Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-07
NEWS IN BRIu

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South Car olina sends eight colore,
and six white delegates to Cincinnati
The present legislature of Connec
ticut contains about 20 Yale graduates
| Some folks seem to think that tn
best mark man can make in the worl
is mark.
The Fifth Maryland regiment viii
go to Cape May July 2lst and remain il
camp eight days.
Maine is not a good place for saw
ings banks. Seven have gone dowI
within few months.
The Excelsior Boat Club, of De.
troit, has membership of fifty-two ant
cash account of over 5000.
Citizens of Halsey, Oregon, offer &
bonus of 1000 to any one who will
erect flour mill in the town.
Under a new time table the run by
rail between New Orleans and New
York is reduced to sixty-two hours.
The British House of Commons has
rejected by vote of 239 to 152, the bill
women.
1t has been estimated that it costs
two dollars a minute to run the South
Carolina Legislature, not counting sta
tionery and gas, and what the members
steal.
The wool clip in the United States
for 1875 was nearly POO, GOO, 900 pounds
against 16O, ,000, 900 pounds in 1869; an
increase of 10000, 900 pounds in seven
years.
Tom Thumb is going to Texas to
live, and the Chicago Times thinks that
some day we shall hear of Tom being
waylaid and abducted by Texas grass
hopper.
During 1879, Massachusetts, en-
ployed in the public schools 8, ,2l6 teach
ers. Nineteen and half per cent Of
the whole number had attended Nor
NAL School.
Chinese women cost $50 a head i'm
China and sell readily in America for
$500, and it is proposed to impose duty
upon their importation as articles OF
1t is announced that Miss Sue Harry
Claggett, daughter of the late editor of
the keokuk Ia.) Constellation, will sue
ceed her father in the editorial control
Of that paper.
Two hundred women of Guilford.
Conn.,, cleaned up the village green on
April 20 with rakes, hoes, and spades.
No men will be permitted to partiei-
pate in the work.
During the last seven years the
Bank of England has paid $1,000 900
notes, valued at Cd, 900 900, which would
weigh ll2 tons, and joined together
each 1900 miles.
The Boston Common Council has
$1,000 for the purchase
# bronze medallions of the signers of
he Declaration of Independence to be
'laced in Faneuil Hall.
London refuses to name one of her
treets after Washington; but who
ares? America has sixty towns, l5O
'arks, 29O streets, and l, 100 hotels and
aloons named after them.
The old bank of California-Ral-
tons bank-is doing large business.
salston got discouraged too quick. Had
e kept up his 'nerve" he might have
Teathered through all right.
A Bramah hen in Franklin Pa. eel
brated Easter by producing an egg
Ihich measures nine inches in circum-
erence one way, seven inches the other
ray, and weighs five ounces.
-Elihu Burritt twenty years ago
lanted an acorn of the famous Charter
ak. and now it is thrifty young tree
the garden of his sister, Mrs. Will
ans, of New Britain, Conn.
In Missouri there are over 10000
lildren who could not go to school If
icy wanted to, for want of school
'om. Only four months of school an
nally are now provided by law.
Mr. Edwin C.. Cushman of st. Louis
whom Miss Cushman appears to have
IT the bulk of her fortune, is vice.
resident and an active member of the
issouri Furnace Company, an extern
We interest.
University crew have
st received from England two new
IS of oars, of the same patterns as
ose used by the last Cambridge crew,
I'd with the blades painted crimson,
e College color.
Mrs. Evans, of Whitefield, Maine,
as born three days after the Declara-
IN of Independence, has cut and made
n own dresses for eighty-five years,
ID is now living with the sixth gen.
alton of her descendants.
Alvin Adams, the great express
an, intends, building a Winter resi-
nee near Richmond, exchanging Vir-
MIA for Florida for the cold season.
: already has magnificent houses at
ing Branch and at Boston.
The Steamship Mikado has made
e run from San Francisco to Sydney
lstralia, in twenty-four days, a per-
rmanee which outdoes any previously
corded, not excepting the famous
p of the City of San Francisco.
A single field in Grimes county,
xas. contains $1,000 acres all under
e fence without 4 cross-fence in it;
900 acres are In cultivation. Nearly
e entire field belongs to one man who
ats it out to tenants at 81 per acre.
The next meeting of the American
restry Association will be held in
iladelphia in September next, when
S hoped that a report will be pre-
tied from every State i'm the Union,
,wing the condition of our forests to-
7 and the rate of decrease.
Among the 252 tramps that have
m lodged in the station house at
ckbridge, Mass, during the past
: months, have been Andrew Jack
!, Dan Rice, George Washington,
IN Rogers, Stephen A. Douglas,
drew johnson, and John C. Fre-
mt.
"A Kentucky paper says that shortly
ore ex-senator Dixon died he re-
.sted that band of music should
form the air of "Home, Sweet Home
n his grave. This wish was faith
ly carried out by the Henderson
met Band, and the ladies of the
choir sang the last verse
he touching song
AT the castle of Johannisbergh ON
Rhine, some of the fine Prince Met
Mich wine was sold at auction. The
ne Of 1874 sold at prices ranging
m s575 to 81 ,0l5 the piece Gao gall
81. and from s2l9 to $500 the half
ce The wine Of 1871 hrouOht from