Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-30
NEWS III BRIEF.


1000 actors in America.
The bank of England has in Its
vaults sl43, ,OO0, 900 in gold.
There are four1 hundred religious
journals in the United States.
"A Texas man makes 81 900 a year
| from each acre of an onion field.
"A band of masked men have robbed
a passenger railroad train in Missouri.
The number of ''Switzerlands of
America" has run up to twenty-six
this season.
Lightning struck a Pennsylvania
oil well and increased the flow of oil
from 10 to so barrels day.
France last year used 800, ,OO0, 900
postage stamps, as against 81 .232 ,665
in ls4o, and 546, ,7Os, $50 in 1869.
The type-setting of the Baltimore
Duly Nelcs is now done by women and
a woman is on the editorial staff.
Nine hundred American boys, be-
tween the ages of twelve and twenty.
are engaged In amateur journalism.
The copper mines of Newfoundland
| are proving quite remunerative, and
large deposits of lead have been found.
General Tom Thumb recently ex-
changed his sloop yacht Maggie B. for
a solitaire diamond, valued at 50, 900.
Captain Andrew johnson, oldest
son of Ex-President johnson, is can
didate for the State Legislature in Ten
nessee-
Hamilton College has been pre-
sented with clock 2i5 years old. IL
was brought from England in 1851 by
John Eliot.
Mr.. Blaine has accepted the Maine
Senatorship. His health is improving.
He has declined to take the proposed d
trip to Europe.
Postmaster James, of New York
City, refuses to rent boxes to lottery
dealers, or to hand over remittances, all
according to Congress.
Work has been resumed on the
Mormon temple in Salt Lake City. The
cornerstone was laid in 1851, and the
walls are now fifteen feet high.
Colorado produces $15, 900 in silver
for every twenty-fOur hours, Sl0,0 900 in
gold, and 81, 600 in other minerals, or
s2G, 900 daily, equal to s., ,490, 900 yearly.
Cumberland Falls, the Niagara of
Kentucky, have a perpendicular de-
scent of 67 feet, and the roar of the
water can be heard ut a distance of II
miles.
Don Manuel de Laver,ley Custanza
who recently died in Paris at the age
of thirty-two. left a fortune of 50,000,-
coo, derived principally from Mexican
mines.
1t sometimes paws 10 be civil TO Il
poor clerk in hotel dining-room. Miss
Melissa Elder, who occupied that posi-
ton in AtchisOn, Kan. has fallen heir
to 100000.
1t is understood that Mr.. Edwin
Booths residence will in the future be
in Chicago, but his professional duties
will keep him elsewhere the greater
part of the year.
MIR. Longfellow has been chosen
poet and Ex-Governor Seymour orator
for the Centennial celebration of the
surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, on
October Is, 1877.
Plenty of work for missionaries
4 Nfi- %tii III iist~ q lNHti1NAph va -NOf
00O, 900 human beings, but few hum
dred of whom have ever dreamed of
such thing as Christianity.
The Boston City Directory, which
| has Just been published, contains 49,
30S names. gain of 2,552 over last
year. In preparing the volume, % ,S43
names were erased and - ,3S2. added.
The French oyster plantations
have proved wonderfully successful.
Those at Morbihan, which i'm 1872
Yielded only S.S2S, ,OC0 oysters, last year
brought up %, ,2S6, 500 and have pro-
duced this season y, PA, 900.
A number of prominent Boston
ladies have purchased the Old South
church building, and if they cannot
raise the amount required 10 purchase
the land in sixty days, will taAe down
the building and re-erect it elsewhere.
| Much interest is manifested in New
Orleans i'm reports that native quick
silver has been discovered on the bank
OF the Mississippi, few miles below
that city. The New Orleans Athen-
cum has appointed a commission to in
vestigate the report.
/ Ill NtttdAlto dAt btliZ COu-
verted into skating rinks, while on this
side of the Atlantic the reverse is the
case, the large rink at Newark, n. j.,
being now in the course OF transforma-
\ ton from its present condition TO that
of first-class theatre
London has 255S miles of water
mains distributed through 679 streets.
| The total length of the metropolitan
streets is 1900 miles, but two-thirds of
the streets are without mains, while in
the principal thOroughfares aS many as
six mains run parallel
There are said to be in the United
States 252, ,l4S manufacturing establish
ments, employing 2.053, ,996 hands. and
producing annually S4232. .324 ,445 worth
Of goods. There are 0,l91 steam en-
gines. and 81 ,0lS water wheels, with a
combined force of 2,3i6, ,l45 horse
power.
A depression in the old cemetery
at Cherry Valley, y. Y, marks the
spot where a trench was dug for the
bodies of the forty Revolutionary mar
1 tyrs who were massacred by the Tories
and Indians under brant and Butler,
in I77S. 4 monument is to be erected
to their memory.
The postal card manufactory in
Springfield, is running ten hours day
turning out about 500, COO cards per day
and is ), 500, 900 behind its orders. The
number of cards printed during the
quarter ending July l, was $4,000, 900,
an increase of nearly 10000, 900 over
the corresponding quarter for 1879.
Joliet is excited over the desertion,
bv man and his wife, of a family of
: six small children, and the old man,
aged 80 years, elopiDg with girl Of 20
wears, and the woman, aged AZ years
e!oping with boy IL years old. The
children, the eldest of whom is only :
: years old, are being taken care of by
the county.
!, The Western Texas papers are still
! hammering away for new State OF
West Texas. The San Antonio Herald
claims that the original founders of the
Texas Republic stipulated that Texas