Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-01-19
NEWS IN BRIHf.

! The Baltimore and Savannah Steam-
ship Company is bankrupt.
-Shingle- makers take courage! Vice
President Ferry used to work at the
same trade.
-"Pronouncing bees" take the place
Of spelling schools in the West. They
are pronounced a success.
A seven hundred pound metsorite
found in Or, enland, is on the way to
Philadelphia for the centennial
During the last week of last year,
there were suspended i'm this country
and Canada, eleven newspapers.
Among the items of expenditure in
the United States is the slight one of
5000, 600 900 annually for intoxicating
drinks.
A Newburg IN. " female teacher
whipped 30 boys and girls in row,
the other day, for missing lesson in
geography.
| "A Massachusetts, clergyman re-
duced his own salary $1,000. Ii is
scarcely necessary to say that his name
is not given.
1T is estimated that $4,000 quarts of
fresh milk and 1000 quarts of condensed
milk are consumed daily i'm Brooklyn,
at an expense of about $1,000.
"A Duluth assessor SAYS it is posi-
lively amazing how cheap property be-
comes as he passes up or down street.
Ii falls seven per cent. whenever he
enters house.
/ Our railways are rapidly destroy
ing our forests, the wood for ties alone
requiring the leveling of 900 acres
of forest annually.
| Cleveland, o., gives tramps their
choice between leaving the city BY the
shortest road and cleaning the streets
to pay for their meals.
"A couple of Bridgeport, Conn.,.
families have built twenty foot board
fence between them, so as 10 keep from
tearing each others hair out.
| The Lynn shOemakers have revived
the order of knights of st. Crispin, and
called a national convention to revive
the order through the L. 5. and Canada.
Since the lst. of October twenty
five deer have been taken on the hills
of Steuben county, between the Canis-
teo and Cohocton rivers, New York
state.
There have been twenty seven
Speakers of the national House of Rep
resentatives, of which Massachusetts
has had three, Varnum, Winthrop and
Banks. f-rt.. ---rer
| Maj. Gen. Custer, the Indian fighter
has been visiting Major Barnum in
Bridgeport; and the Snowman has pre-
sented the fighter with a number OF
English fox hounds.
1t may not be generally known but
il is nevertheless true, that ex-Speaker
Blaine's ancestors were natives of lou
don County, Va, where many of his
distant relatives reside.
The sheriff at Rochester doesn't
ask denomination. He refused about
$4,000 people permission TO see Clark
hung, and he knows that each one
would vote against him.
Judge Cole, of the Supreme Court
of Iowa, has resigned his seat because
the pay Is too small TO provide for his
family and the labor too severe to per-
nit him to perform extra work.
There will be at least 200 French
exhibitors at the Centennial, ,two-thirds
Thirty thousand articles of merchan-
disc will be forwarded to the Exhibi-
ton.
The lnman steamship company, IL
Is said, will soon order two very large
new steamers aud will have them built
in this country so as to be able to fly the
stars and stripes in the Centennial
year.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union, of Philadelphia, have resolved
not to parade on the 18th of March, but
instead, will make every effort to render
the parade on the 4th of July next
worthy of the Centennial.
The amount of capital Invested in
manufacturing enterprises in Louis
vile, n.y., is about $40, 900, 600; the
number of workmen employed 5000;
the total wages paid s., ,0O0, 900, and the
annual product S55, 100000.
The Raleigh Sentinel says there is
a negro in that city LOG years old. His
name ls John Hunter. He remembers
seeing Tsrleton's Dragons passing the
place during the great North Carolina
campaign OF the Revolution.
The American members of the
Byron memorial committee, at the head
of whom is Mr.. VIM. Cullen Bryant,
will receive and acknowledge subscrip-
tons of one dollar and upward. About
$500 have already been subscribed here.
-rha p.os;s..a, .. p.u.,
Proy;denea Pa;Iroad has .ae Due Dos'on '1; anu
cred in sraas aS a aon,.;; ma Ign u,5oo S.N.
has been the occasion of much talk.
Before reducing the wages of the work
men on the road he has authorized the
reduction of his own pay.
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The original Declaration of Indenen-
dence was printed by Mary Catharine
Goddard. -