Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-01-26
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\ The population Of West Denver,
Col. is 8 eco.
General Garfield's farm at Mentor
is worth $3.50
"A new railroad Is proposed between
Beaver and Somerset, Pa.
1t cost Philadelphia SJO, goo to sup
port its almshouse patients.
-Gustave DOre is working hard at
illustrations Of Shakespeare.
-GOtha in Germany has crematOry
where cremation cost but SIG.
The grain crop of Italy is this year
larger By One-third than in 1879.
In the United States there are 532.-
! 900 FreemasOns in good standing.
In the International billiard match
Nignaux beat SlossOn by 80 points.
Texas is adding about one thou
sand persons to its population daily.
Fine specimens of pure plumbagO
have been found in Cherokee County,
Ga.
One hundred and forty-eIght mil
lion copies of the Bible have been
printed.
An ordinary elephant eats five
bushels OF corn and 400 pounds of hay
per day.
kansas made 1906, ,34i pounds
of butter and 703, Az pounds of cheese
last year.
-PittsbHrg glass factories send their
wares TO China and japan in large
quantities.
The tCrritory of China is nearly
six times greater than that of the
United States.
Louisiana has set aside $40, 900 TO
supply her crippled soldiers with
wooden limbs.
1t is proposed in Allegheny city TO
elect one woman in each ward as
school director.
The American Union Telegra ph
Company has contracted for two new
Atlantic cables.
"A vigilance committee is forming
at Nevada City to lid the place OF no
toriOus characters.
Over one thousand prin ting presses
have been shipped from Philadelphia
TO France since 1876.
Christian X. Ross, father of the
missing Charley, has spent $50, 900 in
trying TO find his son.
John Mccullough, it is said, sent
Miss Helen Tracy Christmas present
in the shape of 81 100.
Senator Hamlin is one ofthe Oldest
and Senator Bruce the youngest OF the
members of the Senate.
The Duke OF AOsta, once King of
Spain, now lives in Turin, and is
wldOwer with three little sons.
The Canadians are startled by an
increase of IS, 800. 900 in the public debt
of the DomIniOa for the fiscal year.
During the fiscal year ending June,
1850, 75,43O, Canadians crossed the
borGe- and settled in the United States,
Our national debt, in silver dollars,
could be removed by rail only with the
aid OF $3.50 cars, carrying 10 tons each.
Queen Victoria has erected a memoir
iaI 10 her daughter the late Princess
Alice in the mahsOleum of FrogmOre.
jay Gould's latest acquisition gives
him control of 10000 miles of railroad,
One-ninth of all we have in the eoun-
try.
The disturbed condition of Ireland
has induced the empress of Austria TO
give up her hunting box In the Green
isle.
--COnneautville, Pa, shipped thirty
six thousand pounds of cheese 70 Pitts
burg The week ending December 81.
1880
The fund OF 500, 900 raised by the
Philadelphians for General Grant Is
completed and awaits the Generals
order.
The rev Academy of Music at
was opened by Woods
dramatic combination, from Phila1el-
phia recently.
The large number of IL, lis head of
American cattle, enronte for English
ports, were lost at sea, in three months
ending OStobsr 81.
Mrs. Jessie Fremont has organ
iZed classes in history among the
grown up sons and daughters of poor
settlers in Arizona.
Notwithstanding the ticket war,
the Illinois Central road has paid into
the State treasury S202. .5609S for the
six months ending Oct. 81.
Joseph Seligman, the New York
banker, gave away s25, 900 on Christ
mas day 600 each to ten public chari-
lies, and 5000 each to thirty.
The Wesleyan Conference of Eng
land reports 4sS,71l members, 81 ,245
on trial, 2,O23 ministers, besides 32l
and 32S on trial.
Young Wilhelm Bismark, the son
of the German chancellor, is about to
marry Countess Irma Andrassy, the
daughter of the Austrian statesman.
"A rough estimate of the extent of
the trade in wild game of ST. Louis
Tor the past year places the total
of transactions at 81 ,OO0,0O0-
Los Angeles County, with 5,673
acres OF land in vines, raised in 1850,
53, 900, 900 pounds of grapes, making
: $40, 600 gallons of wine and 80 OF
brandy.
For the week ending Dec. 18th
1850, the number OF standard silver
dollars distributed was AIS ,992. For
the corresponding week in 1879 the
was 434 $50.
Large cotton factories are to be built
at Charleston, NlcksbGrg and Louis
Vile. Southern capitalists are becom-
ing convinced that they can manufac-
!ure as well as raise cotton.
The British Postal Telegraph Ser
vice, which was estimated toproduce 4
net revenue of E45O, 900, is now likely
to turn III at least $500, 600, which will
yield per cent on the whole invest
ment.
Tile annual savings of France are
estimated at $500, 900, 900, and those of
Great Britain and the United States at
81 ,200, ,CO9, 600 each, making for the
Chree countries 50, 1000, 900, 900 per
annum.
Preparations for the coming CEN
sus of ISL in London a-e being active
ly pushed. IL is anticipated that the
returns will reveal a striking increase
in the population of the metropolis,
which cannot now be far short oil
1 900, 900.
The ST. Gothard tunnel was to be
ready, according to the original con-
tract, on Oet- l, 1850; but utunloOked-for
difficulties have caused the contractors
20 petition for a delay of two years,
and the lines of access TO its nouth
will not be completed until July, 1882.
During the commercial year end