Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-31
NEWS IN BRIH.

Texas is called ''the State without
fences"
Andrew John is to have bust in
Memphis.
"A mountain Ofsuperior white chalk
has been discovered in Idaho.
In 1875 Rochester made 81 900 bar
rels of ale and beer, using 2l7 ,237 BUSH
els of malt.
-Thirty-seven companies on the
Kennebec river, Me-, have housed go
500 tons of ice.
Property has deprecated in Chicago
40 per cent, in New York 80 per cent,
and in Boston 25 per cent.
! The cost per capita in the Cleve-
land (Ohio) public schools is only
ninety-nine cents per pupil.
| John Jacob and William B. Astor
have each contributed $4,000 to st.
Luke's Hospital, New York.
The Newark, N. j., authorities,
have decided that flogging shall no. be
abolished in the public schools.
The inhabitants of Greeley, Colo
RADIO, have secured a $30, 200 school
house by contributing so piece.
If the reductions of the house COM
mittee on postal affairs are adopted,
saving of over $2,0C0, 600 will be ef-
| fected.
| But thirteen millions of lumber
have been cut the past year on the An
droscOggin, against thirty millions
three years ago.
| "A child with two faces was born
recently i'm Alabama. As the father is
no politician the event has made him
unusually thoughtful.
| Over five hundred houses have been
built at Custer City, Black Hills within
the last two months. But little gold
has been seen there yet.
old steamers on the Atlantic lines
when played out for first-class traffic
are switched off to the Mediterranean,
India, and other stations.
Dom Pedro will be provided with
twenty-five rooms in Washington. On
account of its circumscribed limits he
declines to visit Rhode Island.
| "A Georgia journal asserts that Chez
Spuich, an Indian, and Nabih, his wife
residing in Graham county, are aged
respectively 175 and 40 years.
| L
lie of Winnepeg during the insurree-
ton of 1870, is, according to the Ottawa
Free Press, in a mad house at Montreal.
Some corporations have souls. The
Washington and Georgetown Railroad
Company has voluntarily increased the
pay of its conductors from 81 to 81 %
per day.
The new iron stand-pipe of the
Bloomington (Ill.) water works, which
has Just been completed, is 225 feet high,
eight in diameter, and holds nearly 100
900 gallons
General A. S. Diven, of Elmira,
has bought twenty-eight acres of land
on st. Johns river, Florida, and in
tends to build handsome winter resi-
dence upon it.
The House Committee on Appro-
priations have cut down the estimates
for the postal service over four million
dollars as compared with the estimates
for the past year.
| They think a good deal of their
pigeons in Cambridge, Mass. A boy
has just been sentenced To eight years
in a Reformatory for stealing four.
Two years per pigeon.
Hotel keepers will be glad to know
that Dom Pedro will pay all of his ex-
penses himself. King kalakaua's 81, 900
bill at the Windsor Hotel, in New York
has not been paid to this day.
The wife of Ole Bull lives In MadI-
son, Wis. and translates Morse novels,
some of which a Chicago house is abOu
TO publish. She only stays here be-
cause of her mothers ill health.
John B. FELTON,, San Francisco
lawyer, is a lucky man. He gained a
great mining suit some time ago. and
was paid fee of 81 ,000, ,OO0. We should
like to feel as he FELTON, that occasion.
The savings bank bill which passed
the Massachusetts, Legislature provides
for guarantee fund, limits dividends,
vacates trustees office for non attend
ance, and divides surplus every three
years.
1t is now proposed to re-establish
the whipping post in North Carolina,
for the purpose of relieving the peni-
tentiary, which is now becoming so
full as to make its support burden to
the State.
The New York Yacht Club was Or
ganized in June, 1874, by Commodore
Edwin A. Stevens, and from four
yachts has grown a fleet of sixty-nine,
sloop and schooner yachts and eleven
steamers.
In the twenty-five cities of the
United States with the highest postal
receipts the citizens pay on an average
$2.01 each for postage yearly. Boston
averages $3.50; New York, s3.l6; and
Chicago, $3.O3.
A paper company i'm HolyOke
Mass, has manufactured an immense
ream of paper for the Centennial. The
sheets are by Is feet, the ream weighs
about ton, the value of the 4S0 sheets
is 81 800, and if cut into ordinary sheets
of note paper they would make JOO, 900
sheets.
The late Hosea L. Clark of Jersey
City left singular will. In all the le-
gacies left to his daughters, widowed
sister, brother and half-brOther, besides
other people, the amount has been left
blank, only the words thousand dollars
with dash before them, being written.
The property in New York. and New
Jersey is of great value.
Mary Harris, who shot and killed
Burroughs, Treasury clerk, in WASH
ingtOn, some years ago, and was ac-
quilted on the ground of insanity still
| lives at the capital. About a quarter of
her time she is incarcerated; then re-
leased till she chooses to return again,
which she does quite regularly. Her
face looks baggard and aimless-
Tobacco growing is assuming con-
siderable importance in Oregon. The
entire product in 1870 was but 3,847
pounds, while that of 1873 was 3S,lS7
pounds, an increase Of 600 per cent.
The quality Of the article Is inferior but
it commands remunerafive prices and
Is used chiefly in sheep washing. Hop
growing is also assuming considerable
Importance in that State.
MIR. John Jacob AstOr has author
lied the corporation of Trinity Church,
New York, of which he is constant
attendant, to have erected at his ex-
pense a new altar and altar screen, Of
n l.