Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05
NEWS IN BRIEF

CALIFORNIA; has population of about
5000 Chinese boys.
Mr.. Beecher has engaged his usual
quarters at Twin Mountain House for
next Summer.
Portland, Oregon, has shipped di-
rectly to Liverpool in one cargo $4,000
bushels of wheat.
Arlington, Mass, has not pauper
and the Sclectmen have advertised the
almhouse for sale.
There are nearly 200 French fiat
houses in New York, and many more
in process of erection.
Prairie du Chen has an artesian
well III feet deep which throws 10000
barrels of water day.
The Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany has reduced the rates of passen-
ger fares to three cents mile.
All the employees of the Concord
On. H. Railroad have been compelled
to sign the temperance pledge.
-Four hundred gamblers are collec-
ted at Cheyenne, ready for the opening
season in the Black Hills country.
Massachusetts expects to send
three eX-Governors to Congress next
year, and then have a number over.
There are 81 ,255 Baptist churches
in the United States, with 13, III min
listers, and total membership of 1,Sl5,-
600.
"A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of Mississippi to make edu-
cation compulsory throughout the
State.
Three hundred and thirty-seven
American hotels were burned in 1875,
and not a hotel clerk was SO much as
scOrched.
In 1874 only one person was killed
on all the Massachusetts railroads
while rs were killed by accidents in the
city of Boston.
Another of Boston's revered land
marks has got to go. The lease of the
old State House expires July lst, and it
is to be torn down.
Among an invoice of old paper
stock received at a Norwich paper
mill recently was $50, ,000, 900 in can
celled United States bonds
THAT New Capitol at Albany, if it
is ever finished, will cost $12 900, 900.
Yet viewed from an artistic point of
view, it is pronounced failure.
The butchers bill of single hotel
in New York city averages s2,50O a
week at this season of the year. It av-
erages 81 900 week in the summer.
The amount of deposits in the Mas
sachCsetts savings banks is S237 ,SiS,
936, an increase of 10000, 900 in 1875.
The average rate of dividend was 3-20
per cent.
Troy, New York, manufactures
collars for the whole country. Ii is
said that there is not linen collar fac
tory in successful operation outside of
that city.
1t is generally believed that the
stock of the Direct Cable company has
passed into the hands of the Anglo
Cable and Western Union
companies.
The boring for mineral water con-
tinues on the camp meeting ground at
Round Lake, Saratoga county. and a
depth of S35 feet has been reached. but
no mineral water found.
There will probably be more ice
housed on the Kennebec than ever be-
fore. At least 100000 tons have al
ready secured sale, requiring I 900
vessels to carry it, or ten day during
the shipping season.
The Washington correspondent of
the Virginia Chronicle SAYS that the
family of ex-senator Nye are in absO-
lutte destitution, and that the ex-Sena-
tor is in the Flatbush Asylum i'm a
state OF hopeless imbecility.
A bill is now before the Kansas
legislature and likely to become a law
offering a bounty of five dollars a
bushel for collecting and destroying
locust eggs, and sixty cents for every
bushel of unfledged locusts destroyed.
David K. Standish, who was the
oldest locomotive engineer in the
United States, has been placed on the
retired list by the Boston and Provi-
dence Railroad Company, in whose en-
plOy he had been since 1872.
Silver mining is likely to become
popular in Texas. Over one million
acres of land have been located in
Mason county in three months. Two
shafts are already sunk, and one is yield
ing at the rate of slS per ton.
"A reverend divine, being accused
of negligence in his calling, and styled
San unfaithful shepherd, from
scarcely ever visiting his flock, defended
himself by saying that he was always
with them at ''shearing time"
The task of providing for the
Queens children and the Duke of Cam
bridge, not including salaries drawn
by any of them because of offices they
hold in the civil, military or naval ser
vice, has already cost the British pub
lie sS,575, 900.
AT New York matinee lately in
fashionable theatre, by actual count
there were 3S9 velvet dresses In the or
ehestra seats and boxes and 5ll cream
colored hats in the house, and all but
twenty of them supporting ivory white
feathers.
The eleven blast furnaces i'm Ale
gheny County, Pa, have a capacity OF
237 900 tons of pig iron per year, and
average of q, ,545l9 tons for each fur
mace; the fifty furnaces in the Lehigh
Valley have an annual capacity of $685.
600 tons, 1852 tons for each furnace.
The meanest man in America now
appears to be John stevens, of Logans-
port, Ind. He inherited an estate of
SI2 600 two years since, and spent it in
riotous living, and now sues the trus-
tees for its value, alleging that he was
not of age when the property was
turned over to him.
Schenectady, n. Y, will send to
the Exposition groups of .life-size wax
statuary among which will be forty
eight figures in full Continental cos
tune, representing the signing OF the
Declaration of Independence; also,
figures representing the death of war,
rem. the capture of Ticonderoga, and
the treason of Arnold.
The little town of Batavia, Cler-
mont county, Ohio, which contains
only seven hundred and fifty inhabi-
tants, is a good place for raising office
holders. Ii 1872 forty-three of its cit
izeps were federal officers, and at this
time twenty-four are employed in
gton, and some others hold gov
ernment offices elsewhere.