Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Northern Alabama.
Young ladies at the Holyoke, Mass.
seminary are taught TO swim.
-Sitka, in Alaska territory, has five
hundred and two people and one news
paper.
The girls of Whitewater, Wis, have
decided that they will not pin back their
drsses.
-Ex-President johnson had policies
of insurance on his life to the amount
of $3.50, 900.
| The labor market on the Pacific
coast is overstocked, and poverty stares
people in the face.
The Bible is now printed in no fewer
than 2lO languages. In 1854 it was
printed in only fifty.
The authorities of Newton, Mass,
propose to erect a monument to the
memory of Roger sherman.
The White Sulphur Springs Hotel,
Va, will be pulled down next year. Ii
cost 81 ,2O0, goo, and hasn't paid.
| The Indian census brings to light a
matron who has nineteen children, with
but seven birthdays among them.
Tennessee now gives kindly sepul-
ture to the mortal remains of three ex-
Presidents-Jackson, Polk and Johnson
Seventeen bears have been killed in
Mattawamkeag, Maine. this season. The
State pays five dollars for each capture.
To call woman piano, is deemed
an actionable slander in Canada-prob-
ably because it seems to imply that she's
forty,
George Peabody was bachelor, but
the Chicago AdrdHce refers to him as
the ''father-in-law" of Professor Marsh,
OF Yale.
Mr.. Fulton, of the Baltimore Aneri-
cdR, says he'd rather be high private
than the next Governor of Maryland.
Hes a trump.
The free excursion system i'm Balti-
more has much reduced the death-rate
among the poor children of that city
this summer.
Some enterprising individual has
filed land claim in the Washington
Office for the ground upon which Chi
cago is built.
Tom Sayers, son of the noted pugil-
ist, l. a jockey, and has been riding at
Saratoga. He Is said TO resemble his
ittc idtHtt TtuliThdDlN-
The gentle citizens of De Soto, No.,
have passed resolutions declaring that
they will hereafter hang every horse
thief they can lay their hands on.
50 Rip Van Wrinkle" jefferson an
nounces his determination to spend the
next three years in Europe, and will not
appear on the boards during that period.
Al.
Penitentiary are rather high-toned.
They mutinied the other day because
they could not get three meals per day.
The adventists have now set Sep
tember 10th, the anniversary of the
battle of Lake Erie, as the day when
the world will come to an end.
The entries of the great Central
New York Fair, to be held i'm Utica,
September q, are coming i'm rapidly.
lt is thought they will aggregate over
1000.
The population of Rhode Island has
increased li9, 400 in 30 years, while
Vermont and New Hampshire have in
creased but 3s, ,G03 and 80, 726, respee-
lively.
"A Mormon wagon brought the first
rat t. Phoebe, New, that ever made an
appearance in that city. A Gentle cat
nabbed the polygamous rodent and put
an end TO his career.
Among the delightful summer re-
sorts in Vermont is mentioned one
named Bread Loaf Inn. You can Loaf
Inn and loaf out there at your own will,
just as much as you want to.
The Vermont State debt has been
reduced to $l67 800, which is not vet
due, while the cash in the treasury
amounts to nearly that sum, and the
sinking fund to s167 1882 more.
OF the 10 silk manufacturing
establishments i'm the United States, 45
are located in New Jersey, and all but
> in Patterson. Work is described a.
quite brisk at the Paterson factories.
Minnesota will have this wear the
best and largest crop of potatoes for
many years. The crop of Western New
York, Notwithstanding the ravages of
the beetle, will be fully up to the aver
age
The buildings for the Vanderbilt
University are nearly finished. They
are to be dedicated next October. The
address will be by DIR. Deems, and Com
modore Vanderbilt i expected 10 be
present.
The Pension Office states the num-
Der of pensioners on the rolls, on June
80, at DDS, OBS, decrease Of 4 81 for the
year. The money paid was 81 ,250, 600
less the past year than the previous
year.
A new grove of colossal red wood
trees has been discovered in California.
One of them eclipses all that have been
discovered on the Pacific Coast. Its
circumference, six feet from the ground,
is hundred and fifty feet.
value of sl06,3l2: in 1871, it increased
to $3.50 ,543; and the increase since then
has been rapid and great. For the year
ending with July /, 1875, our leather
exports were to the amount of $5,6.8,-
III.
Mr.. George B. LOring, the Centen-
NAL Commissioner Of Massachusetts,, I'm
a circular just issued, says that the ap-
plications of Massachusetts for space at
the exhibition are about one hundred
and thirty, whereas they should exceed
one thousand.
An old lady of Litchfield, CT,
ninety-six years old, drove a pair of
horses attached TO a moving machine to
the field, the other day, and moved
three times around it, working the ma
chine herself, and doing the work as
well "a a man could.
President Orton says no PROPOSE
tion has been made to unite the Atlantic
aud Pacific Telegraph Company with
the Western Union that would be ac-
eepted by the latter, though there has
been considerable talk between leading
stockholders of both companies.
"A new society has just been organ
lied at Springfield, ILL.,, yalled the
=" Cousolationists." Ii j. composed of
bachelors and married men whose wives
are off for the season. A copy of the
constitution and bylaws would doubt
less prove interesting reading.