Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-06-21
NEWS IN BRIn

baltimore has seventy-six Metho-
dist churches.
An excellent quality of tea is being
grown in Jasper county Texas.
Florida manages to squeeze $24O, 900
6 year from her sponge interest.
"A catfish weighing one hundred
and seventy pounds was caught at
Alton, ILL.,, few days ago.
The Congregational Church at
Rindge, n. H., has had but two pasto-
raj changes in 102 years.
Parton has abandoned Massachu-
sets and gone where man is permitted
to marry his stepdaughter.
Almost pure chalk exists in vast
beds in Trego, Kansas, and house has
been built of sawed blocks Of it.
The pistol with which Aaron Burr
killed Alexander Hamilton is said to be
in the possession of gentleman of Yer
sailes. Ky.
The British and foreign Bible So
ciety issued 2,6S2 ,lS5 copies of Bibles,
Testaments, and portions of Scripture
last year.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British
Minister, has rented place near Onota
Lake, short distance from Pittsfield,
Mass, for the summer.
There are now seven hundred and
fifty convicts in the Massachusetts State
Prison, the largest number ever in that
institution at one time.
BY fascinating arts known only to
the female sex, an Omaha youth of
twenty-five was recently induced to
marry widow of seventy-flve.
The Cinnamon of Gold Hill, Nevada,
are petitioning the authorities for a
public school, in which their children
may learn the English language.
The Herald of New York says that
what that city really needs is large
aquarium like that at Brighton, Eng
land. San Francisco has nice one.
The Centennial exhibition is not
elevating the price of butter to the ex-
tent that was anticipated. In fact it is
much lower than at this time last year.
If Colorado should be adm tilted to
the Union, the new Constitution will
require its first Legislature TO submit
Miss Marian Stockton, of New
Jersey, has taken the first prize of $500,
offered by the Baltimore Sun, for the
best American story, against 206 COM
petitors.
Nearly two thousand buildings were
erected in San Francisco last year, and
over one thousand in Oakland. Only
forty-four of those i'm San Francisco
were of brick.
Congressman Blair, of New Hamp-
shire, is restoring the old Webster
Court House in Plymouth, n. H., where
Daniel Webster made his first plea for
a public library.
The American Bible Society pub
lished last year $50, 40 copies OF the
Bible, which makes the total number
issued by the society since its establish
ment 80, l25, ,166.
Some San Francisco people propose
to charter two or more clipper ships,
and offer strong inducements, in the
way of low fare, or no fare at all, To
the Chinese, male and female, TO return
to China.
I'm Nevada, when a building falls
and kills two or three persons, the jury
first hunt up the contractor and hang
him, and then bring in verdict that
nobody is to blame but the contractor
who cannot be found.
The tusk of a mastodOn, seven feet
long and eight inches in diameter, has
been unearthed in Yolo county, Cali
fOrnia. 1t is of pure ivory, in excel
lent preservation, and curved almost in
the shape of a crescent.
The educational institution of Con-
nectieut embrace five colleges and dis
tinct professional schools, 233S un-
graded district schools, 26l graded
schools, 30 high schools, % academies,
and 249 private schools.
-Texarkana, a town of two hundred
is claimed by both Texas
and Arkansas, the State line dividing
the town in the centre. Taxpayers are
happy because they don't recognize the
of either State.
New Mexico is to be admitted into
the Union under the title of ''Monte-
The North american thinks
more appropriate name, considering the
prevailing weakness of the inhabitants,
would be 'Threecardmontezum
The precocious lad Jimmy Blan-
chard, who some months ago person.
ated Charley Ross, and who few DAYS
ago ran away from his parents with
horse and wagon, has been placed in
the New Hampshire Reform School.
A private fair held in Baltimore re-
Gently realized nearly $4,000 in two
lays. One gentleman gave $4,000 for
an afghan, and another $1,000 for an
htrr faf ha oh he Of
the prettiest young ladies of Baltimore.
The fair was in aid of a Catholic charity.
The official returns of the trade of
Canada for the first quarter of 1876,
show an encouraging state of affairs.
The imports are SIS, ,552 ,6l1, as against
$40, ,S77 $40 last year; and the exports,
lespite the dullpess of the lumber trade,
have risen from 81 ,94l ,l5l to SO, ,6S2 ,260-
A New Orleans correspondent in
forms us that in one parish in Louisiana
here are thirteen negro schools sup
ported by taxes paid almost exclusively
Dy the whites, and no white school, be-
,ause no one neighborhood can furnish
white scholars, the number
required by law.
The Buffalo Courier company have
ust issued a mammoth show bill for P.
L. Barnum. 1t is forty feet long
md seven feet wide; it is made up oil
'orty different sheets, placed in two
-ows of twenty each; the most extern
i've show bill embracing one general
lesigu ever printed.
"A larger number of counterfeit notes
nave recently been received at the re-
lemption division of the Treasury than
,ver before within the same length of
line. Recently a dangerous counter
Ieit $40 note of the National State Bank
If Terre Haute. Ind, and counterfeit
Is note of the First National Bank of
Louisville, have been discovered.
The American Socialist gives an ac-
,ount of the socialistic communities in
he United States. The inspirationalists
# Amana, Iowa, number l45O, are led
,y a woman, and permit but do not en-
courage marriage. The Harmony So