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JENTINEL & REPUBLICAN
MIFFLINTOWN.
Wednesday-, June 16, 1SSO.
B. F. SCH WEIER,
XMTU AM rsopaiKTom.
Republican National Tjcket.
FOR PRESIDENT.
GEN. JAS. A. GARFIELD,
OP OHIO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
CHESTER A. ARTHUR,
OP NEW YORK.
Eepublican State Ticket.
SUPREME JUDGE,
Of OETHMPTO COCXTT.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
JOM A. LKMOA,
OP BLAIR COCKTT.
Fexiasism is to be revived.
Fifteen cents per word is what it
costs to despatch serosa the ocean.
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Ex-Govepjjob Hakteasft has been
made collector of the port at Phila
delphia. The ceDeaa will foot np nine hun
dred thonsand of a population for
Philadelphia.
It is a pood deal of a joke for the
Democracy to be questioning Gar
field on his fealty to Republican prin
ciples. The Brigadiers in Congress have a
pension scheme to pension confeder
ate soldiers before Congress, nicely
sugar coated, under the Mexican
Pension BilL
Font men were found hanging to a
tree, the other day, in Texas. The
explanation of the cause of the bang
ing was written on a card that was
nailed to the tree. The card read
Crookedness in horses and cattle.1
Two steamers collided on Friday
midnight, when off Connecticut river.
The ships were named Stonington
and Narragansett The former 6hip
cut the latter ship nearly through
the middle. One hundred people
are missing. The .Narragansett sank
in a few minutes.
A crcLOXE in Iowa on Saturday
Ewc-pt everything in its course. It
was a half-mile wide. Houses and
fences and . trees were leveled. A
number of lives were lost. On the
surae afternoon a cyclone swept over
lrginia, and in its course it unroof
ed houses, tore down fences, and up
rooted trees, but no lives were lo6t
The Democrats say that Garfield
is a free tariff man, and go so far as
to claim that' he voted to repeal or
reduce the tariff of 1842. You can
nail that story, for Garfield did not
get to Congress till about seventeen
years after the tariff of 1812 was re
pealed. If they want to tell stories
they must get them nearer than that,
or Garfield will have a larger major
ity next November than they expect
Dexxis Keabxey, the California
agitator, was a delegate in the Chi
cage National Greenback Convention
last week. He arose and spoke on
the question of woman suffrage,
which had been brought before the
convention by Mrs. Spencer, of W ash
ington, D. C Kearney said "he had
received instructions before leaving
California from his wife, who warned
him against having anything to do
with woman suffragists, and declared
that if he had anything to do with
them, when he returned, instead of
greeting him with a kiss, she would
greet him with a flat-iron. Airs.
Spencer said 6he was glad to know
who was the head of Dennis Kear
ney's family.
The Democrats say Garfield was a
free tariff man, and that he was a
Credit Mobilier man, and wiien you
come to get at ts :uen who wanted
to have t appear in Congress that
Jar held was in hand with Credit
Mobilier, you find that Fernando
"Wood, of New York, the champion
of Free Trade in Congress was pros
ecuting the inquiry against Garfield.
If Garfield was Free Trade, why
should the well-known Free Trader,
Jlr. Wood, prosecute him ? Birds of
a feather do no act in that way.
They had an examination at West
Point the other day. It is not pre
sumed that the faculty have received
a notice that the vacuum between the
sun and moon is to be filled with air,
and that the law of gravitation has
been suspended, but such questions
as this, which was put to the colored
cadet, Whittaker, "show how to con
struct the tables and ephemeris of
the 6 on" : "What do you understand
as to the surface of elasticity T"
"What is a wave surface ?" inclines
one to believe that Whittaker is to be
put to building a bridge from this
plr.net to the sun, and that before he
begins he is to find out what elasti
city there is in the air to hold it It
may have had reference to the prac
tice of gunnery, so as to be certain
about getting a few shells pitched
over into neighboring planets in case
they should declare war against Un
cle Sam ; but what such questions
have to do with fghting Indians, or
any other enemies of the Govern
ment on this earth, is not so clear.
Perhaps the darkey knew when he bit
off his own ears.
A Spanish man-of-war is sailing
about the Island of Jamaica, behav
ing in a queer way. On the 30th of
May he brought an American fruit
ship to, by faring two shots, and then
sent the men on board to examine
the cargo, but as the Spaniard could
not talk English and the American
could not talk Spanish, there was no
talking done, and the American could
not tell why he was "overhauled."
The American ship was bound to Phil
adelphia. Her name is Ethan A.
Merritt, and her commander is Cap
tain Hand. The Spanish war ship
also gave chase to another American
ship, but they got 60 far away on the
sea that Captain Band could not tell
the result of the chase. Mind all
these facts, for they may be a war
cloul bigger than a "man's hand."
Democratic papers, in writing of
Chester A. Arthur, the Republican
candidate for Vice President, say:
"Arthur is an unknown man ; he bos
never been in Congress, or in the
Assembly, and for that reason he is
not fit to be Vice President" That
is a tough piece of argument, and
must make the average Democratic
politician feel bad, for they, one and
all, incline to feel themselves able to
hold any office, from that of consta
ble up to the office of President
Then again, it is probable that the
men who wrote that way of Arthur
have been in a State Convention, or
perhaps in a State Legislature, or
perhaps in Congress, which they be
lieve schooled them sufficiently in
State craft to make them each a great
ruler. But Democratic writers have
expressed great concern for Mr. Ar
thur because when the Hayes ad
ministration came in he did not re
tain his position in the New York
Custom House. Suppose that argu
ment to be applied to all who go out
of office on the change of an admin
istration. Then what becomes of the
Democratic office-holders that were
put out on the change of admistra-
tion ? Again, they express alarm, that
in case Garfield should die when in
office, the government will not be
properly administered. Of course it
is a gratification to have the Demo
cratic writers manifest a concern for
good government but the manage
ment under the last Democratic ad
ministration that of James Buch
anan was such a terrible disaster to
the countrv, that perhaps a more
modest criticism on the management
of the affairs of a nation would be
more becoming in the erring brethren.
The Greenbackers held a National
convention at Chicago List week. In
the opening proceedings it was stated
tliat they proposed to organize on
their own hook, which may be accept
ed that in the past they were organ
ized on some other one's hook pos
sibly a Democratic hook. The next
remarkable thing was to ask that the
picture of the late United States Sen
ator Chandler, of Michigan, be re
moved from the halL The discus
sion took in the broad field of a gen
eral denunciation of corporations.
banks and riches, which for a while
led the listeners and readers of the
remarks to believe that filthy lucre,
money, is to be abolished from the
earth by the reform Greenbackers ;
but as ! how disappointed, for they
all came in with the inconsistency
that they wanted to mate so much
money for the country that every
body will be rich. It was a good
deal humorous to hear how they de
nounced money in one breath and
then in the next breath hear how they
proposed to flood the country - with
what they denounced. General li.
Weaver was nominated for President
and E. J. Chambers for Vice Presi
dent
It is a mistake for teachers to be
continually holding up to scholars
and children the offices of the coun
try as the places above all others to
seek for. Official life in this country
is not of much account for at best
its lasts only a few yearst In most
cases it is transitory, lasting 3, 4 to
8 or 12 years. To point a child to a
place or office of a dozen years as the
goal of his life is not just the thing
to do. If an office comes and gathers
one up, as in the case of Garfield, it
may be a source of gratification.
Garfield was a poor boy, but trained
himself to useful occupation, and in
tellectual acquirements, thereby un
consciously preparing himself to hold
the chief office in the nation. Boys
should not be taught to seek office,
or make official life the object of their
ambition. The best people seldom
get into office ; they understand how
transitory official life is, and care
nothing for it Boys should not be
encouraged to hunt office ; it is infi
nitely better to train them to study,
and industry, as Garfield was trained,
and then if an office comes along,
they may enjoy it
STATE ITEMS.
There are over $50,000 in silver in
the banks in Reading at this time, the
same weighing 1 1 tons.
The bouse of Mrs. Ramage, at Pitts-
ton, was struck by lightning on Satur
day, and her son James, aged 15, was
instantly killed.
Joseph iJeicbler, a small boy, living
in Altoona, fell from a cherry tree on
j barsday and broke bis neck.
Nancy evi, a colored woman at Cotj
estoga Centre, Lancaster oounty, has
just celebrated ber 100th birthday.
Joseph Ilardsock, of Brownsville,
Fayette county, was so badly injured
on r riday while wrestling that be died
Hydrophobia is unusually prevalent
among the dogs in the sheep-grazing
regions of Washington and Beaver
counties.
The fish way introduced in Columbia
dam bas proved an utter failure. Tbere
Lav been less shad caught this year
above it than in any year since the at
tempt at toe experiment
The members of the African Metho
dist Cburcb at Marietta intend to build
a new church at that place, and some
$300 bag already been subscribed for
the purpose.
A turkey was stolen from Thomas
Nichols, of Lenni, Delaware county,
and sold to a man in Llewellyn for
$2.50. Tbe tliief, being suspected, was
notified to return tbe fowl or be would
be arrested. The next night the tur
key was atolen and put in the coop of
tbe original purchaser. Tbe exchange
tbief was detected and bad to pay $15
nne.
There is a chestnut tree growing on
tbe farm belonging to the estate of sol
omon Merkel, deceased, in Rockland
township, Jerks county, which u prob
ably tbe largest in tbat section of the
State. It measures thirty-eight feet
four inches in circumference, and the
lowest limbs are fifteen feet from the
ground, and they measure fourteen feet
in circumference. Stairs are fastened
between tbe limbs so tbat' persons can
ascend to tbe top of tbe tree without
danger. It yields abont three bushels
of cbestDDts annually. It is estimated
tbat this tree contains about seventeen
cords of wood.
Tbe Iluntzinger family, representing
tbe bankrupt financiers, have been pur
sued with such tenacity by the people
whom they defrauded, as to be utterly
reduoed to poverty. Three in the
Berks cennty jail, one broken down in
health, which can never be regained.
STATE ITEMS.
The bouded debt of Sobuylkill oouu-
ty amounts to $250,000.
Tbe Allegheny mountains this year
enjoy a beautiful crop of ground squir
rels. Tbe Treasurer of Erie county pays
out annually about $3,000 for sheep
killed by dogs.
Areby Shaw, an old man of Ulear-
field for reasons nnknown committed
suicide on Tuesday a week.
Ahoe Snokes, a domestic of ilarns-
bnrg while temporarily insane made
several attempts on Thursday to drown
erself.
A corporal in the llarrieburg City
Grays is to be eourt-martialled for
misappropriating $230 given him to
purchase uniforms.
A tramp giving the name of N. M.
Green, has been arrested at Tarport
McKean county, for attempting an out
rage upon a nine year old girl.
A dead infant was found, wrapped
in portion of a flour sack, with its
skull crushed in, at Johnstown, near
tbe railroad track, on Thursday.
Philadelphia proposes to put some of
Us convicts at work oleantng.its streets,
and expects to make a saving of at least
$150,000 per year. Tbe work is to be
done at night, and three hundred in
mates of tbe house of Correction, with
twenty extra guards are to do it.
Altoona is to have a magnificent fire
celebration on tbe 5th of July.
A new varity of blaok bearded
wheat is growing to great satisfaction
of farmers in parts of Berks county.
David Buek, residing in Path Valley,
above fannettsburg Perry Co., says
that a snake ten feet long was seen near
tbis place a lew days ago. It was a
black snake spotted. Tbe party who
saw it were afraid to attaok it.
Mr. Scbreiber of Cbambersburg
Franklin Co., has in his possessien a
wbite eel wbicb was eaugbt in tbe ton-
ococbeagne ereek. It is entirely white
or steel grey with the exception of a
black spot on its bead.
Tbe Muhlenberg farm, opposite
Reading, bas been sold to tbe Reading
Land and Improvement Company for
$IW,WU.
All fruit peddlers are excluded
Irom cars on the Keading railroad.
and newsboys are forbidden to en
gage in selling fruit in the depots or
on the trams.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
young shad have been placed in the
Susquehanna River at Uarrisburg.
Lutber U'ertx, of Hollidaysburg kill
ed a inake tbat bad two bodies and on
ly one head and tail.
A rampant steer got loose in tbe
streets at Cbambersburg on Thursday
a week and gored Jacob Butner, a
basketmaker, so terribly tbat the old
man died.
Mrs. Samuel Beales, tbe wife of a
wealthy farmer at Beaver City, was
found on Friday evening banging from
a rafter in one of the upper rooms of
residence. Iter domestio relations
were happy and she enjoyed excellent
healthy. No cause is assigned for the
aot.
Jobn Harford, a Waynesburg farmer
used the loop of a trace-chain for a
stirrup, on Thursday while he was re
turning from work. The borse which
he bad mounted in that manner ran
three times around the field, dragging
Harford's body nntil itwas torn to
pieces.
Tbe people of Duke Centre, McKean
connty, became so disgusted with Loan
cils of that place for purchasing a dil
apidated Ere engine at a cost of $300
that a procession moved through tbe
town a few days afterward burlesquing
tbe matter. A soda fountain was
mounted on wheels and a keg set on
fire which tbe soda fountain speedily
extinguished.
A valuable horse in Lawrence town
ship Clearfield county, bad a bind leg
broken on Wednesday last, by being
kicked by another horse. Tbe owner
at once erected heavy frame and put
a roof over tbe borse. He was then
raised up by means of straps so tbat be
stands on three feet, tbe broken leg
was set and a hole dng to prevent its
resting os Ue gtound, and tbe borse
is etill in tbat position, with some pros
pects of recovering tbe use of bis leg.
On Thursday, June 3, Prof. L. R
Aldncb, a doctor of stammering and
all impediments of speech, arrived in
Allentown from Bethlehem, Pa. He
was accompanied by his wife and en
gaged rooms at tbe American Hotel
On Saturday afternoon his wife shot
bim in the left side with a revolver and
then shot herself twice in the head and
once in the breast. She eannot recov
er, bat Mr. Aldrich was only grazed by
tbe bullet and is not much injured.
1 he tragedy was caused by jealousy,
Mrs. Aldnch's maiden name was Laura
Livingston.
In Titugville last week Mrs. Joseph
Bushnell died from the affect of kissing
the body of her dead father ten days
ago, while attending bis funeral in
Pittsburg. Her father died of erysip
elas, and at tbat time mentioned she
had a raw sore on her lips, through
wbicb ber blood was poisoned. Her
little daughter tlia is not expected to
live from kissing ber mother.
Tbe following despatch from Erie
under date of Juue 1Mb says : Quite
dramatio scene occurred to day in tbe
house of Mr. P. Kelly, whose wife died
misteriously last night. The Coroner
ordered a post-mortem and 'waeti tbe
physicians arrived Kelly placed him'
self by the corpse of his wife and swore
by everything that be held sacred that
his wife's body should not be touched.
Remonstrances were useless. He
threatened destruction to the first doc
tor who should lay a band on tbe oorpse
I he Coroner was on tbe point of order
ing the arrest of tbe wbole family when
Kelly's friends got him away. Tbe
Heart was found to be diseased.
Hundreds of barrels of oil spouted
into the air near the residence of Jo
seph Bennett on Bottle run, Lycoming
eouuty, on Thursday a week. There
had been a break in the pipe of tbe
great ripe Lid, 'lbe oil spattered
over Mr. Bennett's buildings and ran
down into the creek were it destroyed
all the fish.
One million silver dollars are to be
coined at the Mint daring tbe present
monin. 10 accomplish this it will be
necessaryfor tbe entire force to work
until 10 o'olock each evening. The
silver coins now lying in the vaults of
tbe Mint weigh about 22 tons, and, in
connection with the gold on hand the
total value is $24,201,602.06 Tbe
order for thirty millions in told $2.50
and $5 pieces is now about two-thirds
filled, and tbe remaining ' ten millions
will be coined when the order for the
million silver dollars is filled.
Sketch of the Candidates for Pres
ident and Vice President.
James Abraham Garfield, tbe Repub
lican candidate for tbe Presidenoy of
the United States, has a splendid rec
ord, both as a loyal soldier and a states
man whose parity is unsullied. He was
bora in the little village of Urange,
Cayahogo eounty, Ohio, November 19,
1331, and lost his father, Abraham Gar
field, when two years old. Both pa
rents were New Englanders, tbe Gar-
fields being a Massachusetts family, and
the General s mother, JMua tfallou, be
ing the niece of Rev. Hosea Ballon,
the distinguished Universalist preacher,
and coming from New Hampshire.
Abraham Garfield left his family with
a little faim, where James, the young
est, worked with the three older chil
dren till he was sixteen years old, at
tending the village school in winter,
and also learning the carpenter's trade.
A SELF-MADE MAN.
His excellent mother, one of tbe
heroines of poverty, gave him a start
in the world, which has resulted in so
high an honor, and taught bim to work
until be seemed to like work. He was
ambitious to get an education, and find
ing his carpenter a trade promised bim
no future, at sixteen be became a tow
path driver on the Ohio canal, and soon
pilot of a canal boat. He was about to
ship as a sailor on the lakes, when an
attack of fever and aguo prevented,
and when be recovered, he determined
to go to Geauga Academy, in tbe next
county. His mother had saved a little
money, and she gave it to bim to go to
school with. At school be rented a lit
tle room and did bis owu oooking; be
worked at his trade morning and even
ing, continuing to attend country schools
in winter, so that he could attend tbe
academy in the spring and fall terms.
The indomitable energy required to ed
uoate himself under these disadvan
tages was sustained by tbe excellence
of his health, and from this time be re
solved to cause no more expense to bis
mother.
GARFIELD, THE CARPENTER.
When be began to feel at borne in
the academy be sought oat the village
carpenters for odd jobs of work, wbicb
be did on Saturdays and in other inter
vals of leisure or holidays, saving al
most every cent be earned to go to
college with. When eighteen he taught
a district school in tbe winter, studied
aM worked again in tbe summer, tangbt
again when winter came, and then at
tended tbe Hiram Institute till he be
came the "brag scholar" of tbat insti
tution, and was then twenty-three years
old. Such a career is enough to en
courage every American boy, no mat
ter bow humble bis position, to perse
vere. - Garfield s simple, honest, rural
neighbors already looked upon bim as
a hero, and his genial, modest man
ners made many acquaintances. He
joined tbe Disciples' or Cambellites'
Cbuicb at an early age, and was a con
pi tent and highly respected member
from the start, bis zealous and energetio
disposition leading bim occasionally to
exhort the meetings, wbicb circumstance
caused him to be nick-named at Wash
ington "Rev. Garfield," though in fact
be was never ordained to the ministry
Naturally be thought of going to Beth
any College, V irginia, whuh was sus
tained by bis cburcb, bat he soon
changed his mind, one reason being be
cause Uetbany College leaned to slav
ery. President Hopkins, of Williams
College, Williamstowo, Massachusetts,
replied very encouragingly to young
Garfield's letter of inquiry, and this
friendliness made him choose Williams
over Yale and Brown University. At
college bis poverty made his life un
comfortable, but be stuck to his deter
mination, and in 1854, aftor two years
only, he graduated with the highest
honors, and $450 in debt
EDUCATOR AND LEGISLATOR.
He paid tbis debt after two years'
teaching at Hiram, wbere he bad been
a pupil ; then ha became president of
tbe Academy, and began to study law,
At tbis time be married M:st Lucretia
Rudolph, a neighboring farmer's daugh
ter. As a college president be soon
showed tbat be was an orator, and nsed
to lecture to tbe students every Sunday
on tbe Bible, when no preacher was ac
cessible. In 1859 tbe anti-slavery peo
ple of Portage and Summit counties
elected bim to the State Senate by a
large majority. In the Legislature be
at once came to tbe front as a debater
with Cox and Monroe, Garfield being
even then recognized as tbe foremost of
this distinguished trio. He led tbe
fight in the Senate in favor of the na
t ion's right to coerce tbe seceding
States, and was tbe main standard
bearer in tbe straggle which resulted
in passing tbe bill defining treason
against tbe State of Ohio as giving aid
and comfort to tbe enemies of the
United States, and punishing it with
life-imprisonment at bard labor.
HIS MILITARY CAREER.
Wben tbe war broke oat, Garfield at
once left tbe State Senate for the field,
and soon showed Governor Deunison
that be was a soldier, and was appoint
ed lieutenant colonel of tbe Forty-sec
ond Ohio regiment, tben to the full
colonelcy, with orders to report to Gen
eral Buell at tatlettsbnrg, Ky. Budi,
on December 17, 1861, assigned Colo
nel Garfield to command the Seven
teenth brigade. He was ordered against
tbe confederate General Humphrey Mar
shall, while George II. Thomas was sent
to repulse Zolliconer. Buell waited
for Garfield and Thomas to do their
work. In January Garfield drove Mar
shall out of Kentucky into Virginia.
On one occasion when his troops were
almost out of rations and the Big San'
dy river was swollen with a freshet,
Colonel Garfield steered a steamboat
up tbe river himself, carrying provi
sions to tbe camp. His victory over
Marshall at Middle Creek on January
10, 1862, caused his commission as
brigadier general to date from tbat
time. Gen. Garfield commanding tbe
1 wentietb brigade, now marched with
Buell to Grant's relief at Pittsburg
Landing, and was at tbe siege of Cor
inth. After a few months' absence on
sick leave, he was placed on the court
martial tbat tried General fitz-Johu
Porter. In January, 1863, he became
General Rosecrans, ohief of suff. He
sympathized with bis superior's re
quests for more cavalry and arms, but
took the responsibility of toning down,
and once even suppressing, Rosecrans'
passionate messages to tbe War Depart
ment. He served with Rosecrans np to
tbe battle of Chickamauga, "where his
"gallant and meritorious services"
caused his promotion to a major gen
eralship.
ELECTED TO CONGRESS.
Whilo ia tbe field bo had bees elec
ted to Congress from hi Ohio distriot,
without being a candidate, and though
lbe salary of a major general was more
than double that of a Congressman, be
felt it a duty to resign his commission
and take his seat in Congress. He be
came a member of the Committee on
Military Affairs. His first notable
speeob was on the proposition of Con
gressman Alexander Long, of Ohio, to
recognize confederate independence.
While comparing General Robert x.
Lee to Lord Fairfax, who openly . bat
tearfully opposed tbe revolution from
tbe first, be likened Long to Benedict
Arnold, saying tbat be bad not the
bravery to join tbe confederates' from
the start because of bis true belief in
them. He was renominated, almost
invariably without opposition, to every
subsequent Congress. In tbe Fortieth,
to which be was elected by 10,0w ma
jority, be was chairman of the Com
mittee on Military Affairs; in tbe forty-first,
of the Banking and Currency
Committee, which suited bis particular
financial bent, and subsequently of the
Appropriations Committee, wbere be
distinguished himself by bis influence
for economy. Throughout the recon
struction legislation his debating abili
ties continued to build up his reputa
tion. On tbe proposition to override
the New Jersey grant of a railroad
monopoly between Philadelphia and
New York to the Camden and Amboy
''oinpaoy, tbe monopolists raised the
State sovereignty cry. He laid tbis
ghost by an eloquent argument, show
iug that sovereign powers can declare
war, coin money and regulate foreign
commerce, bat New Jersey coald not
constitutionally do any of these. He
bas ever ainoe been regarded a a Re
publican leader, and yet no one is more
independent of tbe caucus whip when
it cracks in violation of his conscience
and principles. Once, on a yea and nay
vote, he recorded his vote alone against
tbat of all tbe rest of tbe House.
PARTT LEADER IN THE HOUSE.
He bas a judicial turn of mind, and
wben be onoe decides he goes ahead,
like Davy Crockett, sore he is right
His speeches in debate are perfect
sledge-bammer blows. In 1877, as one
of the Republican Representatives on
the Electoral Commission, be made able
and convincing arguments, withal as
calm and logical as a judicial decision,
for the reception of tbe returns of
t lorida and Louisiana which gave Hayes
the votes of those States. He again
won great distinction in tbe extra ses
sion last year, being universally recog
nized as the Republican leader of tbe
House after the promotion of Blame
to the Senate. Last January he was
elected to tbe aetata for the term be
ginning next March, to succeed Thar.
man. He received tbe unanimous vote
of tbe Republican caucus of tbe Ohio
Legislature, an bonor never before at
tained.
Geneial Garfield is probably the best
scholar in Congress. though bis life
bas been very active since be left .the
presidency of Hiram Academy, he bas
never ceased to finish bis education.
Wben in tbe army be used to read
pocket editions of tbe Greek and Latin
classics. Mr. K. V. Sinalley, of the
New York Tribune, found bim one day
behind a perfect mountain of books in
the Congressional Library. Garfield
said : " 1 find I am overworked, and
need recreation. Now, my theory is
tbat tbe best way to rest tbe mind is
not to let it be idle, but to put it at
something quite outside of the ordinary
line of its employment. So I am rest
mg by learning all the Congressional
Library can show about Horace and tbe
various editions and translations of bis
poems."
C1NCINNATCS AT HIS PLOW.
And yet he does not always recreate
that way, but between Congresses he
may be seen dressed in rustic clothes
guiding a plow on his farm, which is
about twenty-five miles from Cleveland,
and is on both sides of tbe Lake Shore
railroad. His Congressional district
contains less illiteracy for the popula
tion than any other in the country,
though it is purely rural.
General Garfield's family consists of
bis aged mother, bis wife, two boys
Harry and James now at 6chool in
New Hampshire, a pretty little daugh
ter, Molhe, and two younger boys, Ir
win and A bra no. No man has a hap
pier family or a warmer circle of
friends, of whom some of tbe best are
bie political opponents. Ilis most inti
mate associates are Senator Blaine and
Congressman Randolph Tucker, of Vir
ginia, a Democrat, who opposes and
pairs with bim on every political ones
tion. So far as personal magnetism is
concerned, senator Blaine is bis only
superior, and for abiliay as a debater,
faithfulness as a student of publio prin
ciples and measures, impartiality, open
banded liberality and strict honesty,
neither party bas in Congress a better
man than tbe Christian gentleman, sot
dier and statesman James A. Gar
field, of Ohio.
Chester A. Arthur for Vice President.
General Chester A. Arthur, the nom
inee of the National Republican Con
vection for tbe Vice Presidency of the
United States, was born in Vermont in
1832. lie came to New lork early in
life, and practised law in tbat city,
rising to wealthy respectability in his
profession, lie derives his military
title from bis service on Governor Mor
gan's staff during tbe rebellion. He
subsequently held other local Republi
can offices, and ws appointed Collector
of Customs at New York by President
Grant. He took an aotive part in State
politics, but never neglected his official
duties for them. As Collector, he was
highly esteemed and respected by New
York importers, and nierobaots, and
they very generally regretted his sum
mary removal by President Hayes for
alleged violation of tbe Civil Service
Reform order, forbidding office-holders
to take an active part in political or
ganization. General Arthur regarded
the order as infringing upon bis rights
as a citizen, and was conscientious in
his disregard of it. Naval Officer Cor
nell, now Governor of New York, and
Surveyor Sbarpe, who was a delegate
to the Convention just adjourned, were
decapitated with him for the same
cause.
THE CUSTOM-HOUSE FIGHT.
The first attempt at removal hang
are, senator ionkiing a influence pre
venting the confirmation of Roosevelt,
wnom tbe President named to succeed
General Arthur; bat in February.
1879, the Senate confirmed tbe nomi
nation of Merritt, now Collector of the
Port of New York, and Mr. Arthur re
tired to private life. Since tbat time
he bas been chairman of tbe Recnbli-
ean State Committee, and did good
work last year in tbe Coroell-Robinson-
Kelly gubernatorial campaign. He
was one of tbe Grant delegates from
New York to the Convention, and stack
to the General to tbe last, with tbe
solid little army of 305. If elected
Vioe President, General Arthur will
doubtless discbarge tbe duties of tbe
position to the satisfaction of tbe coun
try and party.
GC.1ERAL ITEMS.
Crawford county bas sixty-three
cheese factories.
A fatal cattle disease has broken
out in Lancaster county.
An eel, three feet long, was caught
by a boy three feet high, in a crtek
near Warren the otber day.
Some of the physicians in tbe oil
region prescribe by telephone.
James Butler of Girardsville, baa
brought suit for $10,000 damages
against that borough for injuries sus
tained by his falling over a dirt bank
carelessly left in tbe street.
Army worms have appeared at Islip,
Long Island, in great numbers.
In California there are abont 800,
000 cattle and 8,000,0C0 sheep.
A beautiful Chilian lady is said to
be exercising great influence in high
imperial circles in Brazil. What!
Has Dom Pedro got into bad habits
since his tour of tbe world.
According to a dispatch from Mus
kogee, in the Indian Territory, tbe
Seminoles have convicted an old wom
an of being a witch and will execute her.
A professional well digger in Sander
sonville, Ga., is a blind negro- He is
also a roofer, and puts on boards and
shingles in as straight a line as though
be bad perfect sight.
General Garfield is worth abont 25,-
voo.
England bas nearly 20,000 gjpsiea,
and most of them cannot read or write.
Six misbehaving young men were
taken from their beds by a mob at Wes
ley Chapel, Ind., tied to a fence in a
row and whipped almost to death.
In a circus at Paris, 111., a suddenly
crazed young lady ran into the ring,
embraced tbe clown, and declared tbat
be must become ber husband.
Delia Wbite invited her friends in
Greensburg, Ind., to what she called a
surprise party, and surprised them by
getting married in their presence.
Having procured a divorce from his
wife, Charles Led well, of Jefferson,
Obio, went to ber at the end of a week,
and besought ber to marry bim again.
Mrs. Ledwell waited until he get dowo
on his knees before ber and then she
struck him over the head with a club.
The man's skull was fractured.
STATE ITEMS.
Mrs. Mary Newman Brister, who
was born in Trappe, Montgomery coun
ty, Pa., on June 8, 1730, bas celebrat
ed ber one hundredth birthday. She
was never sick in her life until last
year, and then she bad a fever, wbicb
prostrated ber for a ebort time. She
is now in excellent health. She lives
with her son and daughter, Lewis Bris
ter and Miss Ann Brister both very
old people and tbe last of ten children
Mrs. Brister's maiden name was Fry.
She was married in Philadelphia in
1800 to George Brister, who was five
years bis senior. He went to war in
1812, and was at tbe battle of New
Orleans. He died in 1350. George
Fry, Mrs. Bristers, father was a potter
but followed the business of transporting
goods by pack horses from Philadelphia
westward. He was born in Buck's
county in 1730, and was in Braddock's
campaign against tbe French and In
dians in 1755. In 1833, at the age of
103, be started from Philadelphia to
walk to Indiana to visit a relative who
was living there. He walked all tbe
way to Cincinnati whence he wrote
back to his family. That was tbe last
ever beard of him.
James Hillman a well to-do and re
spectable falser, living between Or.
wig.-'burg and Landingville, is the au
thority for the following remarkable
story : Mr. Hillman has on bis farm
fifteen acres of timber, which is joined
to two pieces of woodland of about the
same size. One morning during the
early part of last week Mr. Hillaian'a
attention was attracted by large flocks
of crows which came from the South,
and as if by common consent settled in
tbe woods mentioned above. During
the ensueing three days tbe crows were
reinforced by new arrivals.until seven
thousand were present, and the noise
they mde attracted tbe attention of
the peoplo for miles around. Sentinel
crows were posted on tbe fences around
tbe woods and through them the ap
proach of man was quickly communi
cated to the body of the crows. Tbe
crows remained in this patch of woods
until Monday morning, wben they all
left abont the same time taking their
coarse cf flight in a northwesterly di
rection Tbey left tbe woods in flocks
containing two or three hundred each
at intervals of five or ten minutes, and,
the departure of one of these flocks,
was the signal for loud and prolonged
cawing on the part of those remaining
behind. Tbey all departed in the same
direciion,and tbe last flock took to
wing an hour after tbe first started.
Since then tbere baa not been a crow
seen in tbe neighborhood. Mr. Hill
man says that during their stay in bis
woods tbe crows did not commit any
depredations on tbe neighboring corn
fields, and bat few of tfiem ventured
beyond tbe confines of tbe timber.
Republican Platform Adopted at
Chicago.
The Republican party, in National
Convention assembled, at the end of
twenty years since the Federal Gov
ernment was first committed to its
charge, submits) to the people of the
United States this brief report of its
administration. It suppressed rebel
lion, which had armed nearly a mil
lion of men to subvert the national
authority. It reconstructed the Union
of the States with freedom instead
of slavery as its corner stone. It
transformed 4,000,000 human beings
from likeness of things to the rank of
citizens. It relieved Congress from
the infamous work of hunting fugi
tive slaves, and charged it to see that
slavery does not exist. It has raised
the value of our paper currency from
38 per cent to the par of gold. It
has restored upon a solid basis pay
ment in coin for all the national ob
ligations, and has given us a currency
absolutely good and equal in every
part of our extended country. It
has lifted the credit of the nation
from a point from where 6 per cent
bonds sold at 86 to that where 4 per
cent, bonds are eagerly sought at a
premium. Under its administration
railways have increased from 31,000
:i : icu'n (a .vw.m ihnn S2.()!M)
miles iu iouu .-' v . -
miles in 1879 ; our foreign trade has
increased from $700,000,000 to
150,000,000 in the same time, and
our exports, which were $20,000,000
less than our imports in 1860, were
$264,000,000 more than our imports
in 1879. Without resorting to loans
it has, since the war closed, defrayed
the ordinary expenses of government,
besides the accruing interest on the
public debt, and dispensed annually
more than $3'J,000,000 for soldiers'
pensions. It has paid $888,000,000
of the public debt, and by re-funding
the balance at lower rates, bus re
duced the annual interest charge
from nearly $15,000,000 to less than
$8,900,000. All the industries of the
country have revived, labor is in de
mand, wages have increased, and
throughout the entire country there
is evidence of a coming prosperity
greater than we have ever enjoyed.
Upon this record the Republican
party asks for the continued confi
dence and support of the people, and
this convention submits for their ap
proval the following statements of
the principles and purposes which
will continue to guide and inspire its
efforts.
Firtt. We affirm that the work of
the lust twenty-one years has been
such as to commend itself to the
favor of the nation ; that the fruits
of the costly victory which we have
achieved through immense difficulties
should be preserved ; tbat the peace
regained should be cherished; that
the dissevered Union, now happily
restored, should be perpetuated ;
that the liberty secured to this gen
eration should be transmitted undi
minished to future generations ; that
the order established and the credit
acquired should never be impaired ;
that the pensions promised should be
extinguished by the full payment of
every dollar thereof ; that the reviv-
r .1 , , 1. a'
lng inuubines unoum ue luriuer iu
moted, and tluit the commerce al
ready so great should be steadily en
conrage'L Second. The Constitution of the
United States is a supreme law, and
not a mere contract ; out of confed
erated SUtes it made a sovereign
nation some powers are denied to
the nation while others are denied to
the States, but the boundary between
the powers delegated and those re
served is to be determined by the
national and not by the State tribu
nalx Third. The work of popular edu
cation is left to the care of the sev
eral States, but it is the duty of the
Nationul Government to aid that
work to the extent of its Constitu
tional duty. The intelligence of the
nation is but the aggregate of the
intelligence of the several States, and
the destiny of the nation must not
be guided by the genius of any one
State, but by the average gcniilu of
all.
Fourth. The Constitution wisely
forbids Congress to make any law
respecting an establishment of reli
gion ; but it is idle to hope that the
nation can be protected against the
influence of sectarianism while each
State is exposed to its domination.
We therefore recommend that the
Constitution be so amended as to lay
the same prohibition upon the Legis
lature of each State, and to forbid
the appropriation of public funds to
the support of HecUnan schools.
Fifth. We affirm the belief avow
ed in 187C that the duties levied for
the purpose of revenue should so dis
criminate as to favor American labor ;
that no further grant of the public
domain should be made to any rail
way or other corporation ; that sla
very having perished in the State, its
twin barbarity polygamy must die
in the Territories ; that everywhere
the protection accorded to citizens
of American birth must be secured
to citizens by American adoption,
and that we esteem it the duty of
Congress to develope and improve
our water courses and harbors, but
insibt that further subsidies to pri
vate persons or corporations must
cease ; that the obligations of the
Republic to the men who preserved
its integrity in the hour of battle are
undiminished by the lapse of fifteen
years since their final victory. To
do them perpetual honor is and shall
forever be the grateful privilege and
sacred duty of the American people.
Sixth. Since the authority to regu
late immigration and intercourse be
tween the United States and foreign
nations rests with tbe Congress or with
the United States and its treaty-making
poorer, tbe Republican party, regarding
tbe unrestricted immigration of Chi
nese as an evil of great magnitude, in
voke the exercise of those powers to
restrain and limit that immigration bv
tbe enaatment of such just, humane
and reasonable provisions as will pro
duce that result.
Seventh. Tbat the parity and patri
otism which characterized tbe earlier
career of Rutherford B. Hayes in peace
and war, and wbioh guided the thoughts
01 our immediate predecessors to him
for a candidate, bare continued to in
spire bim in bis career as Chief Exec
utive, and tbat history will accord to
bis administration tbe honors which are
due to an efficient, just and courteous
discharge of tbe public business, and
will bonor bis interpositions between
the people and proposed partizao laws.
Eighth. We charge upon the Derao-
aratic party tbe habitual sacrifice of
patriotism and justice to a supreme
and insatiable lust of office and patron
age ; tbat, to obtain possession of tbe
National and State Governments and
the control of place and position they
have obstructed all effort to promote
the purity and to conserve tbe freedom
of suffrage, and have devised fraudu
lent certifications and returns ; have
labored to unseat lawfully-elected mem
bess of Congress to secure at all haz
ards the vote of a majority of the States
in tbe House of Representatives ; have
endeavored to occupy by force and
frand tbe places of trust given to others
by the people of Maine and rescued by
the courage in action of Maine's na-
triotio sons ; have by methods vicious
in principle and tyrannical in practice
attached partisan legislation to bill?,
upon whose passage tbe very move
ments of government depend ; have
crushed the rights of individuals; have
advocated the principle and sought the
favor of rebellion against tbe nation.
ana nave endeavored to obliterate th
. m
sacreu memories ot tbe war and to
overcome its inestimable, valuable re
sults of nationality, personal freedom
and individual equality. The eoual.
steady and complete enforcement of
laws and the protection of all our citi
zens in the enjoyment of all pfitifege
aod communities guaranteed by the
Constitution are the first duties of a
natioa. The dangers of a solid Scrciif
ean only be averted by a faithful per.
formance of every promise which the
nation bas made to the citizens. The
execution of tbe laws acd tbe punish
ment of all those who violate tbem are
tbe oo;y safe methods by which an en
during peace can be secured and gen
uine prosperity established throughout
tbe South Whatever promises the
nation makes tbe nation must perform,
and tbe nation cannot with safety rele
gats this duty to the States. The solid
South must be divided by tbe peaceful
agencies of the ballot, and all opinions
mast there find free expression, and to
tbis end the honest voter must be pro
tected against terrorism, violence or
fraud ; aod we affirm it to be the duty
and the purpose of the Republican
party to nse every legitimate means to
restore all the States of this Union to
the most perfect harmony that may be
practicable, and we submit to the prac
tical, sensible people of the United
States to say whether It would not be
dangerous to tbe dearest interests of
our country at this time to surrender
the administration of the National Gov
ernment to a party which seks to over
throw the existing policy under which
ws are so prosperous, aod thus bring
distrust and confusion wbere tbere ia
now order, confidence and bope.
Legal .Yoliees.
il DITOR'S XOTICE.
In the Orphans' Court of Juniata County.
In rt Ett u It of John Wright, dictated.
TUE umlersifned, appointed Anditor at
an Orphans' Court held at Mittiintown,
June 1-5, ltMJ, to distribute tbe balance in
tb hand of Ezra D. Parker, Ks., Execu
tor ol tlie estate of John IV right, deceasiii,
on the second partial account, will attmj
to the duties ol" his appointment at hisothed
in tbe borough of .Mirtlmtown, on
THURSDAY, JULY 15, ISfcO,
at 10 o'clock r. m., when and where all
parties interested may attend, or be forever
debarred from coming in upon said faud.
MASON 1KW1X, Anditor.
Jane 15,
4lni!nlttratorT9 Notice.
"JV OTICL is hereby given that letten or
J. 1 admin:stration, on the estate of Fhillp
Manbcck, late ot Walkrr township. decM
have been granted in due lonn of la t
tbe undersigned. All persons knowing
themselves indebted to said eftate are re
quest to make immediate payment, and
those having claims will present thum prop
erly authenticated lor setl:nent.
SOLO VOX SI AX BECK,
June 9, 1880. Jdmmulralor.
Executors' Notice,
Extalt of David Brthoar, Sr., deceattd.
1 KTTKKS Testamentary on tbe estate of
I i D'vid Beshoar, Sr., ktte of Ferntanagh
township, Juniata county, deceased, havim;
been granted to the nndersigned, ail
persons indebted to said estate are request
ed to make payment, and those having
claims or demands are requested to nuke
known the same without delar to
ANDREW JtESHOAR,
MICHAEL R. BESIIOAK,'
June '2, 1880. Execnkrt.
Professional Cards.
JOUIS . ATKINSON,
ATTORNEY -AT -LAW,
JtlFFLLNTOVYN, PA.
Uncollecting and Conveyancing prouirt-
Iy attended to.
Orrici On Main street, in his place of
residence, south of Bridge street.
TyjASON IRWIN.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
MIFF LI STOWS, JUSUT.i CO., P.I.
E7 All business promptly attended to.
Orrica On Bridge street, opposite the
Court House square. jaiu, TiO-ly
J-ACOB BEIDLElt,
ATTOKNET-AT LAW,
.HIFFUXTOWN, PA.
C7"Col!cctions attended to promptly.
Orrics With A. J. Patterson, Esq, on
Bridge street,
feh 'J5, n.
).WID D. STONE,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
MIFFLIXTOVYN, PA.
ET Collections and all professional busi
ness promptly attended to.
juneiO, 1877.
LFKED J. PATTERSON,
ATTOSJ EY-AT-LAW,
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA CO., PA.
Ce AU business promptly attended to.
Orrica On Bridge street, opposite tho
Court House square.
John Mclaughlin,
INSURANCE AGENT,
PORT ROTJL, JUSIATJ CO., F.I.
lL"On ly reliable Companies represented.
Dec. 8, 1875-ly
THOMAS A. ELDER, JL D.
Physician and Snrgeon,
MIFFLISTOWS, rj.
Otbce hours from 9 a. to 3 p. .. Of
fice in hi father" residence, at tbe south
end of Water street. oct2!-tf
J) M. CRAWFORD, M. D., '
Has resumed actively tbe practice of
Medicine and Surgery and their collateral
branches. Office at the old corner ef Third
and Orange streets, Mifflintowa, Pa.
March 2'J, 1876.
M. BRAZEE, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Jlcademia, Juniata Co., Pa.
Orrica formerly occupied by Dr.Sterrett.
Professional business promptly attended to
at all hours.
jy L. ALLEN, M. D., "
Has commenced tbe practice of Medicine
and S urgery and all theireollateral branches.
Office at Academia, at the residence of
CapL J. J. Patterson.
fjnly 15,1871
JTENRT I1ARSHBERGER, M. P.
Continues the practice of Medicine and
Surgery and all their collateral branches.
Office at his residence in McAlistervil'e.
Feb 9, 1876.
JOSEPH PAGE,
Vendne Cryer and Auctioneer,
Address Joseph Page, Cocolamu9, Ju
niata county, Pa.
Prompt attention given to auction sales
of store goods, public saltt of land, sale of
live stock, farming implements and house
hold goods. rdec3-4m
Large stock of Ready-made Clothing for
sale by HARLEY & CO.
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