Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-10

Missouri has paid this year So, ,s22
as bounty for wolf scalps.
The Ice factory at Augusta, Ca,
turns out $500 pounds daily.
The people of Paris consumed over
six thousand horses last year.
Florida has 5000 white men who
have not voted since the downfall of
the Confederaey.
Nilsson demands 81 900 a night and
Strakosch is i'm search of another prima
donna for next year.
Thirty new papers have been started
i'm Mississippi since January L. The
death list has not yet transpired.
An American flag made of silk and
costing $1,000, will float over the main
entrance to the Centennial Exhibition.
-Philadelphia's population as shown
by the census Of April lst, is ST., ,44S.
This shows an increase of l43, ,426 since
the census of 1870.
Houston proposes to exhibit at the
Texas State Fair woman who is only
thirty years old and is the mother of
eighteen children.
Carrie Howard, formerly an actress
of some note, has become blind, and
now lives in an attic in indianapolis de-
pendent on charity.
About &C, 600 pounds Chicago corn
beef are sold in Philadelphia every
week, and the consumption of the arti-
Gle is rapidly increasing.
"A Liverpool firm the other dav di-
vided among those of their employees
who had been with them five years and
upward sum of 500, 900.
The monument to John and Charles
Wesley has been placed in Westminis-
ter Abbey near that of Isaac Watts. 1t
will be uncovered in June.
John Ackerman, veteran of the
war of 1872, and said to be the last sur
viving witness of the Burr-Hamilton
duel. died at Scipio, Ind, 81 years old.
Some funny Democrats have made
ticket with the names of Thomas A.
Hendricks and jeremiah 5. Black. The
battle-cry will be ''Tom and jerry"
e. L. Kenyon, of Hartford, who re-
Gently killed himself on account of IL
nancial troubles is found to have hal
$50, 900 assets over liabilities after all.
The spirit OF chivalry is reviying.
A man i'm OnOndaga, New York, has
just been mulcted i'm 5000 damages,
for calling lady ga withered-up old
maid"
1t is Edwin Booths intention to re-
tire to his country seat at Stamford,
Conn.,, in June. and not to resume his
professional engagements until Sep
tember.
In the six principal markets of this
country the number of hogs packed
this season amounts to $4,000 a de-
crease of nearly 100000 as compared
with last year.
The money lost by recent fire i'm
5. c., would have covered
of the cost of the water
works for which the city has longed for
half a century.
The Seth Thomas clock company OF
Thomastown have completed the man.
moth clock for the centennial building.
1t is the largest portable clock ever
made in the world.
"A gold medal, valued at 500 has
been prepared for the New York
Seventh Regiment by the ex-members
of that Regiment in San Francisco as
prize for craftsmanship.
The Freshman crew Of Harvard
College declare that if they row the
match with Yale it shall be
on Saratoga Lake. They positively re-
fuse to row it elsewhere.
Any Iowa woman who gets votes
enough can hold any office connected
with the public schools. There's no
salary, no chance to save the country,
and no fear of rebellion.
The Hon. John W. johnson, of
Madison, Minn., has given s. 900 to the
State University, the income of which
is to be used in aiding students who
speak the Scandinavian language.
The Light Guard, of Green Bay,
Wis.,, are going TO walk all the way to
the Centennial, ,039 miles. They may
be light guard when they start, but
they will be heavy foot when they ar
rive.
There are 62,552 churches in the
542 people, the Methodist being the
strongest denomination. The total value
of church property is placed at S349,-
619, 80.
The Continental Mills at Lewiston
have sold in the English market four
thousand yards of their goods
and are now filling another large order.
The production of these mills is all sold
out and goods are ordered ahead.
"A vast bed OF mari, covering an
area of 200 square miles, from twelve
to thirty feet deep, and very rich in
potash, soda and phosphorus, has been
in Kentucky. This is of
great Importance to tobacco regions.
Boston has the only gong and GYM
bal factory in the country which pro-
duces from 800 to 400 gOngs and 800
pairs of cymbals yearly Until within
a few years these instruments were i'm
ported entirely from China and Turkey.
A crevasse at "Devil's Elbow" on
the Mississippi, has shortened the dis
tance between Memphis and Cairo eigh-
teen miles. One of the islands twenty
five miles above Memphis is disappear
ing rapidly, and another is being
formed.
There is a camel rancho near Elgin,
Texas. The animals were imported at
the opening of the Mormon war in ex-
pectatiOn of contract with the United
States Government for transportation,
and they have considerably multiplied
since that time.
The colossal statue of Washington
twelve feet high) belonging to Mr..
Dickerson, American banker,
in Florence, Italy, has been
shipped to Philadelphia in an American
vessel, the hold of the United
States ship Supply not being deep
enough to accommodate il.
DIR. Mudd, who set the shattered
leg of J. Wilkes Booth, has been elected
to the Maryland Senate as Republi-
can. 1t will be remembered that Booth
took refuge on DIR. Mudd's farm, and
was killed i'm his barn. Mudd was sent
to the Dry Tortugas for harboring the
but was afterward released.
The LATEST family in the Western
live in Elgin County Ont.
There are eight of them; they own a
fine farm of 400 acres with a plentifui