Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-03
NO. A.
NEWS IN BRIEF


made of hot Scotch.
There will he eleven State elections
ON the 2d of November.
A Potter Co. pa bee-trce has
yielded $50 pounds of honey
The next Worlds Fair after the
Centennial will be held at Rome
The New Jersey eranberry-growers
report a large falling of in this seasons
crop.
-Rumor has it that A. L. Stewart
will build grand hotel in Washington
next year.
Detective Pinkerton has expended
$4,000 trying to find Charley Ross and
still he is at it.
In spite of grasshoppers, Minnesota
will be able to sell %, ,000, 900 bushels of
grain this season.
The Connecticut apple crop has
fallen off 80 per cent. as compared with
last years yield.
Charleston Is. c. colored ladies in
the boarding house business cowhide
delinquent boarders.
The amount of sand paper annually
produced in the United States is esti-
mated 3t ZUu,VVO reams.
The tailors of ST. Louis have formed
a base ball club. Eightv-one of them
will constitute the first nine.
Two couples were recently married
in an Iowa cornfield. Their first son
should be named Kernel Cobb.
The total amount paid by New York
churches for their choirs is not less
than half million dollars year.
Another distinguished artist is en-
route for America. The pianist Bulow
is on his way over the briny billow.
The stamp duty on patent medi-
cines manufactured in Great Britain
last year amounted TO over $57l ,6l0.
Gen. James S. Negley has been
elected viee-president (for Pennsyl-
vania) of the army of the Cumberland.
Mrs. Farragut, widow of the Ad-
miral, has returned to her home in New
York, after long stay in California.
DIR. Lemuel Moss, late President of
the Chicago University, has been elected
President of the Indiana State Cniver-
sity.
Georgia is drilling battalion COM
posed of companies in Augusta, Atlanta,
Macon and Savannah, for the Centen-
nial.
Mrs. Lizzie Ehling is a young 9ro-
naut who recently made an ascent at
Harrisburg, Pa, without breaking her
neck.
The Pacific ocean is somewhat deep
i'm places. The greatest depth, as found
by the British ship Challenger was five
miles.
One colored head waiter at Cape
Nav made 81 900 in fees during the
past season, and another, at Saratoga,
&, 900.
Out of 500 convicts i'm the Georgia
Penitentiary only one-tenth are white,
the majority being negro boys of ten
and twelve.
"A woman arrested i'm Cleveland re-
Gently for fighting gave her residence
as Lake Erie. She must belong to the
floating population.
The life-saving station ut East
Rockaway, l.. 4. is so endangered by
the washing of recent storms that il
will have to be moved.
The sail boat Water Witch recently
made the entire distance of Seneca Lake
from Watkins TO Geneva, under double
reef sails inside of four hours.
1t is said that the foundations of the
new Chicago Court House are to rest
upon piles driven sixty feet deep, at a
cost of as many thousand dollars.
In Bell County, Texas, there is a
farm of $500 acres, which is enclosed
by one fence and cultivated by thirty
two owners, every one of whom is un-
married.
"A Pultney IN. " girl put in a
good ten hours work the other day.
She nailed in that time 900 grape-boxes
driving 10000 nails and handling 5000
pieces of wood
Three acres of oats recently
threshed at Cleveland, Welded 270
bushels in weight-or 90 bushels per
acre. Wheat from the same farm aver
aged &c bushels per acre.
There are l,7OO, 900 Baptists in the
United States, and only 100000 in
/ England. Virginia alone has as many
as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Massachusetts put together.
There is a pond near Watch Hill
Rhode Island, the bottom of which the
longest sounding lines have never sue
ceeded in finding, and which is popu-
larly supposed to be fathomless-
Custer City is the name of a new
town laid out in Custer county, Dakota.
IL is lOated near the Gordon stOckade in
Custer park, Black Hills The city is
watered by two mountain streams, and
surrounded by rich placer mines.
A Norman in Provo, of whom Cap
tain Goldman tells in the Gdl1Iy, is
ninety-two years old and the father of
/ sixty children, the eldest of whom is
seventy-years old, and the youngest
sixty-seven years his brothers junior.
Bears begin TO show themselves
pretty freely in Stratton, VT. One
came within thirty rods of a dwelling
one day, killed a sheep, ate part of IL,
and carried Off the rest of the carcass
the next night.
California is sending two carloads
of pears to the East every day, and the
sanguine CalifOrnians hope that in
few wears they will realize more money
from their exports of fruit than from
their exports of wheat.
A prize Is offered by Canadian
Agricultural SOclety ioT tne Oc,t uIcdu
made and baked by bachelors. And the
bachelors naturally wonder why the
society doesn't offer premium for the
best well dug by old maids.-Norristo'eH
Herald.
The music in eleven Episcopal
churches in New York costs nearly
SO, 400. Trinity Church leads with an
annual expenditure of $4,000. In five
Roman Catholic churches in that city
the annual outlay for music is 1880.
The expenditure for music annually in
all the New York city churches is over
half a million dollars.
+ 1t is a remarkable fact and very
. creditable to the San Francisco savings
, banks that the failure Of the bank Of
, California was not accompanied nor
. followed by anything in the shape of a