Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-09-08
NEWS IN BRIEF

weighs 300 pounds.
The 0nondaga Indian reservation
embraces G,000 acres and population
of 800.
The colored schools in Memphis
have all been turned over To colored
teachers.
The Madge, the new steamboat or
Saratoga Lake. made a half mile the
other day in ;:32.
Josh Billings makes a Canadian
tour in October and Southern tour
from January 10 April.
There are steamboats, on the Hudson
that have been running every season
for forty years.
A convention of all the grange pur-
chasing agents will he held AZ Louisville.
on the lst of October.
The Cincinnati Gazette SAYS the
drought of 1874 did far more damage
than the floods of 1873.
Clipped gold coins have appeared
in Nevada, and Cinnamon are charged
with the crime
The watch factory at Elgin. Illinois,
has begun work ON 5000 new watches
for the English market.
The Silver King mine in Arizona
yields 5000 To the ton of ore. and the
McCracken is still richer.
A Democratic candidate for Vice
President exists in the per.on of cx-
Gov. Walker of Virginia.
The Hon. James G.. Blaine has had
the degree OF Ii. ID. conferred upon
him by Colby University.
-Robb.nstown, Me-, boasts that il i
so healthy that within few years il has
actually starved out four doctors.
West Troy, " Y, has boat club
of young women, but they usually take
young men along to do the rowing.
Mrs. John e. Breckenridge contem-
plates moving from her old home ia
Lexington, ky., 10 Arkansas, in the
autumn.
A large number OF catfish are
caught daily i'm the waters OF Lake
Champlain. They weigh from ten To-
thirty pounds each.
old people are numerous in Tomp-
kins county, y. Y. In the one LITTLE
town of Groton there are $50 of them
over ~ years of age.
t&=Dlsttt VI fNOulH
I }arolina, who recently escaped from
Jail, has been recaptured. and was taken
To Columbia in irons.
The c0lOred men at Norfolk, Va,
are going into the business of raising
singing birds for shipment to the East
ern and Middle States.
There are 1000 keys to the vaults Of
'he Safe Deposit Company in San Fran
'isco. No company can expert to get
IN higher key than this.
A rope 5000 feet long, and weigh
ng ton and half, was recently
shipped by New Bedford manufac-
urer to Titusville oil firm.
President Grant has conferred upon
iis biographer, Gen. Badeau, the office
If Minister to Belgium. He was for
nerly Consul General at London.
Gen. Longstreet has decided to he
'Ome a citizen of Georgia and to settle
N Gainesville in that state, should his
amily be pleased with the location
"A volunteer and gratuitous service
imong the sick children of New York
'ity is proposed by physicians during
he months of August and September.
Bethlehem Penna. comes to the
ront with the oldest hotel. The sun
avern was built in lbs. Washington
md Lafayette drank from stone well
lear.
The uew anti-tramp law j. now
vigorously enforced in New Hampshire.
fhe vagrants march off To Jail and
work, and may be kept there for six
months.
Some scamp has been representing
himself in Texas a the son of Post
master General Jewell. This, too, in
&c, of the fact that Mrs. Jewell never
iad a son.
Mr.. :. +. Van Buren,, son Of eX-
President Van Buren,, has been taken
o the Hudson River Hospital for the
insane. His mind has been seriously
Effected for some time.
The Knoxville Press reports that
Hrs. Andrew johnson, whose cOndi-
ion has been considered quite critical.
: slowly recovering from the shock DC
by her husbands death.
The New York State debt not
overed by sinking funds now amounts
o less than $G06 900, and il is said that
tax Of L quarter of mill for the next
ear will wipe out the entire indebted
less.
Near Mansfield, La, James Means,
reliable planter, and his little SONS,
Tiled thirty-seven snakes the other
lay while clearing up turnip patch,
md it wasn't good day for snakes
itheI.
DIR. Schenck, of st. AIMS Church
Brooklyn, prefers to stay at home and
preach during the heated term, and SO
essen the chances of some of his parish
OnerS having to endure a heated tenn
hereafter.
A cooperative association has been.
ormed among the farmers of Stephen
on county, Ill. IL already numbers
hree hundred stockholders. Carroll
ounty has formed similar Organiza-
ion, with capital of 5000.
A Labor Reform State Convention
will he held i'm Worcester, Mass, Sep
ember ID. The Central Committee
complain Of the practical notification
# the ten-hour law and want it wahe
i've letter as soon a possible.
The Rev. J. Sella Martin, the col
red preacher, recently delivered a lee
ure in Cincinnati on the "Future Of
he Negro" lie eontended that the
negroes were in general in
lustrious, and that they were rapidly
in this respect.
Some California railroad builders
lave discovered in the Cajon Pass de
,osit of honey which beats anything
.yer heard OF. It is in the side of a
and is thought 10 represent
he labor Of $50, 49,, 7S9 bees since the
seventeenth year of COnfucius-
Mr.. VIM. Coppinger, Secretary Of
he American Colonization Society, in a
recent letter presents some testimony
which shows that Liberia is prospering
inely. New plantations are developing,
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