Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-15
NO. 46.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

cities OF T.. gland.
The authorities of Davenport Iowa
have built 4 hospital ID be conducted
by the Sisters of Mercy.
According to a recent estimate
there are 10000 insane in the United
States > ,Ae present time.
~. ). G lmOre has concluded a new
engayeT. FOR five years as leader of
the Now York Regiment band.
during the past year 200 men
were employed upon the restoration
and completion of the Cathedral at
Cologne
The landlord of house in Salem,
/ Mass, built two hundred and sixteen
years ago, has at length concluded to
repair it.
| Thousands of bushels of apples, fis
only for cider, are rotting on the
ground in the vicinity of Clarkson,
Oakland county, Mich.
The claim of Mary Ann Foster
upon the Singer estate has been COM
promised for s75 200. The whole value
of the property is ST., ,000, 900.
! courtney, the famous oarsman OF
Union Springs n. Y, has become
professional Oarsman in the world 10 a
race for either 5000 or $4,000
A farmer of Champaign county, H.
linois, planted 46 acres OF potatoes last
spring. AT present market rates he
will realize s., 900 from the specula-
tiOn.
The largest monastery in England
is in course of erection near HCrsham,
Sussex. The style is severe Norman,
and it is being built for the Carthusian
monks.
"A resident of Madison, Wis. sues
the city to recover damages caused by
runaway, the horses being frightened
by performing bear Oh exhibition in
the streets.
| There will be no pews in the new
Roman Catholic Cathedral on Fifth
avenue, New York. Chairs will be
placed in groups about its many altars
and chapels.
The political canvas has absorbed
so much heat that early frosts are re-
/ ported in various sections OF the South.
At Columbia, 5. c., there was a heavy
/ frost on Oct.
"A remarkable flight of swans, a
flock fully mile and half long, and
numbering not less than 1000, was
seen TO pass over La Sale, along the
Illinois River valley, recently.
"A girl at st. Peter, Mimi, has, in
male attire, been serving as brakeman
/ on railroad. She has now relinquished
the brakes, but still handles the switch
and occasionally manages train.
The people of South and Central
America are buying arms in large
quantities. The Remington works at
llion, y. Y, have been making very
heavy shipments by the Pacinc Mail.
"A member of the Humboldt county
pioneers has beard five feet in length.
it has been growing ten years, and had
it not been Tor an attack of sickness it
would have been several inches longer.
The amount of meat consumed an.
nually per head in Spain is % pounds;
in Italy, 33; Sweden, 81; Prussia, So;
Austria, IS; Belgium, 81; France, %;
South Germany, II; Mecklenburg, So;
England, 205.
Mystic. Conn, is $4,000 richer,
the government having paid over tixt
sum, which was awarded by the Ala
bama Commissioners to the owners of
the ship g. F. Hoxie, burned by tl..
rebel cruiser Florida.
"A sister OF the late Ex-PresiCent
Polk died few days ago at Columbia,
Tenn. She was the last surviving
member of her immediate family which
consisted of nine brothers and sisters,
President Polk being the eldest.
The Caribou silver mine, in Colo
RADIO, which was once sold TO a Dutch
C 'rnpany for $1,000, 900, has been pur,
ch ised by Congressman Chatfee for
J,0U, including mills and reduction
works that cost double that amount.
a hotel keeper in st. Louis has re-
co.rred 500 from the estate of a man
who committed suicide in his house.
rhe money was for damages caused the
furniture, and hurting the business of
the hotel by having the inquest held
there.
Ground has been broken at Hart
ford for new Catholic cathedral of
Gothic architecture. Pa feet long with
Il spire of 25D feet high, which is TO be
one of the best Ornamented and most
imposing church buildings in New
England.
The fast train, called the Great
Western Flying Dutchman, over the
Bristol (England) railway was lately
noticed 10 emit streams of sparks from
the wheels, aud it was necessary to
stop it for a while until things got
cooled of.
"A national convention of bankers
is TO be held at Washington on the 18th
of January. 1S77, '.to take in consider
alton and fully confer concerning the
national and State taxes now imposed
upon banks and banker, throughout
the country"
According TO the special report of
the Bureau OF Education upon the pub
lie libraries in the United states, the
number of such libr iries containing
300 volumes and upward, exclusive of
those belonging to district and Sunday
schools, is 3,6i7, with l., ,276, ,96l vol
umes.
The September or iers filled at the
postal card factory III Springfield Mass.
amounted to 9,Sl5, 500 cards and for
the quarter Just ended 81. .53i 900,
against 30, ,647 800 for the correspond
ing quarter last year. The presses are
now running until nine o'clock every
night.
The sale of "Daniel DerOnda" i'm this
copies,
which fact may tend to reconcile George
Eliot to the judgment of certain re-
viewers that she doesn't know how a
novel should be written. But the re-
viewers accept Carlyle's phrase, and
say that the $4,000 are ''mOstly FOOLS"
Silver in Nevada was discovered
very strangely a woman picked up
stone to throw at her husband. IL
was 80 heavy that she examined /; anu
it proved to be lump of silver; S50,-
600, 900 was the result of this to-the
country. The women must remember
that there is no silver in this State, so
no experiments.
-When Prince Albert died, an edi
torial in the London Telegraph so graft
fed the queen that she ordered a copy
of the paper to be sent daily TO each OF
the royal palaces. Ever since then u
royal edition of twenty-five copies has
been daily printed in the highest style
of the art and duly forwarded. No
payment has ever been asked or offerel.