Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Indiana mas OU, UUO more Sneep now
than in 1880.
There ale 60,000 colored Baptists
in Tennessee, with $50 churches.
In 1850 only thirteenth of all
the manufactured products used came
from abroad.
Anthony Trollope left his family
S125, 900, and the copyright of fifty
novels.
The Marquis of Lorne says the
Princess Louise was ordered to Bermu-
da by her physicians.
The director of the mint states that
he coinage of the new fiye-cent pieces
will be continued
A full kit of bank burglars tools
is said to be worth 81 900.
Boston reports an increase of $50.
600, last year, in the amount received
from fees for licenses
The cable system of street car
traction is about to be introduced into
England, at Highgate.
Pennsylvania made $50, ,90S tons.
Illinois. 362, go tons; Ohio, 1l3,S06
tons New York, los. .O21 tons.
The semi-annual dividends payable
in Boston i'll March will amount to ST.
231 ,SS1.
"A resident of WOodburx, Tenn, but
30 years of age, has Just been married
for the fourth time.
"A Florida orange grower has order
ed 200 barrels of snuff from Connecticut
for use as fertilizer.
Charles Mackay, LII. D., the Eng
lish lyrical poet. is lustrecovering from
long and dangerous illness.
Russia had last year 776 periodical
publications., including newspapers.
| The largest circulation was II 900.
Canadian papers report the arrival
of a new bird III considerable numbers
which preys upon the English sparrows.
Sir Moses Montefiore, the Oldest
English baronet, will be one hundred
years old on the 25th of October next.
The production of Bessemer rails
was 1, 43S. l55 tons /; Ton rails, 227, SIT
tons open hearth steel rails, 22,76j
tons.
Of the LOO mules employed in the
Philadelphia and Reading company's
mines but few see the light of day once
a year.
The value of our farm products for
1882, are estimated at 81, 500, 900, 900.
Exports of same, $500, 600. 900, or eight
per cent.
Captain Shaw, the Chief of the
London Fire Brigade, has sent 60 Chi
cago for some ef the fire appliances
that he saw IN that city.
Wagner. the composer, died in an
armchair, of disease of the heart, from
which he had been suffering. He had
Expressed the belief that he should not
live long.
The old "Red Church." located
near Orwigsburg. Schuylkill county,
Penna-, which WAS built IN 1773, is to be
,orn down and a new structure more
modern IN architecture erected.
The ice harvest from the Kennebec
river Is now estimated at 647, 900 tons,
and there were POO, 900 tons left over
from last year.
Senator Sherman has preserved all
the letters which he has received dur
ing the last twenty years, and they
number nearly forty thousand.
Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, of Bos-
ton, has given 5000 to the permanent
fund of the Women's Educational and
Industrial Union of that city.
The total production of iron and
steel rails last year was !, 1,6SS, 794 net
tons, or l l,507, S51 tons gross, falling
off as compared with 1881, of s per
cent.
MIR. Dennis, the British antiquarian,
has bought the site OF the temple OF
Cybele, at Sardls, Asia Minor, and great
hopes are entertained of the discoveries
, among the ruins.
SAINT Gaudens, the well known
sculptor, has modelled a colossal bas-
relief OF DIR. Alexander Vinton, to be
placed in Emmanuel Church. Boston,
where he has so long officlated.
Lords wolsely and Alcester have
been presented with swords OF honor
by the Egyptian people. The weapons
have fine Damascus blades and hilts
, studded with jewels, and cost $3.50
{ each.
William Beach Laurence bought a
farm at Ochra Point, Newport, forty
4. years ago, for S12, which having
been cut up into building lots and sold
!, has netted the Laurence family $780,
! ! 900.
During 1882 over l 200 electrical
y patents were issued. The electrical
Z division is the largest in the pateps
. office. Considerable attention is now
being given by inventors to secondary
. or storage batteries.
. The Moody Church, in Chicago,
built during the Moody excitement in
r that city some years ago, has Sunday
. school which, perhaps, is the largest in
? the country. Two thousand names are
. Ienrolled ON the school register, and the
? average attendance is fifteen hundred.
e In 1881 there were examined in the
: Municipal Laboratory, PAr.s, 3.00l
v samples of wine, of which 27I were
4 found to be good, 991 passable. and l ;.
e 731 bad. In the first five months oi
O 1882, 1869 samples were analyzed, oi
e which 372 were good, 6S3 passable, and
u S14 bad-145 of the latter being very
d injurious.
-1Hc CcilSls IGpoItS ouON thdt uui
:, ing the census year, the railways of the
> country transported 290. .S97, ,395 tons
Y freight, for an average distance of II:
miles, at cost OF 0,76 cents a ton pc
mile. The passengers numbered 269,
5o3, $40, carried an average of twenty
II three miles. at an average cost Of LII
,e cents per mile.
Of The moving bog IN the vicinity o
,e Castlerea, in Ireland, Is advancing rap
l. idly toward that town. Several thOusan'
D. acres of land are submerged, mills arr
le stopped, bridges are choked mp, ant
I traffic on the road from Ballinagara t,
c. Castlerea is now suspended. The DO
m at Bastlick, which moved some time ago
NJ is also breaking up in several places.
IS The Scotch production ofpigiron, 70
It, 1882, as elsewhere quoted, amounted I
III |, 126, coo gross tons, decrease OF 30,
IN 900 tons from the figures of 1851. Ther
al.