Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-14
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August aggregated " ,533, ,O6S.
The soil on which timber 10 grown
increases or deteriorates its value.
In Cambria county, Pa, butter
sells at eight cents per pound.
Senator Wade Hampton's leg still
gives him great deal of trouble.
London has a police force of 10, ,474
men, costing SO, ,250, 900 to maintain it.
"A new directory of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Indicates that the population
of the city is about 81 900.
The pensions granted last year,
from the English Civil List, amounted
to $1,000.
Mr. Tennyson has been requested
to write the inaugural ode for the Aus
tralian International Exhibition.
The cotton mills OF Columbus, Ca,
consume annually 1926 bales Of the
staple.
In Bombay cotton factory man
receives So month, woman 81, aud
child $3.50.
Since the CrImean war ENGLAND
has reduced her national debt from
&900, ,0O0, 900 to S7l2 ,000, 900.
Nearly 300 miles of railroad have
been built in California so far this
year.
Split timber is more durable and
stronger than that which is hewn,
from tue continuity OF the flbres.
Red ink rs a solution of alum, col
ored with Brazil wood, or an ammoni-
cal solution of cochineaI.
The Pullman palace cars have been
introduced on the Italian routes run
ming from Brindisi and Bologna.
The crop Of pineapples this season
Is estimated at double that Of former
years.
Ground lIas been broken for the
monument to General Wayne, to be
erected at Erie, Pa.
The Ragged School Union Of Lon
don expends about s130, 200 year in
efforts TO elevate the lowest and poor
est classes.
-Meissonier will soon finish'a por-
trait of the late Louis Napoleon, begun
in 1870, but delayed by the war and the
exile. -
Mrs, Mary Hewitt has received
from the English Government a PEN
sion of $500, in consideration OF her lit
erary services.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Comp
any have ordered the building of eight
hundred freight cars and twenty pas
senger cars at tie Altoona shops.
The President begins work shortly
after o'clock in the morning. His
son, Webb, sits on his left hand and his
stenOgrspher behind his chair.
In a thunderstorm in Appenzil,
Switzerland, few days ago, a farmer
and ten of his cows, one of whicn he
was milking, were killed by lightning.
The $500 won by Courtney the 9TH
er day at Silver Lake has been presen-
ted by him tO the widow of man who
lost his life while In the scnller's en-
ploy.
Chief Justice Chase's grave at Oak
Hill, near Washington, is marked sim
ply by block of gray granite, bearing
only the record of his birth and death
following his name.
The apple crop in Kent county,
Nd, promises to be much larger than
usual, and it Is expected that fifteen dis
tilleries, producing 5000 gallons of ap-
pie brandy, will be put in operation.
AT general Conference of the Af-
rican Methodist churches of New Eng
land, recently held at New Bedford, re-
ports showed membership of 1,3l7.
Tne denomination has twelve Sunday
schools, containing S55 scholars.
For the six months ending June
39th, 1879, there were thirty failures in
Boston,, with liabilities of 81 ,594, 900,
while for the same time last year there
were 175 failures, with liabilities of S.
536, ,523.
The famous solid silver vase, two
and-a-half feet high, aud elaboratelY
fabricated, presented by the Wings to
Henry Clay, in 1874, is offered for sale
at Boston, by the great mans grand
son. -.. h
During the first six months of 1879,
% 1894 cases of champagne were impor-
ted, an increase OF II, los cases as COM
pared with the same months of 1878;
736, ,020 gallons and 45,70S cases of
French still wines were imported, an
increase OF 264, $50 gallons.
Dear Stanley has granted site for
a memorial of the late Prince Louis
in a recess in Henry Wis Chapel, near
the spot where Cromwell's remains lay
till they were disturbed at the Rsstor-
alton.
"A woman working for a farmer
near Detroit was fatally poisoned, re-
Gently, by washing a pair of overalls,
which he had worn while putting Paris
green on his potatnes. The woman had
a cut or two on her hands, into which
the poison penetrated.
The English Wesleyan Association
of Local Preachers, organized in 1849,
has paid to the "sick, the aged, and for
death, " among its own members. over
$275, 900. There is proposal 20 estAb-
lish fraternal intercourse with the Me-
thodist Local Preachers Association in
this country.
It'll has be- n determined by theSchoOl
Board of Richmond, Va, that all lady
teachers in the public school of that
city who shall marry during their
t. rms of service shall thereafter be in
eligible to the position of teacher, and
their places shall be supplied by the
Superintendent of Schools.
New England has over $50 farmers
clubs, with $4,000 active members, and
library books to the number of 81 900.
In the United States there are nearly
1900 agricultural societies, with 5S, 900
volumes in their libraries, and with ac-
cess to $50 different agricultural publi-
cations, all exerting direct influence
on the intelligence and futnre prospects
of the tillers Of the soil.
The Employees of the Penneylvan-
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