Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-17
NO. 20.
NEWS IN BRIu.


81. .JOO, 600 yearly.
There are 10, 1886 American exhibi.
tors enrolled for the Centennial.
The New York Seventh regiment
armOry fund has reached s76,545.
Australia exported, i'm 1875, gold
dust to the amount of 81, ,SS9, ,525.
Potatoes are quoted at 16 cents a
bushel at Girard, Erie county, Pa
There are over 16, 900 soldiers buried
in the National Cemetery at Vicksburg.
corporal punishment in the girls
grammar schools of Boston has been
prohibited.
The grain exports of San Francisco
during the last nine months amounted
in value to 81, AIS, 399.
Treasurer New has finally agreed
to retain his office until June 30 the end
of the present fiscal year.
Lolita the actress, has engaged the
Palmer cottage, on Bellevue avenue at
Newport, X. L., for the season.
Miss Pillow of Memphis, has Just
married. 1t is to be hoped her husband
will not find her Pillow-sham.
1t is stated that the Changers of the
United States have over SIS, 900, 900 in
vested in their various enterprises.
Hundreds of bags of pulverized
grasshOppers are being imported in
France from America for fish-bait.
Robert Lincoln, son of President
Lincoln, is talked of in Illinois for Re
publican candidate for Secretary of
State.
The New York World says that
Commodore Vanderbilt's wealth is es-
timated at between s75, ,0O0, 900 and $50
0O0, ,00c. ..
Nine Presidents have served in the
Senate prior to election, but not one of
them passed directly from the Senate to
the White House.
The Nebraska Supreme Court de-
cides that railroad companies are liable
for damage caused by prairie fires set
by their engines.
Silver mines which bear traces of
having been worked by a prehistoric
race, are said to have been discovered
in Mason county, Texas.
The Oldest inhabitant in Grayson
county, n.y., is Mrs. Catherine Molly of
Grayson Springs Station, she being one
and six wears old.
Penny banks have been established
in London in connection with the pub
lie schools, and within a few months
!, ,266 children have deposited $500.
Ninety four young women have
been graduated for doctors during the
IL years existence of the New York
medical college and hospital for women.
The residence of Leland Stanford
the president of the Central Pacific
at san Francisco, cost 81 900
coo; yet the railroad is not making any
money.
Mrs. General Van CIeve and Mrs.
of Minneapolis, have been
elected School Directors by a heavy
over two prominent tyrants of
that city.
Sixteen millions of dollars already
upon the HoOsac Tunnel and
more to follOw"i Massachusetts, il
certainly paying dearly for her NAM
moth project.
The tin wedding OF Mr.. and Mrs.
John Van Ripper of Paterson, N j., the
other evening, was notable from the
fact that both host and hostess and the
10 guests were deaf and dumb.
1t seems almost incredible that this
country possesses man fifty-four years
bid who never owed cent to a living
'Oul in all his life; yet such a phenom-
ma is said to really exist in Wilson, n.
2.
-General Sebert Oglesby, who COM
handed the division of General Jack
IONS army nearest the river at the bat
lie of New Orleans is still living in
Texas. He was one hundred years old
asst February.
DR.. Emma Brainerd Ryder. who
will be remembered as a dress-reform
has been awarded diploma
~ the New York opthalmic hospital,
which entities her to practice optic and
lural surgery. She is the second wO-
nan in this country 80 authorized.
1t is rumored that the Rev. DIR.
William VI. Taylor, of the Broadway
tabernacle in New York City, is to be
allied to be the pastor of the Yale Col
eye Chapel, the pulpit of which has
lot been regularly supplied since DIR.
Daggett left it about eight years ago.
President Scott, of the Pennsylva-
lia Railroad Company, and Senator
Cameron have invited the widow of ex-
President Polk to visit the Centennial
Exhibition. Should she accept the in
n sleeping car will be sent to
axe her to Philadelphia, where she
will be hospitality entertained.
MIR. Dexter, of Lyons, has executed
model elopment. He went to the
house of the married woman of whom
he was enamored, found her and her
in bed, walked them, and told
he woman to get up and dress herself,
md 90 with him, which she did, leav-
ng her husband to see to the house.
The champion bankrupt henceforth
: named George Il. Porter, New
FORK insurance broker, who has been
brown into bankruptcy, his schedule
howing liabilities to the amount of $40
90, and assets as follows: "PortiOns
f three suits of clothes and ten changes
u Oi
The California Legislature which
Gems to be going quite extensively
nto educational legislation, has passed
bill providing that all school text
ooks shall remain in use at least six
ears. A good many parents here
bouts who have to pay for a new set
4 books every term or two, would rel
sh law of that sort.
DIR. III. Il. Wilbur, ofSyracuse finds
he asylums of England more economi-
al than our own. In Massachusetts
ur structures average 81 800 TO $1,000
er patient; in New Jersey more than
3 900; in New York 1000 to 5000;
While in England the highest average,
cost of land and furniture. is
ct down at $3.50 per patient.
The fastest clipper-ship between
Jew York and San Francisco is the
David Crockett. She has been sailing
hat route since 1887, and the longest
rip she has ever made was 1876 days in
S6S, and the shortest, l03 days in 1872.
he average voyage is lis days for
ach trip. Her old captain, John Bur-
ess was washed overheard in 1874 and
,st. Since then Captain Anderson has