Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are IL 1888 blind men and g.
977 blind women in the United States.
Over 800 students are registered at
the opening of the Wisconsin univer-
sity. ~
General Butler is to deliver the
Fourth of July, 1876, oration at Lowell,
Mass.
| AT the university of Heidelberg
this winter there are 80 American stu
dents.
An attempt is being made at Bruins
wick, n. c., to raise Augora goats for
their wool.
Since 1865 the State of Alabama
has bought, at tax sales, no less than
4,s00, 900 acres of land.
"A Masons' Congress with delegates
| from all parts of the world, will be
held in London in 1877.
Mrs. Coffin and Mrs. Comstock,
two Quaker Evangelists, are stirring
things up in the st. Louis churches.
The flower mission of Providence
sends bouquet to each patient In the
Rhode Island hospital every Saturday.
Nine jurors in panel of twelve
will be permitted TO return a verdict
according to the new constitution of
Texas.
Lord Dufferiu wants the dominion
to erect yice-regal palace or summer
residence for him az Quebec, at cost
of 100000.
| Brooklyn has paid $500, 600 to-
wards the great bridge 80 far, and the
bridge has not come very far towards
Brooklyn yet.
| Postal cards are q German inyen
! tion, and were first introduced by the
German government during the Franco
Prussian war.
The New York city schools are to
be furnished with New Jersey steel
pens. They will have $4,000 gross. or
7,aoO, 900 pens.
| -EX- Gov. John c. Brown, of Tennes-
see has been appointed vice president
of the Texas Pacific railroad, and has
accepted the position. s.
MIR. James Lick, the California
| philanthropist, is bored with innumer-
able letters asking for pecuniary aid to
all sorts of enterprises.
The new Odd Fellows Hall in
Lawrence, Mass, cost 500, 200. twill
accommodate three lodges, and is said
TO be the finest i'm the State.
1T is estimated that there are about
400 young men from the United States
pursuing their studies at the universi-
ties and colleges Of Germany. t.
That school girls are willing letter
writers is shown in the fact that one
day no less than 1900 letters were
mailed from yassar College.
Philip Clancy, an Irish laborer. of
Portland, Me-, has just been adjudged
heir to 500, 900, left by his grandfather,
Charles Clancy, in Dublin, Ireland.
"A species of red granite has lately
been discovered in Minnesota, said by
competent judges to be superior TO the
famous Scotch granite of Aberdeen.
According TO the Boston Globe,
Harvard is going to row an eight-oared
race with Yale, next summer, is we'll
rs send a six-oared crew to Saratoga.
Henry Roberts Marcus, who de-
vised the excursion train in England.
was killed recently, at the age of ~, by
being run over by one of these trains.
No house was ever vet large enough
for two families to dwell in peacefully
vet there are 35s. .95l families in Massa-
chusetts, and only e25,5ls dwelling
houses.
Friends Of Fitz John Porter say
they have reason for believing the Ex-
ecutive authority will take no action ON
the request of Gen. Porter for review
of his ease.
The State of New Jersey declared
herself an independent and sovereign
State on July ., 1776, and il is isproposed
to hold State Centennial on July 2
of this year.
1t Is said that Nebraska is TO have
the figure of an antlercd deer placed on
the dome of its capital. If it can't have
horn of plenty, it is determined to
have plenty of horn.
George J.. Ruffin, esq, we'll
known colored lawyer has been elected
a member of the Boston Common Coun-
Gil. He is the first citizen of African
descent who has ever been elected TO a
municipal office in that city.
On the north of Mount Helena.
Montana, there has been discovered an
extensive quarry of marble of fine
quality. Specimens have been sent east
and il is pronounced the only quarry OF
that kind in the United States.
"A monument is 10 he erected in
Lexington, n.y., over the tomb of W.
II. Berry, the first postmaster general
of the United States, who received his
appointment under the administration
of Jackson when the office was made
cabinet position.
l.
in the West which doesn't want to be a
city The residents have called meet
ing to consider the propriety of seeur-
ing the repeal of the city charter of
ls1f and the reincorporation of the
place a. village.
The Harvard Art Club proposes to
establish Scholarship, the holder of
which shall travel for the benefit of the
Club, and make explorations in distant
lands President Eliot, c. T.. Norton,
II. W. Longfellow, and James Russell
Lowell head the subscription list.
The San Francisco presbytery re-
Gently expelled a member from the
church and then tried to subject him to
discipline. The civil court very prop
crly enjOined the presbytery from mo-
testing stranger. This is the whole
of the case of Dawson vs. san Francisco
presbytery.
-Norwalk, Conn. feels happy over
the declaration of the historian Ban
croft, that it l. a well authenticated
historical fact that Norwalk did more,
per capita, for liberty, in contributions
of men, money, and material, during
the revolutionary period than any other
town in New England.
Chill leads off among the nations
for woman suffrage, the question of the
registration of women for voting at the
coming presidential election having
been decided favorably, and a large
number of the gentler sex, it is said,
will avail themselves of the opportu-
nifty to exercise their right.