Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-20
NO. AZ.
NEWS IN BRIIP

-lne DELL punch mas Deen introduced
on street cars in Elmiya and Baltimore.
One of the forty-nine sons of Brig
ham Young is studying medicine in
Paris.
The London Police have the names
of liz 900 habitual criminals on the
register.
Last year the French people con-
sumed :, $50, 900 pounds of horse, mule
and ass meat.
The state geologist of Indiana has
discovered gold in small quantities in
the northern part of the state.
-Thirty-five lives were lost on New
Orleans steamers during the first half
of this year, twenty-one by fire.
| An American girl won the gold
medal at the recent examination at the
College of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.
John Sartain, the engraver, has
been appointed chief of the fine art de-
partment of the Centennial Exhibition.
Entries for the colored nurses of
Andrew johnson are now closed, and
it appears that he had seventy-three of
them.
| In some parts of Texas the people
are complaining because their cotton
crops are so large they cannot gather
them,
Capt. Richard Pope, who lights the
street-lamps in Plymouth, Mass, is 7S
years old, but regularly goes his rounds
involving daily walk of eight miles.
Miss Charlotte Cushman is confined
to her bed at Newport, and her physi-
clans have forbidden visitors. Her
agents have cancelled her engagements.
Only two duels have ever been
fought in Illinois. In the first both Of
the principals were killed, one dying
in connection with a sheriff and rope.
District Attorney Britton has pre-
pared to withdraw the libel Indictment
against MOulton. Beecher has consen-
ted, but Moulton insists upon a trial.
An applicant for license to teach
in Allen county, Ind. named 'Franklin,
Demosthenes and Cicero" as the lead
ing war orators of revolutionary times.
Miss Clara Davis, beautiful and
accomplished young lady of Charleston
5. c., has just married Mr.. All Lang, a
high-toned heathen of the same locality
An Odd Fellows Asylum is to be
built by the brethren of Jacksonville,
Fla, for the benefit of those in the
order who seek the State for their
health.
The students of the Middlebury,
VT, College propose to get up a rifle
team. The project is looked upon
favorably by President Hubert and the
faculty.
-Newburyport has had one house
! Ns.f
reckless insurance companies keep on
doing business there, Notwithstanding
the hazard.
Hannah Cabbage wants a divorce
from J. +. Cabbage, who lived in Usage
county, Kansas. He probably has no
heart, and says she's not as fresh as he
took her for.
The new census of Charleston, 5.
c., shows that there are i'm the city s.
622 white voters and 6, ,S22 eolOred voters
This is an increase, since 1870, of nearly
600 in favor of the negroes.
Martin Harris, one of Joseph
Smiths twelve apostles of Mormonism,
died, recently i'm Utah at an advanced
age. He married the widow of William
Morgan, of anti-Masonic fame
1t is reported that p. II. Barnum
has bought the Olympic Theatre block
on Broadway near Houston street, New
York, and proposes to build a superb
hotel. The ground cost $3.50, 200.
Edward Cozzens, proprietor of Coz
zens' Hotel at Highland Falls, south of
West Point, New York, has failed.
His liabilities are $4,000. The failure
resulted from the dullness of the season.
Mr.. Tilton expects to receive s20,-
900 during the coming lecture season.
He is to speak on "The Problem of
Life" and has secured over 800 invita-
tions of which 200 have been accepted.
Atlanta, Ca, is said to have more
doctors than would be needed if a pes
thence was raging, and more lawyers
than could be employed if every man
were plaintiff or defendant in suit at
law.
During the month Of August there
were upward of SIS 900 worth of East
ern and Western tickets sold at the
, Central Pacific office in Reno, Nevada.
The largest sale in any one day was
} about $1,000
The oldest bell in the State hangs
; in the church tower at Wethersfield,
Conn.,, where it was placed in 1877,
the members of the church being taxed
two and one quarter punches of onions
each, to pay for it.
The North Carolina lawmakers
propose the re-establishment Of the
whipping post for the relief of the PEN
itentiary, which is now becoming so
full as to make its support great
burden to the State.
; David Mayer, the Hartford diamond
merchant, has just imported from Paris
probably the finest solitaire diamond to
be found in this country, for lady
r who already has over $30, 900 worth of
diamonds in her possession.
r. A. Proctor, the astronomer, be-
. gins his new tour in this country with
, a course of 12 lectures before the Lowell
, Institute in Boston. He will go as far
, west as San Francisco, south TO New
Orleans, and north to Quebec
-Sahwangunk, Ulster County, has
church which is one hundred and
twenty-five years old. There is one
+ headstone in the graveyard which bears
. date 1854. Where it came from or when
: il was placed there nobody knows.
! The short-horn cattle fever bids
|, fair to eclipse the Dutch tulip mania.
r At the sale of these animals going on at
the various fairs out west fancy cows
bring 81, 900, 81, 800, and 81 900, accord
ing to pedigree and appearance.
MIR. James Lick has settled upon
= Mount Hamilton, i'm Santa Clara County
: as desirable place to build the Cali
fornia Observatory which is to contain
!. the largest telescope in the world. The
: amount set apart for this purpose in
his bequest is sS0c,JJO.
!. A little Chinese girl about eight
!. years old, and born in California, has
been admitted to one of the primary
: schools of the City Of Sacramento.
|, This is the first time that Chinese
!, parent has made application for the adj