Juniata Jntinel.
MIFFLINTOWN
Wednesday Morning, July 2, 1873.
B. F. SCHWEIER,
KDITOa a PROPRIETOR.
GEO. P. ROWELL 4 CO, 40 Park Row, New York
S. M. PETTENGILL & CO., 37 Park Row, N. Y,
Are our tole agents in (hat city, and are eu
tfaorited to contract for adTertiiiing at our
lowest ratc. Advertisers in that city are te
quested to leare their farors with either of
ill above houses.
Thk Pennsylvania Editorial Associa
tion made its annua tnnr last week.
Tim Democracy of Allen county.
Oh o, Lave taken a new departure. Old
i'li as. traditions, all. ate to be put aside,
and the ritiiutiou and ideas that now pre
vail popularly are to become the basis
lor the new party platform
Usitid States Senator Cartex
Tkb has recently in a speech in bis
State Wisconsin made an effort to
justify the back pay grab of Congress.
Like moH of Lis tff.trts it is an able one,
j it not able to prove that wrong is right.
When tufted it is found to be chaff.
When Senator Carpenter took the
oath of office, he agreed to dif charge the
duties ( f t'e place for a stated Bum. lie
now ignores the contract, and has not
only demanded but Las really taken ad
ditional pay for Lis services.
KecofU'ze such a rule ot action or
conduct, and whore will it send the busi
ness of the country ? It will not be long
lit fire avaricious, extravagant and un
scrupulous men will carry the rule iuto
the Lusiness of every day life make a
contract for a specified sum for a speci
fied work, one month, week or day, and
the next demand additional pay. His
uigumcut gives evidence of ability and
telent. but his premises are unsound.
Tub delusiveness of the Chinese Las
Ken '.he fertile subject for American and
European talk, newspapar articles and
pamphlets for many yeurs. China did
not wish to open intercourse with the
outside world. Her exclueiveness, how
ever, was broken down, at the point of
the bayonet, it may be said, aud she
.was compelled to receive foreigners with
in her borders a traders and missiona
ries, aud iu w hatever other capacity out
riders witthed to visit her domains. Iler
people were iuduced to enter into con
tracts to come to America, and go to
other parts of the world to labor.
Thus by degrees herexclusiveness has j
growu less, until now she is met as a
willing trader, comparatively speaking, j
aud her people no longer need to be
coaxed to come here. Tbey are coming j
lu great numbers wiluout solicitation ;
they are scattering over the whole coun
try. Thousands of them are in Califor
nia, and at no distant day the Golden
State must present more of the appear
ance of an eastern country, than that of
a State of the great Western Republic.
San Francisco is alarmed, she at least
professes to be. Perhaps it is jealousy
of the manner in which tho Chinamen
enter iuto competition iu every branch of
business aud industry. The city author
ity Las passed laws, which the Mayor
Las had the manly courage to veto, im
posing heavy taxes on the business in
which they do most engage and excell.
It seems like a dangerous precedent
for ourselves, to piss laws discriminating
for or against any people ntnong ns. Such
laws are not American in spirit ; they
are antagonistic to Democracy or Rejub
Itcanism. There are two courses open. The
Chinaman cau and should be admitted,
as emigrants from other countries are
admitted ; or we can and should become
exclusive, as they need to be ; withdraw
unr people from their country, break np
mr treaty relationship with them, and
command them to stay at home, and
Mate that we are deternsiued to do the
raw. Which of these courses caa Amer
icans afford to puisne iu this enlight-
enoi age f
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The trial of Mrs. Woodhull and others,
lor sending obscene publications through
the United States Mails, has been con
cluded. The verdict was " not guilty."
The philosophy of Woodhull, Claflin
& Co., is dreadfully pernicious. There
is an easy and sure security against it,
nr.mcly, individual purity. It cannot
affect the pure woman and the pat e man.
They spurn it from them. But the man
lier of prosecution of these women was
iuite another thing It was a prosecu
tion to gel rid of the charges iu a round
about manner, without even so much as
deigning to say they are true or not true.
A denial by Jlr. Beecher, or Mrs. Tiltou,
or Mr. Bowen, who is not connected with
the scandal further than that be is
charged with Laving a knowledge of tLe
facta iu the case, would have put society
at rent on the question, and the recoil
would Lave been so severe on Woodhull,
Claflin & Co., iLat they would Lave
broken down nnder its weight. There
was no dignity in assuming a silence on
the direct issue and prosecuting on an
indirect issue. Such a course was the
very opposite of a dignified one, ana
displayed a tyrannous spirit, as danger
ous to the public good as the lewd doe
trine of freeloreism itself.
Another injurious phrase of this puiu
ful scandal is the statement signed and
published by Iter. Henry Beecher, Theo
dore Triton and Henry C.vBjwen, that
the unpleasant .Question between these
gentlemen in regard to the scandal Lad
been settled and would not iu tLe future
be revived. Here again, if a word of
denial Lad been inserted, the trouble
would Lave passed from tLe public mind,
and the good names of tLe parties would
hare been vindicated ; bat the absence
of such a denial has only increased the
painful suspicion against these respecta
ble and intelligent people.
Condemnation from every quarter has
been so strong agaiust the statement, that
Mr. Bowen, who is credited with being a
pare man, has been pressed to such a de
gree that be has taken steps to clear and
place himself right with Lis friends and
the public on the question. On the 24th
day of June the day preceding the one
on which the verdict of "not guilty'" was
rendered Le and Quite a company of
prominent gentlemen visited the resi
dence of Mrs. Woodhull and Tennie
Claflin for the purpose of obtaining from
tbcra "what documeutary evidence they
Lad against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
and Theodore Tilton in relation to what
is called the Beecher. scandal.' Mrs
Woodhull said that at the conclusion of
the trial she "will present and convince
by documentary evidence that what she
had already said was true."
The trial has been concluded, with
the result as above stated, aud the scan
dal
wears as usiv an aspect as ever.
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The Walworth Murder.
Tho trial of Frank Walworth for the
murder of Lis father is slowly progress
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1D2 in Aew ioik. several letters writ
ten by the father to the mother were pro
duced in court. It is well that they
were there produced, for . thereby the
world learns how unjustifiable was the
shooting of the father. If epistolatory
evidence is worth anything to prove the
sanity or insanity of an individual, then,
indeed, the letters of the father indicate
an unsound mind, aud evidence that Le
should have been domiciled in an insane
asylum, instead of having been murder
ed. There is no chivalry in killing a
crazy parent. This is one of the letters :
Pi'PttCATiox House or CABirros 4 Co.,
(Under Fifth-avenue Hotel).' I
Jsw York, Aug. 13. )
Listen to these terrible words. They
will show you Low keenly and fiercely
I feel the humiliation of Reuben H.
Walworth's will, and what a Scot, tLe
descendant of King Malcolm, will do
when all bos been taken from him
Reuben II. Walworth always hated me
from my cradle. He always hated any
one who . was high-spirited aud would
speak out their thoughts. He always
liked crying hypocrites like ElisLa Back
us aud Clarence Walworth. Although
he saw my ambitious spirit, he hated it,
because it would not toady to bis favor
ite Yankees. Hence, from ciy cradle be
persecuted me and beaded me off iu ev
ery pursuit or speculation ; I could not
please bim in anything, because I would
not whine to him about Lis favorites ;
everything that I ever wrung from him,
even my pay in the Spike case, was
wrung from his fears. The only reason
that he did not omit my name from his
will altogether was that he respected my
talent, and hoped I would write his life.
He knew nobody else would.
But Le Las stung me into madness and
broken up my family by placing me in
the humiliating position of being under a
trustee, and that trustee my brother, who
has neither ambition nor heart. From
bis grave he glares at me aud says, "Ha,
ha, yon were always proud and high
spirited, but by my will I have put iu
your side a thorn for life ; yon hare no
dignity nnder it, and it will sting you to
your grave ; the only ones of my name
who have any dignity nnder my will are
your sous Frank and Tracy, who will
bear my name to posterity."
Now, Ellen Harden, knowing that I
am helpless nnder that will, if yon will
persist in trying, year by year, to see
how much of that trust property yon
can get out of me by threats of law, by
personal blandishments to my trustees,
or by any other means if you do not aud
will not see that I onght to Lave some
thing for my entire life, whether he in
tended me to or not, then mark what will
be the finale of my vengeance npon that
dead scoundrel d og who has made me so
pitiable before men and before yon.
I will, and so help me the demon who
waith npon the persecuted, and the proud
spirited, and the revengeful I will when
stripped by you of my property (and you
mean it at last), plunge my dagger into
Frank and Tracy's heart and cut off the
Walworth namo forever G d him,
he has elevated them and degraded me,
and you gloat over it. 1 liave not one
single form or right nnder bis will. This
baa been the cause of your despising and
abandoning me. With cold, calm par
pose yoa contemplate my eventual beg
gary and humiliation.
I will kill your boys and defeat the
scoundrel in Lis grave, and cut off Lis
name forever. . Now, you just persecute
me about that property, and keep up this
thorn alive in my heart, by the Eternal
God ! I will kill them and you, too.
Now yoa bant my property any furtLer,
you I will gat your
boys, as well as you.
The dead villain shan't
rob me of wife, children, and property.
If I can't Lave anything I'll have re
venge. I have lost already
nearly everything which makes life tol
erable. . ......
There is no signature to the letter. '
Baton Rouge, La., is eating her peaches.
Hercules Helps When Ton Put Tear Own
Shoulder to tne nneeu ,
BY FBOr. J. D. BUTLER.
"Never give to a beggar,'
Richard," for if you pay a
nothing, Le will do it."
id Poor
i to do
"Luxury," said gruff Dr. Johnson, "is
better than charity, for luxury feeds the
industrious, but charity the idle ; and
the industrious improve, while the idle
deteriorate."
Through disregard of these social laws
the doles dispensed in mediaeval monas
teries proved a parent-principle of mod
ern panperbm.
We cannot, overrate the streneth of
laziness iu one who has all his lifetime
lived iu beggary. Hence, when I told
a veteran mendicant I wondered that so
able-bodied a man as he would beg, it
was perfectly natural for bim to answer.
"You would not wonder at all if you
only knew how lazy 1 am."
But, in Lelping a man you always hurt
Lira, whenever yon do not make him help
himself This was tLe spirit of Moses ;
bidding tbe Jew not to reap the corners
of Lis field, and to let some haudfuls fall
on purpose, and to leave them for tne
poor to glean. It was the spirit of Christ,
who only twice fed tLe hungry but
times without number Lealed tLe sick,
enabling them to rise and earn bicad for
themselves.
Acting on a similar principle with re
gard to paupers, and helping most those
who most helped themselves, Massachu
setts has lessened, their number in Ler
territory by fifteen per cent, within the
last ten years, aud that while her popu
lation Las been fast increasing.
In like manner, those safe from pau
perism are lifted still higher. Steamers
and railroads, bringing immigrants by
millions into the Mississippi Valley, have
done them good just in proportion as
their new opportunities have stimulated
them to make the rrost of themselves.
Pre emption and homestead laws aim
so to Lestow tLe public domain that it
shall become a public discipline. . Both
require a man to make a journey to his
farm both teach him to prize it, the
foimer by making him pay something for
it, and tbe latter by making bim till it.
When the public land near towns and
navigable streams was all occupied, Con
gress enabled farm hunters to reach other
lands and brought their produce nearer
markets, by tbe only means in its power,
namely, landrunlt to railroad compa
nies. It is fashionable to condemn those
grants both in Iowa and elsewhere, but
let it be remembered that tkey have cost
the United States nothing, since as many
acres have been sold at donble price as
have been given away that they Lave
brought millions of acres under State
and local taxation sooner than they
would otherwise have been subject to it ;
that they Lave rendered railroad acres,
and others near them so desirable that
they are bought up at a cost several
times greater than would secure lands
equally good further from railroads.
A railroad depending for dividends on
a local traffic which cannot exist without
the developement of the country through
which it runs, is not likely to charge ex
orbitant prices for its land Tbe Burling
ton and Missouri River Railroad, con
senting to be paid for lands in install
ments, extending through half a life
time, with nothing of the principal in
the first four years and asking only six
per cent, iuterest, grant terms which
thrill with hopes of owning farms, ten
ants, mechanics and laborers who were
sinking in despair all over our older
States. Their hearts with glad surprise
to Ligher levels rise.
The advance guard in the emigrant
host from those regions have already,
within' thirty-three months purchased
along the B & M Railroad either in
Iowa or Nebraska, 4,525 farms, contain
ing 478.9S8 acres. More than 25,000
homesteaders and pre-emptors have ta
ken land in the same region. A farm is
a fifth gospel to agricultural laborers,
who are a majority in every community.
Behold how the chance it offers electrifies
land lovers.
"Fast tbey eomc, fast tbey some ;
See bow they gather ;
Fast they came, fast they come ;
Fatter and faster ;
Chief, Tasaal, page and groom,
Tenant and master."
Witiiout apologizing for the part that
Republican Congressmen have taken in
the interest of the " salary grab," it is
bat fair to state that of the thirty-two
Representatives who have returned their
back pay, twenty five are Republicans
and seven Democrats. The Louse was
composed of one hundred and twenty
seven Republicans to one hundred and
thirteen Democrats and Liberals. In
other words, while the Democratic mem
bers were to the Republicans in the pro
portion of 1 to 1, the Democrats who
returned their back pay were to the Re
publicans who returned it in the propor
tion of 1 to 3 j Or, to put it in another
form, 1 in every 16 of the Democrats
returned the grab, and 1 in every 5 of
the Republicans. At the same time it is
to be remembered mat a larger propor
tion of the Democrats than of Republi
cans voted for the salary bill. When
Democrats attempt to fasten the odium of
the salary grab upon Republicans, let
these facts be borne in mind Pilt$burg
Gazelle,
Persia contains 648,000 square miles
and 10,000,000 inhabitants. It is, there
fore, more than nine times as large as
New England, with about three times as
many people. Tbe average density of
its population per square mile is fifteen,
while that of New England reverses these
figures, beiog fifty one
A BLOODY RECORD. "
From the Look Havea Republican
The people of Spring Mills have been
agitated for some time past by the story
of two murders and ieldss) ia tbek
quiet neighborhood. 1st Aferfl last, it
will be remembered that wa paMuhed
an account of the suicide of one Mr.
Young under circumstances that afforded
no satisfactory explanation. He was
young man highly respected, with fair
prospects and good health. Bat one day
he went into the woods, cut open an ar
tery in his arm, and by holding it open
with a stick, succeeded in patting an end
to his life. It is known that just before
the suicide Young was sent for by i
young friend named Kenley, and a pri
rate interview took place, but tbe object
of the conference or what was there com
municated was not known, and was not
supposed to have' any connection with
Young's last and fatal act. But soon
after his death, Kenley. who had be
come convioced that he could not recover
sent for Dr. Van Valsah. of Sprine
Mills, and made a most startling confes
sion of two murders, iu which he and
Young and two other men of the place
were participants. TLe first murder was
committed last fall, tbe victim being
contractor on the Pennsylvania railroad,
whose name we have not learned He
appeared in the place with about 12,000,
and these four young men enticed him
into a restaurant kept by one of their
number, and after making him stopid
with drink, knocked ont his brains with
an axe and took his money. They then
sank his body in a deep sink hole in
Spring creek. The second murder was
committed in March or April last, a short
time before tbe confession. The victim
in this instance was a eentleman from
Westmoreland county who had previous
ly purchased Moat's mill in Penn valley.
1 be particulars of this murder are not
given. I he man was traced by his
friends as far as Center Hall on bis way
to the mill, with a sum of money which
he intended to use in making a payment
npon tne property, since their disap
pearance at the time their respective
murders are said to have ben committed
neither of these men have been heard
from. Since Kenley 's confession the
other two men have disappeared from the
place.' Kenley is recovering, and will
probably have to answer for his share in
the two crimes that he has so freely con
fessed. His statement has not vet been
made public in detail, and we are able to
give only this brief outline which is the
substance of the common talk in the
neighborhood.
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On Wednesday an individual came to
this city and represented to an acquaint
ance and friend, a vouog mechanic of
Uarrisburg, that Lis funds were exhaus
ted aud that he was at a loss what to do
for lodging during the night. Having
known him for a number of years, sup
posing him to be perfectly honorable and
sympathizing deeply with him in his ap
parent misfortune the Uarrisbnrger con
ferred several acts of charity on bim dur
ing the day and at night shared bis couch
ith him. Both retired at tbe same time
each throwing his pantaloons at the foot
of the bed. The mechanic had a gold
watch worth $150 and a chain valued at
850, with a $25 charm attached, togeth
er with a pocket book containing some
money, all of which he allowed to re
main iu his pants pockets. Yesterday
morning on awaking he was astonished
to see that his associate's place had been
vacated and that the angel whom he
thought he was entertaining had flown
away. The next move was to look about
for his pantaloons, but they were just as
difficult to see as the absent visitor, who
had made his escape through the win
dow Harriburg Patriot, June 27.
TLe following incident of tbe Iowa
tornado will bear a fuller natration than
that made by tbe telegraph : Near Skunk
river woods a flock of 1,500 sheep were
quietly grazing when the storm arose
With an instinctive dread they gathered
in a circle, that companionship might
alleviate the sense of danger. They
congregate directly in the line of the
storm, and when it came it elevated them
until, as an eye witness expressed it,
"they looked like a flock of birds."
They circled round and round, the ve
locity of the inner current overcoming
the attraction of gravitation, until the
centrifugal motion moved them to the
edge of the cyclone, where, the velocity
being diminished, tbey fell to the earth.
Of the 1,500 only forty were found alive
and it is believed that the remainder were
killed. Their remains were foand hang
ing on the trees and bushes, and strewing
the ground. , ,
Thosb who profess to know what they
are ciphering about confidently state that
there are now in Louisiana one million
of acres less under cultivation than there
were in I860. This is progressing back
ward at an1 alarming rate for it inflicts on
the Pelican Commonwealth a loss of
$100,000,000 per annum. A wanton
watte of wealth such as this is the best
possible commentary on the folly of the
bitter political struggles that have so
long distracted Louisiana. 'AtiaJeAm
Inquirer. .
A boy thirteen years old, a few days
ago, put a false head into a flour barrel,
procured four quarts of peanuts and
poured them over the head so as to make
one think he had a barrel full, an l then
took his station on Woodward avenue.
and cried out, "All these peanuts for ten
shillings." A grocer passing by whipp
ed out the money like a streak of light
ning, and the boy got awsy before the
trick was discovered.
SEWS DESPATCHES.
A despatch from Washington D. C
under date of the S6th alt. says t The
War departmetit to-day received Infor
station from Captain Alexander Moore,
of the Third Cavalry, stating that while
his company was in camp at nine o'clock
P. M. on May 31st, in Republican Val
ley, at Blackwood 'creek, a terrible
freshet swept down the valley without
any warning or apparent cause, and car
ried away everything before it Men,
horses, tents, and army wagons, were
swept along like corks.
The valley is about forty-five miles
long and one and a half miles wide.
This entire stretch of country was one
surging torrent, at least from six to seven
feet deep. The only thing that preven
ted our total destruction was the fact
that the camp was surrounded by a belt
of timber on three sides, and as the men
were carried off by the current they were
enabled to save themselves by catching
the limbs of the trees.
When day broke it showed almost all
the men of the company on the tops of
the trees, without any covering except
remnauta of their underclothing. Up to
this time nothing was to be seen of what
had been the camp, except the top of an
army wagon which had stuck to a log on
the ground, and on this wagon were col
lected eleven men.
Six of the company were drowned and
twenty six horses lost. The names of tbe
men drowned are Blacksmith Edward P.
Doe, Privates, Louis Cohen, Theodore
Twendle, Dennis J. Mahoney, William
G. Mars and Daniel H. Tavlor.
A despatch from Washington ander
date of the 27th in regard to postal cards
for Canada says : By the signature of
additional articles to the postal treaty
a m7
with Canada on the part of the Dominion
authorities, advice of which is received
to-day, an arrangement has been con
cluded between the United States and
the Dominion of Canada providing that
on and after the 1st of Julv. 1873.
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Uuited States postal eards mailed at any
post office in the United States and ad
dressed to Canada, and Canadian postal
cards mailed at any post office in Canada
and addressed to tbe United States when
prepaid an additional postage of one cent
by affixing thereto an ordinary one cent
postage stamp of the country of origin,
in addition to the stamp printed or im
pressed ou the card, shall be reciprocally
forwarded and delivered in the country
of destination free of charge. Postal
cards of either country, when not so
prepaid, will not be forwarded in the
mails between the two countries.
Tbe largest farm in England consists
of three thousand acres, and belongs to
a man by the Yankee name of Samuel
Jones. In its cultivation he follows tbe
"four course" system, the whole extent
of tLe farm being divided into four great
crops, 750 acres to w heat, 759 to ba-ley
and oaU, 750 to seeds, beans, peas, etc.,
and 750 to roots. His live stock is val
ued as follows : Sheep. $35,000 ; horses
$15,000 ; bullocks, $12,000 ; pigs, $2,
500. The oilcake and corn produced
annually amount to $20,000, and artifi
cial fertilizers about $8,000. Tbe entire
cost of manure in various forms, used
annually, is about $15,000. Sheep are
claimed as the most profitable stock he
keeps, and from them are realized about
$20,000.
The largest mortgage ever filed in the
United States was filed ten days ago by
Recorder Kaiser, of Chester county. It
is for the sum of forty million dollars,
and is from tbe Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company to Fidelity Insurance Trust
and Safe Deposit Company of Philadel
phia. The mortgage was given to secure
the payment of forty thousand bonds of
one thousand dollars each, issued by the
railroad company, and is held ia trust for
tbe owners of those bonds by the above
insurance company. It has been record
ed in Carbon, Northampton, Lehigh and
Luzerne counties, and is to be ia three
more.
Christian L. Hershey, residing near
New Freedom, Shrewsbury township,
York county left home nnder a tempora
ry aberration of the mind, on Friday the
13th inst. He was seen in York on
Thursday, the 19th inst., from which
time nothing has been heard of him. He
ia about five feet eight or nine inches
high, of rather slim stature, wears a
beard and moustache and had on a light
blue coat. Any information concerning
him will be thankfully received by his
friends. Address David Hershey, New
Freedom, York county, Pa.
Tbe Titnsville Courier says : Luxury
advances. There is an epicurean gen
tleman in the city who makes his barber
use ice cream instead of soap for shaving
him, and has his hair moistened with
champagne instead of vulgar bay rum.
He has lately struck a three hundred
barrel well in Butler county, and this is
the way he takes to show his old cronies
that be is now an "old prince." .
A gentleman of observation and expe
rience has lately been testing the efficacy
of asparagus as a tonic and cathartic by
subsisting almost exclusively upon it and
giving np animal food. He states that
under this regimen . his health is better
than it has been for years, and is con
vinced that there must be in asparagus
an essential principle that would be in
valuable in medical practice.
A house in which ten persons were
sleeping was forced from its foundations
at the foot of a cliff in Montreal, a few
days ago, by the fall of a hnge rock, and
was pushed out into the middle of the
read, without any injury to the inmates.
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When people tame to high wwds (hey
are apt to awe low language,
A thirty-pound salmon snay be bottglt
for fifty cents in Portland, Oregon.
A Harper's Ferry man owns a whole
mountain and offers to trade it fot a shot
gun.
. Constables all over our eounty sbonld
post themselves in the provisions of the
new game law.
The army worm is marching through
California, and wherever it appears every
thing green disappears.
Two real archdukes of Austria helped
to put out a fire in the house of the
United States Minister at Vienna
Olatbe, Kansas, has found twenty
eight inches of good coal underlying that
town at a depth of 550 feet
A government mail agent used seven
ty-one postage stamps tbe second time.
and not a post-master detected the
fraud.
An Oconto, Wis., chicken was born
witn lour legs and tour wings, bnt was
killed by tLe disgusted old hen that
hatched it.
Girard, Erie connty, claims to have
child which weighed but three ounces at
its birth, and seven ounces when four
weeks old.
Miss F. H. Mitchell, of Greenville tbe
other evening took a dose of sugar of
lead in mistake for salts. It is thought
she will recover.
Forest connty claims to have the old
est couple in Pennsylvania. The hus
band Is one hundred and eight, the old
lady one hundred and six.
At Lancaster a wedding party broke
down the floor of the synagogue, and re
fused to pay for it. The snit went against
them and they finally paid np.
Some Pittsburgh boys made a raid on
a clergyman's strawberry bed, and one
of them dropped a gold watch, which
tbe minister is now wearing.
When old Mr Russell, of Stevenson,
Ala , was told by his physician that he
had cerebrospinal meningitis he took
down his rifle and killed himself.
Northwestern Iowa complains of an
incursion of immense swarms of grass
hoppers that are destroying wheat and
grass and all other vegetation within
reach.
A society writer in the New York
Mail reports that the most stylish young
ladies in town have struck against tbe
tyranny of the milliners, and make their
own bonnets.
Greensburg had a wedding the other
day, at which the bride's ten sisters six
of whom are married and have children
were present. One brother added to the
felicitous company.
It is raid that Georgia hangs twenty
of her convicts during tbe preseut month.
Yet murders are more common than be
fore, and Atlanta editors are .hunting
each other with shotguns.
Hon. J. K. Lnttrel, Congressman elect
from the Third California District, in a
letter to the Indian Bureau, says that
the Modoc war was caused by wrongful
treatment by the white men.
Five German families, all related to
each other, and living in one school dis
trict in Wisconsin, have seventy-five
children among them, all sound and
healthy.
Cobra poison has been discovered by
an English chemist to be identical in iu
parts with the composition of beer yeast,
which supports the idea that the poison
is of the nature of an animal ferment.
An insane man who had been in the
Franklin County Poorhouse for thirty
five years and for the last eighteen years
chained to the floor of a cell, was last
week nnshakled and allowed to hobble
about the yard.
Very large fans continue in fashion.
They are of all patterns and prices.
Cheap ones are most in favor, the ladies
arguing that the rapid changes in fashion
justify them in beiug economical in keep
ing up with it."
The men of Macon, Ga , are said to
vary the monotony of existence by catch
ing rats with a hook and line in the rail
road depot. The amusement is far more
exciting than trout fishing, and causes
less personal discomfort.
A Catholic father of St Louis has
warned his congregation that he will read
from the alter each Sunday the names of
all persons belonging to tbe parish who
may have been found drunk during the
preceding week. -
Among the presents received by Miss
Mary Sayre, of Bethlehem, at her mar
riage last week, were nineteen dozens
solid silver forks and spoons. Tbe a
gregate of presents on tbe occasion is
said to have been $10,000.
A train on the Midland railroad of
New Jersey was seized by the sheriff of
Hudson connty, N. J , on the 27th ult.
on an attachment for $9000. The train
was permitted to make the usual trip
under charge of a deputy sheriff.
Said Landor, "I have no aliments, but
why should I? I have eaten well-pre
pared food ; I have drank light, subacid
wines, and three glasses instead of ten ;
I have liked modest better than immodest
women, and I have never tried to make a
shilling in the world."
A schoolboy's composition on tobacco :
Tl : . ...
x wo wuroua weeu was invented by a
distinguished man named Walter Raleigh
When the people first saw him smoking
they thought he was a steamboat, and as
they had never heard of such a thing as
a steamboat, they were terribly frighten-ed."
A bill of $17,50. for cigars used s'. a
firemen's master, many years ago g tij,
tbe city ol Rondout, H. Y., and in t':;v;r
of one Van Beck, has j'ist been soiled
for 0300. after going through every cv.;r:
which Lad any jurisdiction in the mai'.cr.
A gang of desperadoes attempted t .
rob the store of Wo. Reddly, at Burli:
ton, Mo , on Saturday a week, and in tKo
attempt to protect Lis property, LTi.
Reddly killed three of tLe ruffians
shooting two aud clubbing the other
that he cannot live.
. The displacement of a rail, evidently
done milicioualy, on the Iowa division
of tbe Illinois Central railroad, near Far
ley, Iowa, on the night of the 25th, pre
cipitated a freight train from the track.
The engineer and fireman were instant! v
killed, and seven cars were wrecked.
A New York man, who believe 5a
advertising, paid a bill of $78,000 the
other day for a j ear's work, but it wss
money well spent, for the earnings result
ing from that advertisement, which wtt-i
divided among four persons, footed tip
$650,000.
Notlong ago, in the Court of Appeaa
a certain lawyer, of Celtic extraction,
while arguing with earnestness bis easy-
stated a point, and then preceded : "Ara
ef the coort plaze, tf I am wrong in iLii
I have another point that is aqnally con
clusive."
Mr. Folger, of Detroit, has invented a
flying machine, which promises to be a
grand success. His first fall, from tbe
top of a barn, deprived him of conscious
ness for only half an honr, and he is
confident that, when he gets well enough
to elaborate and apply an improvement
that has occurred to him, this time can
be materially reduced.
George Smith, of Columbia, Pa , who
has been working at Alexandria, Vs.. for
some time past, started on tbe 2Cth ult.
to walk home to Columbia. About tea
o'clock that night, arriving at Beltsville
Prince George's connty, Md., he was at
tacked by unknown parties, about two
hundred small shot taking effect in the
back of his head. Smith now lies in
Baltimore Infirmary, and it is thought
he will die of lock-jaw.
The introduction of sleeping cars into
Germany by Colonel Mann, an American
was attended recently with a grand jollifi
cation. Lolonel Mann gave an excur
sion from Berlin, which included a num
ber of government officials, railway
directors, editors, members of Parliament
American, German, French and English
adies and gentlemen of distinction.
These cars are now run between Berlin,
Ostend, Vienna aod Paris.
Jesse R. Gra.vt, father of President
Grant, died at 7 o'clock on last Sunday
evening, at his residence at Covington.
Kentucky, aged 79 years.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
SENATE.
Ma. Editob : As the t me is drawing Bear
when tbe Republicans of litis county must
select a standard-bearer in the Senatorial
contest, we weald announce the Duroe of Da.
J. P. Stebbktt, of Scale township. Ia a,
district where the party lines are so eloaely
drawn, we must select our best man one
who, with an incorruptible character and
person 1 popularity, will run the full party
vote, and draw from tha Democratic ranks.
Db. Stkbrbtt in his late canvass showed
that ha is the strongest candidate we caa jet
in this eounty, and there are many circum
stances that indicate that if sustained by the
Republicans of this county, he will get the
nomination in tbe district.
TUSCARORA.
NEW
BOOT AND SHOE STORE,
Bridge Street, Mifflintown, Pa.
TITE aaTt opened out ia Serin's Block,
one door west of Tilten ft Espen
schade'a Dry Goods Store, the
LARGEST AND BEST STOCK OF
BOOTS AND SHOES,
LADIES', MISSES' & CHILDREN'S
GAITERS,
CTer brought to th's county.
We buy our stock from manufacturers and
ia large lots. We pay eath, and expeet to
sell for taih, which will enable ns to offer
goods
AT PRICES FAR BELOW THE AVERAGE.
W.ork Made to Order.
This branch of the business will be super
intended by A. B. FASICK, one of the best
practical mechanics in the eounty. All
kinds of repairing done. All work wai
ranted.
CORNELIUS BARTLET.
July 1, 1875-tf
French's New Hotel
COR. CORTLANDT & NEW CHURCH STS.
NEW YORK.
ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN
RICHARD F. FRENCH.
Son of tha laU Col. RICHARD FRENCH,
of French's Hotel, has taken this Hotel, new
ly fitted up and entirely renovated the same.
Centrally loecud in lh BCSISESS PART
mf tA City. . . -
LADIXS' AND GERTLEMES'S DIMNG
ROOMS ATTACHED. -