Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23
NO. 8.



grandmother aged 81.
The Kansas Legislature has elected
a colored minister as chaplain.
Lowell, Mass, has eighty two mills
employing capital of SIG, ,O00, 900.
Under the New Constitution of
TeSas nine of jury may render a yer
dict
| Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cor
nell University, New York, is to have
monument.
1t is said that not single member
of the Minnesota Legislature was born
in that State.
Prairie du Chen has an artesian
well 7l1 feet deep which throws up 30
600 barrels of water a day.
Nebraska added thirty per cent. to
her population last year, notwithstand-
ing the pesky grasshoppers.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke has
| been pastor of the church of the Disci-
| pies in Boston for thirty-five years.
The keel of a new tug boat which
was recently laid i'm San Francisco was
composed of one stick of timber 40
feet long.
The Sing Sing Prison Laundry is
in'uring the washing business in New
York city. Even All Sing can't COM
pete with Sing Sing.
The capital employed in manufac-
! turing of paper collars in this country
is s., ,000, 600, and nearly million paper
collars are made daily.
Six hundred dollars worth of moss
are annually raised ON farm at Water
loo, n. Y, all of which is used by the
nurserymen for packing trees.
-Cireuses don't have very happy
time in Georgia. The State tax united
with the average one for counties,
amounts to $40 per day on them.
There are said to be about $50 foun-
dries in the United States engaged in
the manufacture of stove and furnaces,
using annually 100000 tons of iron.
"A young lady at Richmond, Indi-
ana, went to the river seven times one
day to commit suicide, and then went
home and cried because she couldn't be
a heroine.
There are in Illinois, according to
late report of the Board of Education,
fifty-four colleges for males, six for
females, and thirty-five scademies and
seminaries.
Ex-senator Henderson, of Missouri
who at first conducted the suits against
the members of the st. Louis whisky
ring, demands, it is said, $4,000 for
his services
Curator W. X. Smith, of the Bo-
tanic garden, at Washington after hav-
ing carefully cared for fan palm for
twenty two years, is repaid by seeing it
covered with blossoms.
The Savannah News says there is
no portion of the South where indus
trious laborers are not need d and
where they would not find immediate
employment at good wages.
-Benjamin Downing. 'the oldest
Odd Fellow in the world" has just
died at Newport. He lacked two
months of being l02 years old The
oldest old fellow in the world still
lives.
The champion farmer is Michael
Sullivan, of Ford County, H.. who has
% 900 acres in wheat, and 5000 in oats
and flax. He has 40 teams at work,
aud no less than 800 persons on his
place.
One of the important points of con-
trast between the days of l776 and the
present time l. found in Wall street.
When the Declaration of Independence
was signed there was not bank i'm
America.
"A petition is before the Massachu-
setts Legislature praying for the revo-
cation of the sentence of banishment
passed against Roger Williams by the
Geners! Court of the Province of Mas
sachuse. IS Bay.
j. VI. VanCott, in answer to letter
from his client, Mrs. Emma G.. Moul-
ton, has advised her that she does not
need to take any steps to vindicate her
self from the charge of perjury brought
bv Mr.. Beecher.
New York boasts of 4i4 newspa-
pers and periodicals.. of which IS are
daily and semi-weekly, 1877 weekly, p
l39 monthly, 3 BIZ
and l6 quarterly. Thirty-two
are in foreign languages.
The Cheyenne Leader estimates
that 10000 people have gone to the
Black Hills mining region during the
last 3 months; they have come from all
from the South, Utah, CALI
fornia, Nevada, Idaho and Montana
Bully for old Kentucky! Her total
bonded debt is only SiSi 1874, and against
this she has in cash 81, ,l95, 1852. The
State has, therefore, money on hand
enough to pay every dollar il owes and
leave a balance on hand of over 8, ,000,-
O0O.
There is a young lady in Georgia
who weighs 203 pounds, and is feet
=. She is also accorded the palm of
beauty throughout the State. A proper
reserve withholds her name, but in
qairy of any one at Camilla, Ga., will
fetch it.
Augustus Schell, Chairman of the
National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, has called meeting of that
in Washington on February
p, to name the time and place for hold
ing the next National Democratic Con-
indianapolis has lost colored wo-
man. known as Aunt Sally Williams,
l06 years old. She had very large
family, all the members of which, so
far as she could learn, had died of old
age, excepting one son still living i'm
Lexington, Ky.
I'm the State of New York there are
annually more than 100000
600 by consumers of liquor, or two
thirds of all the wages paid to laborers
i'm agriculture and manufactures, and
twice as much as the receipts of all the
railroads of the State.
Macon, Ca, believes i'm retrench-
ment. She has reduced the salary of
the Mayor from 81 $40 to 81 800 and
other officers in proportion, cut down
the police force from forty to four men,
shut off the gas, and dismissed the
Street Commissioner and his force. The
city never got along so peacefully in
the world,
j. G. Chapman is the name of
New Haven philanthropist, who during