Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The United States consumed 1000
900 bushels OF peanuts last year.
In the vicinity of Detroit there are
twenty-six brick yards which make an
, nually about 60,00O,OOO brick.
For several years Iowa was the
! banner Granger State, but it lost
! seveBty-five local oranges last year.
MIR. Caleb Cushing becomes, by the
death of Reverdy johnson, the oldest
Cabinet Minister living in point of
years and appointment.
In Richland county, Wisconsin,
, the farmers have built a wooden rail-
way, sixteen miles long, costing only
, three thousand dollars a mile.
The astronomers say there will be
! another total eclipse of the moon
! August %, 1899. Ladies and gentle-
men prepare your smoked glasses.
Gen. Buffers Dutch Gap canal has
now twenty feet of water in it, and en-
ables vessels to save seven miles in
passing up and down James River.
j. B. Phillips, of Orwell, Ohio, is
making a cheese which will not be COM
expected to weigh $4,000 pounds.
"A bill has been introduced in the
/. New jersey Legislature requiring rail-
road companies to pay the funeral ex-
penses of all persons killed upon their
lines.
1t Is calculated that the shrinkage
in the value of foreign Government
bonds on the London Stock Exchange
has been $685., 200, 600 in the last four
years.
Cardinal McCloskey is negotiating
for the purchase of lie Grand Lock-
woods mansion in South Norwalk, CT.
with the intention of converting it
into ROmish college.
The Municipal Register of 1874
gives 100000 as the population of
Boston. but Messrs. Sampson, Daven-
port IL Co., according TO a recent count
only figure up 81 ,9l9.
One of the most striking objects at
the Centennial exhibition will be a col
umn of coal one hundred feet in height
to be transported TO Philadelphia in
sections from Tennessee.
George b. McCartee, Chief of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing ut
Washington, has resigned. Having
spent years appropriation in eight
months his shop is closed.
"A Paris (Ky.) young lady will send
to the Centennial poker fashioned
from a revolutionary gun barrel.
Nothing could be better calculated to
stir up the fires of patriotism.
MIR. Bayard Taylor has accepted the
position of an editorial writer on the
New York Tribune, and will commence
work as soon as his lecture engage
ments for the season will permit.
There are 1852 driving parks in the
United States. The value of the pro-
perty held by these associations is esti-
mated at $5,0O0,0O0, and that of the
horses entered in a single year Sl5,000,-
OOo.
The late Reverdy johnson leaves
u children, about 80 grandchildren,
and several great grandchildren, nearly
all of whom were present at the ami
versary of his golden wedding in Nov.
is, 1869.
The sound portions of the old Elm
of Boston Common will he made into
furniture for the City Hall of Boston,
and various specimens will be sent to
the various historical societies of the
country.
Twenty thousand salmon eggs,
taken from the Columbia River, i'm
Oregon, have arrived safely in Auck-
land, New Zealand, and been deposited
in waters there carefully prepared for
theiS reception.
The Swiss exhibit at the Centen-
tennial will be small, but complete and
well classified. Among manufactured
articles watches will occupy the first
rank, but the show of laces will excite
special admiration.
The united ages of family of five
persons, two sisters and three brothers,
named Seabold, whose homestead is at
BlptistOwn, HunterdOn county, y. j.,
amounts To 313 wears. Their ages
respectively are So, 81, 20, 20 and so.
Sharon had banquet in Frisco re-
Gently. There were flowers and plants
and music, singing-birds, wine and
rich viands, and at each guests plate
was the bill of fare, engraved upon
heavy plate of solid silver, and costing
over $40 each.
There was good blubber crop last
year. The average catch of whaling
vessels engaged in the Arctic sea
t,--"ounted to 1874 barrels of whale and
walr.., oil, and IA 800 pounds of whale
bone, the arrest average for any sea-
son since 1880.
Nine bushels and o2e-eighth IS all
the wheat crop averages pei acre IN
the United States, and only abOUe zen
or eleven on the fertile prairies OF the
| West, while in old England it ayera-
ges twenty-eight bushels per acre by
thorough tiIlage.
"A man is serving out year in the
/ Wisconsin State Prison who was con-
vieted of rObbing the mails of twenty
/ five cents. Since he has been confined
there the letter has been returned from
the dead-letter office, with the twenty
/ five cents inclOsed.
The Cincinnati commercial"
/ thinks that the government can save
nearly 81 ,000, 900 by reducing the sala-
rieS of postmasters in the smaller cities
and towns. There are more than two
/ hundred postmasters in the country
who receive a salary of more than $1,000
each.
According to the latest returns re-
eeived by the Adjutant- General, and
by him transmitted to Congress, the
aggregate organized militia force Of
the State of New York is 19,4l3; in
New jersey, 3,S3S; in Pennsylvania,
l0,53s. The grand aggregate of all the
States is s9,963.
Governor Bagley, Of Michigan,
urges upon every citizen of his State
who OWNS piece of ground. whether
it be large or small, to plant upon it ON
the 18th of April next, a tree which
shall be venerated in the distant future
as one planted by patriotic hands dur
ing the Centennial year of the repub-
lie.
DR. J. III. Funk, of Boyertown
Berhs county, who has probably the
largest collection of bees in Pennsylva-
mia, reports that the present weather Is
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