Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-21
NEWS ~ BRlFF

:, -Cahfornia last year pac1cd 600. .OO
u cases of canned fruits.
+ American patent medicines are il
d great demand in Belgium.
: The Massachusetts Senate has pas
sed resolution for biennial sessions
C Berlin with over 1. 100. 900 popula-
ton, has only forty five places Of wor-
e ship.
"A Post of the Grand Army of the
: Republic has been established IL Homo
/ lulu.
: "A club of climbers VIII leave Bo- Ton
for the White Mountains during this
month.
, One Chicago pawn shop has loaned
money on 220O reyolvers during the
past year.
"A lady, Miss S. Clark. has been ap-
pointed Treasurer of q savings bank in
) Exeter, n II.
The Lower House of the Missouri
: Legislature contains forty attorneys and
fourteen editors.
California white wines are exported
to Germany in considerable quantities,
and tiCd mach favor there.
Cash girls in New York stores are
paid 81 90 a week. and some OF them
81 after years of experience.
"A London lecturer declares that
England has spent during the last ten
years fl, 40, 900. 900 tor liquor.
/ We use q, 900, 900 spools OF thread
a year. and three or four thousand cords
OF wood in the making of spools.
New York will raise by taxation,
to defray the expenses Of its city
government, about 81, 900, 900 IN 1888.
An agent has gone to South Africa
to secure oustriches TO stock farm to
be established in San Bernarlino, Cal.
"A thoughtful citizen of Kansas City,
Mo, has presented EACH OF the letter
carriers in the city with a pair Of Ice
creepers.
during the past year sixty-Oue
CongregatiOnalist ministers have died
IN this country, at an average age Of
sixty four years.
The total number of eases of shoes
shipped from Lynn, Mass, III 1882 Il
80. 525. This shows a gain of more
than %, 900 over 1881.
Women Stenngraphers of the high
est class command and receive salaries
OF $1,000 year and upwards, when en-
ployed IN large establishments.
The Rev. Osborne Ingle, an Epis-
copal clergyman OF Frederick, Nd, has
lost his wife ana seven chilnren, mostly
by diphtheria, within brief year.
In acorn-raising contest near Rome,
Ga, FIVE young men took part. The
winner OF the prize raised thirty-seven
bushels and seven ounces on a half acre.
"A boy in Mobile, Ala, burned down
two buildings to win two bets aggrega-
ting 81 that there would be two fires IN
the city before certain specified dates.
"A slow watch caused heloss Of five
lives and the wounding OF two men,
besides the destruction of considerable
property on the Chesapeak i Ohio Rail
way:
The Duke of Sutherland, by his
recent purchase OF land in Florida, be-
comes, 1t is said, a larger real estate
owner in the United States than in
England.
Immigration to the United States
is lessenins in volume. For the i've
months ended Nov. 30, the arrivals ag-
gregated 2i4,611, as compared with
291 800 in 1881.
-Russia's debt has almost doubled
since 1872, the annual deficit in her
finances averaging Sl20, ,0O0,000 \ loan
recently negotiated brings the debt up
20 s., 765, ,000,0
Tho Texas cattle drive for the COM
ing spring Is estimated at 22O, 900 head.
OF these not more than 1900 will
reach the open market. The rest viii
be reserved for ranch purposes.
The gold product of California from
the discovery OF TIE precious metal BY
James W. Marshall IN the tall-Tace Of
Suffers Mill, Jan. 10, 1S4S, to June 80,
1881, amounted to 81, 1000, 900.
The product oFthe Leadville Colo
rado) mines for the past three months
is as follows Pounds of lead. IL, ,OOa,-
DDS ounces of silver, ] ,337, ,216 ;oUnces
of gold, 2, 921. Total currency value.
S5, 792, 123.
The memorial library building
which the sons of the late israel Wash
burn are to erect at the homestead III
Liyermore, Me-, is to be of granite, and
Is to be ready for use during the COM
ing summer.
-Hunnewell, Kansas, shipped during
the last season 1000 car loads of cattle.
averaging twenty-five head to the CIR.
The cattle brought S3j per head st mar
ket making over s.. 900, coo worth ship
ped from this one point.
Some Maine officers attempted to
seize car load of beer in Portland the
other day, but a locomotive came along
and carried beer and officers to Ports
month, n. H., 80 miles away where 1t
Is not unlawful to hold beer Tor sale.
During the five years ending De-
cember 81, 1881. there were !, $40 hotels
burned in the United States and 360 in
Canada. During the month OF NOvem-
Der. 1881. there were thirty-nine burned
In the United S ates and SIX in Canada
more than one fof every day Of tn
month.
The aggregate value of the elev,
tors belonging to the Northern P,scII
railroad is $500, 600. They do an annu,
grain trade OF from g, 200. coo to 81.
900, 600. and in their merchandise &c
partment they dId a business last yeal
of 100000.
The best compliment paid the pub
lie schools of Washington by foreig
ner, qualified to judge, Is tn fact that
the children of the Swiss Minister at
tend public school in the Peabody build
ing, and Gen. Frey, as is well known,
presided over tine educational depart
ment Of hls native State for a number
of years.
General Booth, of the Salvation
Army in England, in MS report tor 1882,
says that In that year 600 ofh;s soldiers,
including 3T4 women, were knocked
down kicked or brutally assaulted
otherwise, and that 56 buildings in
which they were holding service wefe
attacke- and badly broken ~ 1t doors