Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

I
Lord Beaconsfield was IL on the 2Ist
OF December, and Gladstone 81 on the
J 10th.
Sims Reeves has been engaged for
fifty concerts in Australia, 1T the mod
est terms of $4,000.
"A monkeys skull was found recent
ly. in sack of Rio coffee opened in Il
grocery at Raleigh, y. C.
AT John Reaches ship yard at
Chester, there are five ships building,
giving employment TO 500 men.
Over eight millions of people, near
ly One-tifth of our entire population,
have visited the Great Exhibition at
Philadelphia.
Senator Sharon of Nevada, has
been assessed on S2OO,0U0 as the value
San Francisco.
Jacksonville has grown faster than
any other city in Florida, the pOpuIa-
tiOn increasing within few years from
1000 to 1900.
| The Supreme Court of Massachu-
sests decides that lsraelites must keep
/ the State laws regulating the Observ-
ance Of Sunday.
| The Indiana insurance commission
I sloner estimated that outside cUmpanie,
/ have $50, 900, 900 at loan at 3 and 10 per
cent. in that state.
Governor COlquitt Of GeOrgi;. is II
very Jealous Baptist, and breaches
every Sunday % the negro wOrkmen
whom he employs.
The Naval Commission reports ia
favor of abandoning the naval establish
ments at New London, New Orleans.
and Brunswick, Ga.
During 1876. 3I7 COS head of cattle
were driven from Southwestern Texas
to Kansas and Colorado, which i con-
sidered a neat business
The corporation of the city of Lon
don has agreed TO borrow a million and
half of money, in order to make all
The London bridges free from toll.
The London Telegraph shows an
average circulation for the last six
months of over 200, 900, the largest ever
attained by any daily newspaper in the
world.
Great Britain paid over 500, 10000
for Intoxicating drinks in 1875. Ii can
not he told how much America paid in
the same time, so much OF it was
charged.
The school population of Indiana.
according to the Superintendent re
port, numbers ESQ ,23O; of these lG2, go
have not attended the schools during
the year.
"A Roman chariot race between two
young women, Misses Virginia Mason
and Jenny Duplan, took place on
Christmas day ut Golden Gate Park,
san Francisco.
Marshall P. Wilder, of Massachu-
sets, is proud OF the fact that he ha~
witnessed the Inauguration of every
Governor Of that Commonwealth dur
ing the past four years.
Agricultural Hall, at the Centen-
nial, is to be taken apIrt and shipped
TO Spring Lake, near Sea Girt. Out OF
its wood hotel, a railroad depot aud
eight cottages are TO be built.
trinity church, now nearly com-
pleted In Boston, will cost In the yicui-
" Of seven hundred and fifty THOUSAND
dollars, and on the day of it, consecra-
tion iJ will be free from debt.
Among the relies recently added to
the Revolutionary collection in the Old
South, Boston, are pair of spurs which
were given bv General Washington t.
Thomas Lamb, at Valley Forge in l75ss.
The death rate of New York cisy
per 900 people Is larger than Phila-
delphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Baltimore.
and Chicago, a result arrived aU by the
Sanitarian, taken from the best sources
OF Information.
-Firmin-Gerard's "Paris Flower
Market" intended for \. Z. Stewart,
but not finished before his death, has
been on exhibition in New York. II
has been sold for $40 600 to q we'll
known cOnnOisseur.
Before 1870 there were no horse
railroads in London. There are now
twenty-four routes IN running order,
and the traffic has increased from four
million passengers in 1871 to twenty
seven million in 1876.
The Cincinnati CUmmsrriuL gives
nearly seven columns of CHASTITY statis-
ties under the head of American Kill
lings in 1876" The summary shows
that the number OF killers was 631, and
the number of victims 735.
The Rothchilds are said to be worth
all of them together-the agreeable
sum of 3.400, 900, 900. One of them,
Baron Edward, has just purchased at
auction a curious bit of furniture. GOV
cred with plates of Sevres, for 100000
francs.
The recently deposed Egyptian
Treasurer, lsmaIl- S1dik, mighG have
been able to retire on a competency ifhe
hadn't persisted in spending $I,5OO,OUU
year. He owned 81, 600 acres, and
81, 0O0,00O in jewels and money were
found in his palace.
The English revisers of the Old
Testament have held fOrty-One sessions.
They have carried their revision a far
as Ezekiel Xiv, II. The English re-
visers of the New Testament have held
sixty-five sessions. At their last meet
ing they reached the sixth chapter OF
Hebrews
The manufacture of cigars is be-
coming an important industry in Gin
cinnati. In 1870 there were $50 manu-
facturers in the city, who turned out
p. .00O,O cigars, upon which they paid
a tax of 1925, 600. Ia 1876 there were
400 manufacturers. who turned out
loo, 900, 900 cigars and paida tax Of $780,
900.
There Is now living at Norwich.
Eng, an old lady who was present at
the Battle of Waterloo, and took pas
siye part therein. She was the daughter
OF the gardener at the chateau of HOug-
OumOnt, and at the time five years OF
age. Her father did not leave the chat
eau until it was shelled by Jerome BO-
naparte.
The most expensive newspaper pub
lished in Paris is the Art, the yearly
subscription TO which is S2i gold, and
the cheapest is the B0RRe Peases, a re-
ligious weekly, which costs only Il cts.
a year. The oldest of Partisan journals
is the Journal General deS AficheS, which
is now in its twO-hundred and forty
seventh year of publication.
Italy has declared its seventeen
universities open To women. The like
action has been taken by Switzerland,
Norway Sweden, and Denmark. a
ministerial order has been issued in