The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-04-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEARLY ten thousand dollars in conscience
money has been received N the Treasury
Department since the first Of January.
AN explosion Of several boxes of nitro-glv-
cerlne or blasting oil, at San Francisco ON
Monday, killed some twenty persons ia
stantly and injured many others.
A FoRr Kearney paper declares on the
highest authority that Brigham Young pro-
poses to purchase two Of the Sandwich Is
lands, and eInigrate thither with his flock
TIE Cincinnati Gazette says that pure
"Essence Of Coffee" is now made 10 that
city out Of the cheapest, dirtiest and mas
tiest molasses," which is boiled till it ropes,
cooled in pans, and when hard, bTokeh up
and pulverised. Ground rye is then mixed
with it, after which it is boxed up, each box
sid at eighty cents, and labelled "Pure Ks
sence Of Coffee
The Golfers and Iron workers Of England
and South Wales are rushing off to the
United States in hundreds sixty famiheI
leaving IN one day-a fact greatly deplored
by the London Times
lScREAsE OF WAGES AMONGST TIE GARDEN
sRs.-Some difficulty has u late been e.
Periehceu BY master gardeners in finding
good workmen owing 20 the nigh rate u
wages asked The masters, feeling them
selves unable 70 meet the demands Of the
men unless higher remuneration u paid by
the employers, have held various meetings
M Grange Court Hall, Causewayside, with a
view Of coming 10 a settlement. A resolu-
tioE has finally been adopted, asking Ia em
Ployers TO give IS. "a. per day Cor each
gRrdener-thc sum charged NV nursery
men - .Sc0fehnaan
The President received telegraphic dis
patch last Wednesday, dated the previous
day, from Vanc0nyer's Island. Ia the North
pacific Ocean, % which point the great over
land telegraph line thatwiil a. u anticipat-
ed, in few months connect ns with Russia
and China, IL now finished.
1HK bill giving encouragement 10 the pro-
posed telegraph line from the Florida coast
TO the West Indies, has passed both house .
Of Congress.
THEAE is considerable excitement among
tenants in New York, owing to the ex-
orbitant price of rents. Meetings are being
held TO resist the demands Of house owners.
TIE brig Scotland, arrived Al Portland,
Me-, reports having been brought to and
qestioned at sea by pirate schooner, car
rylng the British nag. She il believed to
be armed.
LATE English papers say the mania for
cHA fdtiOh ~ tue L ullcu CldkEs ulS again
set in smong the golfers and iron workers
of South Wales, and the effects Of the move
ment are beginning 70 be seriously flet,
more esp ,cially by the collierv proprietors.
10 addition TO the large numbers that have
emigrated siuce the 6ne weather has set inf
upward Of sixty families have left Aberdare
for New York few days sinoe, and others
are preparing to follow from different parts
of the district
| THERE was an explos ion ana extensive
cenhagratlon at Detroit last night The
steamer Windsor and the passenger and
freight depots OF the Detroit and Milwaukee
Railroad were destroyed, and number Of
lives are believed TO nave been lost. The
fire was caused by the explosion Of barrel
Of naphtha on board the steamer which was
lying at the depot unloading. The total
loss u estimated at 5000, 600
OvER 100000 immigrants from Europe
reached New York during the past year.