Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF

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i Toledo, Ohio, has Chinese female
physician praetieing there.
AT East Aurora, n. Y, the other
day, man of 7s married girl 75 years
lold.
| "A fretful porcupine has been killed
at Hudson, Mich.-a rare animu i'm
those parts.
1 Tennessee has now six ''universi-
ties" already organized or about TO be
Established.
The Delaware Peninsula dries 254
tons Of peaches and cans ), pa 900 three
pound cans.
Fifteen thousand eight hundred
and seventy-fiye survivors of the war
of 1872 are on the pension list. s,T
All the Virginia City saloons are in
running order again. The reeupera-
tive energy OF whisky Is hard to beat
MIR. W. w. Coreoran of Washington
is said to be contemplating the erection
of a studio building for the artists of the
city.
| "A Swedish school house, for exhi-
bition at the Centennial, has been
shipped from that country TO Philadel-
phia.
The saw mills in Minneapolis, MINI.
have manufactured about 135, ,000, 900
feet of lumber during the season just
closing.
| Postmaster General Jewell is said
to favor return to the old rate of
newspaper postage-one cent for every
two ounces.
The Chinese residents of Los Ange-
4 los a1 hax I'll,
s., 600 and purchased three gods. They
now are happy. ...
1t is estimated from such census re-
turns as have been published this year
that the population of the Union is
about IL, ,250,0O0.
The air-ship which Mr.. Shredder is
building at Baltimore, and in which he
expects to cross the Atlantic in forty
hours, is nearly completed.
Treasurer New saws Uncle Sam has
spent fifteen millions less this year than
last year. We are glad the festive old
chap is ecOnomizing little.
Carl Schurz has written a letter tn
friend in Washington, In which he
states that he has decided to reside per-
manently in New York city.
lt ndHuldCtuft vi peat iOT tic
San Francisco market is new industry
just started in the vicinity of Stockton,
with good promise of success.
The colored Methodist Episcopal
church in America has now four
bishops and membership of 200, 900 in
the southern and western states
VIM. J.. Mopwell, of Neenah, Wis,
has an apple tree which has borne two
crops of fruit this year, and is now
blossomed out for the third timel
The length of deep-sea cable laid
in the world is 10000 miles. The world
telegraphie lines extend over 100000
miles, and there are 100, 900 miles of
railroad.
Captain Cook, of the Yale navy,
has already begun To train his crew for
next years regatta by giving them an
informal row of about five miles every
afternoon.
The new State constitution of Ne
braska contains a provision that the
United States Senators for that State
shall hereafter be elected by direct vote
of the people.
-EX-Goy. G. G.. Washburn, of Wis
cOnsin, is said to own the largest -four
mill in America. Ii is seven stories
high, cost S300, 200 and turns out 900
barrels of flour day.
Last year the pearl fisheries of the
Gulf of California yielded about $780,
900 worth of pearls and S200,00O worth
of shells. The operations of this year
will barely pay expenses
The San Francisco papers are jubi-
liant over the near completion of the
first ship ever built at that port. The
vessel will he 200 tons measurement,
and constructed wholly of fir.
Mrs. Livermore estimates that in
Massachusetts there are 10000 mar
riageable women who are likely to re-
main single, because there are not men
enough in the State to 90 round.
There are 900 pupils in the the
public schools of Sandu>ky who are
learning the German language. OF this
number lsl are of American parentage,
the balance being of German parentage.
The proprietor Of the Uniontown
(ky.) Local refuses to receive the
amount of subscriptions in wild plums.
He says he must draw the line some
where. and he draws il at wild plums.
"A rife club known As the ''Boston
Rifle Club" is being formed i'm Boston,
and they will secure permanent
range near Boston, where shooting
tournaments In CreedmOre will be
held.
Between this time and January !
there are to be twenty-three men
hanged in various parts of the country.
This accounts for the recent rapid rise
in the price of clothes lines and bed
cords.
DR.. David Crecl, probably the only
surviving member of the jury which
tried Aaron Burr for treason, il at
present a resident of Chillicothe, Ohio,
and enjoys excellent health, though
over 80 years old.
Talk about the crooked streets of
Boston, The Traveller unblnshingly
publishes list of 17s names Of streets
which are duplicated in that city, IS
which are Implicated, II which occur
in four localities and five which occur
in six.
The old Episcopal church in Bur-
lington, y. j. is to be restored. 1t was
built one hundred and seventy years
ago. Beneath the venerable pile re-
pose the remains OF the nOn-juring
bishop Talbot, the first in Episcopal
orders in this country.
of the 5000, 900 Jews estimated to
be on the face of the globe, 10000 are
assigned to America, ~, 900 to France,
800 to Ireland, % to Norway. One out
of every seven inhabitants of Poland
and one out of every % of Hamburg,
Romania and Austria are Hebrews.
The Fall River manufacturers have
voted a further reduction of 10 per cent
in wages and salaries of all employees,
from the superintendents down, to take
effect December lst- A committee is
appointed to visit England and arrange
for the expectation of Fall River fab
rics. Prints have fallen nearly one
cent per yard since September.
A Bengal editor suspended his
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