Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-25
NO. "a.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


of pine lands untouched yet.
The Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor of Iowa is a working farmer
-Three-fourths of our dried black
berries come from North Carolina.
California devotes 10000 acres to
grape growing, comprising 3O,O0O,eo0
vines.
months old that is warranted 10 weigh
l2l pounds.
Forty years ago there were only two
architects in New York; now there are
five hundred.
AT Bethlehem, y. H., there Is ho-
tel called the STAR 1t is ''the Star OF
Bethlehem"
Col. BOdine has been made President
of the Hudson River Rifle Association
in his absence.
A son of Brigham Young has just
entered the Law Department of the Tn
iversity of Michigan
Brigham Young's wife is dead;
that is TO saw, one of her is. The de
ceased's name was Emmeline.
"A Troy girl has found 325 needles
in an old cushion recently. and now
Schenectady girl has found 1872.
General Joseph E. johnson, OF
Georgia, has been elected President OF
the Arkansas Industrial University.
Buffalo makes announcement that
it has eight boat clubs, but there is not
one of them that is known to fame.
-Iowa's new capitol building at Des
Moines covers an acre and and an eighth
of ground, and will cost about 5 ,000, 900.
The Connecticut Legislature has re-
jected the bill requiring doors Of halls
and other public places to oopen outward.
The losses by the fire insurance
the past six months aggregate $40, ,OOO,-
900.
Isn't it strange that the "Sons of
don't believe a sober col
ored man To be as good as a sober white
man?
Ex-senator Carpenter, of Wiscon-
has been retained by the city of New
York to assist in the prosecution of
Tweed.
in the water above Niagara Falls causes
a rise of sixteen feet in the river below.
Why is thisf
The City bank of Montreal aud the
Royal Canadian bank of Toronto are tn
be united into Que concern, with a cap
ital of s4,000,0O0.
Several cottages at Newport have
been rented for nearly one
third less than was asked in the early
part of the season.
-RoxfOrd, Mass, has no hotel or
drinking saloon, no drunkard or loafer,
no lawyer or doctor, and is tn health
lest place in the State.
-''Maueh Chunk is now called the
Switzerland of America" Ii il about
the fortieth, but the country il big
enough to hold them.
The introduction of machinery for
slate from coal is depriying
thousands of boys of work in the an
thracite coal regions.
A Missouri judge has just decided
hat mother has no legal right 10
thrash her daughter after the girl has
passed her eighteenth birthday.
The Titusville Courier saws: The
sale of the Pennsylvania Petroleum
has been again postponed, this
time to the l4th of September.
jay Cookies Put-in-Bay ''Gibral-
tar" didn't sell. No body would bid
over $50, 900, and the seller wasn't au-
TO sell for less than $40, 900.
Professor Stowe, a Virginia miner
alogist, says that, if the State was work
ed with the same skill California is, the
profits would be as great in proportion.
Somebody estimates that in the I'm
tied States the aggregate amount of time
spent by passengers in the ears in one
year reaches as high rs l,O00, ,000, 900
hours.
The Canadian courts have just de-
eided that deed given by drunken
man, who receives a very inadequate
is TO be treated As a mort
gage only.
The trustees of Vassar College have
thrown open the art gallery, geological
department and other interesting rooms
Of the college to the public during the
months.
The new Jail in st. Louis which is
said to be the handsomest and cOstliest
In the United States, seems to be appre-
ciated. There are twelve murderer
there now.
Many of the Bates College students
are employed as walters during the
summer vocation at the Rhode Island
tK~nf faraK. ii n n.
in the White Mountains.
Out OF sixty-four rectors in the Pro-
testant Episcopal Diocese of Maryland,
Il i found that the salaries of thirty
five were below 81 900 a year; some
receive 500, and some as low a. $500.
Eleven years ago a man in Troy,
y. Y, took $500 worth OF Nevada min
ing stock in payu ent of a debt which
he could not collect in any other way.
The other day he received an offer of
s3O, 900 for his share.
by industry and perseverance wo-
man can make a quilt from 2l ,0G3 pieces
Such thing has been done in Georgia,
after years Of labor and the quilt il a.
good in all respects as one made from
one piece in single day.
AT the State fair which is to be held
at Elmira this year, commencing Sep
tember 18th, prize of 800 Is offered
for the best general exhibition of farm
produce, and also 800 for the best gen
eral exhibition of live stock.
The Hogan family, of Utah, Men
docinO county Cal, deserves to be elas-
sed with the giants Of old. The father
stands s feet inches in his stockings,
one son 8 feet 6 inches, second feet
3 l-2 inches, and third s feet7 inches.
"A swordfish weighing three hun
dred pounds was recently left by the
returning tide in shoal water near Den
mis- Port, Me. A man attacked the fish
with a club, and after clinging to it for
nearly three miles succeeded in landing
it.
Stone, the sculptor, now engaged
at Carrara, Italy, upon colossal statue
of General Baker (who was killed at
Balls Bluff, for which SIC, 900 was ap-
by the last Congress, writes