Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF
Bears are numerous about Newbern
y. c., and very destructive to corn.

EDWIN Booth Is DOOkeu Tor ntty-
two performances in the South the
coming season.
A Central New York cheese manu-
faefurer figures up his profits for the
year at sli zoo. t.
During the month of July single
tobacco company i'm California manu-
faetured 500, 900 cigars.
1t is said that coal mining is about
To be undertaken near the Ossipee noun
tain, New Hampshire.
"A new enterprise in Charleston i
he shipping Of -four to the north from
he new crop OF wheat.
Clara Morris has undergone the ter
rible surgical operation of moxa at
Paris. for spinal affection.
-Woodhu II and Cllfiin are lecturing
in Vernon I, to intensely interested au-
diences of baldheaded men.
senator Jones income from
single source, his Kernville mine, last
month, is said to have been sl65, 900.
The Government receives an average
income Of 81 600 from the sale of waste
paper from the dead letter office alone.
There has not been found among
the late Andrew Johnson's papers
either will or a life insurance policy.
August Belmont was the heaviest
winner of purses at Saratoga, during the
second meeting, the amount being ST.
$50.
The Baltimore shot tower is 40
feet high and has capacity of about a
million bags of twenty-five pounds each
per annum- ...
Nebraska has an election Monday,
Oct. IL, to choose three Justices of the
Supreme Court and six Regents of the
State University.
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines next law
suit in Washington is her answer To
Caleb Cushing's bill for services through
her long litigation.
"A lobster measuring three feet four
inches in length and weighing nine
teen pounds was caught at E4stport,
Mass, and sent to Boston.
Yale college has had but 10 presi-
dents during the l15 years of its exis-
tence. ex-President Woolsey occupying
the chair a quarter of a century.
"A special train for fast freight, max
ing the distance between San Francisco
and New York in twelve days, is to be
put on the Union Pacific road.
Vermont will be one hundred years
old on the 18th of January, 1877. This.
the Concord On. H. Patriot thinks,
will be a cold time for a centennial.
Springfield, ILL.,, has a base ball club
composed entirely OF young ladies. After
sufficient practice, this club proposes to
issue challenges for the championship.
A dense column of flies, which took
20 minutes to pass a given spot, jour
neyed through the village of Mechanics
Vile, y. V, the other day, southwark
bound. M aH.
The Albany Journal says Mr.. John
Anderson. the founder of the Scientific.
School at Penikese Island, is so ill at
Tarrytown, n. V, that he is not ex-i
pected TO recover. .....-.
An Ottawa girl is unable to eat and
derives sustenance from the wetting of
her tongue with wine and nutritive
liquids. She has been in this condition
since February last.
The Christian Intelligencer is ask
ing Gen. Hawley if the Centennial ex-
hibition is 10 be kept open on sundays,
and threatens him with the wrath of the
religious press if it is.
The first campmeetings in Americs
were held in 1861, by two Baptist min
listers, who preached in that part of of
Virginia lying between the Rappahan-
mock and James rivers.
The iniguities of the kentucky lot
terry schemes have at last been so thor
Oughly exposed that the Louisville
COniB,erciGi confidently predicts that the
next Legislature will abolish them.
Boston has 476 public schools, 63
banks. IG5 hotels, 1876 churches and re-
igious associations, IA courts, lSS con-
stables, between 900 and 1000 lawyers,
and ls9 newspapers and periodicals.
Tho city court of Louisville, Ky,
recently decided that newspaper men
nave a right to carry deadly weapons,
if deemed necessary for self-defense
while in the discharge of their Journal
iStic duties. r
If these Western county societies
really want instruction in agriculture,
jocosely observes the Hartford Times
let them send to Long Branch and pro-
cure an expert who can tell them all
about the right time for putting in
rye" ..-.... -r... ...
The Boston Herald tells of a farmer
who is using four-hOrse wagon which
is l0i years old. The date l774 is in
scribed on the shaft. This wagon was
his great grandfather's first wagon,
and has been used on the slme farm
ever since. .........
The annual import of Bath bricks
into the U. ;. is about 2fO,000. These
bricks are manufactured from the de-
pOsiis of the River Harrett, Bridgewa-
ter. Eng, where millions are made an
nually. This is the only known de-
posit of the kind.
"A species of fish called clam crack
ers have made their appearance in Skid
away river, at Isle OF Hope, Ga, being
attracted by clans which are planted
on the beach. These fish are from four
TO six feet wide across the back, and are
spotted like leOparjs. l ..
Jesse Pomeroy owes his life thus
far to a deadlock. The Governor urges
Communication, but the Council refuses TO
tut W
sign the death warrant. SO Jesse can
neither be hanged nor let off till they
get new administration.
The St. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat esti-
mates that small tax on each dog in
Missouri would soon pay off the national
debt. This is true enough, but the
probability is that the people of Mis-
souri, would a thousand times rather
take their money and buy more dogs.
Miss Ada Luck of Carthage o.,
won cook stove at the Cincinnati fair
as ''the best and most expeditions cook"
In 80 minutes she cooked, and cooked
we'll, potatoes, chicken, porter-hOuse
steak. tomatoes and corn, and made cof-
fee, tea, pie and biscuit, and set the
table in the neatest style.
The amount Of money now in cir
culation in the United States would give
$l9.12 to every man, woman and child
if equally divided. Englishmen would