Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-02
NO. %.
NEWS In BRIEF.

| -NaSSaehnSetts female surragiStS are
up aud at them again.
Mrs. Tilton will keep boarding
house on the Hudson.
"A National Congress ofbankers will
meet at Saratoga, y. y, July ~.
The Connecticut State Prison cleared
s21 IL above its expenses last year. ...
SEQ. W. Childs denies that he has
ever written line OF obituary poetry.
The first woman physician i'm Can
ada has just been licensed To practice.
The shares OF the Chemical bank OF
New York sell for sl,6o0-par value
800.
f1ctory. SG,0OU has already been sub
scribed.
Out of the | RIO students in Oberlin
College, Ohio, 6;i;i-nearly one half
are women.
! Gov. Basley, of Michigan, has signed
the hill reducing the tax ON insurance
premiums TO ; per cent.
! dispatches from variouS points in
Minnesota encourage the hope that the
cold weather has Killed the grasshop-
pers.
| The Topeka Commonwealth says
there was never better prospect for
an abundant harvest ia Kansas than the
present.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has reduced the fare from New York to
Chicago to sixteen dollars and twenty
five cents.
Twenty thousand alligator skins are
tanned every year, and the business has
become an important branch ofinduStry
at the South.
There are % JOS telegraph stations
in the world; 1870 in Europe, . ,Il3 i'm
America, !, l29 in Asia, 2Jl in Australia,
and l21 in AfEiGa.
Mr.. Charles 4. Dana is about tn re-
sign the e,litorship Of the New York
San and make a tour tJ Europe for the
benefit of his health
The base balliStS have rot a white
stocking club, a brown siocking club
and rel stocking club. Where's the
striped stocking organization
Eleven hundred and twenty empty
houses in the twin cities of Pittsburg
and Allegheny attest the severity of the
l'''f-7'''i w Aii' ii'h ii'itNiitf~.
Mr. Gushing has notified the State
Department that the Spanish Govern
ment has paid the whole of the Virgin
iuS indemnity amounting to ssO, 600.
MIR. Wood d. Smith, Of Calhoun
county, Iowa, proposes to have his
name charged by Legislative enactment
He'd rather it Wood B something else.
And now VIM. A Conant, of Brat
tleboro', VT, comes forward and says
he has a clock that was tickin. 100 wears
ago at Concord Mass. 1t j. still ticking.
Jim FiSk'S father is going 10 the
Holy Land. The old man seems to want
tn put as many leagues between James
and himself as his means will permit.
The editors of South Carolina, rep
resenting - newspapers, have formed a
Press Association, with James \. lIOyt,
of the Anderson inteIligenccr. as Pres 4.
ilent.
The mortality of the United States
was not 81 great as it might have been
considering that .li:6, ,3,6 pounds of ar
senic aud llG,n5j pounds OF jalap were
consumed here.
The educational law passed by the
last Texas Legislature fixes ia. compsn-
sati"n of public schools in that State at
ten cents per day for each pupil in
actual attendance.
An inebriate, named Robert Wilson
was arrested in Brooklyn and hooked rs
an actor. TN inquiry it was found that
the only parts he played We're the hind
leg oi IN elephant.
The war rImors current in Europe
are generally diScredited b, the London
papers. Dispatches from Paris state
that no cause uf conflict exists between
Germany and France.
Major Ben. Pcrlev Poore has re-
turned from Mexico and reports an
earnest disposition ON the part Of the
Mexican Government to suppress the
troubles ON the border.
Mr.. Bancroft expresses the opinion
that the Western Reserve of Ohio con-
tains more intelligent population than
any other territory of the same extent
anywhere in the world.
The revenue raised I'm England i'm
the financial year lS13-74 was the larg-
est which has ever been received at the
ENchequer in the time at peace II
amounted to Ia ,:Esj ,Gj7.
-BaltimorranS don't know what To
drink. The hylrant water tastes ishy,
and the doctors say that the pump and
well water is So impure that il produces
Try su'tlin else.
The Honorable George ". PendIr-
ton is confident that the Democratic
party, with wisdom ia its councils and
energy in its action, can carry Ohio by
a lars, majority next Fall.
Hon. James u. McCreerv. has been
nominated 10y the Democrats Tor Cover
nor of Kentucky, and Hon. Benjamin
Hill is elected to Congress in Georgia.
in place of Mcmillan deceasrd.
They sell tickets for a spelling
match in san Francisco, and when the
guests are consr-sIted two game roos-
trrS are put in the pit aud allowed to
spell lt each other as long aS they like.
~ first class mathematician eSti-
mates that it will require 27t. .Sl9 .O93,OO
quarts of peanuts Ia celebrate the Cen
tennial. lie is now figuring ON the
number of gum drops and popcorn
halls.
An investigation into the accounts
Of contractors for State repairs in Mas
sachus,stts has resulted in the dis:illow-
ing of some Sl5,OOn of claims. aud "A Gen.
sure Of the authorities who contracted
the debts.
The President Of the Handel and
Haydn Society-the pride of Boston
has resigned his office Mr.. Ranes has
been a member OF that melodious society
for twenty-three years for four of those
years at it, head.
Before the Government Of the
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