Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-07-19
NEWS IN BRIEF

Sheep are selling at from sixty to
eighty cents head in California.
Hon. Amasa j. Parker has been
elected q trustee Of Cornell University.
The orchards of this country are es-
timated TO contain over 1900, 900 fruit
trees.
Mrs. A. T. Stewards gifts to char
ity have already amounted to about
slO0, 900.
There is drought in Florida, and
alligators are dying for want of water
ing place.
Eugene Roederer, head OF the eel
ebrated champagne firm, died recently
at Rheims.
The Auditor of Kentucky has re-
ported that the population of the state
is 1,665, ,525.
"A reunion of Hoods celebrated
Texas brigade will be held at Bryan,
Texas, July II.
-Paradoxical. Eleven young ladies
at Elmira, New York.
The hulk of the old Merrimac,
which was sunk by the Monitor, will
be manufactured into canes.
During this season Il, 1000 tons of
ice have been shipped from Lake City,
Minn., for the Keokuk company.
Mr.. Henry W. Raymond, the talent
ed son of the founder of the New York
Times, is to enter the lecture field next
season.
An apple tree in Charlottesville,
Ind, is over nine feet in circumference
at the base of the trunk and eight feet
at the height of five feet.
A New York doctor charged his
wife's estate $270 for medical attend
ance by himself in her last illness, but
the Courts wouldn't allow it.
An extensive vein of amethyst has
been found near Monticello, Ga. Some
of the siones are very large and brill
liant, and sell for 800 pound.
One of the convicts of the Virginia
penitentiary is serving out a sentence
of two years for stealing an orange
The theft was his second offence.
"A school house i'm Alabama has been
struck by lightning twice this sum-
mer. This Is what comes from having
so few school houses in the State.
One of the clowns in Barnum's
new show put this conundrum: "Why
is the Centennial like home? Because
it's the dearest spot on earth.-BOStOn
Globe.
The production of coal in England
was 81 800, 900 tons in 1855. and 426,-
SOC, 900 in 1875. The total number of
deaths in the mines is upwards of | 200
per year.
The largest tree standing in the
United States is at the head of Bear
Creek, north fork of the Tule river,
California. 1t is over forty-six feet in
diameter.
The trustees of Vanderbilt univer-
sity at Nashville have just received an
other donation of $500. 900 from CommO-
dore Vanderbilt, making his entire do
nation 81 ,0OO, 900.
The will of the late VIM. B. Astor
has been proved in England, where the
personal estate is sworn under EiOO,-
900, which appears to have been in
vested in British consols-
Secretary Seward began an autobi-
ography, but stopped at 1884. His son,
Frederick w. Seward, has completed
the work by giving full account OF
his fathers life after that.
The father of eight daughters in
Grand Haven, Michigan, has made
musical band of them, and he has
bought twelve brass instruments, be-
cause he expects to add to the member
ship.
Philadelphia ought to be a good
city. 1t has 1901 evangelical church
members and 526 churches of which
the Methodists and Presbyterians have
each 80. the Episcopalians 80, and Bap-
fists 63,
New York State pays her Governor
the largest salary of any State in the
Union, 5000 0 a year. Michigan, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
and Vermont each pay their Governor
81 900 year.
H. II. Spenser, of Los Angeles, Cal.
has gone into the cultivation of the eu-
calyptus, or fever tree, and has raised
from the seed and transplanted in his
nursery not less than 10000 trees
since February.
Mrs. Carnoyle of Breckinridge
county, Ky., has a child five years old
whose body appears to be absolutely
boneless. Although well developed in
every particular, its limbs can be liter
ally tied in knot.
The swedes of Betblebem. Pa. in.
vito their fellow commencement to ioin
them at Philadelnbia on the 26tb of
Anoust N celebrate the fonr bundredth
anniversarv of their own and the CEN
tenniaI of their adonted country.
bv the Roston Authorities have snent
four or five thousand dollars for the
citv- and have kent a sharp eve on the
fn1itive's baggage' much 10 his salts
faction unon res1ming charge of il.
The name OF Mr. Herschel " John-
son, who ran for Vice President OF the
United States on the ticket with stephen
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