Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-11
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Paul Boyton has rescued sixty-one
persons from drowning.
Edwin Booth Is going to play
Richard H. next season.
The tobacco users of San Francisco
expend over q, AS, 900 ON tobacco an
nually.
-Pennsylvanis has about 25O Ma
sonic Lodges with a membership of So
900 Master Masons.
The street sweepings of Virgins
City, New, yield $7.54 of silver and 81.
81 Of gold to the ton.
"A Fort Dodge, Iowa, man hiss sp-
piled for a patent on a plop to DC
worked by wind power.
Over $4,000 acres of land in Iron
county, Missouri, are advertised TO be
sold for delinquent taxes.
| President Grant has made one COM
meneement speech this year. There
are sixty-two words in it.
The Indiana census brings to light
matron who has nineteen children with
but seven births among them.
"A steam yacht ran around Long
Island, 240 miles and won race in nine
hours and twenty-five minutes.
The famous Cunard steamer Scotia.
the only side wheel vessel in the trans
Atlantic trade has been withdrawn.
The st. Louis people are still clam
oring to have the next National Demo
cratic Convention held in their city
A picture of Morse, the adapter of
lightning TO telegraphy, has been de-
stroyed by lightning in New Orleans.
Something new was observed In
New York the other day, in the ship
ment of 800 barrels of sugar for Tur-
key. ....
-Ex-GOv. Bigler positively declines
to be candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor of Pennsylva-
mia.
Carthage, Mo-, has red headed
paper with blue combinations. Ii rep
resents its editor on looking over the
subscription list.
-Ex Senator Poole is a candidate for
the Secretaryship of the Interior,
though it is by no means certain that
Delano is to retire.
The state temperance reform party
of California have nominated a full
ticket for state officers, headed by W. Z.
Lovett for governor.
j. P. Foley, j. MaeFarland and W.
B. Shaw, well-known Washington cor
respondents, have purchased the Balti-
more EreRing Ne,os.
The Cincinnati Exposition opens
September 8, this year, and closes Octo-
Der 8. Articles will be received from
August TO September Z.
Kate Field made eight thousand
dollars the first year she lectnred,
which is probably more than she will
ever realize as an actress.
There is great rush to the Black
Hills since Prof. Janney gave publicity
to the fact that he made twenty-six
cents day washing gold.
The Legislative Suffrage Commit.
tee of the Connecticut Legislature have
reported in favor of allowing women to
vote in Presidential elections.
The friends of Bowdoin College are
making great efforts to raise $40 900 for
the establishment of Longfellow Pro-
fessorship in honor of the poet.
Fully $4,000 Detroit people went out
TO view the scene of the recent tornado
devastation, but only twenty-seven per-
sons attended the relief meeting.
The Missouri Democratic State Ex-
ecutive Committee have resolved that
st. Louis is the proper place for the
National Democratic Convention.
An enterprising New-Englander
gives away hymn books to his Sunday
school containing on alternate pages
clever notices of his clothing store.
The Woman's Journal says Mrs.
Tilton is going to ask for a divorce.
That would certainly be more respecta-
BILE than the much predicted making
up.
A convention in the interest of the
greenback party is called to meet at
Detroit, Mich. August 25th, and B. F.
Butler, w. d. Kelly, Moses W. Field
and others are expected to address the
meeting.
The old mansion formerly occupied
by Lieutenant-General Scott still stands
in Elizabeth, n. j., and il is now pro-
posed to buy it for a public historical
library and depository of old MSS,
relics, books rendezvous for future
generations.
The Macon Telegraph and Messen-
ger saws that thew are thousands of
miles Of expensive railways i'm the South
wnich u would oe ruinous 10 accept as
Tree gu. uhuer the oolSation 10 run
lhem, anu IL Is meianchoiy laet tnat
most even Oh oetter Class are sadiy
down Al the heei-
New Workers are congratulating
themselves on the completion of an all
rail connection. with Long branch
The distance from Jersey City is forty
five miles, and the running time one
hour and thirty-five minutes. Six
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