Juniata flrtrael.
MIFFLINTOWN
Wednesday Horning, July 16, 1873.
U. F. SCII WEI ER,
EDITOR a PROPRIETOR. .
GEO. P. ROWELL & CO, 40 Park Row, New York
AXD
S. M. PETTENGILL & CO., 37 Park Row, N. Y,
Are our tole agents in that city, and arc au
thortted to contract for advertising at our
lowest rates. Advertisers in that city are le
quested,to leave their favors with either of
the above nooses.
A I'ittsbtro paper eays Farmers'
Grat ges are multiplying rapidly in the
wesirrn pait of this State.
TliK Oliio Republican Convention
jmpseil a re o'ution demanding the no
conditional repeal of tLe increased salary
liill by tlie next Congress.
I'tWSVLVAMA has at this early day,
contributed three millions of dollars
toward the celebration of the one hun
dredth Mi of Julr, 1S76. j
Wish and Do naldson are
building a b;illorn in New York, in which
they propose to start on a trip to Europe
about the 20th of August.
T:;k North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has just completed its arrange
ments for a through line from Philadel
phia to Montreal, Canada.
Two men, named respectively Cooly
and llhett, Jr , the former a judge, the
letter an editor, fought a duel near New
Orleans on the 1st inst., with double
barrulfd shot guus Cooly was killed.
Nine millions of people is quite a low
estimate of the nnraber of the people
who -will visit the Centennial Exposition
at Philadelphia in 1ST6, yet it is three
times the number of people that were in
the colonics on the 4 h of July, 177G.
. Despatches from the West, under date
of the 5th inst., describe the fearful rav
ages of rain and w ind storms that pre
vailed nu the 4ih and 5th inst , in Illi
nois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Mis
souri, and .aUo, in 'Massachusetts and
New Hampshire.
There were iree distinct shocks of
earthquake fcft-nt Uuffalo, N Y., on the
iponfng of the 6th inst. one, quite
strong, aboo!5 a M ; .mother at 9 A. M ;
and the third, quite strong, at 9:30
causing con -i.l rable alarm by the rock
ing of buildings and shipping in the liar
hor
A despatch fiom New York says :
The new law requiring proof of deliber
ate intent to kill for conviction of mur
der in the first degree it is believed will
pet Stokes at liberty. It is also believed
that Rorenzweig the abortionist will es
cape the penalty of seven years imprison
ment, by late legislation making malprac
tice, attended with fatal results puuisha
blo with death.
Thb steamship Pennsylvania arrived
at her wharf at Philadelphia, at noon
on the 7th instant, from England. It
was her first trip, and was made in
thirteen days outward and eleven
d.iys inward. Other vessels of the
same line are nearing completion,
which, when accomplished, will place
Philadelphia in direct communication
with the old world by her own, and only
American line of steamships. There is
no doubt about the success of the enter
prise. 0 -
Betwekn the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock
on the morning of the 11th inst , Harris
burg and vicinity was visited by a heavy
storm of thunder, lightning and rain.
Jouas Potteiger'e barn in Powll's Valley,
was struck by lightning and with its
rontents destroyed. The barn and con
tents of George Parks, about three miles
from Potteiger'e was also struck and
burned Also a house in the vicinity of
Parks' was struck by lightning and
burned. The oats of Dauphin county
was considerably damaged
The transfer of land by the Fairmount
Park Commissioners, for the use of the
Ceutennial Exhibition," was of the
most interesting character. The trans
fer took place in the Belmont Mansion,
Fairmount Paik, Philadelphia, on the
4th inst. Morton McMichael, acting for
the Park Commissioners, presented, and
Governor Hawley, on behalf of the Cen
tennial Commissioners, received the
grounds. And thus, in the most minute
particular, what was by some designated
as a Philadelphia enterprise, has passed
into the control of a committee composed
of members of every State iu the Union.
'J 'he Centeniii.il Exposition is now a thing
us long and as broad as the uation. No
human device or ingenuity can prevent
its success
On the 6lh inst , Rev. Father J. B.
Kelley, a Catholic priest, of Lancaster,
was drowned while bathing at Atlantic
City.
The farmers in Dallas county, Texas
object to hunters killing partridges, as
they have discovered that this bird eats
tip all the worms and bugs which are
destructive to their crops.
The order of Good Templars Las only
been established one year in Wales, yet
w-itliin that time has gained a member
hip of ;0.000. 1
Senator Carpenter' Defence.
This distingnisbed gentleman has re
eently made a speech to bis, friend in
Wisconsin to convince th5tn thatt'.e
action of Congress, at the last session.
in voting back pay and increased salary
to its members, was not only constitu
tional. lawful, and supported by d is tin
guislnd precedents through the entire
hictory of the Government, but that it
was a thing in itself entirely just, proper
and honorable.
Notwithstanding all this, Mr. Carpen
ter will find that the popular deoision is
against him, and that he might as well
attempt to brush back the falling volume
of Niagara with a feather as to suppose,
for a single instant, that the people can
be satisfied, by any amount of argument
with the action of the last Congress.
1 here are some subjects which are
settled only by instinct and intuition, by
that which, in human beings, we call
common sense, and not by established
forms of logic ; not by the sophistry, the
plausibility, the finest of oratorical dia
play. And this happens to be one of
th;m.
The rcry things which are argued iu
justification of the deed have excited the
popular suspicion and disgust, and the
point which is made by the people against
their representatives in Congress, on this
question, is not that they acted under the
sanction of the Constitution and of form
er precedents, but that they took advau
tage of these pretexts to betray a fidu
ciarv character, wmcb is even more
sacred than forms of law. The accusa
lion of the people iu this case is that,
being clothed with power to dot under
the forms of law, and emboldened by
prior examples, they profited themselves
at the expense of the public treasury,
without so much as asking the consent
of the people.
And the same reasoning which would
justify the act in question would, upon
the same principle, justify the next Con
gress iu voting themselves any amount
of the people's money. The argument
of these geutlemen, therefore, proves too
much ; the people cannot stand it, and
they will not. They will not allow their
agents to vote themselves salaries of any
indefinable amount on the plea that they
can cam more in otherccnpations ; that
their living necessities require it ; that
other men have done it before them, or
that the national character gives them
the power to do it
The people will say to such men, by
their votes at the next election, "True,
you have done this because yon had the
power or the right, but we will see to it
that you shall never have the power or
the right to do it again ; and we will
make such au example of yon that it
shall prove a warning to all future poli
ticians not to trifle with the treasure of
the people simply because they are cloth
ed for the time being with a legal or con
stitutional authority which shields them
in it."
This is a case where, under the exist
ing system, the people have no remedy
against the encroachments of their rep
rcsentatives in Congress but the ballot.
It is a remedy very imperfect and un
satisfactory, but such as it is they will
be sure to use it MatTiington Republic,
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has set aside the legal absurdities en
forced by Judge Pearson, in the trial of
the cause of George O. Evans, and re
manded it back for another hearing The
opinion of the Court was delivered by
Judge Sharswood, in which he held
' That the moneys collected by Evans
were collected by him as a public officer
within tiie exceptions of the act of As
sembly of 1842, and the Judge ou the
trial of the case in the Court iu I'aupbin
county should Lave so charged the jury.
The Judge erred in charging the jury
with reference to the claims placed in
Evans' hands by General Ilartrauft for
collection, that they could fix the amount
of commission at three, five or ten per
cent., and not limiting the commissions to
the amount actually collected. On the
question of the foifeiture by Evans of all
this commission for refusing or neglect
ing to account for his collections, the
Court held that under the 14th section of
the act of 1811, Evans was bound to
account promptly or withiu reasonable
tire, and that it was a condition of his
official bond to accouut semi-annually to
the State Treasurer for the amounts col
lected by him. lie collected on May 1,
1867, $78,576 89; October 17, 1868,
8105,561.46, and on August 20. 1870,
$136,846 09. lie furnished no account
until July 1, 1871.
On the trial, Mr. Evans said that he
reported to Governor Geary, but not in
writing, and that, as the State had a
large balance unsettled, which fact, if it
got into the newspapers, would endanger
the collection thereof, Governor Geary
requested him not to make a written re
port for the good of the State. Gover
nor Geary, says Justice Sharswood, was
not alive at the time of the trial to meet
these allegations, bnt it was too clear for
argument that Governor Geary had no
power to release an agent from the per
formance of one of his plainest duties,
as well as from a condition of bis official
bond, npon any such notion of expedi
ency. For these and other reasons a
new trial was ordered.' West Chester
Republican.
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Two gentlemen, two ladies and a boy,
wno were sailing in a boat at Chippewa,
N. Y , on the Fonrth, got into the rapids
and was carried over Niagra Falls. Pie
ces of the boat were found. The names
of two of the parties are said to be John
Elliott and Margaret Robinson, who
were to have been married on Saturday.
Nine cows were recently killed in the
vicinity of Sunbury within a period of
two weeks ou the railroad. Several of
the engineers have been cued by the
owners for damages, the information
charging them with having run faster
thau a city ordiuance allows.
Walworth's Sentence.
The jury fouud Walworth guilty of
murder in the second degree. Jndge
Davis passed sentence s follows :
Walworth, I have, never been called
upon in my life to perform a more pain
ful duty tbau the one which devolves
upon me now After a trial, in which
yoit have had the benefi; of counsel not
surpassed, if equaled, in ability and learn
ing, aud of a jury selected substantially
by yourself, you have been convicted of
the crime of murder in the Becond degree.
The puuisbment of that crime is ' fixed
by statute. Mo discretion is left to the
court. It is severe, but as the court
deems Tour case, it is none too severe
It separates you from your friends and
your family, and consigns you for life to
the State prison, lrom which you prob
ably cau have no hope of escape, unless,
possibly, at some future day, through
executive clemency. The evidence in
your ease, in my judgment, tuny justined
the verdict which has been rendered
against you, and I have fearful doubts
that it could not have justified a verdict
of murder in the first degree, for I cannot
conceive what motives yoa could have
had in preparing yourself as you did,
itii a pistol loaded, coming to jNew
York, seeking an interview with your
father, and almost immediately shooting
him down except npon the idea that you
had deliberately determined that his life
should be terminated by your hand. 1
hope, however, that the Searcher of all
hearts can perceive from your conduct
that you were not animated by that pre
meditation and deliberation that the
statute now requires to constitute the
crime in the first degree The dnty I
am to perform is rendered doubly pain
ful by the fact that yon belong to a fam
ily honored and distinguished both in the
civil and military annals of your coun
try. Your grandfather, on the one hand,
was, as has been truly said by your
counsel, for a long time the chief equity
judge of this great State, and he left a
record for purity and integrity and lor all
the private virtues that adorn and elevate
man second to none who havo attained
so high a station. A grandfather on the
mother's side fell nobly fighting for his
country on the field of battle, and left a
record of which all of his descendants
may well be proud. It is with grief that
1 feel bonud to express my sorrow that
the memory of those great ancestors
should not have restrained you from the
commission of such a crime as that of
hich yon are convicted Yonr poor
mother had indeed cause to regret her
relations to the father you have slain ;
you, also, undoubtedly bad great cause
to feel not aggrieved merely, but asham
ed and indignant at the long course of
outrages toward her and his family ; but
bad as he was, yon were not to be the
avenger of those wrongs. He bad done
nothing to forfeit his life even to the laws
of his country, and least of all had he
done anything to forfeit his life at the
bands of his own and eldest eon. When
I look back upon that moment when you
constituted yourself his executioner and
slew him in that room with no one pres
ent bnt yourselves, I caunnt but feel that
that death must have been to htm more
terrible than a thousand deaths in any
ther form. Called by you to your
presence apparently for the purpose of a
peacelul interview to settle family dim
cutties ; invited to a seat in your room.
and apparently almost instautly confron
ted with a weapon of death in his own
son's hands, what thoughts most have
rushed on him at that moment when he
found that the person whom he expected
hal come to him for the purpose of a
peaceful arrangement : what thoughts,
what terrible thoughts must have rushed
npon him when he received the leaden
messenger of death in his bosom from
the hands of his eldest boy. I shudder
when I think of it, and I think yon
ought to devote yonr whole lite to a re
pentance such as God only can accept
for so horrible a deed. The sentence of
the court is, that yon be imprisoned in
the State prison at Sing Sing, at hard la
bor, for tbe full term of your natural life.
Tragedy in Bradford. On the 5th
instant, a little girl eight years old, nam
ed Bridget iUcuioskey, who lived in
Bradford comfy, was brutally ravished,
strangled to death, and tbe body thrown
into a morass. Search was instituted for
the missing girl, but the body was not
found till the 7th. Suspicion pointed to
ward one Jones, a Welshman, as tbe
perpetrator of the horrible deed, and he
was arrested and committed to the Tow-
andajail. The scenes that then ensued
are thus described :
It was now dark. Two or three hun
dred men surrounded the house in which
the prisoner was guarded. At the sug
gestion of some one a vote was taken
whether, upon the evidence given before
tbe coroner's jury, and bearing in mind
the farts in relation to tbe prisoner's pre
vious behavior, he should suffer death
then and there. The vote was almost
nnanimous in the affirmative. With this
unanimity of feeling a rush was made for
the door that soon yielded to such resist
less force. The guards were thrust aside
and the prisoner roughly seized. A rope
was placed around his neck in which
condition he was brought forth, viewed
by the excited multitude as a debased
murderer. By some it was thought ad
visable to cast him npon a burning log
heap near by. Finally nnder the muz
zles of scores of revolvers and guns he
waa marched to the spot where the mur
dered girl was found, and there told to
repent and confess. Upon an improvised
scaffold, with feet and hands pinioned,
the black cap drawn and rope around bis
neck, he averred his innocence.
In the solemn stillness of death, in
darkness, in time of awful suspense, the
silence was broken, a voice was heard :
My countrymen, no doubt in our minds
the wretch is guilty, but we have no
sworn proof, our evidence is only circum
stantial : let the law take its course "
Whereupon the prisoner, so suddenly
snatched from tbe opening grave, was
qnickly transferred to the proper officers
and at midnight conveyed to the Towan-
da jail, where he now awaits trial. Rn
mora are ofloat that some other person is
bus pec tea now this is pour corresnon
dent cannot state. , Whoever it may be
it is to be hoped that the font murderer j
may be brought to swift and retributive
'justice
aa4 laker-How
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t Reconcile
BY PROF. J. D. BUTLER.
- When Falstaff aent his page to Mas
ter Dumbletoa for a satin cloak, and
offered his bond and Bardolph's for pay
raent, the answer was' that the "tailor
liked not the security." The Knight
called Dumbleton a rascally knave to
stand npon seenrity, and cried, ! would
as lief they would put ratsbane in my
month as stop it with security." lie who
goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. Not
only Shy locks, bnt most capitalists are
deaf to borrowers, because they, as well
as FalstafTs tailor 'like not the security.'
Capitalists will not lend a poor man
money. They demand seenrity. As he
cannot endorse, others will not endorse
for him. He has no hinds, no chattels,
on which he can give a mortgage. Where
he is sanguine that he can double the
money he wishes to borrow, they say to
him, "yon may be robbed or cheated, or
your investment may be burned up and
your insurance worthless, or you may
abscoud, or your death may blight the
brightest prospects'' "we like not your
sccuuty." . It ib a "castle in the air.
Again, capitalists shun putting their
investments into the hands of any poor
stranger. They are distrustful of his
honesty where there is a chance for fraud ;
of his competence, where skill is demand
ed ; of his zeal, where he has no interest
at stake ; and of Lis vigilance, where
there are temptations to negligence. lie
might carve out his fortune, but no one
will trust him with the tools.
But must capital and labor needs be
hostile T Is there no way in which capi
talists can be just to themselves, and yet
generous to borrowers ? Yes, they can,
How T By land sales on ten years' credit
and six per cent interest The borrower
cannot be cheated out of land which is
not deeded to him till he has finished
paying for it. lie cannot run away with
it. No fire can burn it up. lie cannot
lessen its value. Tbe labor and money
be lays out on it will increase that va'ue.
He cannot strip it of lumber, more than
he can pnll hair from a bald head. Nor
in such a loan is his honesty, competence
zeal or rigilaoce distrusted. He is stim
nlated to the exercise of tbem all by his
fear of loosing the sum he paid iu advance
together with whatever he lays out to
improve his farm, and by his hope of
making it pay for itself, and support him
and his. Other borrowing dulls tbe edge
of thrift this sharpens it.
The Burlington & Missouri River Rail
road Co , within thirty-three mouths on
ward from April, 1S70, sold in Iowa and
Nebraska, 478.9SS acres, to 4.525 pur
chasers, mostly on ten years' credit, at
six per cent, interest. Tbe purchases
average one hundrtd and eight acres
apiece.
Thus the B & M road has furnished
4,525 loans, amounting, in the aggregate,
to $4,666,493, to men, moat of whom,
would have been nnablc to borrow from
banks, or any other source. Its loug
credit sales have given them tools to
work with. So it makes borrowers and
lenders friendly, affording lenders secu
rity, and borrowers all the loans they
can use, and those such as will, in most
cases, pay for themselvas. He who gives
ns a chance to help ourselves is the best
helper.
A fearful calamity of the western
storm is related by a Wisconsin paper
as follows :
The Fourth of July will long be re
menibered in the villiage of Dartford,
Wisconsin with feelings of the keenest
sorrow. A picnic by the Good Templars
was to have been held on the banks of
Green Lake, near Cullen's Point, about
four miles from Dartford, on the opposite
shore of the lake. A party of thirty or
forty persons men, women, and children
left Dartford on the morning of the
4th to attend the picnic, taking boats
near Greenway's Oak wood Hotel. The
yacht II. B. Harsbaw, recently from
Oshkosh, took ou board twenty four per
sons. The sail-boat Ripon Girl took on
a large nnmber, and several row boats
also started out, heavily loaded. About
half past 10 o'clock, when tbe boats had
reached the middle of the lake, the
storm which had been gathering for sev
eral hours suddenly broke with tremen
dous fury, blowing for a few minutes a
perfect hurricane. The yacht Harehaw,
so heavily loaded, swamped and filled
with water, and the other boat capsized.
The row-boats were either swamped or
capsized, and in an instant thirty or forty
persons were floundering in the water,
half a mile from shore.
The scene is said to have been one of
indescribable terror. Little children were
seen hanging to the upturned boats,
mothers grasping their children and im
ploring assistance, and others were seen
to sink and rise no more. The storm of
wind was succeeded by a drenching rain,
which for more than half an hour filled
the air with one continuous sheet of fall
ing water. The people (nearly a thous
and in number) who had come to attend
tbe picnic gathered at the hotel at Cul
len's Point, and as soou as possible did
all in their power to rescue them.
' s s
A Boston letter carrier, who has ac
quired much skill in ''skimming" letters
into business offices by a twist of the
wrist, thus saving himself some steps,
recently sent one on a flight which end
ed in depositing it behind a table. Nev
er mind, he called to an office boy who
attempted to move the table to get it, it's
only a circular." Three 'weeks later,
when the curiosity of one of the boys
prompted him to see what was In that
circular ; he found in it a letter enclosing
a check for $300 1
Capital
NEWS DESPATCHES.
Dr. Fontaiu, of Spencer, Mass., waa
held in $2,000 bonds, on the 7th inst
for man slaughter, in causing the death
of a child by using small pox virus for
vaccination instead of vaccine matter.
At Pioche, Nevada, Sunday afternoon
the 6th inst. a man named Harrington
shot and mortally wonnded five men
named Lynch, O'Neal, Frank, Schoene
maker, and Sullivan, in a street alterca
tion originating from Harrington throw
ing a dog across tbe street, the animal
belonging to Schoenemaker. The pres
ence of officers in strong force alone pre
vented the lynching of Harrington, who
was arrested by Sheriff Travis and depu
ties, after making a desperate resistance.
At Orwigsville, Ky., on the 3rd inst.,
Wm G. Satterfield was placed on trial
for burning that place in April last.
While one Haydeu was testifying in re
gard to being employed by Satterfield to
burn tli place, a brother of Satterfield
and his friends rushed toward him with
revolvers in hand, when several deter
mined citizens interfered and averted a
collision. The court then adjourned till
Thursday. On Friday Satterfield and
his friends rode into town armed with
double barreled shot guns and revolvers,
and were met by Mr. Hoon, the jailor,
and other citizens. Hoon fired at Sat
terfield, killing him instantly, when the
rest of the party fled. Satterfield has
been regarded as a desperate character,
and his death is not regretted by law-
ibiding citizens.
In South Actou, Mass, on the 4th
mst., George Curtiss, a lad of 8 years,
enticed a little boy named Lane, aged 3
years, into the woods and there beat him
with a club in the most shocking manner,
leaving him insensible, lie was soou
discovered, but died of hi injuries twenty-four
honrs after. The murderer fled,
bnt was arrested last evening in Cam
bridge. John McCarthy was fatally stabbed
on the night of the 6th inst., by James
Corbin, at Syracuse. The parties had
had some words, when McCarthy, as
Coibia alleges, caught him by the throat.
Coibiu then pulled out a large knife and
stabbed him in the left breast, death re
suiting in a few moments.
A Harrisburg despatch of the 10th
inst. says : This morning Jacob Wana
maker was arraigned before AMermtn
Edwards, on a chargo of bigamy and for
maintenance, on oath of Emma Wana
maker, Tbe defendent was arrested by
Harry Roat in the vicinity of Snnbnry.
It is alleged that Wanauiaker had pro
cured a divorce in tbe court of this coun
ty from his wife, but that it was set aside
by His Honor Judge Pearson on tb
ground of having been illegally obtained
and without the required notice being
properly giveu to Mrs. Wanamaker. It
is also alleged that iu a very short time
after the divorce w;is procured the de
fendant married a Miss Koop. He states
that he was under tLe impression that
the papers were all regular and that he
was free to marry again. He entered
bail for his appearance at the next term
of court t answer.
Another from the same place and date
says : On the Harrisburg accommoda
tion train on the Pennsylvania railroad
bound west yesterday, a mason employ
ed on the road was traveling, and becom
ing drowsy went to sleep. When he
awoke he found that his silver watch bad
disappeared from his pocket. His sus
picious were fixed upon the agent who
peddled papers, peanuts, etc., on the
train, who had seated himself beside tbe
owner of the watch. Upon charging bim
with the theft the newsboy grew very
indignant and demanded to be searched
II is demand was complied with, but the
watch was not found on his person. At
the time he had a number of small -bags
ot peanuts in his bands and said, "yon
had better search them.' The owner of
the watch replied that was just what he
intended to do, and an examination re
sulted in the discovery of the watch and
chain in oue of the bags. When the
news agent found he was detected he
stated he bad found the watch, but his
story would not go down, and when the
train stopped at Lancaster he was taken
into custody to answer the charge of lar
ceny. On Sunday a week Mrs. Emily Owen
dropped dead at the Shiloh church near
Hopkins ville Kentucky, while in the act
of partaking of communion.
George Dunville, Jr., of 'Newark, who
was to have been married a few days ago,
disappeared before the wedding-day, and
left behind him the following letter :
Newark, July 1, 1873.
Tbe devil stands to catch me. I am
forsaken by all mankind. At 5 o'clock
I shall be in another world, free from the
cares of this world. My body will be
picked np in the Passaic river. In my
vest pocket they will find a ring and a
watch and 520 in money, bo farewell
from that hrr of the one who died ' for
your sake. Farewell from this world of
care. .Launched in eternity with a mo
ment to spare.
Geo. Dunvillk.
The friends of the missing man know
cf no reason why he should commit sui
cide.
Henry G. Worthington has been ap
pointed Collector of Customs at Charles
ton. S. C, and entered on the duties of
his office yesterday.
The new Hampshire Legislature has
a bill nnder consideration forbidding any
circus from coming into the State under
a penalty of $1,000.
SHORT ITEMS.
- Reading will soon have public baths.
An Austrian astromomer discovered a
new comet at noon on the 6th inst.
There is a remarkable lameness among
some of the horses of Schuylkill couuty
The farmer's granges in Iowa will
hold a State convention in Des Moines
on Wednesday, Aug, 13.
A Norristown young man was shot in
the temple with a sky-rocket on the 4th,
and had bis scnll fractured. ---
An ol 1 chap at Oil City, lately, likely
to die burned np sixteen thousand dol
lars, that there may be no quarreling
over his will.
A Michigan wonan who was jealous
of her husband, made light of her troub
les by saturating bis cloths with kero
sene and setting him on fire.
A nfan who bonght anew pair of boots
says a ship may stand on one tack all
night if it wants to, buthe finds an hour
and a half to be an elegant sufficiency
Some colored thieves in Harrisburg,
who are in the habit of knocking coal
off passing trains with poles, knocked a
brakeman off the other day by mistake
He proved a het coal iu their hands.
The Princess Dagmcr, of St. Piters
bnrg, told the Shah that bis diamonds
were exceedingly beautiful. "Not near
ly so beautiful as your neck, "was his
reply, as be patted her on the shoulder.
There is something in dreams after
all. A Western man dreamed that his
brothers head was cut off without losing
a drop of blood, and the next day he
learned that his brother had bee re
moved from a postmastership.
Cannot something be done to prevent
young ladies from beng insnlted on our
streets at night! ' asks Cincinnati paper.
There can. Just have the girl's mother
tuck her "in her little bed'' about eight
o' clock in the evening ,
Rufus Gill, President of the Second
Branch of the City Conncii of Baltimore,
was arrested on the eight and fined by
Justice Haggarty, for displaying fire
works and shooting firecrackers on the
street on the 4 th of July.
Mrs Avery D. Putman, wife of the
victim of Foster, the Few York car
book murderer, has recovered 2.000
from the passenger railway company
owuiug tbe line ou which her husband
was killed.
An Euglise butcher assaulted a sheep
with intent to kill, the other day, but
just as he thrust the knife iuto the ani
mal, s vitals, it gathered its strength for
a last effort and kibked its butcher in
the stomach, and he died in two hours
from the effects of the kick.
On Thursday a week a married wo
man named Mary Loudon, threw her
self under a trAin on the Northern Cen
tral ltailroad, near tleo iiock, and in
stantly 'killed. She arranged herfelf
with great care on the the track with
the evident intention of committing sui
cide effedtively.
An Iowa journal says, respecting the
Patrons of Husbandry. "It is plain to
see that that in several townships petty
demagogues, disappointed office-seekers,
and ax grinders have crept into the
clubs and granges, and by the nse of
means with which they are familiar,
they are endeavoring to run the popular
movement for selfish and personel ends "
People who are foolish enongh to risk
their money in betting on horses should
be taught caution by a wituess at a re
cent trial of a horse case, in Springfield,
Mass. The witness was a well known
horse trainer, and edified the Court with
a description of how the best horses are
made to co me in last, and quoted a num
ber of instances in whibh this method
of cheating had been practiced.
It used to be stated in old-fashioned
books of natural history that "the horse
was the gift of the old world to the new."
But whole races of horses lived and per
ished in America ages before men went
down into the sea.in ships. There are
in Yale Museum the fossil remains of
twenty-one different species belonging to
the horse family. These animals varied
from sizes that are larger than any now
existing, down to delicate creatures not
bigger than a fox.
How the Hair Should be Cared For.
The hair should be thoroughly washed
with warm water and castile soap at
least once a month. The color of the
water, after the first rinsing, will expose
the necessity of this hair-bath. To
wash and dry the head in a thorough
manner without pulling out the hair or
causing discomfort to its possessor, ia
an art. Soda or borax, which is so gen
erally used in washing the hair, is
highly injurious. To preserve the hail
in good condition, it should be brushed
every night until it is soft and glossy.
Rubbing the scalp with a little bay
water or weak spirits of any kind will
keep it white and free from dandruff.
" False " or ornamental hair shonUl
be carefully kept to be endurable. The
habit of some persons of laying their
coils npon the bureau, or hanging them
on the gas-fixtnre at the side of the
glass, on removing them from theu
Eead at night, is extremely untidy, as
they become dusty and uncleanly from
this exposure. Switches can be kept in
good order for a long time, if well
brushed, and placed in boxes when not
in nse.
A writer in the Gardener's Afayazine
recently saw a very rare bird. It was
in bad company and was in mischief,
simply helping some blackbirds to eat
the buds of some fruit trees. It turned
out to be a common blackbird with
white feathers in its tail, and with both
wings white. Its appearance was both
striking and interesting. Occasionally
a perfectly white blackbird is seen, just
as sometimes we see a white Black
Spanish fowl; bnt such birds are rare.
Artificial fruits are mnch used for hat
trimmings this season.
Three counties of Iowa have not s
licensed liquor saloon in their limits.
A Great Horror Done Away With.
House cleaning is a great horror to nine
men out of every ten. When that time
comes the " men folks.'' as a rule, give
the domestic hearth a ' wide berth."
Oceans of suds the product of tons of
soap fairly flood every part of the
house. The women, from the mistress
down, labor as tbey never worked before,
and what w tli the discomfort, the smell
of suds and tbe dampness, and not nn
freqnently sickness, the product of colds
and overwork, m itters are generally dis
agreeable. Tbe simple use of Sipolio
instead of soap does away with all this
discomfort. It lightens the labor a hun
dred per cent , becanse it removes dirt,
grease, Btains and spots, with hardly any
labor, with bit little water, and in one
tenth the nsnul time
It will be gratifying to all consumers
of sngar to learn that the prospeet is
that, for some time to come, the supply
of sugar will be abundant, thus causing
cheap prices. The American Grocer ono
of our valuable cotemporanes. that
makes exhaustive research iuto matters
like this, says that the sngar crops in all
producing countries are very large. The
beet root sugar production of Europe will
yield eleven hundred thousand tons, a
ciop that is one-fifth larger than last
year's. The increase will go far toward
supplying the European market ; and
ill lessen the demand there for Ameri
can sugar, so that a greater amount than
ever before will seek a sale in this coun
try. ANNOUNCEMENT.
SENATE.
Mb. Editob : As the time is drawing near
when the Republicans of this county mnst
select a standard-bearer in the Senatorial
contest, we wruld announce tbe name of Da.
J. P. Steebett, of Beale township. Ia a
district where the party lines axe so closely
drawn, we must select our best man ons
who, with an incorruptible character and
personal popularity, will run the full party
vote, and draw from the Democratic ranks.
Da. Stkhritt in his late canvass showed
that he is tbe strongest candidate we can get
in this county, and there are many circum
stances that indicate that if sustained by the
Republicans of this county, he will get tbe
nomination in the district.
TtJSCAROIU.
2kic drfrtiscrafttts.
To Contractors and Builders.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by
the Commissioners of the county of Ju
niata, at their office in Mifflintown. until one
o'clock. P. M. on .MONDAY, AUGUST lltU,
1873, for the erection and enlargement of a
Court House in said town. Proposals must
state the sum in gross for furnishing all lh
materials, except Ike br'ck. and doing alt
the work acnonling to the plan and specifica
tions of the tame.
Tbe Commissioners resrrve tlie right to
reject all or any of the bids which tbey shall
consider incompatible wilh tbe interests of
the connty.
Plan and specification can be seen at tbo
Commissioners' rfHce on and after the 23i
day of July, lTt.
WILLIAM TLSIT.
TVM. VAN SWERIXQEN,
DAVID II. DIMM.
Attest : CommiijwnrrM.
James Dkax, Clerk.
X B Bidders will bold themselves in
readiness to enter into a bond witb seeurily
on the day of tbe letting, for the faithful
performance of tbe contract, if the same is
awarded to them.
July 16, 1873.
THE VERY BEST PLAN
By which yoa ran obtain Life Insurance is
the Low Premium, All Cash. Stock Plan. It
furnishes Ibe Inrgest amount of insurance
for a given sum of money. The contract is
plain and definite, without complication,
mystery, or nneerlainty. The policy is al
ways worth its face, the premium never in
creases. It ia tbe most satisfactory and eco
nomical plan for tbe insurant. Tbe Tbav
elebs Ixsubaxce Compaet, of Hartford, Con
nectieat, grants Life Insurance upoa this ex
cellent plan. Its security is unquestioned.
Apply to any Agent, or send for a Circular.
Agents Wanted for the New Book.
EPIDEMIC & CONTAGIOUS DISEASES,
with the newest and beat treatment for all
cases. The only thorough work of the kind
in the world. Embraces Small-Psi, Yel
low Fever, Cholera and all analogous dis
eases. Ao family Safe WUhoul It, and all
bay it. Has 24 chromatic illustrations. The
biggest chance of the season for agents. Ad
dress II. 8. OOOD5PEED & CO.. 147 Tre
mont St., Boston.
GOOD AGENTS WANTED FOR
EYERTBOOTS OWN PHYSICIAN,
by C. W. Gliaso.v M. D. Sells rapidly. One
agent sold 100 i one week. Apply at once
to H. N. McKINNEY & CO , Pbilad'a, Pa.
FOR SALE. A large body of Timber and
Iron Ore Lands in Middle Pennsylvania ;
estimated to eat 60,000.000 feet of sound
white oak, white and yellow pins and hem
lock. On and near floating streams, with
steam saw-mill, boom, ete., on the Susque
hanna. Apply to P. W. SHEAFER, rotls
Tille. Pa.
ADORN YOUR HOMES wi'" the new Chro
mo, "Awake" and "Asleep " Sells like
wildfire. The pair sent for 60 cents. A
large discount ia aeenls. Address W. f.
CARPENTER, Fozbors. Maes.
4 A Pew Week IS CASH ts Agents
tTV Everything furnished and expenses
paid. A. COULTER & CO., Charlotte, Mich.
If flnTPT aie RaP,,ll! with Stencil & Key
utVMJja rWk Outfits
Catalernes sod
full particulars FREE.
M Sfsscer, 117
Hanover St., isoston.
CR tn Oft Pr day !
Agents wasted ! All
IU .04 V ci,JM 0f working people.
Of
either sex, young or old. make more money
at work for us in their spars moments or all
tbe time than at anything else, rartiouiars
free. Address O. 8TI3S03 & CO., Port
land, Mains.
THE LA CROIX MEDICAL DISPENSARY,
Established ia 1837,
Is the oldest and most successful institution
in this country for tbe treitment of Chronio
and Sexual Diseases. For terms sf treat
ment, call, or address by mail, with state
ment of case. S. II. IlUNSDOJf,
81 Maiden Lane, Albany, l. i.
Pissolution of Partnership.
NOTICE is hereby given that the partner
ship between J. W. & S. A. Hoffman
WES dissolved by mutual consent ou ius mi
day of March, 1873. The business will be
continued, and conducted at the old stand in
Spruoe Hilt township, by J. W. Hoffman.
ml nnliuill
8. A. HOFFMAN.
June 23, 1873-4t