Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-07-21
NEWS IN BRIEF

roads are paid seventy-hve cents day.
There are 73, $40 farms In Virginia,
of which As ,02S are under one hundred
acres.
The widow of the late Prof. Benjs-
min Silliman has Just died at New
Haven.
Southern papers state that the gen.
eral crop prospects in that section were
never better.
Mr.. Pullman is making arrange
ments to introduce his palace ears on
the Italian railroads.
1t is said that the Appleton's have
offered General Sherman $50 900 for the
copyright of his book.
-''Mr Variegated Narrative" is the
latest name for the distinguished Sioux
chieftain, Spotted Tail.
A half interest in the New Pacific
Hotel, San Francisco, is said to have
been sold for 81, ,75O, 900.
-Boston's taxation, this year, will be
four hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars less than last year.
The total number of hogs packed
during the last twenty-five years Is, In
round numbers, a, ,OO0, 900.
4
Hon. Asa Packer has been ap-
pointed chairmen of the centennial
standing committee on finance.
| The number of volumes taken out
of the Public Library during the past
year exceeds 750, ,OOO.-Boston Journal.
The citizens of California are to
vote next September whether they shah
| have n (tnnstitrrtiA,,al EnvuansfN,,
1t is claimed that there is more
actual work in railroad building now in
progress in Indiana than in any other
State.
An aggrieved individual wanted
| S1OO, 900 damages from the Denver (Col.l
Tribune, and the jury invited him to pay
the cost.
George Francis Train has been
nominated for the Presidency by the
National Temperance organization at
Chicago.
IT. W. Park of Bennington, VT, Ia
said to be one of the wealthiest men In
the country. His property is valued at
s17 ,00O,O
The Director of Mints thinks, In
view of the recent fall in silver, that it
will soon be in circulation in place of
fractional currency.
DR.. Won Bulow the celebrated plan
iSt who will arrive in this country In
October, is announced to make his first
appearance in Boston.
One of the Plymouth Church back
ers, MIR. Henry W. Sage, has determined
to leave Brooklyn and take up his resi-
dence ut Ithaca. n. Y.
"A. L. Stewart says that the best way
to make-a u man honest is to watch him.
The custom house officers will please
keep an eye on Mr.. Stewart
The Connecticut House of Repre-
sentatives indulged in the joke of refer
ring petition for women Suffrage to
the Committee on Insurance.
The dominion government has sent
remonstrance to Washington, against
the practice of detaining for examina-
ton sealed cars entering the States at
Island Pond from Canada.
"A libel suit for $4,000 brought by
stephen Grant against the Portland
(Me-) Press was decided in favor of the
defendant. The Press asserted that
'As'he was tiic uiSStSt udT III the Statt.
There is no danger of Boyton's sue
cess damaging the ocean steamship busi-
ness. One of his rubber suits costs
nearly as much as cabin-passage, and
the latter has some decided advantages
for long distances.
An agent of the Treasury Depart
ment has reported that the offices at
several small of
sinecures, and it is believed that Secre-
tary Bristow will abolish them, As
authorized by law.
secretary BristOw is pushing the
whiskey fraud investigation in the West
and is confident he can secure the con-
viction of members of the whiskey ring
out there. A good many additional
seizures will be made.
They are catching pickerel weigh
ing from eighteen to twenty pounds in
the lakes at Madison, Wis. The sport
at Menasha is reported the best of any
known this season, thus far and at Pee
waukee, bass are simply ravenous.
Mr.. Reuben Springer, the public
spirited Cincinnatian who recently do
mated Sl25, 900 to that city for the pur-
pose of building music hall, has now
increased his donation with $4,000
more. Cincinnati is rejoicing over the
fact.
On the lst of July the new postal
law regarding money orders is to go
into effect. Now the tariff is five cents
for orders under $40. The new charges
viii be ten cents for all orders under $40
and fifteen cents for all orders from $50
to $50.
j. Il. johnson and Thomas Coyle of
Chester, p, have made arrangements
for swimming match for a thousand
dollars side in July next, the course
to be from Chester on the Delaware
River to Philadelphia, distance of six
teen miles.
"A new line of steamers to run be-
tween Baltimore and Rio de Janeiro has
been established, one vessel to leave
each port monthly. Ii is expected that
by this means the coffee trade of Balti-
more will be largely increased, as well
as its shipments Of flour.
Charles G. Fuller, president, and
John Il. MOwry, treasurer of the Cham
plain paper company, Norwich, CT,
have absconded, leaving outstanding OBJ
legations to the estimated amount of
seventy thousand dollars, the greater
part of which is believed TO be in forged
notes.
Eleven States and Territories are
still out of the pale of Centennialism.
Dakota, Delaware, District of Columbia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah, Yer
mont and West Virginia, have not yet
manifested cents worth of interest In
the Philadelphia big show.
-Vice-President Wilson has been
convincing the New York Tribune that
his health is pretty fair by climbing the
flights of stairs which led to the edito-
rial sanetum instead of waiting for the
elevator. He is peculiarly anxious just
now that there should be no doubt as to