Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-09
NEWS IN BRIE

-California's wool clip is expected
TO reach 80, ,OO0, 600 pounds next season.
The right to sell popcorn at the
Centennial exposition has been sold for
5000.
A CORY Pa jeweller claims to
have clock that was made in the year
l411.
The exports of Boston last year ex-
ceeded i'm value those of the preceding
year more than seventeen per cent.
A mOngrel yellow dog Is the mail
carrier between Minnesota and Dakota,
Michigan, distance of sixty miles.
The carpet manufactures of Phila-
delphia are looming up proudly, aggre-
eating twenty million dollars year.
The members of the National Re-
publican Convention will be called to
meet at Chicago on the 18th of June.
A piano voted to a popular Indian
apolis man at ladies' relief bazaar was
Immediately seized by the Sheriff to
satisfy debt.
The number of men called under
arms by the United States government
for the suppression of the rebellion
lion amounted TO 1852 ,049.
Duncan, Sherman * Co. have been
adjudicated Involuntary bankrupts OIL
a petition signed by over 200 creditors,
whose claims aggregate s., 1885,
Estimates OF pork packing at the
West indicate falling off last year of
about $40, 900 hogs, as compared with
1874, decrease of nearly ten per cent.
The Boston Commercial Exchange
has voted adversely upon proposition
to invest $4,000 in the Poughkeepsie
bridge and direct Western route pro-
ject.
Petitions are being circulated
throughout Iowa praying the I.egisla-
ture to introduce homeopathy into the
medical departments of the State Uni
versity. .... ...
Early i'm the year Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher will resume the management
of a department of the ChristidR Union,
to be conducted in the interest of house
keepers. .-..f -..l
Inventive progress From thou
sand patents year in 1850, the average
yearly number of patents granted in
this country has grown to thirteen
thousand.
The second trial of Piper for the
murder of Mabel Young, at Boston, has
been pu' down for February l, the
press of lsiness preventing an earlier
hearing.
Wabash College forbids gambling
among the students, and the boys plain
lively inquire how they can be ap-
pointed Minister to England without a
knowledge of poker.
The mercantile tonnage of all
nations foots up 1859 1886 tons, the
number of seagoing vessels being ST.
25S under sail and 5,519 under steam,
making total of g., ,777 vessels.
Somebody who is curious in refer
ence to the statistics of horse-racing,
estimates that $50 races were run in
this country during 1875, and 1890, 900
changed hands on that account.
The degree of LII. ID. has been con-
ferred on Governor Bedle of New
Jersey, and the degree of ID. d. on Prof.
Briggs of New York Union Theologi-
cal Seminary, by the trustees of Prince
ton College. s--... .
General Sherman is authority for
the statement that there is one officer
! for every sixteen men in the effecsive
| force of the army. Is there no occa-
sion for demanding reduction in the
number of officers?
-s'The Silver Thimbles'' is the
rather neat title of young ladies' So
eiety at Dechora, Iowa. The society's
success is more than sew-sew, too, for
| at late fair it realized several hun
dred dollars for charitable purposes.
John Montgomery Sears, son of
the late John Sears, of Boston, came of
age Christmas Day. He owns more
than 81 ,000, 900 of real estate in Boston,
and is worth many millions more in
mortgages and bonds of various kinds.
The favorable impression made
upon travellers by the Philadelphia
line OF steamships is shown by the
fact that during the past year, the
American and Red Star lines carried
20,9S5 passengers, against 1861 for
1874.
| Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who has
been in Springfield, Ill. since her stay
in the insane asylum, continues to i'm
prove III health and spirits and visits
among her friends. She lives with the
family of MIR Ninian Edwards, her
brother-in-law.
The co-education of the sexes has
been practiced at Cornell College, Iowa,
from the start, and the teachers and
trustees of the institution are well sat
isfied with the workings of the system.
OF the l45 members of the alumni fifty
six are females.
"A. l.. o. F. Miss Charlotte Maria
Tacher), well known in England and
America as a writer of entertaining
Sunday school books, has gone from
England to India to engage in Zenana
mission work. Miss Tacher is grand
niece of James Boswell, DIR. Johnson's
famous biographer.
Wyoming Territory has new
county named Crook, not named after
crooked whiskey, but after Gen. Crook,
who commands the Department of the
Platte, and who has done more effective
and judicious work among the Indians
during the past few years than all the
brigadiers on the frontier combined
-Alanson Palmer, who few years
ago, owned some of the finest steamers
on the great lakes, and whose great
wealth, made him one of the powerful
citizens of Buffalo, died the other day
in an insane asylum, penniless and
crazy, at the age of eighty-one years
He lost his wealth in reckless specula-
ton.
Miss Anna Louise Cary, the prima
donna, has made an engagement TO 60
to Vienna i'm the spring. She will re-
turn to America late in the summer,
and will probably give a concert in
Portland, Me. in September. She will
sing in opera in this country next sea-
son under the management of Max
Strakosch.
"A Washington correspondent who
has been examining the literary tastes
of prominent senators, finds that Bay
ard is given 20 reading Constitutional
Law and Modern History; Thurman
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