Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-18
NO. 80.
NEWS In BRIEF.

forest trees were planted last year
The Pennsylvania cranberry crop
this season has never been excelled.
A magnificent synagogue is being
constructed by the Israelites of Kansas
City, Mo.
MIR. and Mrs. Nash constitute the
law firm of Nash Il Nash, of Column
bia, Ne.
Hon. Jno. G.. Shoemaker has bought
the indianapolis Sentinel and will make
1t regular Democratic paper.
-Middleborough, Mass, is at present
the residence of Gen. Tom Thumb, and
wife, and Miss Minnie Warren.
The Georgia State Fair is to offer
prizes for the best rifle-shOOting and the
best drilled military companies.
The Connecticut State Prison clear
ed S21.2 above its expenses last year.
That's ahead of Massachusetts,.
"A sale of short-horns 1t Paris, Ky.,
recently brought in s55, 600. The high
est-prieed animal brought s3a,00s.
-Barnum has surrendered all hope
of poor Donaldson's rescue. When
Barnum despairs it means something.
-''She smoked 400 pipefuls of opium
in one day" is the simple legend on the
gravestone Of woman in Carson, New.
-Four hundred Mormons are coming
back from Salt Lake City this fall to
settle in Nauvoo, Illinois, their old
home.
New York has 200, 900 inhabitants.
But how much better she would be of
ii she could get rid of one-fourth of
them.
California debt to outsiders is only
1913 800, and the Bulletin says for four
years of strict economy would be enough
to wipe it quite out.
1t is proposed to erect a monument
in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, to the
memory of the late General Thomas
Meagher.
Congressman Jones is the richest
man in New Hampshire, and pays tax
three times As large rs that of any other
man in Portsmouth.
There are only three papers i'm
America now offering premium chro-
mos to subscribers, and they are having
a weak tine of il.
Walt Whitman has bsen reading
from his own ''works" before some sort
of a society at camden, y. j. NOdeathS
are reported as yet
The syndicate has the option till
November 18th to take the remaining
SIS, ,5O6, 900 of the per cent. loan under
the refIinding act.
Among other big things to be done
at the Centennial, a builder agrees to
put up twO-story brick house, - by
10 feet, in eight hours.
An immense shirt factory is being
erected in San Francisco. Four hun
dred persons will be employed, half of
whom will be MOngolians.
-Philologists are bothering their
heads to know what Chicago" comes
from \ more important question
would be where it is going to.
The Detroit directory has one thou
sand ami forty-two more names than it
had last year; which shows very graf
flying increase in the hotel business.
The indianapolis Herald mildly, but
firmly, protests against the extrava-
gance of putting 1.-TWO dollars worth
of collar on twenty-five cents worth of
dog"
Lieutenant Governor Holt, of Mich
igan, who attempted TO kiss another
mans wife, has gone to Europe, but he
goes on the same salary that he got
before.
The income Of the New York Hsr-
aid last year was 81, zoo, 900, and the net
profits $500, 900, all of which went into
the pocket Of one man, viz: Tames Cor
don Bennett.
"A young lady of Boston has been
enrolled as honorary member of the
Fifth Maryland regiment, and is conse-
quently more particular than ever about
the right dress.
The Stockholders of the Rutland
X. X. are about TO institute proceedings
to recover possession of it from the Cen
trail Vermont X. r. Co. for non-pay-
ment of rent.
Winchester, Va, which was taken
and retaken seventy-twO times during
the war, will not vary hundred in pop
ulation from the census figures of twen-
ty-tive years ago.
The largest farm in the world COW
ers the whole county of Ellis in Kansas,
and is principally devoted to raising
horses and other stock The owner is
Mr.. George Grant.
"A field Of lava fifty miles square
has been discovered in Southern Utah
by the geOlOgists of the Wheeler expe-
ditiOn, and one of 200 square miles In
Arizona ard New Mexico.
The jury, in the libel suit of Chris
ian Behl against the Chicago Times, has
rendered a verdict in favor of the plain
tiff, awarding him one cent damages.
He had claimed $4,000.
n. L
tailed by the war department to watch
the work of Captain Eads in deepening
the mouth of the Mississippi and see
that the contract is properly fulfilled.
S. c. Bucknell, ex-President of the
| Yale Navy, says Yale made twenty Sec
Onds better practice time than Cornell's
racing time lie calls defeat can un-
| lucky combination of circumstan ,es."
Mrs. Caldwell, chairmaness Of the
Arkansas WOman's Centennial Execu-
/ tive Committee, has issued an address
| calling upon the women of the State to
go to work heartily for the Philadelphia
exhibition.
The Kansas State Board Of Agricul-
ture have decided not to hold a State
Fair this year. This decision is made,
not because of inability on the part of
the State, but because no city can afford
a sufficient subsidy.
/ The manufacturers of Fall River
nave declined to call meeting to meet
the operatives delegates, the latter be-
ing composed of parties outside. Each
treasurer or agent is willing to consult
with his own operatives.
Georgia has 1lS, 733 whites and 175,-
3i3 negroes between the ages of six and
eighteen, and its present annual educa-
tional appropriation is sls0,O00. Not
quite forty-six cents to each child
This is truly munificent.
Indiana veteran soldiers have de-
cided to hold their grand State reunion
on the 1ith and 18th day of October, the
first day to be devoted to regimental re-
unions, and the second day TO a grand
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