Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-01-21
NO. 4.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Cotton ties are again being manu-
factured at PIttsburg.
France will not decrease import
duties on foreign cattle.
Texas increased her assessed GRO
perty s73 0OO, 900 this year.
Olive oil Is becoming one of the
great products Of California.
Florida expects TO raise 1900, ~
boxes OF oranges this season.
There are $4,000, 900 w0rkingIneu
out of employment In Chicago.
The MOrayians have Just been cele.
brating their 427th anniversary.
Over S00, 900 cans of fruit were put
up at COnneaut, o., the past season.
Another silver mine is reported ~
have been discovered in North Georgia.
Over one hundred thousand persons
pay taxes on real estate in New York.
The aggregate losses by the Hook
ing valley strike foot up over 81 ,O0O,-
900.
The Armstrong well III Pennsyka-
MIA is flowing 1900 barrels of oil Per
day.
-Four million pounds of wool have
been received at Abilene, Texas, this
season.
Gardening IS practically taught ia
more than 10000 primary schools IA
France.
"A whale eighty feet long WAS
washed ashore at BOlluas, Cal. few
days ago.
Three billion wooden toOthpick's
are now annually made in this country
it is said.
Pennsylvania spends about s9,OOU,-
OcO yearly in providing for free commOn
schools.
Threats OF lynching are driving
Mormon missionaries rapidly out 0f
Tennessee.
Fifty thousand men will te em-
ployed on the Panama Canal during tGe
dry season.
New building, of the value VI siz.
OO0, 900 have been erected ia New Y YOrk
this year.
John b. Cough delivered his drsI
temperance speech ia New York forty
years ago,
The postal service of the United
States costs the Government this year.
$40. .225, 800.
The new capitol AT Bismarck, Dak.,
Is said 10 be the finest Territorial Capi-
itOl in the West.
Three hundred thousand dozen 0l
eggs We're destroyed by hre at Mstet-
loo, la, recently.
The French Minister Of Agricult.
ure is in favor of reducing import du-
ties On cereals.
jersey City has debt Of over Slc,-
90, 900, and there is nearly 5000, 90
in taxes unpaid.
Andrew Carnegie. the PItt5buIs
millionaire. owns more newspapers than
any man in the world
james RiIly founded the Universe.
lists in England IN 1860 and John Muir.
ray in Boston in l770.
The assessed value of real and per
sOnal estate property in the State VI
New YORK is =, ,01i, 49I, ,332.
Petroleum wells To the number or
1890 were put down in 1888, against
$3.50 in 1892 and 1852 in 1881.
Indiana employs 800 men and 81
OO0, 900 in getting 25,000,OO0 tons or
coal out or 2O6 mines yearly.
1t is estimated that the wool clip
Of this year will amount to 300, U0O, 900
pounds and be worth s., 200, 900.
"A new counterfeit fiye-dollar note,
national Currency, Is reported ~ have
made its appearance in New York.
The garnet districts of Arizona and
New Mexico are looked upon as the
possible diamond fields Of the future.
"A telegraphic dispatch was lately
sent from Kansas City to Scotland and
an answer returned IN forty minutes.
"A father and son are under sell
tenee Of death i'll a louisiana prison,
and fol separate and distinct murders.
One hundred and one thousand
oranges were borne this year by trees
on an acre Of land in Plant City, Flor
ida.
1t is estimated that the averags
daily consumption of eggs throughout
the United States amounts to 5000
JOO.
Oil is now extracted from the seeds
Df grapes In Italy. Young grapes
yield most, and black kinds more than
white.
A New Jersey girl, it has come ~
light, dOnned her brothers clothes and
voted IN his maine 1t the recent cleo
ion.
The total production Ut cigars Ia
his country, rs estimated by one Of the
argest manufacturers, is about 3,000,-
100, 600 a year.
The English Postmaster General
'ays the condition of the English work.
ngman has not been improved during
he past fifty years.
--OskaloOsa, Iowa, is said to have a
spring that will tan skins either with
.he fur off or on, In from twenty-four
20 twenty eight hours.
A Gutenberg Bible was sold In
London, a week OF 81 ago, for SIC, 500.
There are said TO be but two copies of
he book in this country.
There were ,664 pictures exhibited
IA the Royal Academy last year. Of
which 203 have been sold at prices
ranging from guinea TO 81 900.
-Judson w Lyons, colored, has
been admitted 10 the bar at Augusta,
ia. He is the third cOlOred man thus
in that city since the war.
In a population of 623, go ia Coz
lecticut there are 5000 persons who are
more than so years Of age. OF thii
number twenty-One are centenarians.
What is claimed To be the largest
grain elevator in the world has been
erected at Newport News, Va, by thr
chesapeake s. Ohio Railroad Company.
"A crematOrium Is To be built In
New Orleans by the cremation society
II that city. which has purchased %
building lots of ground for the purpose.
The Pequot Indians, whose tribe
now numbers less than 800, have ap-
'ealed to the United States authorities
o protect the graves of their ancestors
gainst relic hunters.
The chief attraction OF Winches-
er, Va, is the double cemetery in its