Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-10
NO.24.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


students.
Idaho will build capitol at a cost
of $4,000
-Barrios' widow has seven children
and S,0O0,0 goo
Silver has been discovered near
Ablline, Texas.
"A Tampa, Fla, turnip measures
q inches around.
The Indians of Sltka, Alaska, are
threatening trouble.
"A street railway is shortly to be
built IN Rome, GA.
There are 5000 coal miners idle or
on strike in Illinois.
-Brinley Richards. the Welsh pianist
and composer, Is dead.
River pirates are becoming ''undu-
ly festive" at Savannah.
The people of Texas are calling it
"the new Empire State "
Eight men shot 900 ducks on one
Louisiana lake in one day.
Circus parties are a fashionable en-
tertainment in New York.
-Gadsden, Ala, will build water
works at cost Of $50, 900.
The state general fund at the end
Of April was 8, l69, ,260,7
"A cabbage shown at Palatka, Fla,
recently weighed Is pounds.
There were $4,000 visitors from the
North to Florida last winter.
The wool clip of Oregon Will this
year reach IL 900, 600 pounds.
There are more than $500 lady
physicians in the United States.
There are nine American countess
ses and marchiOnesses in Rome.
The South Pennsylvania Railroad
is To be pushed TO completion.
The indications of coal in Perry
county are attracting attention.
Vegetation in sections of Georgia
is suffering for the want of rain.
The number of colleges i'm the
United States is set down at $40
1t is estimated that 10000 cats
are annually killed for their skins.
Seven miles of the railway from
Suakim to Berber have been completed.
A piece of gold worth SI,5I5 was
recently found near Placeryille. .CalifOr-
MIA.
The Russian government is about
experiment in balloon steering by cleo
tricity.
-GenL RObt Toombs prOnOunce5
Atlanta "pre-eminently the capital of
the South"
1t is estimated that a ton of gold is
buried each year with those who die in
this country.
The telegraph and telephone wires
IN Melbourne, Australia, are being put
underground.
Immense numbers of hogs have
died in OnOndaga county, New York,
from cholera.
in Boston there are 6G9 licensed
wholesale MIX dealeTs,a aud 20 ) licensed
retailers of milk
Ellen TeTry'S visit to tins country
had considerable effect upon the styles
IN American dress.
"A Georgia machinist has invented
a ire-prOof cotton bagging that will
take the place of jute.
Crop prospects on the Pacific coast
have been frightened considerably by
recent heavy rain.
-Freshets have caused considerable
loss IN Kendall county, Texas, within
the past months or so.
Tourists can now travel TO the Yo-
semitic over the COulteryille and other
trails without paying rOad-tOals.
"A Maine granite company has con-
tracted to furnish the city of st. LOUIS
with half a million paving blocks.
During the year ended May l, 1885,
the collections of the First Presbyterian
Church. Reading, were nearly $1,000.
In Paris it has been determined
that the cost of gas lightins, as com
pared with electric lighting, is as 43l 70
344
Fourteen policemen are employed
IN Jacksonville. Fla, and the people
complain that there are too many of
them.
Nine Australian telegraph workers
are said TO have become insane from
overwork during the past thirteen
months.
Jacksonville, Florida, comes to the
front with lady who has been wife;
a mother, a widow and wife again Ia
one year.
In the neighbOrhOOd Of four or five
hundred new peach orchards have been
planted this year in the lower part or
Delaware.
The new rope recently attached to
the machinery of the inclined plane at
Af.HA,.xy DfanA D0ln
cost 1880.
The White House at Washington,
it is stated, is modelled after castle in
Dublin, and has cost up to this time
about s., ,00O,00O.
In one case in Thomas (Ga. Court
the value of the article stolen was &. 80,
while the cost of the trial, &c, 10 the
county was about 500.
The ship State of Maine has ar
nved at Victoria, B. c., % days from
Shanghai, the quickest trip on record,
it is stated, between the points named.
"A couple of wild young fellows put
Total Wreck Camp in Pima county, A.
T., in a frenzy over Il false Indian
alarm, and were driven with rocks out
of camp.
AT Ash Ford, station Oh the At
lantic and Pacific Railway, in northern
Arizona, the water supply is brought
by rail distance of 90 miles, and sold
for 80 cents barrel.
"A check for over nineteen thousand
dollars was found in New York recent
ly by a man unable TO read, but who
knew it was a check, and forwarded 1t
to the proper persons.
Maurice Kingsley, son of Charles
Kingsley, the English writer, IS about
TO settle in New Haven for the purpose
of educating his children. He posses
ses a fortune, made in Colorado silver
mines.
In the erection of new buildings
last year Chicago IS credited with hav-
ing spent more money than any other
Western city, Minneapolis ranking sec
ond, st. Paul third, and st. Louis
fourth.