Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

There are one hundred and twenty
Chinese students in Hartford.
"A colored woman has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Terry, Missis-
sippi. -s-szz----
| "A bed of ochre of pure quality and
great value has just been discovered at
Russell, Mass.
The tide of emigration for Texas
and Kansas shows a very marked in
crease over last year.
When a Wisconsin man dies with
out heirs, his property goes to the
school fund of the State.
A. S. Abel, proprietor of the Bal
timore Sun, is seventy years old, and is
said TO possess $lO, 100000.
-Twenty-nine States will chose their
Congressman on the 7th of November
next, the remainder at various periods.
Prof. John Wise is philosophical
man. He says that lightning rods are
of no more good than so many pine
sticks.
Smallpox is becoming scarce in
England. The last annual report gave
land and Wales.
John Fitz has just been arrested in
Owensboro', KY, and taken to Mis-
souri, on charge of murder committed
eighteen years ago.
The amount of fractional currency
outstanding at the time the act provid-
ing for its redemption in silver took ef-
feet was s40, 100000.
The C. C.. C. which stands for
Champion Centennial Cucumber, is in
Swanton, VT. 1t is five feet two inches
long and still growing.
"A Milwaukeean moves that the
hickory tree be made an emblem of the
United States, as the oak is of England
and the laurel of Greece.
The Author of ''St. Elmo" is the
only American writer of fiction to
whom a publisher will pay $4,000 for
novel on receipt OF the manuscript.
Dom Pedro desires to induce Rus
slams to settle in Brazil instead of this
country. He offers 160 acres of land
and the certainty of one years subsist-
ence.
Alfred johnson, commander and
crew of the dory Centennial which
has just crossed the ocean, was 81 days
at sea. He landed at Abercastle Penn
brokeshire.
"A Holyoke, (Mass.) boy, whose
spine has been weakened by illness,
runs on all fours like dog. His health
is good, and he hops over the ground at
lively rate.
In the show window of a Chicago
pawn-shOp is exhibited magnificent
diamond set, said to have been the
property of the Empress Eugene. 1t
is held at $4,000.
Dion Boucicault is about to restore
at his own cost, the dilapidated build
ings of the grammar school in which
Oliver Cromwell was educated. The
estimated expense is 600.
-Penikese Island, which John An
derson gave to Prof. AgassiZ for a sum-
mer school in natural history, now re-
verts to Mr.. Anderson, who proposes
to make it his summer residence.
Manchester, N. H., claims to be
the only manufacturing city of New
England where the mills have been
operated without interruption on full
time and without reduction in wages.
In ireland only 6S,15S persons out
of j, 400 ,435 own any land at all, and of
these only 32 ,6l4 have more than an
acre, the remainder owning among
them all only 9,065 acres, chiefly house
property.
Sir Julius Benedict, of London, il
now seventy-two years of age. He
has sent out to the world nearly 5000
pupils, and has conducted, at the very
least, 100, 900 concerts in his career of
fifty years.
Among the pOstOffices established
in Pennsylvania the past week were
three of the following names: Autumn
Leaves" and ''Haidee," in Wayne
County, and Bouquet" in Westmore-
land County.
One thousand Young Mems Chris
tian Associations are known TO be in
existence on this continent, and tabu-
lated reports of eight hundred and
twenty one of these are published in
their Year Book for 1876.
The English school boards have es-
tablished savings banks to teach the
children providence, and the banks
have now upward of $1,000 belonging
to the children. OF this sum Sc, zoe be-
longs TO London school children.
A South Carolina man has been
keeping statistics of the duels fought or
arranged for in the state since the war,
and he saws that three-fOHrts of them
were about women. and that most of
the contestants bore the title of major
The managers of the Botanical
Gardens at Manchester, England, have
lately been agitdted about the question
of opening the gardens to the public on
Sundays. Ii has at last been settled in
the affirmative By a vote of 1S3 to 90.
AT a recent meeting of representa-
tives of the various unions OF New
York, the secretary of the organization
who has all the means of knowing, re-
ported that the members of unions had
dwindied from 13, 900, in 1852, TO about
Il, 900 in 1876.
In Newark, y. j., the other night,
burglars broke into a store where hats
are manufactured. They carelessly
dropped match into a lot of chemicals
and "A tremendous explosion followed.
The thieves escaped, but they were ter
ribly frightened.
The bankers OF Peru seem 10 nave
a very hard time. The Government
failed to sell its guano last year, and
the bankers were forced to advance
about 81 900, 900, and were promised
that they should be reimbursed out of
the proceeds of the first sale.
"A strong effort is being made to Sc
cure the division of California into two
States. The proposed division is on
the line of Santa Cruz county, giving
fourteen countries in the South for the
new State, with $4,000 voters and
hundred millions taxable property.
The hair of woman, nearly 80
years of age, who died Oh Martha's
Vineyard, was wholly woven in with
false hair which had not been removed
for over 30 years, and was held in place
by $50 pins. One article of her dress
was held together by 30S pins, though
her bureaus contained 9S new dress