SENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MFFLINTOWX.
Wednesdaj, January IT, IBTT.
B. F. S (MI WEI Ell,
EDtTOB ASD MOFintTOK.
The Bennett-May Trouble Stind
the Penalties, Bennett, and Un
cover the Bascals.
How the news got abroad that Mr.
Bennett, of the New York Herald,
n J a Jlins May, of New Tori City,
were to be married we do not know,
we do not care, and why they were
not iiuu : k-J at the time stated for
them to to lie, but a little while ago,
we do not know, we do not care, for
those are phases of their life that are
private and no cue's business but
their own.
As to the matter between Miss
May's big brother and Mr. Bennett,
the case is far different. Theirs is
phase of life that comprehends the
interest of every individual man, for
if one man may be stricken down for
a real or imagined grievance, as was
Bennett, and the authority of a town
or city look on and only smile, every
other man may fall among the ways
of bullies too.
It is of interest, again, because the
Grand Jury of the Tweed-ridden city
has said that Bennett, who defended
himself against the bullying assault
of voung ll.iv has offended the moral
Fense of the city, and must be pun
ished for so offending.
The moral sense of a Grand Jury
and the people of a city that will per
mit men to be knocked senseless on
the pavement of the town, and then
smile and say, the man who was
whipped has not the courage to re
pent the insult, has no moral sense
above fear, and no integrity that the
glitter or clink of gold cannot buy.
In all probability if Mr. Bennett
had sought the Grand Jury to secure
a bill of indictment against his as
sailant, they would have heard him as
a witness, so as to roll it all as a
sweet scandalous morsel under the
root of their tongue, and then ignor
ed the bill, and told their friends out
side of the Grand Jury room all
about the evidence, and called Ben
nett a poor thing of a fellow. "What
a miserably contemptible set of men
that Grand Jury must be. When
Bennett was assaulted on the pave
ment without a word of warning and
knocked senseless, and sat upon by
the bully, or the man who played the
bully, the Grand Jury had no word
to say against it, and it is just prob
able that they rejoiced, when the vic
tim of the assault was carried away,
in the belief that he had been humil
iated and broken in spirit by the
whipping.
Days intervened or passed in which
the majesty of the law might have
been upheld, and a walk on the
streets of New York made secure
against the assault of the bully, car
rying whip, billy, or bludgeon.
It signifies nothing that Bennett
was attacked with a whip and fist,
and knoeked senseless. More could
scarcely have happened if he had
been kno'-ked down by a bludgeon.
The offunce was a grave and ex
ceedingly clear one against the law,
and if the Grand Jury had been any
thing but a pack of cowardly Tweed
ites they would have maintained the
dignity of the law and had the offend
er arrested, and that would have
saved the merited punishment of the
bully, May, at the hands of Bennett
himself.
If a man attacks another on the
street, as Bennett was attacked, and
is shot for his offence, no court or
jury should for a moment think of
lodging penalties against the man
who resented such an outrage ; but
Bennett was knocked senseless, and
if he would he could not then have so
defended himself and so punished his
assailant.
But New York rather enjoyed the
pnmmeling of Bennett, and the
Grand Jury in its slime smiled over
the outrage. If Bennett had died,
perhaps it would have laughed out
right
They enjoyed the work, the people
of New York city did, it was a sensa
tion for them. They are not much
without sensation.
Said they, Bennett will not have
the spirit to resent the assault When
they so declared themselves they were
certainly putting themselves on the
record in an indirect confession that
the offence should be punished. Why
resent if not a punishable offence t
But when Bennett was able to go
about, he realized that no one stepped
in to arrest the offender. He real
ized that New York was so debauched
that it rather enjoyed the assault on
him, and that if he took the case into
the rotten places of so-called justice
he could not obtain redress, and so he
concluded to call the bully to a per
sonal account
A challenge was sent and accepted,
and a settlement was effected at Mary
dell Station, in Maryland, by Bennett
putting a bullet through some part
of May's person.
The indefinite information that a
duel had been fought somewhere, and
that Bennett had put a bullet through
the bully who struck him senseless
on the sidewalk of the city, was
enough to escite the Grand Jury in
question. It was a species of redress
that caused their cowardly souls to
shrivel up to dimensions that could
be laid on the point of a needle ; it
was tak'ng it beyond the jonsdic-
ti..ii of p;irkel juries. And ersr I
6ince they have been doing their ut
most to find Bennett, or some of his
friends, through whom they may get
evidence to prosecute him under some
law for dueling.
They have succeeded in finding a
party or two who know something
about the dneL but they would not
answer on the witness stand and were
sent to jail for contempt
Fighting by duel is not right, but
it is not by many degrees as bad as
the manner of assault practiced on
Bennett
The Grand Jury Laughed at the
assault, but became hysterical over
the punishment that Bennett meted
out to the offender, and now they
think that as Bennett has escaped the
humiliation intended by May, he shall
be humiliated by the enforcement of
some enactments that they have rum
maged the old law books to find.
What cowards they tre.
Bennett should come forward and
face the cowardly crew who would
not maintain the majesty of the law.
He should come forward, stand the
penalties, if found guilty, and then
give two or three, or more years if
necessary, to the investigation of
the practices of the men who knew
him stricken down, without a word,
but rather smiled over if, but when
he maintained his own dignity and
manhood, they came forward and en
force such penalties on him as they
can find in the hook and crook of
legislative enactment.
If he does that, doubtless he will
be rewarded in the end by revealing
the most crooked practices on the
part of his persecutors.
Cowards are always rascals, and all
you have to do is to uncover them.
Stand the penalties, Bennett, and un
cover the rascals.
Compulsory Education.
The question of Compulsory Educa
tion is sgaiu being agitated iu this Com
monwealth. It should be discouraged.
It is a dangerous principle to introduce
into a free government No men
should be vested with tbe power to enter
a man's family and subject its members
to any employment or study agaiost
tbeir will, unless they are criminals,
unless they Lave been engaged in out
rages against tbeir fellow men.
Free education is a great blessing,
and every man's family may enjoy it,
and it is in accord with the American
system of government in the United
States, but compulsory education is not
American in spirit; it is a despotic or
arbitrary prioiciple, and as sunn it
should no! bo allowed to effect a lodz-
ment. . utrara; a. o. Jienedict, Ckroonaaie ;
Send tbe children and young people j W. J. Milliken, Tarport, M'Keaneoun
to school, but do not sanction tbe pas- ty ; Wallace J. Boyd, Nomstown ;
sage of compulsory laws of education j George A. Kelly, James A. O'Brien,
or any other thing except for the sup
pression of crime.
Good for Dogs and Horses,
Once upon a time in the distant
past, a cat was considered a sacred
animal, and to kill one was crime suf
ficient to send one to everlasting per
dition. To set apart an endowment
for a professorship in a cat infirm
ary was considered a high mark in
religious work, but to do so now
would bring down on one an unfa
vorable opinion from the public. If
a rich man were to will enough to es
tablish a cat hospital in these days,
his heirs would go into the courts
and try to break the will under the
plea of insanity ; but if that man had
lived long ago in Egypt 3,000 years
ago he would have done just what
public opinion would have said was
right and would have secured for
himself a pass to eternal glory. Cat
religion now is at a discount But a
short time ago a lady in France set
apart a large sum to be used in the
secuiement of comfort for unfortu
nate dogs and horses. An exchange
itemizes her work thus: "lima Per
ron, wealthy and eccentric lady of
Paris, who died recently, bequeathed,
eighty-five thousand francs to the
municipality of Marseilles for found
ing an asylum for unfortunate dogs
and horses.
That Quarter of a Million of Votes
Those Democratic papers which con
tinue to prattle about Governor Tilden's
popular majority of over a quarter of a
million of votes should read tbe folio
ing statement of Dr. KedSeld iu tbe
Cincinnati Commercial : " Tbe reason
that Tilden has a popular majority of
211, 4C1 over Hayes is because a large
portion of tbe black vote in tbe cotton
States has been suppressed, or made to
rote the ticket tbey hate. This is a
fair estimate of tbe suppressed vote, in
cluding also those who were compelled
to vote for Ti!den against their will :
Alabama. 35,000; Georgia, 75,000;
Louisiana, 15,000 ; Mississippi, 70,000;
South Carolina, 18,000; Texas, 40,
000 ; tout, 253,000. This cuts away
Tilden's boasted 'popular aiajorily' en
tirely." "DeTiuad'ed He."
An old Louisiana negro, who bad
voted tbe Democratic ticket, was asked
by a Republican why be bad done so.
Said be, "I voted de Democratic ticket
'cause dey 'snaded me. Yon know I
alius voted de 'publican ticket, but tis
time dey 'suaded me." " Well, how
did they persuade yon ? bai did
they say to you ?" "Why, dey didn't
say much 'o nuffin. Two 'o dem jes
come np an' put a big boss pistol each
side of my head, and give me a Demo
cratic ticket, an' told me to walk
straight np to de polls an' vote it, or
dey would blow de roof 'o my Lead
off. An' I tell you, chile, dey 'suaded
u,e dey 'suaded mc."
Pennsylvania Legislature.
Tuesday, January 9.
SENATE.
Petition from Western Pennsylvania,
praying for a inarrisge license law.
Petition from eitiiens of Richland
township, Greene cnanty, for the repeal
of tbe road law of April 3, 18G9, so
far as it relates to tbe roads in said
township
Tbe following bills were read in place:
An act relating to marriage licenses.
An act to prohibit and prevent the
having or using of fire or lights on
board of vessels while lying at aoy
maritime wharf on or near to which
petiolentn is stored for export.
A j'lint resolution providing for the
printing cf tbe Governors annual mes
soge for the use of tbe Senate and House
of Representatives.
Supplement, to enable married wo
men to become corporators of corpora
tions of tbe first class.
An act to exempt persons who reli-
'giouslv observe tbe seventh day f tbe
week as the Sabbath from the penalties
of the act of April 22. 1794.
An act for the repeal of tbe road
law now in force in Fallowfield town
ship, Washington nounty.
An act conferring equity jurisdiction
on the courts of common pleas in all
cases of tbe mortgages of tbe property
or franchises of coal, iron, steel, lumber
or oil, or niiuing, manufacturing oi
transportation companies ; also, an act
relating to the execution of trusts by
corporators.
HOUSE.
A message from the Governor, con
taining bills of last session vetoed
also, a statement that the Governor not
having filed objections to the boom bill
within tbe specified time, it bad become
a law.
The newly appointed employees of
the House were sworn to tbe discharge
of their duties.
Wednesday, January 10.
SENATE.
Bills An act absolutely prohibiting
any waiver of tbe $300 exemption law,
except such waivct shall have been ac
knowledged be.'ore a Judge or other
officer Laviog power to take acknowl
edgments.
To empower tbe school boards of
this State to cancel bonds of tbe sev
eral school districts in certain cases
and issue new bonds for the same
amounts and the same rate of interest.
Notary Public confirmations James
Uriel, Pittsbarg ; L. Elsbree, Towau-
da; 11. J. Brugh, Butler; Samuel
2 Grumbine, Titusville ; Calvin J. Hinds,
W. F. Burgess, John C. Sims, Henry
R. Nealin, of Philadelphia.
Tbe Standing Committee as announc
ed by tbe Speaker are as follows :
Constitutional Reform Messrs. Law
rence Jones, Milio, Grady, Key burn,
Allen, Eroieo trout, Corbet t and Holben.
Federal Relations Messrs. Jones,
Yutzv, W right, Keefer, Everhart, Allen
and Peale.
Finauce Messrs. McNeill, Law
rence, Jones, l'uixv, Smith, Ilerr, Roe
buck, Dill, Nagle, Verses and Clarke. !
Judiciarv General Messrs. Ilerr,
Jones, Davies, Stone, Greer, Gazzam,
Yeikes, Allen, Dill, Ermentrout and
Burnett.
Judiciary Local Messrs. Butterfield,
Mylin, Reyburn, Grady, Peale, Corbett
and Holben.
Batiks Messrs. Fisher, Newell, Gax
zaiu, Evrrbart, Clarke, Torbert and
Crawford.
Education Messrs. Roebuck, St
Clair, Butterfield, Wright, Clarke,
Nagle and Ilawley.
Accounts Messrs. Lemon, Fisher,
Reyburn, Seamans, Chestnut, Hayes
and Detwiler.
Pensions and Gratuities Messrs,
Seymonr, Newell, Keefer, Gazzam,
Bussey, Holben and Hayes.
Cotporations Messrs. Yutzy, Keefer,
Gilfillan, Seamacs, Burnett, Nagle and
Detwiler.
Mines and MiniDg Messrs. Greer,
Lawrence, Wadhams, McNeill, Sey
mour, Torbert and Holben.
Public Printing Messrs. Keefer,
Duukel, Cooper, McNeill, Cbcsnut,
Uawley and Engleman.
Railroads Messrs, Cooper, Lemon,
Lamoo, Yutzy, Duukel, Dill and Craw
ford.
Retrenchment and Reform Messrs,
St. Clair, Seymour, Fisher, Wright,
Peale, Uawley and Burnett.
Cacals and Inland Navigation
Messrs. Wadhams, Newell, Meily,
Grady, Terkes, Peale aud Crawford.
Agriculture Messrs. Gilfillan, Lem
on, Lawrence, Meily, Chestnut, Engle
man aud Detwiler.
Military Affairs Messrs. Dunkel,
Butterfield, Meily, Mylin, Bussey, Cor
bett and Detwiler.
Library Messrs. Reyburn, Ever
hart, Ilerr, Roebuck, Ermentrout, En
gleman and Corbett.
Vice aud Immorality Messrs. Wright,
Everhart, St. Clair, Wadhams, Butter
field, Clarke and Chestnut.
Public Buildings Messrs. Meiley,
Grady, Ilerr, Wadhams, Bussey, Tor
bert and Hayes.
New Counties and Connty Seats
Messrs. Stone, Lamon, Davies, Sea-
mans, Allen, Fertig and Haw ley.
Compare Bills - Messrs. Mylin,
Cooper, Greer, Gilfillan, Stone. Russet
a.id Ftrfig.
Municipal Affairs Messrs. Lamon,
Gazzam, Newell, Smith, Ermentrout,
Nagle and Fertig.
Centennial Affairs Messrs. Smith,
Davies, Lemon, Lamon, Cooper, Dill
aud Burnett. '
HOCSE.
The Committee on Bales offered the
following :
RetolveJ, That tbe order of business
for this day shall be tbe presentation of
letters, petitions, memorials, remon
strances and accompanying documents,
shall be presented from eouuties in
alphabetical order, to be referred to ap
propriate committees when appoiuted.
After the execution of the foregoing
order original resolutions may be offer
ed. Agreed to.
Mr. Qu'gley, of Clinton, a petition
to so amend the game laws as to pre
vent hunting and fishing for ten years.
TJiursday, January 11.
SENATE.
Bills introduced. An act creating
a State Board of Health for tlie pro
tection of life and health and to pre
vent the spread of disease in this
Commonwealth, of five physicians,
together with the Attorney General
and Secretary of Internal Affairs.
The board shall serve without com
pensation and shall keep ft record of
all its transactions.
An act conferring additional pow
ers on Councils of the .several bor
oughs of this Commonwealth, giving
6uch Councils the right to fill any
vacancies in their own bodies, who
shall hold office unto the succeeding
election.
An act providing for the appoint
ment of women as prison inspectors.
An act to regulate the working and
mining of coal in the bituminous
coal mines of Pennsylvania.
An act authorizing the Judges of
the several courts of common pleas
within this Commonwealth to charge
the jury on particular points of law
when required by cither party or
their counsel and drawn up in writ
ing and read them to the jury before
they retire from the box to consider
their verdict
A bill to repeal that portion of an
act which authorizes and requires the
commissioners of certain counties to
pay certain moneys to the agricultu
ral societies of their respective coun
ties. A supplement to an act relating to
certain duties and rights of husband
and wife and parents and children.
I10OE.
The Speaker announced the stand
ing committees, which, on account of
length, we omit this issue. After
the announcement of which the fol
lowing bills were introduced :
An act to re-enact tbe Local Option
Law, allowing tbe people of each
county to vote on the question of grant
ing license every tbree years.
An act to separate townships and bor
oughs from one county and annex to
others.
An act to increase tbe homestead of
insolvent debtors to $G00, and to pre
vent the waiver of exemption.
An act to amend an act to exempt
property of tbe valuo of $300 froai
levy and sale.
An act requiring justices of tbe
peace to render judgment within eight
days after bearing of evidence
An act fixing the rate of interest and
prohibit tbe taking of usury ; also, an
art relative to appearance of defend
ants aiter summons iur trial
An act to prohibit the sale of intox-
icating liquors, excepting malt
and
and
brewed liquors, domestic wines
cider.
An act giving priority in tbe trial of
all claims for tbe wages of manual
labor.
Friday, January 12.
SENATE.
Mr. Lawrens, Republican, offered
resolutions on the National situation
The Democrats viguiously opposed tbe
resolutions, but t.iey were carried by
vote, which stood 28 yeas to 15 nays.
The resolutions read.
Whereas, As tbe tranquility of tbe
country has been disturbed and its
business prosperity imperiled by the
extraordinary difficulty of ascertaining
in tha nearly balanced vote what has
been tbe result of tbe late election for
the electors of President aud Vice
President, and
Whereas, To allay an excitement
that may endanger the public peace
and precipitate upon tbi people the ca
lamities of civil war from which tbey
have been lately delivered, it seems fit
and. proper that tbe Legislatures of tbe
states whose prerogaties and vital in
terests are involved in tbe issue should
declare and emphasize those principles
embodied in tbe National Constitution,
by which tbe decision of tbe pending
question can only be safely and lawful
ly reached.
Resolved, By the Senate, tbe House
of Representatives concurring, that tbe
will of tbe people in electing a Presi
dent and Vice President of the United
States can only be expressed in the
manner prescribed by tbe Constitution,
and tbe persons having tbe majority of
votes of the electors appointed by tbe
States of tbe Union in tbe manner pre- I
scribed by the Legislatures thereof
must be, by force of the Constitution
and laws, declared President and Vice
President respectively, and must be on
tbe 4th of March inaugurated, and
thereafter duly respected as such.
Second. That all factious oppositi )n
and threats of violence designed or in
tended to prevent or imperil tbe de
claration confirmation of the eonstilu
tiooal election of the President and
Vice President are unpatriotic in spirit
dangerous and revolutionary in tenden
dency, merit and should receive tbe
condemnation ol an outraged and in
dignant peopla.
Third. That tbe lists which tbe dnly
appointed electors of the States re
spectively are required by tbe Consti
tution of the United States to make of
the persons who vote for President and
Vice President, and the number of
votes for each, and which are to be by
the electors certified and transmitted
by them, sealed, to tbe President of
the Senate, and which certificates are
to be opened by him in tbe presence of
tbe two bouses of Congress and counted.
are the constitutional evidence of tbe
votes east for President and Vice President.
Fourth. That under tbe Constitution
the persous baring tbe majority of all
tbe votes actually cast by tbe duly ap
pointed electors of the Mate respec
tively, are by force of the Constitution
and Uws the President and V ice Treat-
dent from and after tbe beginning of
tbeir term of office, and any attempt
to defeat the election of a President or
of a Vice President by either House of
Congress upon the pretext that certain
persous duly certiu-d to te elector of
any state were not such electors, or by
throwing out or refusing to count tbe
legally certified votes of aoy State, or
by impeding tbe eounting of tbe elec
toral vote to ascertain tiie result, or for
any other cause than that provided for
in tbe Constitution, when no person has
a majority of the electors duly appoint
ed, will be a proceeding fraught with
danger to the public peace, perilous to
tbe stability of onr government, and
exposing our nation to contempt in the
general opinion of mankind.
Resolved, That onr Senators in Con
gress be instrncted and oor Represen
tatives requested to let tbeir action on
this question conform to tbe spirit of
this declaration.
Resolved, 1 hat tbe uovernor be re
quested to have a copy of this pream
ble and resolutions forwarded to each
of our Senators and Representatives in
Congress as early as convenient.
Mr. Ermantrout, Democrat, offered
a series of resolutions as an offset to
tbe resolutions passed, but they were
referred to the Committee on Federal
Relations.
HOUSE.
An act releasing telegraph corpora
tions witbiu tbe State of Pennsylvania
from all liability to retain telegraphic
despatches sent from their respective
offices for any stated length of time.
Resolution on retrenchment and :
form.
Motion to appoint a committee of
seven to look into the fish question, as
recommended by tbe Governor.
Money and Women.
M Leonard Harper Johnson, of Vir
ginia, has devised a new religion. Its
leading ideas are that Johnson is to
bare one-tenth of tbe money of his fol
lowers and as manv wives as be can
get. Thus far be bas obtained more
wives than money."
News Items,
Three deaths from hydrophobia took
place in Tsmaqna last week.
A Leb'gh county lover languishes in
jail to answer for a malicious and de
famatory libel of and coocfroing the
young lady who rejected bis atteutious
Tramps who wish to sleep in the
Warwick Iron Works, at Pottstown,
are obliged to break liinesttne an bonr
for the privilege.
John K. Jenkins, wife and six chil
dren, residing near llonesdale, were
recently poisoned by eating a pie that
bad been cooked in au imperfectly
glazed plate.
1 be Iron .iqt says that paper ear
wheels have run over 300,OuO miles
aud promise to last one or two tbou
sand more without a new set of tires.
Tbe salary of the burgess of Middle
town is $50 a year.
There are two hundred persons cared
for at tbe Cumberland County alms
bouse.
I ne epizootic bas made it appear
ance among horses in r ranklin county
It cost a Columbia youth ten dollars
to throw a snowball at ex Governor
Chamberlain.
Owing to tbe hard times and a gen
eral stoppage of work tbe Chinamen in
San rrancinco have a very gloomy out
looK as regards employment, it is
not improbable that this will discount
tbe troublesome question of Asiatic
immigration.
Tbe farmers of Berks county bave
loaued the Commissioners of that sec
tion oi the State ?zo,WV at hvt per
cent
A colony is formiug in Williamsport
to go to lex as
On Sunday night last fire prisoners
escaped trow tbe jail at ureensburg.
Jacob Trout, of Huntingdon county,
was killed recently by the falling of a
tree.
A new bell, weighing 2,400 pounds,
has been placed iu the tower of tbe
Hollidaysburg Court House.
A Hartford German made himself
notorious tbe other day by eating half
a pouud of new butter and driuking
an entire keg ot lager in tbree hours.
He was sober when he got through.
Bethlehem is proud because it con
sumes more pretzels and lager beer
than Heading.
Flordia bas a young lady named Neu
ralgia Dimple. Her mother found it
on a medicine bottle and was captiva
ted with it
Tbere is a genuine buzzards' roost
oa tbe bills of Jluddy creek, lork
county, where thousands of tbese birds
roost nightly.
A very prlite lady who did not wish
to ask for a cradle, asked tbe store
keeper if be bad any matrimonial baskets.
A writer in a Lebanon paper dis
cusses the indelicacy of a congregation
making its pastor an ostentatious pre
sent, when at tbe same time it is in ar
rears with his salary. That is a bard
life.
Tbe daily production in tbe oil re
gion is now about 25,000 barrels a day.
Tbe Walnut Street Presbyterian
Church, St. Louis has seceded from tbe
Southern Assembly and joined tbe Pres
byterian Church of tbe L'uited States.
During the storm two weeks ago tbe
wiud over Mount Washington blew at
tbe rate of 200 miles an hour.
Four banks in New Vork State have
closed during the year, and tbe deposits
bave decreased five millions.
Laborers are so plenty in China that
a man sentenced to be banged in that
country can buy a substitute for fifteen
dollars.
By statistics it is shown that within
the liuits of the island of Java every
year about three hundred people are ea
ten by earnivora, two hundred by tbe
crocodiles, one hundred killed by tbe
rhinoceros, five hundred killed by light
ning, while one hundred die by snake
bites, and a varying number by earth
quakes and volcanic action.
Congress has a time getting the de
spatches that were sent by the respec
tive parties from New Vork, South,
during the election.
The small pox is raging fearfully in
London, England.
News Items.
A West Chester thief fell off his stool
in jail and broke his left arm. Not
long after be fell out of bed and broke
bis. ol her arm.
Tim Pennsvlvama road M doing a
heavy freight business now.
Ex rebil, Ex Governor Isbam G.
Harris bas beeu elected to tbe Senate
from Tennessee.
Scranton bas refused an offer of $5,
to compromise with lieainisbe's bond
men. Reading contains a thousand more
women than men.
Last week there were four hundred
births and five buodred deaths in New
York city.
A Worcester physician, recently
cut a man's tongue completely off, tbe
member being diseased with cancer.
The Schuylkill is frozen over from
Pottsville to Philadelphia.
Three sons and a daughter of a farm
er residing near Pottstowo, were mar
ried on Christmas day.
Minnesota ia raising money by sub
scription to be used against tbe grass
hopper that is expected next summer.
A Chinaman, arrested in San Fran
eisoo tbe other day, was found to have
on a ejat of mail made of cloth, cotton
baiting and paper, thick enough to tum
a knife or bullet, it aiso bad pockets
for knives and hatchets, and rings to
bang an iron bar on.
Tbe Huntington Journal says: Mrs.
Jane Bricket, widow of Wni. Bricket,
late of Jackson township, deceased,
died on the 9th of December last, at
tbe advanced age of 100 years. She
was born in Mifflin connty, and remem
bered very distinctly the return of tbe
soldiers from the revolutionary war.
She enjoyed a sound mind and memory,
and excellent physical condition np to
wtthin a short time of her death.
On tbe evening of Thursday, Decem
ber 28, 1876, between the hours of 7
and 9 o'clock, while Mr. Jatoca Wait
and family, of New Buffalo, Pa., were
at church, some person or person en
tered bis dwelling, and breaking open
bis desks abstracted therefrom a boat
$400 $10 of which amount was in
silver. As yet no trace bas been foood
of tbe burglars. Tbe act was a daring
one, as the moon was shining and per
sons were passing on tbe streets.
An old miner of experience in the
Black Hills country is on bis war to
Chicago to purchase a crushing mill
for working; numerous rich gold- bear
ing quartz lodes, which be bas discov
ered at tbe Hills. He reports that the
deposits are very rich. The lode that
he proposes to work is a few miles from
Dead wood City. The discovering shaft
has been sunk about forty feet and re
veals a vein of gold ore of varying rich
ness, nearly five leet thick. Some spe
cimens of quart taken from this mine
will average 9io,W0 per ton. Tbe
quarts is white, very brittle, and can
be very easily pulverized. Its golden
veins and specks are easily discernible
with the naked eye.
A Match at Butchering.
One hundred butchermen gathered
in and about tbe slaughter house of
Jobnllaoimels, on Broadway, near Myr
tle avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday morn
ing, to see a sheep slaughtering match
between John Harrington, of East New
ljrk, and Harrison Bogart, of Brook
lyn, life lone rivals. Tbe eoutest was
'or a purse of $500, $250 a side, sub
scribed by tbe admirers of tbe rival
slaughtermen. Oue hundred sheep
were to be killed, skinued, cleaned and
dressed between them. At 8 o'clock
two redfaeed men, in broadcloth suits
nd shiny silk bats, arrived. Tbey
took opposite corners of tbe rot-m, and
the crowd liued the rear and tbe front
walls. Both n.en being stripped for
action, wore heavy checked shirts, can
vas trousers and thick boots, and bore
tbe usual broad knife and sharpening
steel. At 8:05 precisely, the first two
sheep were driven in from the little pen
outside, and at 8:06 they were skinned.
Bogatt killed, skinned, cleaned and
dressed bis first sheep, ready for mar
ket, in three minutes, and won by three
sheep, killing 50 in two hours and forty
minutes. JY. X. World, Jan. llh.
tiew jidrerttttement.
NEW GRAIN, FLOUR AND
FEED DEPOT.
The undersigned will buy
ALL KINDS OF GRAIN
at fair market prices, at bis XEVT WARE
HOUSE, IS MIFFLIXTOWS.
Flour,
Teed,
Shorts,
Corn Meal,
Buckwheat Flour, &c,
FOR SALE AT MILL PKICES.
Farmers leavine their grain at the Ware-
bouw will bave it taken to the mill and re
turned to the Warehouse ground in tlour.
All Orders Promptly Attended To.
MR. ESPENSCHADE can at all times be
founii at the Warenonse.
Jan 10, 1876. JC 8EPH MUSSER.
EH DRUG STORE.
BANKS & HAMLIN,
(Belford Building,)
Mala Street, tllfnisitwB, Pa.
DEALERS IS
DRUGS AXD MEDICIXES,
CHEMICALS, DYE STUFF, PAIXTS
OILS, VARX1SUES, GLASS, PUTTY,
COAL OIL, LAMPS, B UK -NEKS,
CHIMXEYS, BRUSHES,
11AIR BRUSHES, TOOlll
BRUSHES, PER.
FUMKRY.COM BSS.
SOAPS. HAIR
OIL, TOBAC
CO, CIGARS,
NOTIONS,
STATIOXUkY
LARGE VARIETY OF
PATENT MEDICINES,
Selected with great care, and warranted
p-om high authority.
TT-Purest or WISES AND LIQUORS
for medical purposes.
ETPKESCRIPTIOSS cmpounded with
peat care. fJune22-tt.
gOLOMOfl SEIBER,
Will visit Mifflin and Patterson every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings
and wrtl furnish the citizens of these bor
oughs wit) tbe best of
BEEF, VEAL, MUTTON, PORK, fcc
at tha very lowest prices. He respectfully
solicits the patronage of the public.
Legal jlrlverttaemenli.
PROCLAH ATIOJ. "AS,
the Hod. Besj. F. Jrsai'j President
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for
the 41st Judicial District, composed of the
counties or Juniata and Perry, and tbe
Hnnorables Noah A. Elder and Francis
Bartley, Associates Judges of the said
Court of Common Pleas of Juniata connty,
bave Issued their precept to me directed,
bearing date the 8lh day of December, 1876,
lor holding a Court of Oyer and Terminer
and General Jail Pelivery, and General
Quarter Sessions of the Prace, at M1K
FLISTOUN, on the FIRST MONDAY
ol FEBRUARY, 1877, being the 6th day
ol tbe month.
Sotice is Iliaisr Git, to tbe Cor
oner, Justices of the Peace and Constables
of the County of Juniata, that they be then
and there in tbeir proper persons, at owe
o'clock on the afternoon of said day, with
their records, inquisitions, examinations
and oyer remembrance's, to do those things
that to their offices respectively appertain,
and those that are bound by recognisance tc
prosecute against the prisoners that are oi
then may be in the Jail of said county,
lie then and there to jiroaecute against
them as shall be just.
By an Act of Assembly, passed the the
dav of May, A. D., it aaue m
duty of the Justices of the Peace, of tii
several counties of this Commonwealth, tc
return to the Clerk of this Court ot Qi artol
Sessions of the rcspectivea counties, all tbt
recognizances entered into belore them by
any person r persons charged with the
couiiuision of any crime, except such canes
as luay be ended belore Justice of tb
Peace, under existing laws, at least ten u:i
mi r the commencement of tbe session
of the Court to which they are made re
turnable respectively, and in all cases where
any recogniaancea are euicreu inio ict
than tun daya before the commencement
of the sessioo to abich tbey are made re
turnable, the said Justices are to returw
the same in the same manner as if sara act
had nut been paused.
Dated at MUM in town, tbe Bin nay
December, in the rear of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventv-six.
WM. D. WALLS, Sktriff.
Sheriffs Office, MitHiiitown, i
February 10, 18. .
SHERIFF'S S4LES.
YY virtue of sundry writs of Vend. Ex,
13 and Fi. Fm., issued out of the Court of
Common Pleas of Juniata county and to
me directed. w' be exposed to aale by
public ouicry, at the Court Ilouxe, in tbe
briieh of Miltlintown, at 2 o'clock p. ,oa
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1877, the follow
ing described real estate, to wit :
A tr.ict of land situate in Greenwood
townhip, Juniat i eocntr, adjoining lands
of Frank Caum on the north, other lands of
W. II Eby on the east, Adam W ill's heirs
on the south and west, containing FIFTY
ACRES, more or less. ALSO, a tract of
land in Ihe same township, ailjoing lands ot
Frank Cauin and Levi Light on the south,
the above described tract on the west, lands
of David Fisher on tbe north, end Adam
Arnold and others on the east, containing
FORTY ACRES, more or less, and having
thereon erected s Log Dwelling Ilnnse and
StaMe. To be sold as tbe property of W.
II. Eby.
A lot of gmnnd situate on the southwest
corner of Main street sad Thonip-wmtowu
mad, in the town of MeAlistervillr, Fayette
fam nxhip, bounded on the wet by hit of
Jeph Longacre, and on the south by an
alley, and bavin; thereon erected a large
Log and Frame Dwelling House, Two story
Frame Shop, Stable and Shed, and is known
as the Union Hold property, to be sold as
tbe properly of Cyrus SU'br.
The undivided one-sixth of a tract of
land in tireenwood township, Juniata coun
ty, ail joining lands of Thoiuaa Miller and
oilier on the sonlh. Doty, Parker k. Co., on
east. P-nl Cox's heirs and other on the
south, Doly, P u-ker & Co.. Van! Cox and
Jamea S.Cux on tho west, rout lining ONE
UUNDKID AXI TEX ACRES, more or
less, and bnving lieon erected a large Log
and Frame llou-e, I.oj Barn, Hog Stable,
and outbuilding. To be sold as the prop
erty ot John Cox.
A tract of land situate in WaTker town
ship, said county, adjoining lands of David
Dtven and John Gingrich on the north,
public riud and Philip Ron'; on the east,
lands oi" S innii-1 Anker aud put lie road on
ilie sonlh, land f Mosoi Yoder and Jude
Tvson on ttie west, ?ont:ii: i-g OVE HUX
DKED AND FOURTEEN ACRES, more or
lcs-, about 9o acres ot which are cleared,
and having thereon ervctert a Log-Frame
House, Batik Barn. ant other necessary out
buildings. To be sold as Ihe property ol
Martin Weaver.
WM. D. WALLS, Sheriff.
Shcrili's Oftife, Miltlintown,
Jan. 10, !877.
so r ice.
ALL persons knowing themselves Indebt
ed to the undersigned for recording
Deeds. Mortgsges cr other matter, ami all
Administrators and Executors having- un
settled accounts, will lrae call at this
office and settle ihe same with the under
signed, or I. D. M nsser. on or before the
first week nf FEBRUARY next, as alter
that time all unsettled accounts will be put
in the hands of proper officers tor collec
tion J. T. METLIX.
Recorder's Office, Milflintown,
January 2, !77-lt
County Bonds for Sale.
THE County Commissioners hereby give
notice that we are im-pared to renew
Connty Bonds, and also to sell a limtted
number of New Bonds, to procure money
to meet Bonds coming due. Said Bonds to
be at 5 per cent, interest. By order 4 the
Board of County Commissioners.
JAMES DEEN, Clerk.
Dec. 8, 1878.
Assigned Estate of Miller
Wood M ara.
NOTICE is hereby given that Miller
Woodward, of (Jreeuwood township,
Juniata county, Pa., bis made an assign
ment tor U.e benefit of his creditors to the
undersigned. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make payment, and
those having claims to present the same
without delav to
WILLIAM (ilVEX, Assignee,
Patterson, Juniata Co., Pa.
B. LOUDON,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
in room on second story of S. S. Parker's
new building, oa
Main Street, Mifflintown, Pa,
FASHIONABLE GOODS alwajs on
band.
CUSTOM WORK DONE oa tha shortest
notice.
GOODS SOLD by the yard or pattern.
PERSONS buying goods can ha is them
cut in garments frre of charge.
BVTTERIOCS PJTTERSS also for
sale.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
PRICES LOW.
Oct 22, 1873-tf
ATTENTION.
J. F. JACOBS,
DC ALE B 13
Farming Machinery and Agricultural Im
plements, such as
Corn Planters, Corn Workers,
GR.tlff SEPARATORS,
CLOVER SEED SEPJ1MTORS,
Ilorse Powers from One to Tea Horse
Power,
Agricultural, Portable, and Stationary
Steam Engines,
FODDER CUTTERS, FODDER CRUSH
ERS, CORS S HELLERS,
Cider Mills, nay Forks, Hay Rakes, Grain
...u .arming machinery and imple
ments of every description. Address
J. F. JACOBS,
Port Royal, Juniata C., Pa.
1876.
April 12
.Medical.
TO ALL.
DK. SWAYNE,
THE Discoverer and Compounder of tbe
far-famed
DR. SWATHE'S
Compound Syrup of WiU Cherry
and other valuable preparations, entered
npon his professional career with the impor
tant advantage of a regular Medical Educa
tion in one ol the oldest andbest schools :n
Philadelphia, and, perhaps, in tbe world
He subsequently swrved a faithful term of
practice in the Philadelphia Dispensary, and
tor many years attended also in the hospi
tal. In these institutions be enjoyed tha
most ample opportunities of obtaining an
insight into diseases in all their varied
f; ..us, as well as lor ascertaining the best
methods of their treatment. In ottering,
therelore, to the people of the Uuited Status
the fruits of his extensive professional ex
perience in the medical compounds as the
best results of bis skill and observation, he
feels that he is but protlerir.g a boon to
every Uniily throughout the land, resting,
as he dues, confidently, iu tbe merits ami
efficacious virtues ot the remedies be here
with commends. Tbe vast amount of testi
mony from ail partt of tbe world has proven
"DR. SWAYNE'S COMPol'XD SYttUP
OF WILD CHERRY" the most efficacious
remedy known, and it is ail mi tied by our
must emiuent physician, and ail who have
witnessed ils wonderful healing properties.
Tbe WILD CHERRY, in ail ages bf the
world, and in all countries where it is known,
bas beeu justlv eelelirated for IN wtrndcrful
uiediciual qualities, but its great power to
cure some of the worst and most distressing
diseases among us, was never fully ascer
tained until the experiments of I hat skillful
physician. Dr. Swayne, bad demonstrated
its adaptation, in combination with Pine Tar
ami equally valuable vegetable ingredients,
which, chemically combined, renders its ac
tion tenfold iMre certain and beneficial in
curing all diseases of the throat, breast and
lungs. DR. SWAYSF.'S WILD CHERRY
COMPOUND strikes at the root of the dis
oast by punlyingathe blood, restoring the
liver and kidneys to healthy action, invig
orating the nervous and shattered constitu
tion. It does so without prostrating or
weakening the body in any way. It cures
not only Ihe lungs and liver, but every or
gan dependent npon a wasted or impover
ished slate of tbe Wood.
A REMARKABLECI RE
was that of Edward H. Hamson, Engineer
at George SWeency'a Pottery, 1,334 K'uigv
Avenue, Philadelphia, lie had a violent,
cough, night sweat, sore throat, great
weakness, spit at different times a piut ot
blood, gave up all hope of recovery.
Through Ihe use of Dr. Swayne's Wild
Cherry Syrup" became a sound, hearty man,
and remains so to this d:iy, although over
twenty years have elapsed since he was
cured.
We are permitted to refer to the rol
lowmg gentlemen who have experienced
great benefit, and nsrd "Dr.S way tie's Com
pound Syrup of Wild Cherry" in their fam
ily for many years :
Samuel G. Scott (firm of Jacoo Rcigel tc.
Co., Drv Goods, So. S&i Market street,
Pbiladolphia.)
Elwood T. Pusey (formerly Arm of Wise,
Pusey at Wise, S. K. corner of Filth and
Market strer Is, Philadelphia.)
Robert Hutchinson, No. 2,3)1 Spring
Garden street, Philadelphia.
John J. Lytle. Dry Goods Merchant, cor
ner Seventh and pring Garden streets,
Philadelphia.
John D. Mvers, Founder, Coates street,
above Twenty-seconi, Philadelphia.
And thousands nf others from every sec
tiou of tbe habitable globe.
PRICE SI ; 6 BOTTLES FOR $-5.
If not sold bv vour drnegist or store
keeper we will forward half a dosen to any
address, freight paid, ou receiut of the
price. Prepared oulv bv
DK. S ft'AYSE i SOS.
S0 NORTH SIXTH STREET. PHILA
DELPHIA, PA.
Sold by all prominent druggists.
ITCinXCr PILES
are generally precede! by a moisture like
perspiration, distressing itching, as though
pin worms were crawling in and about the
rectum, particularly at night, when undress
ing, or iu bed, alter getting warm. It ap
pears in summer as well as in winter, olten-
imes snows iisell around the nrlvate Dart.
and is not routined te males only, but it l
quite as frequent that femtlcs'are sorvlv
afflicted, pariicury in times of pregnancy,
extending into the vagina, prot iug distres
sing almost beyond tlie powers ot endur
ance. Cases of long standing, pronounced
incurable, have beeu permanently cured br
simply applying
SWATHE'S OI.1THEIT.
HERE IS THE PROOF :
Dr. Swayne k. Son : Enclosed tlease find
oue dollar lor two boxes ol your Oiutmeut
ior iictmig riles. These are for some of
my friends who are all! ic ted with this dis
tressing complaint. The box yog sent mem
year ago, used about oue-liall of it, and 1
am glad, yes, I am proud to say it niade a
penecj cure. I mink it efficacy should be
published throughout the lenrth and breaiiih
of Ihe land. Yon can publish this if vou
think proper.
DAVID GROSSNICKLE,
Laidesburg, Frederick Co., Md.
Ratnaa : If yon are sufTerins with this
annoying complain t, or Tetter, or any crusty,
scaly, itchy skin disease, go to your drug
gist and get a box cf Sw atsk's All-Hi i-
iso Uistmkxt. It will surely cure you.
Price oU cents a box. Tbree imxea l
6 boxes $J.5. Sent by mail to any address
on receipt of the price. Prepared only by
DR. SWAYNE . SOS,
330 Korth Sixth Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Sold bv all PaoauasT Dscooists.
EE YOU TBJED IT ?
Life,
London Hair Color Restorer."
London Hair Color Restorer."
'London Hair Color Restorer.'
Growth,
"London Hair Color Restorer."
London Hair Cidor Restorer."
"London Hair Color Restorer."
London Hair Color Restorei."
Beauty
for tha
-London Hair Color Restorer."
"London Hair Color Restorer."
'London Hair Color R n
HAIR. "London Hair Color Restorer."
Ktar toc hkad asd ni health.
LONDON HAUL RESTORER.
1 It will restore gray hair to its original
vfior.
It will thicken thin hair ; cause a new
growth.
t It will restore all natural secretions.
4 It will remove all dandruff ami itchings.
& It will make tbe hair sof t, glossv and
flexible.
6 It will preserve the original color to old
sge.
7 It will prevent the hair from falling otT.
o It will cure all diseases of the scalp.
It restores both tbe luxuriance and color
of tbe hair, and is as harmless as water.
i rematiire blanching or fadine of the hair
is greatly to be re r retted, and tht
body wants to be beautiful ia proof enough
is -iso sou ngni to try to be so. bv
every proper means ; but there is nothing
more important to this end than Kx,
hair. Sow to prevent the failing of the
natural coloring matter in it, or re-excite
the roots of the hair to growth again, noth
ing has ever been introduced to tb Anuri-
cao people that equals the
L0SD0X HAIR COLOR RESTORER
Dr. Da) ton. of Philadelnhi. sara f It ,
The London Hair Color Restorer is nsed
T7 extensively among my patients and
rieuus, aa wen as by myself. 1 therefore
speak from experience.
IOCTS. FEE BOTTLE; SIX DOTTLES FOB $1.
Sent by Express, to any address, on receipt
of the price. Address all orders to Da.
Swtse 4. So-, 330 Sorth Sixth street,
Philadelphia, Pa., sole Proprietors.
Sold by all Druggitts.
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