Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-Tallahassee's fire department cost
s2O.5O last year.
Frank Leslie has bought Boss
Tweed's late residence.
William Cullen Bryant has been
elected President of the Century Club,
of New York.
The banks of Louisville have or
ganized clearing house, with a capital
of nearly so 1000, 600.
The statue of Burns will be erected
in Central Park, New York, this year
during the Centennial festivities.
Twelve thousand dollars worth of
dried fish are every month sent from
San Francisco to China by the Chinese.
The property and franchises of the
New York Central Underground rail-
road are to be sold under foreclosure.
AT Milwaukee a new telegraphie
has been tried, and l6 mes
sages at once were sent over one wire.
There are fourteen pairs of living
twins i'm New Hanover township, Hun
terdon county On. J.,) according to the
assessors returns.
An Iowa Colonel who has survived
four wives, and is only ninety-two
years old, is about to wed young lady
of sixty-seven Summers
Senator Oglesby, of Illinois had his
infant son baptized, recently in water
which the Senator brought from the
river Jordan twenty-years ago.
The total number of hogs slaught-
cred in Cincinnati this season is $685.
7S9. The number slaughtered at the
same time last season was 1872 ,s02-
An extensive petrifled forest has
been discovered in the desert of North
Humboldt, west OF the Black
Rock range of mountains, in Nevada
"A New York lady has a punch
bowl that belonged to Mithridates, the
Great King of Pontus, who has been
dead these eighteen hundred years and
more.
During the first three weeks of an
Iowa saving bank the deposits amounted
to only seventeen cents. The banker
got disgusted, stole that, and is now far
away.
Missouri has ''farmed out" its PEN
tentiary leasing it to a party who
agrees TO manage and maintain it. and
TO pay to the State $ll2.50 a year for the
privilege.
Out west, in the great grain-grow-
ing regions, they use straw for fuel to
lrive their steam threshing-machines
and it is so managed that it answers
very well.
A California inventor has patented
4 contrivance for driving sewing-ma-
,hines, which does away with the
.readle. 1t is driven by and runs like
:loekwork.
The Independent, published at Bry-
ant, Fulton County, ILL.,, is the smallest
paper in America. 1t is published
and the subscription price is
l5 cents year.
The Lackawanna coal region, it is
said, will continue to produce coal
throughout the winter, unaffected by
he suspension in the Schuylkill and
districts.
"A Nebraska man died the other day
1t the age of 90 years IL months and 30
lays. We can imagine how mad that
nan must have been that he couldn't
make it an even hundred years.
The Springfield, Mass. people now
1indly warns the tramps that they only
furnish crackers and water. while at
Boston there is 4 soup-hOuse in full
low. The tramps usually pass on.
Mrs. J. J. Astor presented 81 800 to
he Children's Aid Society during the
holidays, for the purpose of sending
party of 100 children and poor families
% homes and places OF work out West.
Minnesota is to have a State inebri-
lte asylum for which the liquor sellers
will have TO pay, as the Supreme Court
mas sustained the cOnstitutionality of
he law imposing 4 tax for this pur-
pose.
The heaviest special co-partnership
ever organized in America started out
in New York with the New Year. Ii
includes the combination of seven capi-
alists, who contribute an aggregate of
$500, 900.
Milford, y. H., talks of contribu-
ing Jimmy Blanchard tn the Centen-
NAL, to be exhibited with a picture of
The young George Washington, as spe-
cimens of two kinds of little boys raised
IN this country.
A Chicago banker has adopted the
system of the London Cheque Bank,
with this variation, that it issues GER
,ificates of deposits for sums of $40, SIS
S20, and $50, payable to the order of
The depositor only.
Mrs. Emily Tubman, of Frankfort
ky., has presented the Christians of the
Campbellite congregation at Augusta,
ia, with completely furnished church
and parsonage, which she had erected
1t a cost of $l0l $50.
The town clock at Nantucket Mass
IS in charge of Mr.. Walter Folger, who
1t the advanced age of ninety years
climbs into the tower with apparent
ease, and regulates the machinery as
perfectly as in his young days.
Mrs. Capital of Rhode Island, Is a
widow, and is worth 10000 Here
IS capital catch for some enterprising
young man but no doubt Mrs. Capital
will not enter into life partnership with
any man who has no capital of his own.
Minnesota is an unfortunate state.
Last spring it was invaded by grass
hoppers. And now there have been in
fiicted upon the people two governors
each about the length of an
average annual message of the Presi-
lent.
Hon. A. III. Stephens continues in
A very feeble state from disease in one
Of his lungs. Though he eats and sleeps
well, he does not regain his strength.
1t is feared that he will not be able to
take his seat in Congress during the
present season.
AT Crescent, New York, there live
two twins by the name of Lansing, now
in their seventy-fourth year, one of
whom was born one year and one the
next. The former came late on New
Years eve, and the latter early New
Years morning.
Mrs. General Gaines has arrived in
to attend to suit pending
in the Supreme Court, affecting the
probate of a will in New Orleans. She