Juniata sentinel. (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, March 27, 1872, Image 2

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MIFFLIPTOWN
ITeanesdar Xornlag;, March 27, 1872.
B. F. 8CHWEIEU,
EWT1 PROPRIETOR.
FOR PRESIDENT,
(IEX. ULYSSES S. GRANT.
(Subject to aacuion of National Convention i
FOR GOVERNOR.
HEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT.
(.t rjret to decision of Slate Convention.)
C EO. P. ROWELL & CO, 40 Park Row, New York
S. M, PETTENGILL 4 CO., 37 Park Row, N. Y,
Are m:r .-.vpnta in fbal cir. and are u
thoritcrl to contract for advertising at our
ouestcd to leave their favors wilh eilher of
the above houses.
READING MATTER ON ETERT PAGE.
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jit'Buijujii it-is in Miiiui.au ftaie icinrui
Ceumiittce of Pennsylvania.
J'uiLAUELriA, Feb. 5 1372.
t pu;".,'K5" of t le resolution of the re
publican Slate Central Committee, adoped t
Murriabur. January ISth, 1372, a Republi
can Stat convention, compose! if delegate
from each Senatorial and representative dis-
1 1 j 1. 1 : i i
inct.in the ouniuer to wuicu sucn cusirictiscn
third ; th will meet in the
Hall of the H.iunc of Rerreseutatives. "t
iUiTinbur;:. at 12 o'clock, noon, on Wednes -
dav.the iT;f, .lay nf April, a. x 1872, tc
no.air.ate e.m-J Jutes iur uo'ernor, juagc oi
il., Supreme C.UH, Auditor General (should
tlie Lrg:sl.uiiie provide fur the choice of one
by lie people), and an Electoral Ticket ; and
..No to elect Scua.orial and representative
deleziics to represent thu State m the Re -
ruh'imn Xatio.ial Convention, to be held ai
ibiid.lPhi.. Jne 5. 1872
. Elliott,
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V. St. I.tilb,
i Seereteriee.
Ct.VKCi ictt votes next Monday for
Governor and other officers.
Tub removal of the Capitol from Har
rieburg, to riiila.lrlpl.ij, i agitated
Ills llxrr Ili ncy John W. Geary was
cot in the lcaet imj;.icated by the testi
mony ..f F.vn.
I'liii.Ani-.i.i'HU newspapers are pp
pegfd to selling Indepeudelice Hall to
the United States.
The Bedlord Inquirrr, of last week,
paid thrreare about three hundred cases
of ocavls, i:i r.nd around Bedford.
Skvin enmrnuuists were condemned
to death Ia?t week, by the French au
thorites, and many ethers sentenced to
tranFportation.
The propoped amendment to the Mas
sachuctts Conptilutio.i, to allow woman
to vote, was deflated by the Legislature
by a vote of loG yeas to 75 nays.
So fatal has miuing become in the coal
districts of England that one person in
every ihrec, who are engaged in it, is said
to die annually. This is a fearful percent
age-
A Despatch from London says:
That on last Thursday, at one o'clock,
in the afternoon, the fog was so thick iu
that city that a darkness, like that of
midnight pievailed.
Frank IIah.vkss, at Kingetou depot,
on the .Lackawanna and liloomeburg
Railroad, in trying to jump off a train of
cars his coat caught and threw him un
der the train ; a car parted over him
mangling him very much.
We.vpell PuiLirs, in his lecture at
Philadelphia, a short time ago, injected
Col. Thomas A. cott iuto his lecture on
"Lost Arts." He said : "Your great fi-1
lowcitizen, whom some people irrevereut
ly call Tom Scott is at the head of a compa
ny controling $350000,000. He places one
hand on the Atlantic and the other on
the Pacific; his influence extends from
Saginaw to Mobile, and when ho walks
eastward from the Golden Gate, the wiud
of bis coat tails topple over a State Leg
islature at every stride "
Tue caee of Ft. Howard, who has
been sentenced to eight years' servitude
in the "chain gangs" of Ceuta, a Span
ish possession in Africa, is awakening
general interest. Dr. Howard is a native
of Philadelphia. He has been living and
practicing hie profession in Cuba for a
number of years, but never renounced
bis American citizen-ship, it is said.
The cause of the trouble in which he
finds himself came through the fiudingof
two small homoeopathic medicine cases
with his name upon the-KJa; and which
he declared to have sold many years ago
to a Spanish gentleman named Bunyon,
in the camp of soldiers who have been
fighting for the independence of Cuba.
He is also accused of having had inter
course with the insurgents. He was a
prisoner a year beforehis case was decided
The case should claim the strictest atten
lion that our government can give.
A colony of 200 Pennsylvania farmers
from York, Cumberland and Adams
counties, will emigrate to Russell county,
Kansas, about the 1st prox.
An immense bed of pure saltpetre has
been discovered near the base of the Cor
dilleras. In some places it is ten feet
thick, and there is said to be enough for
all the requirements of commerce and
manufacture for 1393 years at the pres
ent rat rf conatimptinn.
The Evans InTWtipaU and Defamation.
The Committee ou the Evans embea
zlement dariDg the past week called to
the witness stand a number of gentlemen
who were charged as participants in the
division of the fund that Evans collected
from the United States government for
the State of Pennsylvania, but never
transferred tothe State
General Ilartranft, Mr. Mackey, State
Treasurer, and Mr. McClure, ex-Assist-ent
Attorney General, were all connected,
by charges in the New York Sun, with
this fraad. In the hands of these three
men were nearly, if not quite all the av
enues through which this fraud could be
discovered ; and if they had been parties
to the swindle, certaiuly the last thiug
they would do would be to make known
the shortcomings of a confederate. But
I instead of covering the fraud, the State
j was made acquainted with the embezzle
ment through these three men. Mr. Mc
Clure was the first man who revealed the
Evans swindle. Hartranft and Mackey,
with the accounts of the finances of the
State in their bands, confirmed the state
ment of McClure, and thus the matter of
fraud camo to tho public. If guilty, they
could have kept the matter covered ; if
guilty, they would have done SO
It is
not reasonable to believe that these m"n
had anglit to do with the division of the
fund. Without any other testimony than
I .) -;. inference would be that
tbey were guiltless ; but they were on
the witness stand, and iu sworn testimony
disavowed any knowledge as to whom
the money received by Evans from the
United States was given.
The man who wrote the charges pub
i , , . , p . 4 n T t Tin.
i hsbed in the Sun is named It. D l.Uog
, aril, is a resident of New York, and came
1 ri I.: . of inat-inro f
Philadelphia at the instance ot
i Dana, editor 01 lue own w miervirw xr.
, . . fc . f who hag
j v
j been all the while id Xcw York, defying,
; autlj0I.ity of the iuvestiga-
1 ' '
j ting committee. This man I aiue is at
! the head of an institution in Philadelphia
;stylea tnc I nuaaeipuia t-nivertsiiy tu
' Medicine and Surgery," from which he
: issued diplomas for a consideration to
, . -
men who never attended any course of
instruction, and to others who were there
but a few times, thus commissioning
quacks to prey on afflicted humanity un
der the strength of a diploma. These
diploma outrages Lave given rise to the
introduction into the Legislature of two
bills for the repeal of charters granted to
Paine's College. What is the word or
testimony of the man who engages in such
work worth ? Evan;, an embezzler to
the amount of nearly three huudred thou- i
sand dollars ; Paine, a bondman of Evans,
and a man who has been selling diplomas
iu his school to quacks, and Daua, of the
Sun, who is a bitter opponent of Presi
dent tit ant and his administratiau, are
the meu who Lave preferred these charges.
Dana knows that Hartranft is the strong
est mau iu the field for Governor, and
that he is popular, aud will add strength
to t'ae Grant ticket. Through Hart
ranft he hopes to strike the President.
Evans is an embezzler and a runaway
from investigation, and the more he drags
others iuto trouble and defamation the
more attention is diiected from himself.
Paine is on Evans's bond, and thus the in
terests nf these three unscrupulous men
are revealed, aud the cause for their
defitnatiou made manifest j
EVANS BEFORE THE INVESTIGATING
COMMITTEE UPON OATII.
Since the above was put in type in
formation has been despatched through
out the country that the Evans commit
tee went to New York last Saturday, and
there examined Evans on oath. Ue fully
exonerated all State officials charged
with complicity in the embezzlement, by
the New York Sun. The following de
spatch dated at New York on the 24th
iost , contains all the material points of
the testimony :
The Joint Legislative' Committee au
thorized by the Pennsylvania Legislature
to investigate the Evans matter, reached
here yesterday afternoon for the purpose
of examing Mr. Evans under oath. It
was: understood that he was perfectly
willing aud anxious to testify all he knew
iu reference to the collection of Pennsyl
vania's war claims from the General Gov
eminent, but he was too ill to be moved
from his quarters, and the committee metfenemleS' Pn!3urer8' Mack-mailer, and
bim in his room at the New York Hotel,
where he has recently been residing.
Mr. John H. Stranahan, counsel for
Mr. Evans, was also present. The wit
ness answered all the questions of the
committee, by which it appears that he
had not paid any State official, directly
or indirectly, any money that lie (Mr.
Evans) had earned a the agent of Penn
sylvania's war claims. He bad used
the muney iu meeting bills and claims
held against him for years, and which
he was iu honor bound to pay. Some
of the money had been spent in specu
lations and some in clerk hire.
Ue acknowledges making a loan to
Auditor General Hartranft of $10,000
on tbe lat tor's due bill. This was repaid
in August last, on the streets of Phila
delphia. Evans positively swears that
no money was paid to Moon or Kemble,
and denies t lolo the Si story of the
bribed officials at Washington.
He bad paid to D. C. Forney, of the
Washington Chronicle, $6 000, alio to
Mr. S. P. I5rown, of Washington $20,
000, out of money earned by witness as
his commissions ; to Dr. John Trimble,
of Washington, he had given in all $6,
000,for clerical labor ; to Mr J. R Dun
glison he had in June, 1S67, given $2,
500, in appreciation of kindness shown
by that gentleman in years prior to that
date. He did not say that this was out
of any money received as commissions.
These embraced all the parties referred
to by Mr. Evans, who testified further
that he bad never paid Governor Geary
any money. ,
Mr Evans before the committee left
his room requested permission to have a
copy of the testimony in order that it
might be revised if necessary. Mr.
Evans has, since the giving of this testi-
monv. Dtenared an affidavit adding to his
testimony, before the committee the fact
that the money referred to as given to
Mr. Dnmrlison was riven to a relative of
that gentleman ; that Mr. Dunglison did
tint rpiwivA it nersonallv. and that was
not nart of his (Mr. Evans') earnings as
commissions; nor was it isdended for
the State Guinl
Letter from Harrlsbttrg.
Habkisbubo, March 25, 1872.
The light let into the Evans-Paine
swindle on Wednesday night last at the
meeting of the committee, has complete
ly vindicated General Hartranft and Mr
Mackey, and placed the whole matter be
fore the oublic in its true position. Both
of these gentlemen appeared before the
committee at that time, and testified that
neither of them bad any complicity in
the Evans business other t'.iao an earuest
desire to obtain for the people a large
sum of money that they seemed in i
fair way to be swindled out of by i
nack of thieves, perjurers and scoun
drels ; neither bad received a cent of the
money collected by Evaus, either direct
ly or indirectly, and there is not a man
here of either party who does not 'be
lieve the truth of this testimony It
would be strange indeed if General Hart
ranft and Mr. Mackey, the accounting
officers of the State, had been parties to
this nefarious scheme of plunder from
the Treasury of the Commonwealth, that
thev should brinsr suit against their
partnen. Their action towards the be
lieved guilty parties should shield them
from any such unfair imputations as have
been basely insinuated by their enemies.
Iu regard to the charge made againt
General Hartranft of using his knowledge
as one of the Coin 'ii itinera of the Sink
ing Fund to speculate with the State
funds deposited with Ycikes, a Phila
delphia broker, all these are explained
by his testimony, the books and corres
pondence of the Board of Commission,
and the testimony of Mr. E. M. Lewis,
('resident of tho Farmers and Mecbauics
National Bank of Philadelphia, in April,
1S70. The Legislature authorized the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to
redeem a half million of the over due
lcnn, with a surplus of that amount of
monev then in the State Treasnry. In
accordance with that authority on tha
very day after it was approved by the
Governor, the Board composed of Col.
F, Jordan, Hon. R. M Mackey and
Gen. Ilartranft, held a meeting to consider
what course they should pursue in view
of the power vested in them by the Leg
islature. After full consideration of the
subject a resolution was offered by Col
Jordan, ''that the bonds aud certificates
of indebtedness of the Commonwealth
to the amount of half a million of dollars
be purchased with as little delay as prac
ticable and that the Auditor General be
authorized to carry out the provision of
this resolution." Gen. Hartranft soon
after called on Mr. Lewis, (President of
the above mentioned bank, that has for
years been the financial agent of the
State, made so by lav) and inforjoed
him of the action of the Sinking Fund
Commissioners, and asked him to suggest
some mode of procedure whereby the
said bonds could be purchased at as little
expense to the State, in the way of pre
miums, as possible General Hartranft
reported in writing to the Board the re
sult of this interview with Mr Lewis.
The suggestions made by Mr. Lewis
were adopted. The correspondence
further shows that the Bank employed
Mr. Yerkes as its broker without the
knowledge of any of the Commissioners ;
also where and of whom all the above
bonds were bought, and the premium
paid for each class and lot, and that Gen
Hartranft's name only appears on
Yerkes books at the time in connection
with the purchase of the State bonds by
virtue of the resolution of the Board of
Commissioners. All this testimony and
correspondence will soon be published,
and the public will be able to see for
themselves upon wnat a slight foundation
these tales of scandal have been founded,
and how basely the character and repu
tation of a faithful and honest official
have been assailed and sought to be
dragged into the ruin of corruption, aid
ed by a gang of embezzlers, political
penitentiary convicts
The committee appointed by the Sen
ate to investigate the sale of medical
diplomas, several limes referred to by
your correspondent, repotted last week,
and a terrible showing up it was of the
manner in which Dr. Paiue, the Dean of
the Philadelphia University, has peddled
the degrees ot that institution round, not
only in this country but in Europe, sell
ing lisense to practice medicine to cart
men, barbers, and men who never read a
medical work in their lives, or attended
a medical school Think of the vast
amount of suffering that must have been
created by these bungling butchers of M.
D. The committee reported two bills
repealing the charters of both the institu
lions over which the old fiend presided.
This is the amount of punishment inflict
ed upon him. It is strange oar laws are
so lame. Are there no stones in heaven
but those used for thunder T
On last Friday morning the Slate
Journal which has all along been con
sidered a strong State administration
Journal, and therefore for Jordan for
Governor, came out in a lengthy and
able headed "A Truce to Scandal ;"
and defeudiug Gen. Hartranft saying
that the sentiment of the Republican
party was crystallizing upon him as the
next Govei nor.that the indication were un
mistakable, and that hia competitors had
practically abandoned the contest. The
editor of the Journal is Mr. Wein For
ney, who it also Librarian of the State. !
The term of bis appointment being for
three rears, and having mat expired, Mr.
Forney expected and bad been promised
a reappointment the morning after the
rtiria aoieared. Off went
Mr Forney's head. The Governor ap
pointed Rey O- H. MUler.of Allegheny
county. Thus the old henchmen, the
faithful followers and original Geary
men, are discarded and thrown over
board : the guillotine is at work Rob
ley, Dunelison, was beheaded then Gihon,
f !
now Forney, who next T
The local option bill passed the Senate
by a vote of 16 to 14, all the Democrats
excent one rotinr asrainst the bill. The
bill as passed finally will not go into ef
fect until April 1873 . . It simply refers
the whole matter to the people, and leaves
them to decide, each locality for itself.
-whether tbey will or will not have Iiqnor
sold. It takes the question ont of poli
tics and throws it entirely on the moral
cense of the people. If they wish liquor
sold, they can so vote and have it. The
tendency of legislation is to throw more
responsibility on the people. They are
made to feel that there is a direct connec
tion between their ballots and their per
sonal interests. The more there is felt
the greater value will be attached to the
franchise.
The argument of the McCIure-Gray
contest was beard in the Senate chamber
on Saturday .last, and nothing now re
mains but for the committee to 'make
their report. Be that as it may, it is
final There has been little doubt since
the committee vjas daawn what that de
cision would be. There is an idea in
the Democratic head that by keeping out
Gray, the regnlarly nominated and elect
ed candidate of the Republican party,
and putting in a bolter aud disorganizer
like McClure, they will be distracting
the Republican patty, and a sworn Dem
ocratic committee will soon find an ex
cuse to smooth their way to the doing of
the thing they want, and ere the ink
dries on the type that set this item, the
chief clerk may be calling McClure 's
name among the list of Senators of
Pennsylvania
The constitutional bill was up in the
Senate again last week, but was again
postponed. The appropriation bill also
received but little attention from the Sen
ate, and immense number of new bills
were introduced, and many reported
from the vaiious committees. No local
bills touching rnr wnir wore acted on.
The Senate passed a resolution to extend
the time of the adjournment until April
4th. The House concurred in the action
of the Senate, and that date will witness
the departure from the eapitol of Senm "
tors, members, pasters and folders, &c.
Deacon White offered a joint resolution
in the House to remove the eapitol from
Uarrisburg, and appropriating five mil
lion dollars for the building of a new one.
Although there is nothing in the resolu
tion that says where it shall be moved to
all Philadelphiana are excited on the
subject, thinking of course that if the
eapitol is ever moved, it must certainly
go there, for ain't Philadelphia the State ?
They are holding mass meetings, council
meetings, and appointing large commit
tees to visit Uarrisburg and urge the
passage of the resolution. All their pa
pers are full or it, they argue that Uar
risburg is an unhealthy place, and that
therefore the eapitol shdtld be removed.
This is a plausible argument, indeed,
from a city thousands of whose citizens
have died within the last few months of
a fearful epidemic of small-pox.
To-morrow has been fixed for a hear
ing of the argument for a new trial in the
case of Emanuel Schaffner, convicted at
the last term of court of murder iu the
first degree. It is not believed' that a
new trial will be granted. .
The candidate that the S'nJinel brought
out for Auditor General, Ed. Scull of
Somerset, is looming np very strong.
The paper all over the State are favor
ing him with many neat and complimen
tary notices, and the indication are that
be will occupy a prominent place on the
Republican ticket next campaign.
Both branches of the Legislature meet
to-night and this will no donbt be a
busy week.
JUNIATA.
The New York Evening Post says :
The Grand Duke Alexis will find in Rio
Janeiro, for which place the Russian fleet
sailed yesterday, still further amusements
peculiar to that Spania American people,
who combine the most debasing forms of
sport and gambling with the' consolations
of Christianity. Ue has seen cock-fights
and bull fights presented in Havana on
Sunday afternoon as the compliment of
church services in the morning. He
should now see what is called a "religions
festival" in Rio Janeiro, in which the
wotldly amusements are so intimateiy
associated with pious rites that it is pos
sible to tell where one ' begins and the
other leave off. The authentic literal
translations oT advertisements for these
festivals read as if they were burlesques
from irreverent pens. The following for
initace, is one found in Fletcher's work
on Brazil: ' High mass tn the morning,
after which brilliant horse-racing aud fire
works in the evening " We dare say our
young friend will appreciate the "bril
liant horse-racing" as well as he did the
Sunday Schools of Boston. They each
illustrate a phase of foreign religious life
An exchange says gentlemett who
think it smart to show how near they can
drive across a railroad before a passing
locomotive, may be interested in knowing
in the Northern States, last year, that
kind of smartness resulted in the death of
87 persons, the injuring of 14, the killing
of 60 horses and the smashing ' of 80 ve
hicles.
A Sickening Tragedy.
On Friday, the 1st inst, Mrs. Sarah
Meyers, wife of Theodore Meyers, living
at Brown's Mill on Bennefs Branch,
about six miles np from Driftwood, killed
her infant son aged nine months by roast
ing and boiling him alive. . It appears
that on Friday Mrs Meyers went out to
one of her neighbors and on returning to
the house she picked np the youngest
child and put him on the hot stove, after
holding him there a moment she took
him up and pnt him into a large dish of
boiling apple sauce, crowded the babe
down iuto the dioh aud held him there,
she then turned the child over and pushed
him into the boiling- sauce again thus
boiling him on both sides The other
children scared by the screams of their
little brother, ran to the mill and told the
men at work there what their mother
was doing, and they hurried to the house
as fast as possible, but not in time to save
the life of the child. It had been liter
ally roasted and boiled alive before medi
cal aid could be obtained. It U alleged
that Mrs. Meyers is subject to fits of in
sanity, and that it was while sbo was in
one of these fits that she committed this
unnatural aud horrible deed. We have
not heard that any inquest has yet been
held or arrest made. The authorities
should investigate the affair at once.
Cameron ILrahl.
The Coming Comet. Our most ex
pert astronomers have taken Professor
Plautamoura's comet in hand and arrived
at the unanimous conclusion that even
should the nebulous body in question col
lido with 'the earth on t be 1,2th day of
next August, at 12:30 P. M., Green
which time, it would effect this solid
globe of .ours no more than an' April
shower, litis conclusion is verified by
many examples, as in 1770 a comet
rnshed wildly among the moons of the
planet Jupiter, and yet those statellitcs
were none the worses-tor the collision,
though the frequent shocks disintegrat
ed the comet. Further, it is asserted
that the war th, in its orbital track, rau
over a comet as a train of cars over an
inflated gas bag, 1861, and consideiing
that, according to M. Arago, very good
authority, there are seventeen and a half
millions of comets traversing space, it is
probable that we, iu out frequent jour
neyings around the sun, have crushed no
end ot tuem. And it .rlantamour a
!- out get ofT i lie. track of the
swift speeding world on August 12th,
1872. 12:30 P. M , it will be all the
worse for the comet, and the parched citi
zens of Philadelphia be treated to a re
freshing shower "merely this, and noth
ing more." Piilade'plii Inquirer.
A Female K.ight.--.4 Young huly,
Disguiied as a Man Joins the Kn 'g'tt
Pythias The Scranton Times has
an account of a great excitement among
the Kuigltts of Pythias of that place. A
nice looking persen, young and genteel,
came to that place a few mouths ago giv
ing the nxme of Francis Williams.
He became acquainted at the boarding
house with several members of the
Knights of Pythias Lodge, and filially
expressed uis uesire to join, ile was
proposed, went through the usutl routine,
was elected, received the Page's degree,
made a favorable impression, advanced
to the second degree, and was duly pre
pared for the third or Kuight's degree,
but in a certain part of the work an ac
cident disclosed to all of the officers and
members present that they had been ini
tiating aud giving the degrees of the
order to a iroman I
The members were startled and non
plussed, and for a long while silence
reigned No one knew what to do It
was finally agreed that she should be
kept under supervision until the Worthy
Grand Chancellor be heard from..
Amos H. Wag.mkr, of fjoatsville, ha
decamped, taking with liim m .nev to tl.c
amonntof $10,000 or 815,000. which be
obtained by forgery and other fraudulent
means. Among the losers are : Mr. Fin
ney, his partner, S 1,500 ; Hamilton Rus
sell, 2,000 ; Building Assrcialion,
$3,000 jNational Bank of Chester Valley,
$800 ; and several other parlies who lose
from $250 to $750. The following de
scription, together with his photograph,
has been sent to detectives throughout
the country : "Amos II. Wagner is 21
years of age, height 5 feet 11 inches;
weighs about 150 ; light complexion.
His arrest and detention, until placed in
the keeping of officers from this county,
will be liberally rewarded.' Press.
A young lady in Boston recently at
tempted to commit suicide in a manner by
no means romantic. Instead of resorting
to opium, charcoal gas, Paris green, or
any other well established end all, she
swallowed a prodigious dose of "Parson's
rat eztermiuator " Whatever romance
there might be iu such ignoble proceed
ing, was quite taken out of it by the medi
cal man, who administered an emetic,
aud so dislodged the rat exterminator.
An American doctor at Marseilles is
making a fortune by "wonderful cures."
He gives nothing to his patients but pure
water, which he magnetizes by a few
passes of his hand ; and it is said to be a
curious sight to witness hundreds of per
sons of all conditions waiting their turn
at his door, each with a pitcher or decan
ter of water The number who call daily
is estimated at an average of 900.
A gentleman who went through col
lege on rice, bread and sausage, never
failed of three courses at dinner : First
course soup, in which were boiled the '
rice and sausage, with bread : second
course, sausage on a fork, with bread : !
third course, pudding of tice. with bread. '
... I
Just as We-Foul Them.
Constantinople imports matches from
America.
In a fit of insanity a Georgian cut off
three of his toes.
Madison, Wis., has had a death from a
druggist's mistake.
Kentucky boasts a child with three
legs and the same number of feet.
An old widower says that a miss is as
good as a mile of old women
There is more Rhine wine made in
this county than there is imported,
It is said tBat American copper cents
circulate in Japan at three times their
home value.
Maine is now shipping ice South that
is twenty-one inches thick and clear as a
crystal.
According to the papers over one hun
dred ladies .are now studying law in this
country.-.
It is intended, if possible, to have the
, , , r . .1 n
Prince of Wales as a guest at the Great
Peace Jubilee.
Alligator hides are tanned by the thou
sand in Massachusetts, . aud are much
wom iu the shape of wiuter bools and
shoes.
One farmer in California, during last
season trapped and skinned 30,000 squir
rels, selling the skins for glove making
at 15c each. '
Two Chicago girb recently adopted
the profession of highway robbers, and
garroting a woman, robbed hcof her wul
let containing $34.
Two-thirds of all the Presidents and
three fourths of all the secretaries of
State have been members of the Episco
pal church.
There are said to be. eight hundred
different washing machines patented at
Washington, three-quarters being of New
England origin.
An Tniliana C n cm a MAAdtllf funnl lla 1
jra. is iiiumiiM laiuiri it v aney aviaaiia
Kankakee marsh an oak log twenty-one
feet in circumference, from which he
thinks he can get 500 fence port'.
Mr. Bamet McDonald, a farmer iu
Hanover townehip, Wa-hington county,
has a cow that has had four calves within
the past eleven month, all living.
An old lady iu Dutchess county. New
York, wa frightened to de.vb by l.er son
who came iuto bcr rwro to ?et: If Ills
disguise for a masquerade was a good one.
A resident of Council Bluffr, Iowa(
lias succeeded in making both suar and
syrup from the sap of black walnut trees.
The sr,p is one third licher than tlit or
the maple.
A gentleman took a l.irty ont to ride
ma oilier evening, ana came nomc witn
a fal.-e cnrl attached to the button ou the
sije of his cap. lie wonders hnw it could
have got there.
Savannah was the first city in the
United State that hail a paid fire depart
ment. The department was orgnniz-d
in 1820, and the members received l'l
cents per hour whiie npon duty at fires.
Horse fanciers in New York arcenthu
siaatic over a Prof. Wagner, a treat
horse tamer, and, acconlirg to some, far
more remarkable than Rirey. He han
dles tho mod I vicious animals with case.
The Newark Courier says : "Rev. Dr.
Saunders, of Philadelphia, th fmnderof
the Prvrhy trriun Hospital, which i.- worth
half a million of dollars, i.-t a New Jersey
man, from Moriii county.'
Gen. J. H. Holiart, of Potfutown, pos
sesses a relic in the shape of a lock of
hair clipped from the head of Washington
over a hundred years ago. It is of a
golden brown and uuf.ided.
The congregation of Henry Ward Beech
er's church, during the pa.-t year, contri
buted more than $250,000 for charitable
and religious purposes at home and
abroad.
Farmer about Dayton. Ohio, have
t ipped engar orchards aud the sap is run
ning fieely. There will probably be a
large yield of maple sugar aud rnola3.es
in the Miami Valley.
Four young men of Dubuque are fit
ting np a boat, twenty-five feet in length
in which they intend to journey to Cuba
by way of the Mississippi and tho Uulf,
as soon as navigation opens fairly.
It is seldom that a man thnots himself
in splitting wood, but a Kentuckian ac
complished the feat successfully the
other day by hitting a pistol iu his p ick
et wilh the axe-handle.
Two hunchbacks celebrated their nup
tials in Paris the other day, in the pres
ence of thirty invited guests, also hunch
backs. At the wedding call all the mu
sicians were hunchbacks as was every
dancer.
The Cleveland saloon keepers secure
the photographs of men whose wives do
not permit them to drink, and keep gal
leries of them When the customer en
ters, the barkeeper looks through his al
bum and sees whether or not the custo
mer's face is good.
The Erie Observer records tlie case of
a girl who had her bean arrested for steal
ing her pocketbook containing $35. The
case looked seriously for him, and he had
to do one of two things go to jail or com
promise. He concluded on the latter
course, and the next scene in the come
dy was a wedding.
A soldier who was an inveterate joker
and punster, having had his nose, left
cheek, and a portion of his chin carried
away by a shot in the battle of Shiloh,
was asked by some of bis comrades if
they could do anything for him. "Boys,
said h.-, speaking as well as he could in
a mancled eonrlitinn "I al.nnl I iti- -
drink of water mighty well, if I onlv had
the face to ask for it."
.
g.drt,rti5ittfttt.s. ,
f OTTCE. --
Alh persons Indebted to George Gosoe,
on Book Account are requested to m,
payment to the undersigned within Ihirt,
days, as after that time-all cUims .will be
collected according to law. ,
H. M. OROSINGBR,
C. B. HORSING.
Assignees of George Gosbea .
MiTeb. 27, l72-3t
Bridge Election. .-;
1 MI ERE will bo an election held at ft,
store of Samuel Buck, in the borough ?
Perrysville, on SATURDAY, MARCH 3utk,
1872, lo elect a Board of Managers for tti
Perrjsvill Bridge Company, for the jm
commencing April 1.-1872. By order of tb,
Btard. SAMUEL BUCtk, 7Vfa.
Merl-3t
TUSCARORA FEMALE SEMAfi!.
rpUIS Institution will bo re-opened ,
X WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17th, 1872, win
a full corps of efficient and experience
teacl-en. The rooms will be papered an
refurnished.
Tho andet signed having ha 1 an experieie, ,
of twenty-five years m teaching and in tW "
supervision of educational establishment,
feels confident that ho will be blo to rend
: entire satisfaction to his patrons.
I For Circulars with full particulars, addrtn
J. V. SHERMAN,
' Car of Rev. L. B. W. Sbryock.
Acidemia, Juniata Co., I'a.
March 20-1 w
Petition in the Orphans' Court of Ju
niata County.
Jemima J. I.ukrnt . Eliiha P. HuJUoH mi
Martha Jane Hudson hit wife.
And now, February 5th. 1872, Rule grant,
ed on the above-named defendants that thev
be and appear before tho Judges of the Or
phans' Court of Jnniata county, at a court It
be h.ld in MitHintowu, on the 22ud dayef
April, A. D. 172. to bow cause why lat
prayer of the petitioner, Jemima J. Luktat,
should nut be granted.
Notice of this rule to he given in two ef
the newspapers of Juniata county, and to bt
inaerted for four weeki in each.
By the Court.
ELI DCSX.
mar29 Clerk of the Orphan' Court.
XV o It I
TO THf
WISH OXE OF JUNIATA.
If your boy want) a Geography, you grt
him the litest work on Geography. And ji
this you shew your Udtn. for it w II cor
rect the faults of iu predec. JSurs, ami hare
new discoveries
If a mill ii Pc-is a sleain engine, it it a t
supplied W'th one invented years ag. hat
with the vefy liieit improved. A wise uia
trie? to keup pice with the times in every,
thing. You know that geographies an. I strata
engine iir;rfve Will y.m lell why Senin;
Machine should not? They have iiu;rvH ;
and. ai with geographic, so the oetrt
ng Machine should CO, reel tho fault" ot it
preleceo-. Til Machine that is gaining
tha most rapidly of any one ic AiucriciU
THE DOMESTIC.
It is a new Machine invented in the Weil,
and it
CHALLENGES THE WORLD.
Kvry man anil wonian in Juniata county if
lnvit;i to examine thin giant, and pick all
the defet-M () they can find. It b is no Cas
or Coo Wnr.n-s. The anion is direct. It bat
fta part and those large and rtrona. It mnl-i
less Noisa than any shuM'.r machine. It
to reify that an invalid e n operate it. U
sewn from the jiuctt mtterial to six ihickneMM
ef h'ai-if hearer. The shuttle bus KLr ad
jc stinii tension. Tha bobbin is very lur"
ni ai-M'.ni requires winding- It ha mort
room under tho arm than any oihvr. It
stvtit mie. a atilch. It has a swinging rol
that increase the length of the table our
one half.
lSui we hv3 not space to tell of bill few of
it a'ivtntagir. See the machine before yoa
buy any. ssJ"i"ou nead not fear thit other
agent will not e'l lo you sho'iid you pos'
pone purchaaing umil you have seen the
'DOMESTIC Kith guur aicn eyes. And if it
hould be the best, you would bo sorry tliat
you had not al leant looked at it.
JTSen 1 for a Circular.
C. S THOMPSON. Agent,
Terry vi:ie, Juniata Co., P
Mar 25. 1372-2
GREAT REDUCTION m
IX THE
l'HIC'KS OF TKETIJ!
Full Upper or Lower Sets as Low as $5.00.
No teeth allowed to leave the office unless
the p-iiirut is satisSel.
Teeth remodeled and repaired.
Tetb filled to la-t for lire.
Kloctricif y used in ' he extraction of letb,
rendeiing it almost a painless operation, (nd
extra charge) at the D-nt:l Office of G. L.
Derr, established in MiHIintnwn in 1 S",i.
ti. L. DKK".
J?n 21, 1872-ly Practical Dentist.
CORN IS KING!
Improved Chester County Mammoth
Corn.
TlK above co-n i mora prolific, will yie'.J
more corn than any other in the I'ai'ei
Sitate. The yiold is m lo 12J bushels slitl'
ed corn per ace, and hi been as high
137 bushel per acre, over a field of ten acres
Price. $1.0 pir peck : $1.23 per half bu-
l ; S2. 50 per bushel. For sal, bv the un
dersigned
N. It Any person purchasing of the abev
corn for seed, and al eorn-harvestinz eonfia-
er that be has not been well paid by thepur-
cuase and change of aeed corn. I will rerum
to him the money paid for the corn.
SAMUEL LEONARD.
ttaKiand Mills. Juniata Co., (
Mar20
FORCE PUMP.
THE undersigned is agent for one of "
best Force Pnmna. for any deDib of t
tern or well, in the world. By attaching a"
to tLe ipout, water can be thrown 31' to
feet, nothing better could be asked in ea
of fire. It is a non-freeziaa- Dumn.
SAMUEL LEONARD.
OekUnd Mills, Juniata Co., Pa-
Mar20
A PROFITABLE BTSI1VESS !
LIGHT EQUAL to GAS. at OXE-EIGHT"
THE COST! Cannot be exploded. .Va tW
nr.y or ric used.
MEN desirinz a PROFITABLE BC3ISK -
can secure the EXCLUSIVE RIGHT for
sale of DVOTT'S PATENT CARBON
LIGHT BURNERS and OIL, for COCNTIP
or STATES. Writs for information or call
X. B. DYOTT. ;
Xo. 114 South Second St., Phils-.
N. B. CHURCHES furnished with CHA
DELIERS and LAMPS of every de$crift S
! ,25.,Jer i-?taPer th ' J other " f
; iisuiucui in mo coumrr. i
March 2, 1872-lm
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