Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-09
NEWS IN BRIT

"A number of married women Of
Cambridgeport (Mass.) have formed 6
club for perfecting themselves in cook.
cry.
The Unprecedented sum of 81 ,0O2-
93l 26 was received for the sale of post
age stamps for the quarter ending June
80, 1876.
Mrs. Custer is left alone in the
world having neither father, mother,
brother, sister nor child, and now no
husband.
Light for the million. A gas COM
pany in Detroit proposes 10 furnish light
in that city at the rate of 3914 cents per
l 200 feet.
AT recent church festival at Los
Angeles, CAL, the ladies sold rum
punch under the pious apellation OF
"Cold tea"
There are Al, 200, 900 pins made in
this country daily, and nobody should
complain because a Connecticut boy
swallowed l56.
The Washington Republican saws
it cost 81 ,O00, 600 TO whip the Seminoles
present war is ended.
I'm the United States at the present
time there are 1888 Catholic theological
students, while all other denominations
together have only 35s9.
The cost of liberty. The debts of
our various municipalities on the CEN
tennial anniversary of Independence
Day were some $500, ,O0O, 600.
Mr.. Moody will commence his re-
vival labors in Boston in January next.
Chicago will be his field of operations
for the last quarter of 1875.
"A new line of steamships is to be
established between New Orleans and
Rio Janeiro by a French company.
Hard times for new enterprises.
Seattle, Washington Territory, has
a gambling saloon whose large sign is
constructed entirely of silver trade
dollars. 1t contains about 500.
-Four hundred and thirty prisoners
are now confined in the Tennessee
Penitentiary at Nashville, while go
are hired out in various portions of the
State.
The Surveyor General of Connec-
ticut has testified that there is no such
thing as even an approximately correct
map of the State on file among the Of
ficial records.
The Colorado mountain region is a
busy place for thermometers. In the
valleys it sweats clear up to 50 degrees,
while on the SUBMITS il shivers away
down towards zero.
Colorado starts out on her career
as State with $50 miles of railroad, ali
Of them centering in Denver. Seven
years ago not a rail had been put down
nor even survey made.
The actual cost OF the Bryant Vase
was somewhat more than Sll, 900. The
Tiffany & Co. declined to make
any extra charges, and accepted cheer
fully the 5000 that had been SUBJ
,cribed.
Capt. Matthew Webb announces
hat at the latter end OF August next
ne will attempt to swim from the west
IF Scotland TO Ireland, under the same
conditions as when he crossed the
Channel.
Peter Keiser is an Illinois man who
8 disguested with hard money. He
carried a silver quarter in his pocket
'or fifteen years, and on trying TO pass
{ few days ago found that il was
The city of Cleveland has erected a
liberty pole of BeSsemer steel, COM
posed OF cylinders. fiush-jointed, ITO
eet high, with topmast of wood 80
ffrr IL "a, hz
July 4, 1876. .....
Colonel r. Barnwell Rhett. jr., for
i long time editor of the Charleston
Mercury and afterward of the New
orleans Picayune, has become chief ed
tOrial writer of the Charleston journal
# Commerce.
1t costs the inhabitants of New
ork City thirty-six cents a head to
'un the machine of their local govern
four times the amount
which the-city of London has to pay
or the same service.
The body of Asa Crowell, a noted
at man of Paterson, y. j., who died
asst week, had to be carried to the
rave In wagon, as there was no
learse large enough TO hold the coffin.
{ weighed 400 pounds.
Hannah Merrill died at North Con-
way, New Hampshire, recently aged
90 years. She was a singer at the Con-
Church In that place when
uneral services were held in commem-
ration of the death of Washington, in
799.
The New York Central and Hudson
River railroad company are construct
ng a third track between Sing Sing
nd Peekskill. This will accommodate
he prisoners who use trains to escape,
nd will prevent the chance of colli-
ions.
Probably the oldest twins in the
are Messrs. John and Michael
stephens, who live in Plattsville, Wis.
they are more than seventy-nine years
Id, and are so strong and healthy that
hey will probably live many years
onger.
"A thoughtful and confident inhabi-
ant of Jersey City has taken the Fourth
{ July decorations from his house and
esled them up in packet which is to
e opened by his descendants in order
hat the same decorations may be used
y them in 1875.
The habits OF people are shown by
he fact that demand for stamps in
mall lots is almost twice greater on
and Tuesdays than on any
ther day. 1t implies of course. that
eople write letters Sundays and mail
hem early in the week.
The Union Canal extends from
on the Susquehanna, to
on the Schuylkill, seventy
Inc miles. 1t was suggested by Will
am Penn. in 1890, surveyed by David
commenced in 1854. fin
he'd in 1887, when the first boat passed
trough it.
MIR. j. Howard Jones, of London,
n experienced mining engineer, pro-
ounces the mines in North Carolina
lperior to any on the continent. He
lys that the only trouble is, when the
eople get to the depth Of l5O feet they
op. The best mines are around Char
Ute and Salisbury.
South Carolina has three temper
nee colonies. Two of them are In Los
.ngeles County, and the third In Santa
arbara County. The colonists are
,rifrv oufat and enrernrfsiuO and fha