Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-22
NEWS IN BRIEF

During the past year 200 divorces
were granted In Maine.
1t took the American rifle team Just
eleven weeks 20 become famous.
The theatrical benefits for Dan
Bryant's family reached $1,000.
An extensive show of dogs will be
held in Chicago in January next.
Massachusetts skins out well. Her
leather product is valued at S29, ,000, 200.
There are fourteen Democratic can
didates for the governorship Of Georgia.
"A white moeking-bird has been
caught and Gagged at Charleston, 5. C.
The GTaphic company has secured
the Government contract for printing
check stamps.
Lawyers have clear majority in
the Indiana Senate, and farmers 4 quo
rum in the House.
Oregon is great ilax-producing
State, having now IL 900 acres of the
plant under cultivation.
The Adams and American Express
companies employ 800 men who travel
over 100000 miles day.
"A company has been formed to
build a narrow gauge railroad from
Omaha to the Black Hills.
Gilmore proposes to celebrate the
Centennial by having 100000 persons
sing the one hundredth psalm.
Additional discoveries of extraor-
dinariIy rich gold, silver and copper
mines are reported in Arizona
Solomon Eaton, of Irasburg, is said
To have the largest hop-yard in YER
mont. He has 5000 hills, covering ten
acres.
Since the failure of Duncan, Sher-
man Il Go. rev rents in Brooklyn have
dropped ~ per cent. and are still going
down.
--Shroeder, the Baltimore balloOnist
has been engaged by Barnum. and will
be the next sacrifice to eronautic all
vertising.
The portrait of Jefferson Davis,
Secretary of War under President
Pierce, has been added to the War De-
partment collections.
jefferson Davis declines to accept
the gift of homestead i'm Texas, which
it was proposed TO pay for by dollar
subscriptions.
The church at Bethlehem Heights,
y. H., is many feet higher than any
other ecclesiastical establishment in the
United States.
-lIoratiO Seymour, .Ir., has it is said
been offered the position of Division
Engineer of the Erie Canal, but has
not yet accepted.
The indications now are that the
grape crop in California this year will
he considerably the largest that has
ever been produced.
Arizona is tired of greenbaeks. and
seeing the prosperity OF her hard
money neighbor, California is thinking
of adopting the gold standard.
San Francisco will shortly ship to
the AiikadO of Japan a state earl iage
valued ut 5000, four horses worth S25-
900, and harness costing 81 800.
Immigration into the United States
shows Il decrease of $1,000 for the year
ending June 30th, 1875, as compared
with'the year ending June Goth, 1874.
Memphis proposes to build an ele-
vatOr at the river, with the view of
building up trade with Georgia. Ala
hama, the Carolinas, etc., for grain in
bulk.
The new national bank notes are to
he printed on silk-fibre paper. the
Treasury officials believing this mate
rial to be a good device against counter
feiting.
A Massachusetts, snuff taker calcu-
lates that during the past forty years he
has titillated his nostrils with two
thirds of 4 ton of the pungent dust,
valued 1T $500.
Governor Stanford, the railroad po-
tentate OfCalifornia, is erecting a splen-
did mansion i'm San Fran isco, that will
cost from $500, 900 to $500, 900. Ii is to
b. earthquake proof.
The statement of the condition of
savings Banks of the State of New York
shows a gain of 81 ,2O0. .000 i'm deposits
since Jan. |, and gain of over 5000
in the number of depositors.
A migratory sheep raiser in Beat
rice, Neb., has flock of 800. He lives
in a house ON wheels and with his
family and flocks, migrate from place to
place in search of good grazing grounds.
-s'btAi'bbAN Suggests tiistl
llamlin's head ought to be put on the
postage-stamps, 81 that everybody may
have the pleasure of punching it when
a transient newspaper is to he mailed.
The new Cathedral ut Boston will
be dedicated on the Feast Ofthe Immac-
ulate Conception, December 3, and the
occasion will be the most int resting in
the history of Catholicity in New Eng
land.
Mr.. Samuel Langley, of New Dur
ham, n H., is a school law unto him
self, as thirteen the fourteen children
that attend the district school are his.
and he is keeping four others in re-
serve.
The American Bridge Company has
under construction this year an aggre-
gate length of l6, ,0S3 feet of iron bridges,
a little more than three miles, $3.50 feet
of which is for the Cincinnati Southern
Railway company.
Andrew johnson is the sixth mem-
Der of the new Congress who has been
buried. The others are Bufiinton, of
Massachusetts; Uersey, of Maine;
Allen, of New York; Head, of Tennes-
see, and Ia Dow, of Oregon.
The WinnipiseOSee Mills, at Frank
lin, y. H., have the heaviest paper ma
chine ever built, which runs Il sheet of
paper 30 inches wide, about 100 feet a
splits it into two sheets, and
rolls it into rolls about five miles long.
In an agricultural convention at
Dalton, Ga, few days ago, a gentle
man called upon all present who owned
sheep and no dogs to rise, and thirteen
rose up. lie then called upon all who
owned dogs and no sheep TO rise, and
sixty or seventy responded.
"A musket which Aaron Burr cap
tured while serving under Benedict
Arnold, at the attempted storming OF
Quebec, on the night of December 81,
l1.j, is Ou exhibition in OswegO. The
gun is Of the Queen Anne pattern, and
weighs twentyseven pounds.
When Andrew johnson was Cover