Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16
NEWS IN BRIEF

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five ships of war, and the army con-
tains 100000.
"A man in Northampton County Pa.
has contracted to ship 5000 school
states to Japan.
Ben Franklin is the democratic
candidate for Congress in the Eighth
Missouri district.
They estimated that the Hoosac
tunnel would cost So, 500, 900, and of
course it cost SIG, 900, 900.
Poole, the London tailor, left for
tune of $3.50, 900. His business will be
continued under his name.
Ex-Governor CASTOR, of Massachu-
sets, is president of the New Boston
Post Publishing Company.
Kansas expects to export over 20,
OOO,OOO bushels of wheat this season,
against l., 900, 900 last year.
Col. Drum, Sheridan's Adjutant
General, has war-Inspiring name, and
we trust he will never be beaten.
"A boy, twelve years of age, is now
in the Virginia penitentiary, serving
out sentence of three years for horse
stealing.
! "A set of wheels was lately taken
from the baggage-car of the California
and Oregon express train, which had
run 81 800 miles.
| The carriage in which Lafayette
rode at his reception in Baltimore in
1924 is still in daily use in that city, in
good state of preservation.
The famous firm of Harper II
Brothers has changed its title to Harper
Brothers Il Co. Fletcher Harper is the
only original ''brother" left.
Davenport, Iowa, celebrated the
Centennial Fourth regardless of ex-
pense, and had just S3l left in the city
treasury when she got through.
The Supreme Court of California
recently examined thirteen students
who applied for admission to the Bar,
and refused to admit any of them.
The Boston ladies paid $500 for
the Old South Church. This motto is
prepared for the famous edifice: "The
Men of 1716-The women of 1876"
Six and half million of dollars
was the sum in round numbers raised
last year for all purposes by the three
great Presbyterian bodies of Scotland.
Parker Pillsbury, of anti-slavery
fame, and now nearly seventy years
old, has Just celebrated the ninety first
birthday of his mother, at Henniker,
n. Ill.
President Pierce did not make a
change in his Cabinet while he was
President. Grant, in seven years, has
made twenty-six, an average of four to
each office.
Georgia has some 10 cotton mills,
which in nearly every instance paid Il
dividend during the past year, while
many New England mills were run
ming at a loss.
The great Atlantic cotton mills at
Lawrence, Mass, will probably resume
work by September, recognized. The
company's property is taxed on a valu-
alton of 81 800, 900.
MIR. J. III. Ring is said to have filled
the longest consecutive engagement of
any actor in America, having played
continuously in the Boston Museum
since August 1G, 1853.
jacob Harness killed Isaac White
in Anderson County, Tenn, in 1868,
and after lapse of thirteen years, he
has been sentenced to be hanged on the
first of September next.
"A fishing schooner at Cape Eliza
beth, Me-, took in her seine at one haul
the other day 800 barrels of mackerel
She could only hold 300 barrels, and
had to give the other 600 away.
The American Medical Association
in Philadelphia admitted DIR. Sarah
Hackett Stevenson, of Chicago, as
rnartahar i rho
lady member admitted to the assOcia-
ton.
In Ireland only Is, 75S persons out
of 400, 435 own any land at all, and of
these, only 32,6l4 have more than an
acre, the remainder owning among
them all only 9, ,065 acres, chiefly house
property.
The Standish Monument AssOcia-
ton propose to erect fifty feet of the
shaft of the monument at Duxbury,
Massachusetts, this summer. When
finished the shaft will be eighty-fiYe
feet high.
The largest negative ever produced
by means of photography was recently
exhibited in San Francisco. 1t was
about three feet long and two feet wide
and the perfected apparatus cost the
inventor over $12 900.
"A Presbyterian minister, formerly
of Pittsburgh, acted recently As umpire
in game of base ball at st. Paul. His
congregation very foOlishly took offense
at it, but it has not transpired that they
have decided as yet to lay the case be-
fore the presbytery.
Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, has
contracted with DIR. Field of Spring
field, Mass. for the use of certain lands
near that city, and has wOrkmen at
work engaged in quarrying out "bird
tracks," some excellent specimens of
which have been secured.
One Frank Bartlett climbed to the
top of the flagstaff on the State House
dome, at Hartford, Conn.,, the other
day, causing 800 10 change hands in
bets. The staff is 81 feet high painted
and very smooth. He had no "creep-
ers," but was allowed halliards.
The fall of the railway suspension
bridge over the Niagara river, just be-
low the falls, is predicted by the Buff
falo express. Its theory is that iron
which is suspended either vertically or
horizontally becomes granulated and
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vibration.
The London Echo prints the names
of 80 or 40 members of Parliament who
have declared their purpose to visit
Philadelphia after the adjournment.
The list embraces the names Of some of
the most eminent men in the kingdom,
and they will no doubt receive a cor
dial welcome.
The oil region of Pennsylvania has
dropped out of general notice, but that
business there is steadily prosecuted is
shown by the fact that l95 wells were
bored in June. The average daily
yield of these new wells was about four
teen barrels apiece, and twenty-seven
were completely dry.
"A horseman passed through Lafay
ette No., the other day, and on his way
from Texas to Michigan. He was
mounted on mustang, which had car
ried him all the way, l, 800 miles, with
nothing to eat except what it picked up
along the roadside. The mans entire