Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Secretary of War Taft is a native Of
Massachusetts, and a graduate of Yale
College.
The Chattanooga Commercial nomi-
mates Frederick Douglass for Vice Pres
ident. a-sr-
"A salmon was caught recently in
Washington Territory that weighed I26
pounds.
The lead district of Illinois, Iowa
and Wisconsin covers an area of 5000
square miles. 4 -.rr-
"A man in New York has been ar
rested and shut up for stealing umbrel-
las to the amount Of $40, 600.
The Massachusetts, House of Rep
resentatives has voted to abolish the
Bureau OF Statistics of Labor.
-Grasshoppers have made their ap-
pearance in New Jersey, to the great
CONSERVATION of the inhabitants.
-Of making many books there is no
end. Only SOP new ones were copy
righted in this country last year.
Dinners CT the future. There were
N,DSO1sIf
last season, and 63, 7S3 cattle were
salted and barreled. ---
millions i'm it," The total capital
employed in gas manufacture in New
York is $40, 900, and the average
dividends are thirty five per cent.
Professor James j. Sylvester, of
London, is to be offered the chair of
mathematics in the Johns Hopkins
University of Baltimore.
Governor Connor has appointed ex-
Governor Chamberlain, now President
of Bowdoin College, as Centennial ora
tor for Maine at the exposition.
An extensive vein of amethyst has
been found near Monticello, Ga. Some
of the stones are very large and bril-
liant, and sell for 800 pound.
"A party of Lowell capitalists pro-
pose to go into manufacturing at st.
Louis. They are out there examining
the facilities and looking for location.
The Sunday World estimates that
not less than 5000 900 will visit Phila-
Der at least l, 800, 900 will come to New
York. r.t ... ..-..-.
An English stock company are buy
ing up all the wild pine lands in Geor-
gia. They will send over immigrants,
get out the turpentine, and then sell
the lands.
Two women of Michigan have sent
Mrs. Grant two dollars to help toward
paying off the national debt, and nowit
only remains to resume specie pay
ments at once.
The savings banks of New York
and Brooklyn now owe their depositors
s232 ,5S5, 900 and have a surplus of
profits over and above this amount of
about s26, 100000.
The decline of the granger move
ment in the northwest is partially at
tested by its condition in Iowa, where
there are 80 fewer lodges than there
were one year ago.
Professor Baird, United States Fish
Commissioner, will import stock of
the eggs of the sole and tur5Ot from
England and try to hatch them ON the
coast.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
just decided that one party to a mar
riage contract cannot dictate against
the will of the other the time, place,
or ceremony.
DIR. L. @. Duncan, of Chicago, says
that the mild winter is likely to be sue
ceeded by an epidemic of some kind
growing out of influenza, and he pre-
diets very unhealthy spring.
-Horatio Harris, recently dead, was
10 throw open his beautiful
grounds in Roxbury, Mass, to the use
of the public, and he never had to COM
plain of vandalism or want of grati-
tude. ..
"A woman i'm Lansing, Ia, has been
sent to jail, in default of the payment
of q fine of $25 and costs, on a charge of
mischief. Her peculiar van
ity consisted in enveloping herself in a
sheet and playing ghost.
Bishop Bedell, who is now travel
ling in Egypt, has sent cinerary urn,
taken from Greek tomb near Alexan-
dria, to Kenyon College at Gambler,
Ohio. 1t contains some of the ashes
found i'm it when disentombed.
Silver mining is likely to become
popular in Texas. Over one million
acres of land have been located i'm
Mason County in three months. Two
shafts are already sunk, and one is
yielding at the rate of SIS per ton.
Prof. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth Col
lege, is preparing model of the State
of New Hampshire intended to show its
topography. liz is on the scale of one
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inch to the thousand feet vertical. 1t
will be completed by next January.
The testimonial taken before the
Congressional Committee on Patents
upon the application of A. b. Wilson
for an extension of his patent for sew
ing machines, brought out the fact that
the cost of manufacturing a sewing
machine is not more than twelve or
fifteen dollars.
"A two-year old bull attacked train
of cars near Stockton, CAL, one day re-
Gently, and attempted to butt the loco
motive off the track, when it struck him
on the head, breaking his skull and
throwing him into the ditch, about
thirty feet distant, where he died in a
short time after.
A tank in which $500 barrels of
oil were placed five years ago, was re-
Gently emptied at Petroleum Centre,
Pa, and only $500 barrels of mercan-
tile crude oil were obtained, showing
that 800 barrels had been lost by evap-
Grafton, sediment, and other causes, a
loss of nearly 20 per cent.
The Grand Division of Sons Of
Temperance of Pennsylvania are max
ing arrangements for furnishing, free
ice water to visitors on the Centennial
grounds. They will put up fountain,
TO be fed from a reservoir of capacity
of 5000 gallons, supplied with water
from the Belmont reservoir.
About two-thirds of the Presidents
of the United States have received col
legiate educations. The two Adamses
graduated from Harvard and Frank
Pierce from Bowdoin. The other New
England colleges have not been repre-
sented. William and Mary college In
Virginia hiss furnished three Presi-
dents.
| Quarters for General Grant are
being prepared at the centennial. They
consist of a large frame pew, with two
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