Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-26
NEWS IN BRIEF

Minnesota boasts of millions of
grasshoppers already.
Iowa has Just decided through her
Legislature, to do without local option.
The estimated cost of running the
Allentown, Pa, Iron Works is $500, 900
per year.
DIR. Linderman approves the pro-
posed site for the Western Mint, at Co
lumbus, o.
There are estimated TO be over s.
goo daily and weekly newspapers pub
llshed in the United States.
You can travel LOO, ,0O0, 900 miles
on Massachusetts railroad before it
Will be your turn to be killed.
Miss Stratton ascended Mont Blanc
on the 3lst of January last. when the
temperature was 25 de grees below zero.
Professor Murray, of Rutgers Col
lege, has resigned to become the Super
intendent of Public Instruction in ia
pan.
"A New York farmer expects to sell
$4,000 worth of horse-radish this year.
That's greater than most farmers ex-
pect.
John Tyler, son of the president
of that name, proposes to run for
governor of Florida upon an indepen-
dent ticket.
Montana has taken an immense
number of buffalo skins this season.
The buffalo will soon become as extinct
as the dOdo.
bartholomew county, Ind, contains
four villages named respectively Crack
away, Possumglory, Kooncreek and
Hardscrabble.
An old lady died the other day in
Va. surrounded b. her pets
five dogs, two pigeons, half-a-dozen
hens, and cat.
The New York Legislature has
killed a bill prohibiting the employ
ment of women in liquor saloons, gar
dens or any place where liquor is sold.
Philadelphia announces that she
will have next summer, in her board
ing-houses and hotels, Accommodations
for three hundred and seventy thousand
persons.
Captain Ostrom, of the Cornell
crew, is training eight oars
men and Il coxswain in view of possi- o.
BILE contest with an English crew next
summer.
Gov. Tilden, at the request of the
council of Albany, has con-
sented to sit for his portrait, to be
placed in the common council chamber
Of that city.
OF the one hundred and seventeen
women now studying at the Michigan
University, four have chosen law, forty
seven medicine, and fifty-six literature
and science.
President MeCosh at the openingof
The 10th year of Princeton college said
that during the seven years of his pres
dency, gifts to the amount of $780,
700 were received.
"A monument to the late Vice Presi-
lent Wilson by the regular army is pro-
posed. Company ID, 10th Infantry,
stationed at Humboldt, Tenn, has raised
300 for the purpose.
Liberia has Withdrawn her appro-
priation for securing representation at
he Centennial Exhibition on account
If the expenses of the war in which
she has become involved.
General Schenek says he is ready
md anxious to answer all charges
against him, and that the press of the
country has been infamously and mali
,iOusly false toward him.
The U. s. Supreme court decides
hat the law levying tax ON passen-
GERS arriving at the port of New York
) unconstitutional. The decision of
he courf helow il rpvprSad
The Fredericksburg Herald has
Ound lottery ticket signed by George
That's the kind of a man
who now comes forward and asks the
country to buy him monument.
-Senator-elect Beck, of Kentucky,
will be the arbitrator On the part of
Virginia on the Maryland-Virginia
Commission, in place of
X Governor Graham, of North Caro-
ina deceased.
The Shelby (Ky.) Sentinel says:-
Whisky, less than thirty years ago,
,Ost but p cents a gallon 1t seems like
! heartless, hollow mockery to boast
hat the Centennial year shows WON
lerful national progress.
>. SOChtitll w., lflt
london coal merchants, have set apart
me of the offices at their wharf where
ady clerks are employed TO manage
he accounts. The hours are from To
O'Clock, and the salary guinea
week. This is done as an experiment.
Recently thirty-One estimates of the
otton crop of the current year, made
" cotton dealers of Augusta, Ca, were
eceived and consolidated at the Au-
,usta exchange, when the average
'roved to be 4 ,4O6, $50 bales. The high-
ST was 4 4,60O,000; the lowest 4, ,200,0U0.
There were literally more persons
.illed and injured each year in Massa-
husetts 30 years ago through accidents
o stage-cOaches than there are now
through accidents to railroad trains.
'uch is the conclusion of Mr.. Charles
'rancis Adams in the February Allan
ic.
james Parton has been remarked
n New York to his sstep-daughter, such
marriages being legal in that state. Par
on was 81 when he married Fanny
'ern, then aged 45. He is now 81 and
larries Fanny FERNS daughter, aged
D. The whole thing is a general aver
ge.
Walnut logs are in such demand
hat a man who recently purchased a
arm of 250 acres near New Albany,
indiana. for SO, 900 received an offer of
8 900 for l20 large walnut trees grow
lg on the place. There are also ON the
arm over POO poplars, worth from $40
D $50 per tree.
1t seems to be pretty well estab-
shed fact that the ministry is one of
he most physically wholesome of occu-
ations. OF the LIS Congregational
lergymen who died last year, eight
Tere over eighty years old, and only
TX under forty. The average age was
yer sixty four years.
One farmer in Georgia last year
lanted fourteen acres in sugar cane;
e saved fully three acres of seed, and
ad the remainder ground up and made
ntO syrup, which yielded him about
300 gallons. This he sold at % cents
er gallon, realizing the hansome sum
f 81 ,495 from eleven acres of ground.
Seven Chief Justices have occupied
sl.