and lemons, for there
are groves that, owing to their ex-
ceptional location, came through
all right and have fruits this fall,
but l lay particular stress on the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-01-22

"The climate of Florida is essen
TALLY insular and oceanic. Those
who measure climate at the level
of the sea by the meridian only,
will fail to form correct conclu-
sion in regard to the climate of
Florida.
Northern Mexico, the peninsula
of California, the dessert of Sahara,
Central Arabia, Northern Hindo-
stan, Northern Burmah, Southern
China, and numerous other regions
of less note, and some of them in
sular, in the same latitude as Flor
ida, have climates more or less
similar to one another, but all
strikingly dissimilar from that of
Florida; and for the manifest rea-
son that no one of them is bounded
by an immense body of warm water
on one side and swiftly flowing
ocean current on the other, and
the peninsula between covered by
luxuriant forest-a combination
of conditions for the production,
maintenance and modification of an
ocean and forest atmosphere that
exists nowhere else to the same de-
gree"
These peculiar features of the
physical geography of Florida de-
serve especial consideration; for
upon them depend the fact that,
in summer, Florida is exempt from
the torrid heat which characterizes
that season in more northern lati
tudes. There is hardly an hour,
day and night, that the tempera-
ture is not modified by refreshing
breezes-the result of the differing
power of absorption and radiation
of heat between land and water.
1t is misleading to claim that the
air of any climate has specific cur
alive power over disease. Benefit
is derived by the invalid from the
pleasing diversion to mind, through
the senses, of unaccustomed en-
vironment, and out-of-door, open
air exercise, stimulating and invlg-
Grating the natural recuperative
powers-in aid of Inappropriate treat
ment.
1t is we'll to know, however, that
the summer in Florida is more eff
fcacious in relieving organic LESSONS
of internal organs than the winter.
The reason for this will be appre
hended when it is remembered
that during the long summer, the
perspiratory glands are stimulated
to activity by the warmth, and the
internal organs are relieved to that
extent from the overwork which
the long, cold winters at the North
impose.
A correspondent Of the Jackson
vile Florida Citizen writing from
Macclenny, Fla, Dec. goth, 1894,
makes the Ananias statement that
''hundreds of bushels of peaches
and pears are rotting in the
ground" The editor of the Citi-
zen should use his blue pencil on
such correspondence. Peaches
rotting in December. What will
northern DeOD1e think of such a
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-01-22
THE CLIMATE OF FLORIDA.



eastern portion of the temperate
ATTITUDES of the United States.
Logic deduces and physical geog-
raphy inculcates what experience
assures, that its winter climate
must be mild and genial. There
is, in fact, no part OF the Union SO
sheltered by geographical location
from the frigid, blighting Billiards
which sweep over the mountains of
the Northwest.
Meteorological records show
that the climate of Florida is not
only mild, but that it is equable.
There is not a state of the Union
in which the annual range of tenn
perature is not from four to six
times as great. Florida is not,
therefore, subject to the sudden,
trying vicissitudes of temperature
which are characteristic of the eli
mate of the northern states.
If temperature was the chief fac
tor Of climate, the question of loca-
ton would amount to very little;
for it is possible by artificial meas
ures to regulate and maintain the
temperature of room or a build
ing to the desired degree for COM
fort, anywhere. The invalid as
we'll as, and more than the tourist,
needs life out of doors. Exposure
to sunlight and pure, fresh air is
the grand desideratum for both,
and in Florida this can be enjoyed
almost every day of the year.
1t is favorite occupation of the
ignorant and the malicious to SLAM
der this State by declaring that
'swamps and marshes form it's
chief Typographical feature" True
the surface of Florida is not diver
sihed by mountains and valleys;
but it is equally fact that is suf-
ficiently elevated and undulating
to afford satisfactory drainage.
There it an advantage in the
slight elevation of Florida above
sea-level to persons with detective
respiratory organs, which is not
generally appreciated. There are
few so ignorant as not to know that
oxygen gas is essential to the
healthful performance of the func-
tons of every organ of the body
Whence is this gas derived? From
the air. How? BY respiration
Can there be any doubt that the
location IN which the air has the
largest proportion of oxygen must
be the most healthful-especially
for those whose respiratory organs
are impaired? In what situation
does the air contain the largest pro-
portion of oxygen? At the sea-
level. Does it not result, inevita-
bly,, that the location with good
surface drainage, which is near sea-
level, must afford the greatest re-
lief to that class of invalids? Rest
is one of the most important ele-
ments IN the curative treatment of
organic LESSONS. 1t is not reason
able that lungs which receive as
much oxygen in twenty respira-
tons to the minute, in one locality,
as they receive in sixty respira-
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-24
PERTINENT QUESTIONS,
Sergeant Hodgkins Wants to Know
Why Certain Parties Are So
Interested.

OAKLAND, CAL, June 23.-Chief of
Police Lloyd and Sergeant Hodgkins will
not be weakened in the least in their
efforts to bring the perpetrators of the
gold brick swindle to justice by the failure
OF the jury to convict Andrew Root, alias
Nesbit, alias Miller, alias Morton, ETC., the
gentleman charged with implicitly in
having feeced stephen G. Little, the
Dixon banker, out of $500 on the old and
time -honored "gold brick" scheme.
Sergeant Hodgkins in Speaking of the
case to-day said: There are some things
in connection with the defense | do not
understand. Why is it this man, Patsy
Carroll, has been such a constant atten-
dent upon this trial? Why is il that he
turned up in Phil Crimmins' saloon within
two minutes after placed Gordon under
arrest? Why is it that he has been treat
ing everybody connected with the case
who would accept right along during this
trial?
"In order to see what class of people
want to see these men acquitted one
only needs to look into the courtroom
while the trial is going on. Nearly every
known crook and sporting man of the city
was in attendance"
The case of big Foot" Dave Gordon,
charged with being the principal in the
gold brick" steal, has been postponed
until July II by consent, when it will be
pushed vigorously by the District Attor-
ney.