Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
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NEWS In BRIEF.

Where he proposes 10 remain Two years.
The Michigan legislature appropri-
ated $iS,0OO to the university of Ann
Arbor.
The celebration of the next Fourth
of July in Boston is TO cost the city
$4,000.
-Ossian f. Dodge, so the gossips say
Is about to marry Mrs. Mcfarland
Richardson.
The Pension Office is to be reOrgan-
lied on the lst of July, and 30 clerks
will be discharged.
H. III. Wood, a prominent young
actor of Cincinnati, is going to leave
the stage for the pulpit.
-Governor Tilden will spend a por-
ton of the summer at Lake Mahopac,
where his sister has a cottage.
Gen. Mcclellan, who has been
spending the winter upon the Upper
Nile, will return home in July.
The number of women members of
the Patrons of industry, in the United
States. is said to be at least 100000.
A female bill-poster is doing an ex-
tensive business in New York. The
sex was always good at running up
bills.
-IIerschel V. johnson, who ran on
the Presidential ticket with Douglas, is
now county judge in Georgia, and
quite old.
In addition To his other qualifica-
tions, Hon. Mr.. Mcdonald the new gov
ernor of Ontario, has ''three charming
daughters"
Thirty thousand dollars have been
raised by the actors throughout the
country for fund for the family of the
late Dan Bryant.
The Grand Master of Free Masons
in Iowa has decided that dancing in the
Lodge room is inconsistent with the
good of the Craft.
"A commission has been appointed
by the Treasury Department to investi-
gate the alleged frauds in the building
of the Chicago Custom House.
The new five cent stamp to be used
for international postage under the late
Berne treaty has upon il a picture of
Gen. Zachary Taylor, in full uniform.
Has anybody remarked the curious
coincidence that the Schiller was lost on
the anniversary of the day, May 8, on
which, in 1905, the poet whose name she
bore died.
The Chinese Government has en-
gagged the eX-Confederate, Gen. Ripley
to construct works, on an extensive
scale for the defense of its coast and
principal rivers.
Representative Small of South Car
Olina has been arrested on a charge of
completely in the State sinking fund
frauds. He has given bail and declares
that he is innocent.
Mrs. Cornelia Loring, the widow of
Charles LOring, who shared with Ru-
fus Choate the leadership of the bar of
Massachusetts 20 years ago, has just
died at Florence in Italy.
The friends of Gen. Grant are now
urging him to write book in reply to
Sherman's. There are thousands of
young men who would gladly correct
his grammar ut a small salary.
brigham Young has been sick for
the last two weeks and unable to re-
ceive visitors. The Mormon temple at
st. George is nearly completed, and
over 600 persons are employed upon it.
The commissioner of the general
land office at Washington has issued a
circular, giving certain privileges to and
extending the time of preemptors, who
have suffered by the ravages of grass
hoppers.
The desertions from the L. ). army
from July lst, 1873, to June 30th 1874,
were ,606, and re-enlistments 699. For
the ten months ending April Both, 1875,
the desertions were l73l, and re-enlist-
ments, 1873.
"A eoroner's inquest i'm Boston wound
up with supper and musical entertain
ment. A corpse must have an appeti-
zing effect upon the Bostonian equal to
that of fat and slick missionary upon
Sandwich Islander.
George Alfred Townsend says of
Theodore 1Tlton: "Let him compOsea
beautiful epitaph, repeat it To Mrs.
Woodhull and few hundred more sym
pathetic old maids and gr;iss-widows,
and then get under it,
Col. Robert VI. and Stephen A.
Douglas, sons of the late Stephen \.
Douglas, have received from the Court
of Claims an award for 1867 bales of
cotton, $3.50, 900. seized i'm the State of
Mississippi on the maternal plantation.
George Grant, the founder of Vic
hdh~st-s 'Nl-
farm in the world, embracing $40, 900
acres. He has just wintered ! 900 sheep
with loss of only one per cent. He has
s25O, 900 invested in different kinds of
stock.
-Lucretir Borsia's autograph sold
for $40 the other day; that of Madame
de Pompalour for $50 of Lafontaine for
$l09; of Peter the Great for S3l of Ro-
bespierre for S2i; of Washington for sH
and OF Marat, Robespierre, and Vol
taire. for $50 each.
Mr.. Alvan Clarke, the noted tele-
scope manufacturer of Cambridgeport,
il now engaged on three powerful in
struments-One for the Austrian gov
ernment, one for the Putchard Institute
| in Missouri. and the third for Doctor
Draper, of New York city.
Bull Run Russell, of the London
| Times; Mr.. Eorbes, of the Ne,cS; Mr..
Edwin Arnold, of the telegraph: and
Mr.. Henry of the Standard, are about to
make little trip to India. They have
kindly consented to allow the Prince of
Wales To accompany them.
The President of the Board of Trade
Philadelphia has stated that any person
within radius of one hundred miles OF
Philadelphia would be enabled To at
tend the Centennial Exhibition view the
wonders, and return home, and the
whole trip would not cost more than
five dollars.
"A slight instance of justice to the
Indians is reported from Indian Terri
tory. Major Ingalls,, agent Ot the Semi
mole Nation, has just repaid these Indi-
ans $40, 900 due them on a land sale i'm
1866. The money was unlawfully kept
from them, and should have been paid
with interest, but our magnificent Ad
ministration does not pay interest to
Indians.
The law in relation to the prepay
ment of postage on newspapers at the
office where published, which came
| into operation Jan. l, will materially