Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-29
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF


I'm the 225 churches in Brooklyn,
n. Y, Sl10,S50 are paid annually for
music.
A Boston murderer, in consequence
of his poor health, wants his execution
delayed.
The Chinese in California consume
nearly million dollars worth of opium
per year.
To the medical department of Cor
nell University chair of surgery is to
be added.
Five millions of bushels of wheat
from Texas and Arkansas will be
shipped North this season.
Forty wears ago 5S,O0O,OOO cigars
were manufactured yearly; now the
consumption demands AZ, 100000.
Professor King. the aeronaut, in
tends to construct two balloons at Buff
falo for use during the coming year.
The Democratic state of Georgia
has more than doubled its taxable
property since the close of the war
The long closed mines of Chihua-
hua are about to be reopened by New
York company, with a capital of So ,0O0-
900.
1t is reported that Gen. Butler is
retained as counsel for Tilton in the
second trial of his suit against Beecher.
From the clay pits around New
Brunswick. y. J., 235, 100000 tons of
clay valued at 81 100000, are annually
taken out.
OF Southern voters thirty-nine per
cent. are unable To read. In the North
the proportion is only one-fifth of that
percentage.
f-Ex-Senator Stockton, of New Jersey
is soon to make his home in Trenton,
y. j., where he will resume the prac-
tiee of the law.
Rev. Charles Fisher, of Hartford,
Conn.,, has just married his l,600th
couple, and has no idea how much he
has to answer for.
Wagering Kid gloves ON the races
has been all the rage among the ladies
at Saratoga; Stewards store has sold
about 10000 pairs.
-Rockfort, Mass, has an eighty
year-old citiZeu, who lives in l50-
year-old house, and sleeps under 2J0-
year-old counterpane.
-SiXty-five convicts i'm the Maine
PenitentLIry have agreed To take "a
weekly newspaper in lieu of their reg
ular allowance of tobacco.
-Chicago has eighteen steam eleva-
tors, with combined capacity of 10,
35O, 600 bushels. They cost, with the
land on which they rest, 81, 900 900.
The Rev Adirondack Murray will
y Al
ligious paper he is to edit. All reli-
giOus turfmen areexpected to subscribe.
In Massachusetts, two-thirds of the
towns townships have lost population,
as the recent census shows. The man
ufacturinS cities show large increase
The Pennsylvania department,
Grand Army of the Republic, have be-
gun to make arrangements to gather all
the posts in the country at the Centen-
nial.
General Spinner has left Washing
ton for the Summer, and is resting in
his old home, Mohawk, n. Y. In the
Fall he will go to Florida to spend the
Winter.
To provide an independent connec-
tiOn with New York City from the prin-
eipal water reservoirs, a new aqueduet
is proposed, to cost from $4,000, 900 to
$s,000,000.
Forest and Stream i'm behalf of
American sportsmen, has secured l POO
feet of space at the Centennial Exposi-
ton for the display of sporting articles
and rare birds.
-Lt.-Gen. Pemberton, of the late
Confederate army, who commanded at
Vicksburg, is employed by the Penn.
r. X. Co. in establishing iron works at
Perth Amboy, n. J.
The cultivation of tea in this
country has been successfully attempted
by Mr.. ID. Manard, of Louisiana who
has produced perfect article, which
sells at 81. 80 pound.
The fact dOesen't seem to have been
sufficiently circulated that the juries i'm
the Mountain Meadow massacre trial
and in the Beeeher case stood the same;
nine to three for acquittal.
Treasurer New and the express
companies have settled the dispute con-
cerning the transportation of national
bank notes by agreeing on a basis of %
cents per thousand dollars.
The contract for running sleeping
ears on the Michigan Central will, after
November, when the Pullman contract
expires, be given to Wagner. This is
due to Vanderbilt's opposition to Pull
man.
1t Is said that an effort will be made
next winter to secure "A law authorizing
the coming of gold pieces at New York
instead OF Philadelphia, on the ground
of economy in the cost of transporta-
tion.
C. Witherbee, man known almost
all over the world for his prominence
in connection with the iron trade, who
resided at Port Henry, n. Y, is dead.
He amassed an immense fortune in his
business.
-On the 81 of June last there were
two National banks in San Francisco
having on deposit and in circulation
s., ,:s2, ,704. and on hand in specie
81 ,l06, ,49l. The circulation was not
very large.
AT Wells Beach, VT, they harbor a
curious superstition that any one who
will take dip in the river on June &c,
will be free from sickness for one year,
and on that date hundreds flock to the
ciElTHicu WateT>-
| -Barreda, the Peruvian, minister
built a house at Newport at a cost,
with grounds and hot houses of 800, 600
and Mr.. w. II. Blodgett, of New York,
is said to have lately purchased the
property for slS4 900.
During the past summer more rat
tlesnakes have been killed along the
line of the Delaware river than were ever
known before, the long drought having
brought them down from the noun
tains to the damp. low grounds border
ing the rocky hills.
There are over 400 varieties of ap-
pies known by over 500 names, 2,2OO
of pears, 200 of cherries, l50 of plums,
800 of our native grapes, fifty of cur
rants, eighty Of raSpberries, and thirty
of blackberries, according TO a count
ing up of somebody.