Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-22
NEWS m BRIEF

500 year.
Wisconsin now proposes to tax
church property.
The Wabash and Erie Canal has
been sold for debt.
|-@>-A Manan Tesre Haute owns a Gre
mona fiddle made in 1920.
The whole number of trade dollars
coined, up to February l, is S,0sl 900.
"A passenger train will be run
through the great Hoosac tunnel
shortly.
The vassar College girls are organ
izing base ball clubs for the coming
season.
"A sweet potato weighing twelve and
one-quarter pounds has been raised in
Tallahassee.
The census of Boston, recently Or
dered by the city government, shows
the population to be 81, ,9l9.
From sixty to seventy thousand
pianofortes and cabinet organs are an
nually sold in the United States.
The Constitutional Convention of
North Carolina only cost s3l 900, and
lpi tlit ulOilCl was
never drafted.
The daughter of rich Michigan
banker sings in a concert saloon in
Lafayette, Ind. She married against
her fathers wishes.
The Pittsbnrg Gdzette announces
that its voice is for the Hon. William
Strong Of the Supreme Bench for Presi-
dent of the United States.
Mrs. Reverdy johnson is still liv-
ing. The fiftieth anniversary of her
marriage with her late companion was
celebrated seven years ago.
st. Louis, not to be beaten by Chi
cago. talks about establishing the biggest
stock-yard in the world. 1t is to take
$4O0, 900 and Sc acres of land.
Every member of the Kansas House
of Representatives is provided with
twenty daily newspapers during its
session, at the public expense.
During the past u years Dartmouth
College has received about $500, 900 in
gifts, and about 500, 900 more will be-
come available in few years.
An artesian well IN OskalOosa, Iowa,
has been driven to the depth of :, 800
feet, and has thus far cost the tax
payers of that town more than SIG, 900.
The gas rates are so high at Indian
apolis, Ind, that fully one-half the city
is burning coal oil at cost of ten cents
per gallon. Gas stock is declining
rapidly.
There is man thirty-three wears
old in Williamsburg, Ind, who has con-
siderable matrimonial experience. He
recently lost his fourth wife and IL
about to take number five.
The unmarried Washington ladies
want law 10 prohibit bachelor and
widower Senators from dodging around
and peeping into the windows of the
Treasury Department.
Three wears ago Sheffield sent cut
lery and steel rails to the United States
valued at I, 100000. Last year the
total value II goods exported to this
country wa only SG90,OOO.
Mr. Cooper mas an orchard within
about twelve miles from Santa Barbara,
CAL, of 1000 almond trees, 1000 Eng
lish walnut trees, 5000 olive trees, 5000
grape vines, 5000 eucalyptuses.
Belle Plain, Iowa, claims the small
lest woman in the wOrld-Maggie Mi
not She is eighteen, twenty-sevea
inches high, and weighs thirty-one
pounds. Tom Thumb is six inches
taller.
The managers OF the st. Louis Fair
Association are about to add geological
garden of thirty-five acres and a school
for the study of natural history to its
grounds, at a total cost at the outset
of S200,O00.
"A careful measurement of the dis
tance has demonstrated the fact that
the visitor to the Centennial. who would
see everything on exhibition in the
buildings, must walk eighty-four and
five-eighths miles.
There are many Massachusetts
people who believe in witches. For
instance, if a husband gets up in the
and finds his money s. short,
who took that wealth? Wasn't his wife
asleep all the time?
- General Richard Taylor of Ken
tucky, (''Dick" Taylor is his popular
"A son of the late President
Taylor, is said to have achieved in Lon
that of any of his couutrymen.
Charles h. Lands, recently ac-
quilted, on the ground of insanity, of
the murder of Carruth, the Vineland
editor, has been pronounced sane by
Judge Reed, after the examination of
and discharged from arrest.
"A genius i'm New Bedford is fitting
up steamer for the purpose of towing
TO India, where they sell for
six cents pound. Another proposes to
do still better-tO fit a screw in the ice
berg itself, and thus avoid the expense
of shipbuiliing.
"A man is serving out year in the
State Prison who was con-
vieted of robbing the mails of twenty
five cents. Since he has been confined
there the letter has been returned from
the dead-letter office, with the twenty
five cents enclosed.
"A fan mer in Van Buren, Onondaga
county, n. Y, recently caught twenty
four wild geese that were taking a rest
in a cove in Seneca river, and during
the sudden change in the weather sat
so quietly i'm the water that the ice
CtDSCu dtiiu IltAb lhCtl last.
-Four innocent men have just been
pardoned out of the Oregon State prison
after spending three years there on life
sentences. In 1872 stage was stopped
IN a lonely place by four masked men,
who took from it gold dust worth
81 200. The nearest house was the
residence of the four men who were
wrongfully convicted.
A rival of Tom Thumb has appeared
in Binghamton, n. Y, i'm the person OF
a boy five years old, who weighs nine
pounds when fully dressed, is twenty
three inches i'm height, is physically per-
feet and healthy, and who talks very
The child weighed but two
and half pounds at birth, aud has not
grown since he was few months old.
Colonel Shaffner, of the Twenty
fourth regiment of United States infan-
try, who recently returned from long
scouting expedition OH the 81 Staked
Plains" of Texas, reports that their true
character has been misrepresented, as
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