Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-30
NO. 26.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


are all at work again.
The estimated value Of the last
French vintage is S400, 100000.
There are 1O7 ,O57 children between
the ages of 5 and Ii in New York.
There are eight Bessemer steel
works in operation in this country.
Atlanta, Ga, is about to lay the
cornerstone of her first eOttos factory.
The steamer Farraday has picked up
the direct cable and will finish laying it
at once.
From New York to New Orleans 'in
siNty-four hours is the latest railroad
achievement.
Three Editors are candidates for the
Democratic nomination for Governor ot
Pennsylvania.
Dan Rice the Snowman. has received
the discharge in bankruptcy applied for
by him last February.
Twenty nine State Senators, besides
the House of Representative, are to be
elected in Iowa next fall.
The Indiana school fund amounts To
$500, ,OO0, 900, which is the largest school
fund of any State in the Union.
The Memphis Avalanche estimates
the wheat crop this year in the country
tributary to Memphis as the largest
since 1850.
"A Louisville Chinaman is going to
marry colored American lady. and
still further complicate the national
characteristics.
Mrs. Mary Sweeney has triumphed
over a male candidate. and been ap-
pointed pound mistress of the city of
jackson, Mich.
AS soon as the horse races are over
the Rev. Adirondack Murray will open
his new church and attend to the human
race little while.
The CorlisS Steam Engine Company
has recovered $259, ,6SS from the Govern
ment for engines ordered. but cancelled
before they were completed.
George Francis Train is on the
track for the Presidency again. Isn't
it about time for some one to throw that
Train over an emhankment?
The Connecticut assembly has
passed a constitutional amendment
providing biennial elections for fall and
winter sessions of the Legislature.
1t is proposed To erect a monument
to the Confederate dead. who, to the
of 5000, perished in the prison
at Elmira, y. V, and now lie buried
there.
Two women have taken a contract
to furnish iron fencing for Capitol
square, Carson, Nevada, and are To re-
ceive $500 in gold when the fence is
delivered
The Ohio Republican convention
resolved that Grant is Il splendid preSi-
dent, but he mustn't be president again.
Ii was in favor of sound money and
revenue tariff.
-Sartoris, Gen. Grants son-in-law,
has bought first-class building lot in
Washington, and there seems little
doubt that he will reside permanently
in Washington.
The cost of educating young lady
at NasSar, including the necessary
which must be purchased for
her, is about 81 900. Vassar at present
has 400 students.
Quite a portion of the Government
troops at New Orleans have been re-
turned 10 the North. So il would seem
that dove-eved peace is brooding over
the Crescent City.
Boston swells wear a style of vest
called the ''LOngfellow, of which The
Globe says that with one of them, n rea-
sOnably high pair of shoes, and Il hat,
man is in full dress.
The Postmaster-GeHeral orders that
the postage on letters to and from for
eign countries, with which different
rates have not been established be five
cents for each half ounce.
Mr.. \. J. Alexander, of Lexington,
n.y., has sold two of his valuable short
horn cattle to Mr.. Fox, of England, viz:
The 2lth Duke of Andrie and the 10Th
Duchess of Andrie, at $4,000 for the
pair.
BY an act just passed, the Virginia
husband is hencefOrth exempted from
liability to pay the ante-nuptial debts
Of his wife; neither is her property, un-
less it was acquired from him, subject
to his debts.
The Minnesota Central Committee
of the Democratic, Liberal Republican
and Anti-Monopoly party has agreed
upon the 9Th of July as the day for hold
ing a convention for the nomination of
State Officers.
In Warrensburg, No., the locust, or
pests have been utilized by
being converted into food, first i'm soup,
then in cakes, fried or baked, and eaten
with honey. They are pronounced
highly palatable.
An incident of the distress at Usage,
Kansas, was a raid on grist mill by a
party of farmers who said that they had
neither food nor money, and that they
would not permit their families to starve
while food was within reach.
This year the Southern counties of
California sent to san Francisco $50.
900 oranges, 620, 600 lemons. and 10000
lines The consumption of California
is about 10000, 900 oranges a year, and
; 5,0O0. 600 are brought from Mexico and
the Pacific Isles.
The Brooklyn Argus has an idea of
Western newspaper editors as follows:
In 1t. Louis, when one news spaper
strikes its tent and moves of to Join its
forces with those of another, some fif-
teen or twenty lager beer saloon pro-
prietors sell their leases and move too.
The Cape Ann Advertiser SAYS the
losses attending the fishing business
from Gloucester, Mass, this season are
increasing at a fearful rate. Already
there have been - lives and . vessels
lost since Jan. lst-20 more lives than
were lost during the whole season OF
1874.
Every New Bedford Mass vessel
to arrive, and those now i'm port, will be
straighTway fitted for sea a wbalers. It
is discovered that for some purposes
there is nothing after all like sperm oil
and whalebone. aud this once rich in
dustry promises to again attain re-
spectacle position.
The Knights of Honor. AN order that
is beginning to excite considerable at
tention throughout the country has or
ganized lodge in Paterson, " ,, the only