Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-04
NEWS IN BRIEF

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Eight Clerks in the Boston Post Of
flee department have been arrested
during the past year for dishonest prsc-
tices.
-Cotton-mills, when well managed.
are highly profitable in the Southern
States, and they are springing up on all
sides.
The national debt was reduced by
81 t. .399. .5li during the fiscal year ending
June 80 The total of the debt now is
s., ,232 ,2S4, ,53l. .r
William Morris, who had the good
luck to live in 1870. bought the ground
upon which Long Branch is built for a
barrel of spoiled cider.
Newspaper publishing is getting To
he a hazardous business. Since the
first of january 10 less than 81 news
papers have suspended.
-Beecher Is going to the White
Mountains again this year, and the
landlords there are counting on him as
their principal attraction.
Since President Grant sacrificed his
chin whiskers, retaining only the sides,
The Long Branch people say he looks al
most twenty years younger.
The latest corner Ia In canary
seed. The price has been run up fron
So 10 SIC per bushel. and next years
crop is said to be already sold.
Prof. Muir, State Geologist of CAL
ifornia, was badly frozen on April ~.
He ascended Mount Shasta with friend
and found the cold unpleasant.
The people of New Bedford, Mass,
are fitting out large whaling expeii-
ton, numbering Ill vessels, for a regu-
lar old-fashioned whaling cruise.
Mrs. Eva Joyce. of Oswego, has
sued Mr.. Albert Quonce for 81 600 for
attempting 10 kiss her. Joyce thss are
rarest are Eva the most expensive
The first female graduate of Michi-
gan University has been offered 5000
year, and her expenses to tell what
she knows in Japan schoolhouse-
"A Granville wis., millionaire of
fers ZOO to the first incorporated
town in the State which will pledge it
self never again to tolerate Grassland.
Journalistic statistics recently pub
lished show that during the past year
the sum of $, ,000, 900 were expended In
newspaper enterprise, in the United
States.
An Oregon town of 40 houses las
nine organs, three pianos, one melo-
deoii, cornet band Of fourteen perfor-
mers, and several guitars, flutes and
banjos-
AT the salmou-breeding establish
ment at Sebec Lake, Me-, there have
been hatched this season 106, 900 sea SAL
mon, which have been distributed In
the State.
The general reception of articles
into the Centennial buildings ut Phila-
delphia will begin January l, 1875, and
no articles will be admitted after
March 81.
And now an American has Just been
awarded the first premium for harvest
ing machine by the National Agricultu-
raj Society OF Switzerland. Yankee in
beats the world.
senator Bayard, of Delaware, and
Thurman, of Ohio, have both
to be present at the Georgia
State fair, which commences at Macon
~. the 18th day of October.
--ri;s cOlored citizens of Panois
county. Miss, in convention, passed
resolution that thereafter the colored
citizens must have at least one half the
D.iiees # trust and profit"
A cleveland woman who has cut
Dut all the newspaper accounts of the
Beecher trial she could get hold of. SAYS
that when pasted together IL makes
string three miles in length.
The New England boot and shoe
trade il getting on better footing. The
shipments from Boston since Jan. l ex-
eeed those OF last year BY over 5000
cases, or nearly 10 per cent.
a Savannah Ca paper in speak
ing of the melon crop OF Florida, says
that il will be- exceedingly large this
year. and that the growers are puI-
,led to know how to dispose Of them.
The public drift. The graduating
,l.Iss of the literary Department. In Yale
COllege is smaller than il has been for
twenty years, but the class in the Scien-
Iific School is larger than ever before.
War continues on the Mexican
border. The Texan troops have had
lecided advantages in late skirmishes,
and recovered much stolen cattle; but
The Mexican bandits are yowing Ven
geance-
Since the fish commission was or
ganized in Iowa there have been planted
IN that state, Shal, 100, 900; Iowa varie-
lies, $1,000; California salmon, 10000;
salmon, 5000; other varieties
100000.
Among the curious institutions OF
Stowe, Mass, is Three Score and Ten
Society,"" composed of eighty-seven
over seventy years old. One
Of the members, lady, is 100, one 9S
and another 81.
They have a good, old-fashioned
Democratic government In
Franklin county, Ohio. The commits
siOners' report reads: "whisky for
the poor farm, $3.50; bread for the
poor farm $685."
We are astonished to learn from the
Post, that there are in this
than heathen. There must have been
another fight, and the heathen must
have got the best of it.
"A writer in a Presbyterian paper
,alls upon every honorable man 10 hang
his head in shame, because America
pays 81, 200, 900 for liquor, sl0,000, 900
for dogs, and barely squeeze out 5000
700 for preachers of the Gospel.
The New Haven Register says the
Winsted pin factory turn out nearly six
million pins day, thirty-six millions
per week. or about pin for each woman
lnd child in the United States Now
then ''what becomes Of all the pins:"
The wives and children Of sixty Of
the Kiowas and Camanches who sur
rendered at Staked Plains and are TO be
confined at st. Augustine, Fla, are TO
he transported there al the expense Of
the government. They number about
three hundred.
The Supreme court of Iowa has de-
cided that witnesses cannot be held In
and that they must be re-
leased on their own recognizance- This
looks like simple Justice, but IL will