Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A baltlmOTeaQ mas TAKEN one new
paper for fifry-four years.
A but once married Meriden, Conn.,,
man has twenty five children.
There are $500 interments In Mt.
Auburn cemetery, in Cambridge.
The prohibiting of sailing horse
railroad tracks IN New York in now .
law.
"A farmer in Montague county,
Texas, raises three crops of potatoes
per year.
Over forty-three per cent of New
York horse car passengers have TO
stand up, for want of seats.
An iron steamer of small dimen.
sions is to be built at Dubuque for the
King of Siam, and shipped in sections.
Van Pelt, the Ohio crusader, has
just been sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment in the Missouri Penitenti-
ary.
Hundreds of New York profess
sional cooks at hotels and the like re-
ceive $1,000 and $4,000 year salaries,
with board.
In the vicinity of Redwood, Minn.,
lhCI e diC bCu l6ultc WhocC
weight is 2 2,220 pounds. The average
is very pretty figure.
Secretary Bristow says that about
nine millions of silver bullion have
been purchased and paid for in bonds,
under the Resumption Act.
-Chicago's wholesale grocers use in
their business capital of 81 800, 900
4 L. \
of sales for 1875 was s62 100000.
The Smith sisters of Glastonbury,
Mass. again refuse to pay any more
taxes, and will fight the town in the
courts so long as their money lasts.
"A bill Introduced into the lower
house of the : -ginia Legislature pro-
vides for ta1 Z two dollars a year
upon each per- L who uses tobacco.
There has been a great revival In
Fairfax, Vermont, but the interest sub
sided suddenly when the minister for
bade the boys going home with the
girls.
The number of iron furnaces in
blast in the whole country on the 3lst
of December was 345, and the number
out 36s, the total number of furnace
being 713.
AT large leap year party in Will
mington, Y. c., Joseph Walters was
elected "belle" of the evening, and
was duly crowned as the Queen of Love
and Beauty.
Prof. Seelye, the Amherst Profess
sor in Congress, says he thought the
Rebellion was ended, but two months
in Washington has proved otherwise.
Who speaks next?
Perrin III. SOmers, alleged to have
committed fOrgeries in california to
the amount of 5000, 900 was arrested in
Brooklyn, and will be taken home by
California detectives.
Statistics of insanity show that
cases of mental arrangement are more
numerous, in proportion to population,
in Nevada and California than in any
other State in the Union.
Vermont points with pride" to the
fact that the State Prison during the
two years ending August L, 1874,
showed a surplus of over 5000 after
paying all expenses, including $500
for repairs.
There is said to be an orange tree
in the Guardian block, at Tampa, Fla,
that has three different crops of oranges
on it, and is now very full of blooms.
The first crop is fully ripe and ready
to be picked.
Senator English very handsomely
refused to take the back pay due him
since Senator Ferry's death, i'm Novem-
Der, and directed the sergeant-at-arms
to send to Mrs. Ferry check for the
whole amount.
According to General Doubleday's
book, the man who raised the palmetto
flag over Fort Sumter, at the time of its
surrender, was Lieutenant Colonel F.
j. Moses, since the Republican Cover
nor OF south Carolina.
"A gentleman of Castleton has in
his possession the dinner bell which
used 10 call Horace Greeley TO his meals
when he was learning the printers
trade at Poultney, VT. 1t will be placed
among the relics at the centennial.
The Iowa House of Representatives
have passed a bill requiring that all
conditions of insurance societies shall
be printed in type not smaller than
''long primer" and that the use of
smaller type shall violate the policies.
The report of the Rhode Island
State auditor shows that in a population
of about 250, 900 there are 1Ol, ,635 de-
positOrs in savings banks. The assets
in the savings banks are SIS, ,272 ,73l,
and were increased about $4,000, 900 in
1874.
Senator Sharon, of Nevada, has
sold his house in san Francisco to Mr..
W. ). O'Brien, of the banking firm of
Flood & O'Brien. of that city, for s212-
900. Among the appurtenances sold
with the house were three chandeliers
that cost g, 200 each, three carpets that
cost 1000 each, and fireplace costing
$3.50.
The arithmetic man of a western
paper has discovered if every one of
the 5000, 900 families in the American
union would only skim the soap grease
off of their dish water and invest its
proceeds in a sinking fund at 4 per cent
compound interest, the proceeds in 16S
years, two months and eleven days
would pay off the national debt.
-"Custer City" in the Black Hills is
springing up like Alladin's Palace.
ONtI hOuSts bCCh
built there and sixty-nrne more are
now in process of erection. Miners are
pouring in s.d every day there are
large additions TO The population. Soon
there will be 4 theati and a daily pa
per and the place then may properly be
designated city.
Two years ago the State of Tennes-
see borrowed 500, 900 to pay the inter-
est on the State debt, and has just now
paid Off that loan of 500, 900 which had
itself been drawing ten per cent. inter-
est. But on the capital of the State
debt now over $25, ,00O, 900, interest goes
unpaid, and will so continue for some
yet. The revenues of the State, last
year, were hardly equal to ordinary ex-
penses.
Near Santa Fe Mr.. Chisum owns
SO, 900 head of cattle, roaming over 1000
sections of landau extent of country
equal to that embraced within several
States of the Union. This grazer can
fill an order for 10000 or even 10000
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