Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-19
NO. 16.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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canned salmon last year.
Eighty persons over ninety wears
of age died in New Hampshire last
year.
The Pacific Railroads have received
from the Government So, ,000, 900 and
220, ,0OO, 900 acres of land.
-Parson Winters, of Dayton. Ohio,
says he has married 1904 couples in
that town, and that the average fee is
81.
| There are 81 ,255 Baptist churches
in the United States, with 13, III minis
ters, and total membership of Isis,
600.
Middle Tennessee will, within the
next few months, ship 10000 lambs
North.
"A Boston journal says that New
York spends 81, ,0O0, 900 year for fiow-
ers alone, and for plants and fruits s3,-
000,0
Ohio supports 116, 900 dogs. Geor-
gia, with less than one-half the popula-
ton, has $4,000. More dogs than
voters.
Mr.. Emerson has accepted an invi-
tation to address the literary societies
of the University of Virginia on the
Goth of June.
The Department of Agriculture es-
innate the United States hog crop for
1870 at %, POI head, decrease of O.
147, 900 since 1874.
The ''United Brothers of Friend
ship" at Augusta, Ark, got into such a
fight, tie other night, that the authori-
ties had to interfere.
"A mass of rock estimated at nearly
five hundred tons weight fell from the
bank near the Bridal Veil Fall, at
Niagara, a few days ago.
The lady clerks of the Michigan
State offices at Lansing, are for Senator
Ferry for President-to woman.
Ferry is female suffragist.
I'm Mississippi there is still an ex-
tensive area of cotton ungathered, most
of which, il is feared. will be lost for
lack of hands to do the picking.
In Howell County, No., cows are
the principal circulating medium. A
thin cow passes current for $S, good
one for so, and a fat one for sl3.
Buffalo, not satisfied with the most
expensive City Hall in the State, now
wants to raise $3.50, 200 more to remove
the old city buildings and erect a new
Jail.
notwithstanding the mild Winter
a Worcester, Mass. skate manufacturer
has sold 40, 900 pairs of skates this sea-
son, and is now busy filling an English
order.
The State of Massachusetts, is in
debt 81, ZOO. 900 on account of the Hoo
sac Tunnel, and is now adding to this
debt 81 ,OOO, 900 year on the same ae-
count.
"A reply from London was received
at Hartford the other day, in an hour
and eleven minutes after the message
was sent, and this is said to be the best
time ever made.
"A tree was recently cut near Sweet
water, Tenn, which yielded 2 400 three
feet boards, 3,452 two-feet boards, 2s6
ten-feet rails, 172 six-feet rails, and six
cords of kindling wood.
"A suit is being tried in Boston for
1000 damages against a druggist for
putting 2IO times too much tartar
emetic into a prescription. The boy
who took it was made sick.
Secretary Taft, when he graduated
from Yale College, was the valedicto-
rian of his class. His eldest son, when
he left the same institution few years
ago, occupied like position.
A summers growth. Last year
the town of winter, California, was
wheat field, and a crop was gathered
from it. To-day it has l 200 inhabi-
tants. and town lots are worth 5000.
Professor Proctor has written to
the Boston School Committee, offering
to deliver lecture, free of charge, sn
the subject of astronomy, TO the chill
dren of the public schools of that city.
The annual production of leather
gloves In France is estimated at $780,
900 dozen pairs of all sorts; the average
price being 81 per dozen. There are
about 10000 persons employed in the
business.
A prominent Hudson River Rail-
road man estimates that it costs SIS
every time that buffer breaks, to re-
place it, and every time a train of ears
is stopped it costs the company seventy
five cents.
Houses containing three or more
families are classed as tenement houses.
IL is supposed that there are q, 900 ten
ement houses in New York City, and
that they contain population of 5OO,-
900 persons.
1t is thought the LenOx library in
New York will be open to the public
next autumn. The land and buildings
cost 5000, 200, and everything connected
with the library has been done on a
liberal scale.
Col. Larken Griffin, of Ninety-six,
South Carolina, and Mrs. Jemima Grif-
fin his wife, have been married sixty
six years. He is lightweight and she
is eighty-one. They are perhaps the
oldest couple in the State.
The State appropriation for public
schools in South Carolina for the COM
to the counties on the basis of the
school attendance. The total attend
lnce during the past year was llO,4l
A number of visitors went to Wis
eonsin cemetery TO see dog that was
,aid to be watching faithfully over the
grave of his dead master. When they
rot there he was seen chasing a brin-
lie cat up an alley two blocks away.
The Sacramento beet sugar factory
,ut in 1879 5000, 900 pounds of white
'ugar from beets, that yielded 49, per
,ent. more than the average yield of
Europe. The company will plant
argely this year and expect a larger
,rop than last.
Miss Mary Abbott, of Smyrna, Del.
has been led blushing bride to the
Iltar seven times She has been Miss
Williams. Mrs. Truax, Mrs. FarrOw,
Ilrs. Riggs, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Berry,
Hrs. Pratt, and now Mrs. Abbott, and
las married a widower every time but
nee, and has reared numerous step
.hildren for her various husbands, but
las never had children of her own.
The Rhode Island house of Repre-
entatives has passed a bill providing
hat the land occupied or owned by
hurches, schools, colleges and charita-
lie institutions, shall no longer be ex-
mpt from taxation. Buildings actually
lsed for religious, educational or char