Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-08

| N]ss A$O0tc tt0, . 0AtAAC 1C(GQAC lO0l u
the tickets % which are twenty cents
Ninety million postal cards hav,
been sold BY the government since the
30th Of June last.
There are u. 799 Granger lodges in
the United States, with q membership
Of about I,500, 900.
The mackerel catch of Massachu-
sets State last year was l3O, OLA barrels,
against 25s, $50 in 1874.
The President signed the Centen-
nisl bill with q quill made from the
wing Of an American eagle.
There are upwards of 500 florists in
New York and vicinity. with an aggre-
gate invested capital of SIC. 900, 900.
The Pennsylvania coal company
has not suspended mining operations,
but will continue work on three-quarter
time.
The Hudson River has this winter
yielded not over 100000 tons of ice,
where the average crop should be two
million tons.
Owing to the tardy collection of
taxes, the payment of interest on South
Carolina state bonds and stocks is post
poned until April 1T.
Somebody has stolen from the New
York Metropolit liz Museum of Art, an
old hint-lock pistol Spanish relic of
the eighteenth century.
The Minnesota Republican State
Convention TO elect delegates TO the
National Convention at Cincinnati has
been called TO meet on May "a.
The boot and shoe factories of San
Francisco produced last year goods
valued at 81, SOC. 900, and the tsnneries
produced leather valued at 81, ,0OO, 900.
The public charitable institutions
of Chicago are supplied with bread at
$500 per 100 pounds and meat at cents
pound, and paupers are buried at the
price of s1.4 each.
George B Mcclellan, Ambrose E.
Burnside and Fitz Hugh Lee will be
the field officers of the New England
Middle and Southern battalions of the
Centennial Legion.
"A writer in Denver, Col, news
per complains that the grave of Kit
Carson, the noted scout, who died in
southern Colorado i'm 1858 is unmarked
and almost unknown.
-SOdom and Gomorrah are the names
of two promising settlements In the
northern part of Clare county, Wis,
and you can't scare 'em by recalling
Bible incidents either.
The Idaho Avalanche asserts that
within circuit of miles around Silver
City, money enough might be extracted
from, rho hnt-a1s of h..a
the national debt 20 times over.
The annual report of the State
AD'lit"r Of Kentucky has an item of
$ll 1925 paid for scalp>, but whether
for scalp- of wolves, bears. foxes or
Ku-Kiux is not definitely set forth.
The New Haven County, Conn.
Historical Society has fallen in possess
sion of several letters written by Beue-
dict Arnold and Aaron Burr, together
with some business paper of the former.
National conventions have already
been called as follows: April 5th, Col
pred men, Nashville, Tenn. May 10th.
Prohibition, Cleveland; May l7th- Soft
Money, indianapolis; June 14th, Re
publican, Cincinnati.
"A number of citizens of Springfield
Mass, representing property to the
amount of over 50 500, 900, have signed
| petition to the Legislature praying
or repeal of the law which exempts
churches from taxation.
The new route from Philadelphia
o New York via the Central Railroad
4 New Jersey, the Delaware and
Sound Brook, and North Pennsylva-
ia roads will be opened with through
ars on the first of April.
"A set of scales has been set up at
he Mint, at Carson, New, by which
he difference between two apparently
quail human hairs can be readily as
ertained, and difference in weight of
millionth of a grain can be measured.
Mr.. Thomas Liveridge (who died
ecently in Massachusetts), after max
ng various bequests to servants and
riends, gives the reminder of his es-
ate, valued at over 500, 900. to an in
titutiOn for tine education of poor
Outh.
The White Star steamer Germanic,
rom New York February 5, made the
oyage TO Queenstown in seven days,
Durteen hours, forty minutes, actual
me, which is claimed to be the quick
Sc passage across the Atlantic that has
yer been made.
&c. W. Sherman of Newport, L. /.
) said TO have the largest dog in the
Jnited States. Ii weighs two hundred
ud ten pounds, and measures four and
half feet around the body. IL is
ross between the st. Bernard and New
Dundland breeds.
The privileges" of the Centennial
ave been sold for $780, 600. The pub
sher of the official catalogue pays 800
10; the restaurant aud beer rights pay
l25, 600; soda water privileges, s52 900
Dbaceo, q 600; milk, bread, chocolate
nd candy, $1,000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
any recently advertised that they
iould receive applications for the posi-
ion of conductor, to be employed to
he number of lo0 during the Centen-
ial season. They had ten thousand re-
ponses In ten days.
The North Carolina Conference of
ne Methodist church has refused by
Ote of TO i to concur in the proposed
Of 1877, which has been
allied for the purpose of fconsummating
ne union between the Methodist Pro-
,stant and the Methodist churches.
-Emanu Swedenborg has scarcely
follower or believer in all Sweden,
nd at Stockholm. his home, he was
,Oked upon as half-crazy charlatan-
he house in which he lived is occupied
y tenants of the poorer class of people,
nd is not easily found, so little is his
lemory cherished.
Congressman Piper, of California, is
aid to own two hundred acres within
ne city limits of San Francisco. He is
pure Swedish descent, wss a carpen-
sr by trade, and caught the California
ever by reading speech of Daniel
Webster, in which the future of San
rancisco was described in glowing
srmS.
"A Yuba county (Cal.) man intends
D set out grove of l 900 orange trees
his spring, and others in Butte, Yolo.
Olusa, SalanO aud sacramento are con-
going extensively into the
business, as expert