Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-27
NEWS IN BRIEF

Texas raises 500, 900 bales OF cotton
this year.
The unwilling of the Seward statue
in New York has been postponed for
several weeks.
Since the immigration movement
began more than 2, l25 900 Irish people
have landed in New York.
The Capitol at Washington will be
/ open on Sunday hereafter for the con-
venience of Centennial visitors.
The Wagner orchestra at the Bay
reuth festival numbered one hundred
and sixteen, including thirtytwo vio-
lins.
"A young seal was shot at Middle
bury, VT, the other day, which the
people believe escaped from Barnum's
museum.
! There are no less than ], 200 Chris
tian congregations in the Island of
Madagascar, numbering 260, 900 wor-
shippers.
| "A Baltimore youngster fell into an
indigo tub the other day and crawled
out fully qualified for membership in
the boys in blue.
| The freshman class at Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Ct, numbers
sixty-two, larger number than has
ever before entered.
| Baltimore has over fifty oyster and
| fruit packing establishments, and sew
eral hundred thousand dollars are in
vested in the business.
A bear seven feet long was shot
near the Twin Mountain house the
other day, and big panther is soaring
the people of Springfield, VT.
The Eastern shore of Maryland has
sixty thousand acres of peach trees.
and the yield the present season is es-
timated 5000, 900 bushels.
"A factory fo- the manufacture of
sugar and syrup from watermelons has
been established on Andres Island Cal
ifornia, in the San Joaquin river.
-Ex-Mayor J. V. C. Smith of Boston
a rather poetical person of an eccentric
turn, is building an open-fTont tomb,
with seats and table, in the beer
garden style.
The Rev. Arthur Mitchell, of the
| First Presbyterian Church, Chicago,
has voluntarily relinquished 81 600 a
year of mis- salary on account of the
hard times.
Nebraska has more than doubled
| her population since 1870. The State
now contains 257, ,747 inhabitants, as
compared with l22, ,993 in 1870, and H.
494 in 1850.
The bridge across White river, on
/ the Wisconsin Central Railroad, is the
largest wrought iron one in the world.
1t is l ,525 feet long, 107 feet high, and
I cost 5000, 200.
-Tecumseh's grave has been discov-
cred near Ridgetown, Ont, and the re-
mains have been exhumed and taken
to Niagara to be deposited in the vault
at Brooks monument.
Daniel Hull, the oldest living loco
motive engineer in Pennsylvania, re-
sides in Chambersburg. He was born
in Strasburg, Lancaster county in 1898,
and commenced railroading in 1884.
"A party of Freemasons from Glou-
cester, Mass, while on a fishing excur-
sion in 1860 threw overheard a bottle
containing their names. Last week it
was washed ashore at Rockland, Me.
Gen. Joe Lane the candidate for
/ Vice President in 1869 with Breckin-
ridge, is a farmer in Oregon. His son
| Lafayette Lane, is representative i'll
the present Congress from that State.
The Sl-ton gun at WoOlwich, with
a charge of 270 pounds of powder, will
send a three-quarter ton bolt with sutfi-
cient force to be driven through three
| feet of solid iron AZ a range OF one
thousand yards.
The ancient church of All Hallows
4 n - -, 1l.x.N
down. Milton was christened in it,
and in 1850 the rector, Lawrence Saun-
ders, was executed for heresy by order
of Queen Mary
| A very singular method of elec-
tiOneering has been adopted by couple
of residents of Munroe, Mich, who
have agreed to run a fOOt-race. the
loser to vote for the others candidate
for the Presidency.
The great imperial bell made out
of the French cannOns taken by the
Germans and placed in the tower of
the Cathedral of Cologne, cannot be
made to ring in tolerable manner.
The sixth effort has proved a failure.
Ground has been broken at Hart
ford for new Catholic Cathedral of
a spire 2J0 feet high, which 10 to be one
of the best ornamented and most i'm
posing church buildings in New Eng
land.
"A Mississippi letter says many of
the negroes think that "Wheeler ~
Wilson" are the Presidential candi-
dates of the Republican party, and are
promising themselves new sewing
= Is Il. oil nrry
acres and mule.
John Anderson, the first man to
make the ascent of the great South
Dome in the Yosemite Valley is a
quiet young Scotchman who lives her
mitlike in a small house near the sad
die of the dome, to which he is con-
structing a stairway of 1000 steps
I &C. p. Haseltine, of Stevens Point,
Wis, has a cranberry marsh OF $40
acres under cultivation. III the berries
are not destroyed by early frosts he ex-
poets to gather three thousand barrels,
which will be shipped direct to Liver
pool. Five hundred persons will be
employed in gathering the berries.
Mr. Sipley, a noted hermit, of
Pike County, Pa, is dead. He was
formerly a wealthy merchant of New
York City, but failed in business His
reverse so preyed upon his mind that
he fled to wild, desolate place, sew
eral miles from anv habitation. There
for thirty-five years he has sustained
himself by fishing and hunting.
Chicago is greatly delighted over
the announcement that A. L. Stewart
: & Co. have leased three blocks of build
lngs on Wabash avenue in that city
with the intention of turning them
into one vast establishment, in which
they will have from 100000 to s4,-
; O00, 900 worth of merchandise, imported
expressly for their western house.
"A correspondent, who says that the
( widow of Millard Fillmore has a great
deal of silver to spare, recalls the
D fashion in which the pair would drive
], out during the ex-President's lifetime.
e Mr.. Fillmore would attire himself in
CLASSY black brOalclOrh a high hat.