Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Eight Spanish soldiers in Cuba die
of fever where one is killed.
Six thousand persons in Atlanta,
Ca, want work and cannot find it.
Randolph county, North Carolina,
has five cotton factories in active oper-
alton.
-Forty-one cities of the United
States have an aggregate debt of almost
5000, ,OOO, 900.
There are Al Roman Catholic
churches in Brooklyn, against in 1850
and IS in 1860.
The Pennsylvania railroad is now
doing heavier passenger business
than it did in active war times.
The widow of Daniel Webster is
still living, at the age of eighty-fve,
with relative near New York city.
AT sham battle in Rome, NY, the
other day, the veterans fired off 5000
cartridges and $4,000 glasses Of lager.
-Dio Lewis is nowhere. Syracuse
fasts on peanuts and lunches on horse
radish.
A set of car wheels that have run
523, 900 miles have been taken off a car
owned by the Boston and Albany Rail-
road Company.
-Mankota, MINI. enjoys the proud
distinction of being the only town of
its size in the northwest which has not
a baseball club.
Fifteen million nine hundred thou
sand hectolitres of barley (420, ,046, 200
gallons) are consumed annually in Ger
many for beer brewing.
The value of the real and personal
property of North Carolina in 1875
gained over twelve million and a half
dollars on the valuation of 1874.
A Taunton (Mass.) dog recently
found his way back home on foot from
New Hampshire, distance of two hun
dred miles.
Perkins the English pedestrian,
has succeeded in walking eight miles
within an hour-less than eight min
utes per mile.
Stokes will get out of prison on the
23d of October. That would be about
the time his moustache would have
grown again, too, only they wont let
it grow.
The Knoxville Whig figures it up
that the clergy cost the United States
Sl2 ,000, 900 annually, the criminals $40
000, 900; the lawyers, $40 ,000, 900; and
rum, 500, 100000.
Mr.. Rice. who is now canvassing
in Williamstown, Mass, in 1876 families
in Williamstown village found % des-
titute of the Bible, and 20 families
chose TO remain so.
The legacies received by Congre-
the last six years amount, according to
a million of dollars.
The White House at Washington,
ID. c., was commenced in October 1892.
James HOban was the architect. The
building is modelled after the palace of
the Duke of Leinster.
Mrs. Breckinridge, widow of the
widely-known Rev. DR.. Breckenridge,
is erecting, at her own expense, Pres
byterian church upon the family estate
in Madison county, Ky.
"A naval auction extraordinary Is
soon to be held off the Irish coast. The
sunken ironclad Vanguard, the tops of
whose masts only are visible, will be
sold TO the highest bidder.
The Ladies' Committee of Boston
have offered the owners of the Old
South Church 800 600 for the land OH
which the meeting house stands, and
this will probably be accepted.
surveys in the AdirOndacks have
that three of the peaks ex-
ceed 5000 feet in altitude-Tahawas,
or Marcy is 5, 400, Mcintyre $500, and
Haystack barely above the 5000 mark.
The finest chandelier ever made for
a theatre in this country is that manu-
factured for the Boston Theater. 1t is
said to have cost S5 900, and is guaran-
teed to be the admiration of all behold
ers.
Some statistics reckon that there
are on the earth two hundred thousand
steam engines, with an aggregate of
twelve million horse power, or an
equivalent of the strength of one hum
dred million men.
The bride path from the Crawford
house TO the summit of Mount wash
ington, which has not been in use for
six years, has been repaired and re-
opened. Ii is much the pleasantest
way of making the ascent.
The Bessemer anti seasickness
steamer, built for service between
Dover and Calais, having proved fail
ure, has been sold, and will be split up
for old iron. She cost nearly million
dollars, and was sold for 100000
The Erie Railway Company has
recently effected sale of large stock
of old iron, wrought and cast, gathered
up at the various stations and along
the road. The sale realized over $780,
900 to the treasury of the company.
&C. S. Haseltine, of Stevens Point.
Wis, has a cranberry marsh of $40
acres under cultivation. Ii the berries
are not destroyed by early frost he ex-
poets to gather 3 900 barrels, which
will be shipped direct to Liverpool.
"A daughter of a man who stood by
Gen. Warren's side when he fell, now
lives in Boston Highlands, at the ma
ture age Of lO3. Her name is Harriet
Hawley. She never attended theatri-
cal representation, and never journeyed
in the cars
Twenty years ago Indiana did not
own a school mouse, anu now there arc
10, 900 school buildings In the state, on
which has been expended more than
$40, 900 900. There are 1900 teachers
in the state. Last year more than s3,-
OOO, 900 was paid to teachers.
The Montana men in the Black
Hills have voted down proposition to
organize a government for Deadwood
CITY, and have passed resolutions de-
claring hanging the penalty for wrong
doing, and Judge Lynch the court be-
fore whom all bad characters shall be
brought.
The love of liberty, which is con-
sidered an American characteristic,
finds full expression in the nomeDcla-
ture of our towns. Missouri has twenty
one towns named Liberty, Ohio twenty
four, Indiana eighteen, Iowa sixteen
and Arkansas seven. This is very pa
triotic, but it bothers the postmasters.
The yearly mortality of the globe
is A., ,4O3, 600 persons. This is at the rate
of liz, 200 per day, $500 per hour. and
eighty per minute. Among 10000 per-
sons one arrives at the age Of one hun
dred: one in five hundred attains the