Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-28
NO. 80.
NEWS IN BRIEF

-1OLLrus AlotCi- NJ Olldlldf W NdS oOli
by the Sheriff for sl2 ,O25.
New Haven has raised the salaries
of her public school teachers.
I "A western circus has a wax-work
group OF the principals in the Beecher
trial.
Hon. Heister Clymer is spoken OF
ss the Democratic candidate for Vice
President.
"A heavy present. \ father in Iowa
recently gave his daughter lead mine
As bridal dover.
A Ha-rodsburg Ky)man boasts over
80 grandchildren and more than 100
great grandchildren.
IT is reported that the marquis of
/ Lorne and Princess Louisa intend max
i ing tour Of the United States.
BY advice Of his physician, Speaker
Blaine will not participate in the Ohio
political campaign next autumn.
1t is thousand years this year since
the first naval victory of the English
was gained by Alfred over the Danes.
-Watermelons, roasting ears of corn,
peaches, pears and cantelopes are plenty
in Georgia, Texas and South Carolina
They have found out a use for patent
office reports at last, by distributing
them as prizes al rural spelling matches
Coy. Tilden. bv his Canal Policy,
has saved nearly s., ,0O0, 900 To the State
OF New York. He i model governor.
The Great Eastern has been char
tered 10 run between Liverpool and
Philadelphia during the Centennial.
1t is estimated that there are 500
tons of old rubber shoes manufactured
into car-springs in Boston annually
The SOrosis OF New York are de
termined not u patroniZe the stores
where shop girls are kept standing all
day.
-Keraronwee. an Indian runner
tried To run ten miles in an hour at OF
tawa, Ont, but failed BY thirry-two
seconds.
All persons visiting Washington on
official business should understand that
Long Branch is the present seat offs gov
ernment.
The Iowa Penitentiarv Commits
sioners have at last succeeded in put
ting that Institution on a self support
ing basis.
-Commo lore Vanderbilt savs hr
wants to see railroad ears running loo
miles per n0ur, including necessary
stoppages.
From twenty to thirty thousand
dollars worth of silver Is annually
swept up from the floor of the mint at
Philadelphia.
II
opened on the twenty-ffth of October,
lS25. Here's chance for semi-cen-
tennial this fall.
The new Masonic temple in New
York is said 10 have cost Il round mil
lion. Yet it is built upon level and
paid for on the square.
They have tail students at Auburn
N. Y theological seminary. Morgan
hall in that institution is advertised as
containing ''a few rooms for students
IL feet in height
The general force of the Treasury
Department at Washington, will by the
reorganization be reduced 10 the extent
of Isl employees. at saving, it i,
claimed Of 500, 900.
KENTUCKY counties are eOntending
for the parentage Of Secretary Bristow.
Clark county claimed him, but Todd
county gets him, while Clark county
consoles itself with his father.
indianapolis people wan. 10 marry
each other themselves, and avoid feeling
preachers and magistrates, but Judge
Bushkirk has instructed the Grand Jury
To show them that they can't.
There is new counterfeit 81. 900
bank note in circulation. Country edi-
tors should beware of it, and sean every
note of this denomination with more
than ordinary circumspectiOn.
Those sailors who earned prize
money in 1862 and haven't received IL
up to 1875 have come TO the conclusion
that it's better TO work for low wages
and get their cash every Saturday night.
A Washington dispatch says 300 adj
ditional money order offices have been
designated by the Post Office Depart
ment. The additions, will make the
total number Of money or Ter offices
1891.
Red Cloud and spotted Tail have
agreed 20 give up the Black Hills for
twenty-five thousand dollars worth OF
horses, cows, harness and wagons. No
mention Is made of Whiskey, rifles OF
tracts.
some Savannah ladies' have pledged
their word of honor, each to the other,
that they viii not, for one year. purchase
any material for wearing apparel which
shall exceed in cost twenty-five cents
per yard.
Tourists % the Yosemite Valley say
that no human being can appreciate the
grandeur of nature where he has to pay
seventy-five cents for Bologna sau-
sage and fifty cents for a cup of poor
whi9key. ..
During his recent short stay in In
dianapOlis. Postmaster General jewell
succeeded in reducing the running ex-
penses OF the post office in that city
SGJOO chiefly by the discharge of super
fluOus clerks.
The Chicago papers thinks that II
Jacobs stone pillow was of the same
material a. their Custom House il must
have been very comfortable. They pro
pose 10 sell the building materials for
Jacobs Pillows"
A Chicago sharp By the name Of
Otis, has presented a bill against the
Government Of $500 per annum for
three years for the use of pOst-hole.
Calculation shows the charge to be at
the rate Of s., 5000 per acre.
The Secretary Of War has notified
eighty-three members Of the House OF
Representative to nominate candidates
To fill the vacancies now existing and
u occur at the Military Academy by
the graduation of cadets in June, 1876.
Three Southern States are TO elect
members to a constitutional convention
the ensuing fall. They are, North Car
oIina, Alabama, and Texas. In the two
last il IS believed that principal point
for Democratic attack viii be the free
school system.
The New Orleans Republican, ''Of-
I fetal organ of the State of louisiana"
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