Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-09
NO. 6.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

mississippi has l9S, 900 voters, Of
whom los, COO are negroes.
Lancaster can boast of 76 good SUBJ
stantial tobacco warehouses.
in 1851 Wisconsin had ten miles of
railroads; now it has 3 ,l33 miles.
"A hundred of the French Jesuits
have appeared in Constantinople,
Boston's original area was 7S3 acres;
its present territory includes %, ,66l.
Over two hundred deer were killed
In Forest country during the past sea-
son.
1t Is said that the wine crop of
CalifOrn ia this year will be 10000, 600
gallons
The loss by fire IN New Orleans
during tina past year has been only
Sl2l, ,740.
The Pittsburg pension agency pays
out two million dollars annually in
pensions.
Charles O'Conor aged 76, has be-
come citizen OF Nantucket, where no
Is at work on a law treatise.
1t is stated that 1t will cost over
s3l ,OO0, 600 TO run the New York city
government the coming year.
General Walker has already esti>
mated that in 1900 this country will
have populatiaR of 90, 900 900.
Thirty thousand square miles OF
pine timber are now awaiting the saws
at Beaumont, Texas.
The statement of the Imperial
Bank of Germany shows decrease in
specie OF "a 900 marks.
The duke of Westminster, the rich
est man in England, was raised to his
present title by Mr.. Gladstone.
The Washington banker COrcoran
bas given away 81 600, ,Oe0 and has only
about 81 ,0O0, 900 left for himself,
There are 40, 600 negroes in Wash
| ington, of whom not more than 5000
ere steady at work during the year.
1t is estimated that the Indian
river country OF Florida will alone pro-
duee this year 10000 boxes of oranges.
| A farmer in Chiffon county Ala
/ bama, raised 40S bushels of yellow
yams on half acre of common pine
land.
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee
are the three most pOpulOus states of
the South. Georgia ranks next to Ten
neSsee.
| WIG VI Ocu. Is III
such uncomfortable health that she
will nor perform any social duties this
season.
The Colorado bullion production
tor 1850, Is estimated at $22 ,000, 900, OF
which Leadyille is credited with Sl5,-
600, 900.
"A silver dollar of 179S, sin excel
lent condition." is worth about 81 so.
Half dollars of 1912 are worth about
sixty cents.
commissioner lie Due has located
his experimental tea farm 20 miles
from Charleston on the South Caro-
liam railroad.
Kansas harvested 25,O00 acres of
E=yptisu or rice corn lass year, tie
average yield being twenty -five BUSH
els TO the acre.
1t takes two and half million dol
. lars 10 pay the annual expenses of the
2O,0O9 hounds said TO he owned lD
Great Britain.
During the past seven years the
mines OF the United States nave pro
duced s2SO. .OOO,O00 of gold and s27l,-
5000 of silver.
The total coinage ofall coins, gold,
silver and minor. from the foundation
of the Government to the present time.
is 81 ,43S, 1I9, ,935.
We have now outstanding In green
backs, 1882 5SS 42i, national bank
notes, S3i3, ,2l9, ,933-total, SSO5, SOS, ,367
in paper currency.
The first turnpike ever made In the
United States was that constructed be-
tween Philadelphia and Lancaster in
1888, costing 100000.
The first time the White Hou e, at
Washing on, was thrown open TO the
public was at the New Years levee of
President Adams, in 1901.
The Russian Army has %, 900 Off
GERS, which just equals the whole army
OF the United States, counting in hos
plral stewards and the rest.
Nearly $4,000 has been contributed
I'm Cincinnati for the benefit of the
families of five firemen who lost their
lives az recent fire in that city.
The number of crOquet sets sold In
this country during the past five years.
is estimated at 100000, and still We
continue to send missionaries to Africa.
Vanderbilt draws $4,000 from
the government every ninety days,
that amount beng the quarterly inter
est on the per cent. bonds held by
him.
The gross earnings eff the Missouri
Pacific railway for the year ending
December 81, 1880, were $25, ,404 ,I06.0S,
an increase of S4,SS4 ,40l "a over those
of 1879.
An English writer places the num-
Der of horses In the world at A., ,0OJ,-
900, OF which the United States aud
baua IO0 MN anI
II 900, 900.
-Eastport, Me-, exported $1,000
eases of sardines last year, worth $685.
600, against %, ,06O in 1879. Seven new
factories were erected, making thirteen
now IN operation.
1t is estimated that the railroads
of the country have required this year
|, 59J new locomotives and IS ,430 ears,
worth s65, ,679 ,93O, and $7I, ,I46, 900
worth OF new ties and rails.
The exports of grain from the port
of New York during the year 1880
reached l07 900, 900 bushels, an excess
of nearly lS,OOO,0OO bushels over the
exports of any previous year.
The most careful estimates, allow
ing tor the losses by bad weather aud
the scarcity of labor, puts the cotton
crop of 1SSJ at 6,0l7, ,.1GI bales, an in
crease over 1879 OF 256, 900 bales.
The Personnel Of the German Navy
comprises 10000 men, OF which mum
Der during the twelve months ending
on the lst of april last, on an average,
| 5,lJ7 were afloAt and 1862 on shore.
The Maharajah Dhuieep Singh,
the well-knOwn East Indian prince
who lives in England. adyertises 5000
pheasants anu 900 hares for sale, al
on the + Weldon estate, near TheIford.
| The MOccasins, necklace and other
barbarOus personal property OF Don't
kuOw-How," a member OF the Yank-
: tOunais tribe OF Sioux, have been re-
eeived by Secretary Schurz by mail,
that Indian having no further use for
them.
The total number of paupers in