The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-04-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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cousins.
A sRoTHLR- IS-LAw Of G en-. Butler, j. NJ
( G.. Parker, wants the New Orleans Post
/ office.
/ ADMIRAL Davis, Of the British Navy, whC
was a midshipman in Lord Howe's grea
naval battle Of l794, has Just died, at the
age Of 81.
| IT IS estimated that there are 255, 00t
threshing machines in the United States
without counting the School marms."
THE Philadelphia Ledger, in giving stats
tics of the coal trade, says al Indicauons SC
far are that prices must further decline.
ONE of the greatest feats vet done with
the velocipede, is journey OF 1913 miles IN
twenty four hours. This MAS in France.
CORNELL University possesses a collection
Of SHELLS numbering 100000 representing
1900 species, which took their collector
thrrty-6ye years to gather.
THE foreign ministers at Yokohama have
announced the termination Of the civil war
on Japan, and withdrawn their ordinations
Of neutrality.
Tue Hon. John Conness, ex United States
OtuahOt nun 1dttioiutht was III dFttu oii
Tuesday to a daughter Of the Hon. Wendell
L. Davis, OF Greenfield, Mass.
MORE than 1000 miles of the Franco
American Atlantic Gable are already com
pleted, and l,245 miles Of the same have
been shipped on board the Great Eastern.
ORDEks hive been received from Wash
ington at the United States Armory in
Springfield, Mass, to begin the mandatory
Of new model OF breech-loader, and 10 turn
out Eve hundred per day.
TENSYs1S's c. plete works, published by
Strahau in London, sell for thirty ght shii
hngs, or about twelve dollars. They can be
bought in one volume in this country for fif.
y cents.
A sPECIAL dispatch from Omaha says the
Missouri river is rising rapidly, with pros
pect of opening navigation within q few
days. Heavy storms are reported at Salt
Lake and farther west.
Ar sale Of autographs in New York, The
other day, George Washington brought s. !;
Napoleon Bonsparte, g. Humboldt, IS Is I;
Henry Clay, SO % Daniel Webster, 81 so;
JEFF Davis, 81 Is.
The Contingent expenses" OF the man
sion Of the Governor Of Kentucky, since
October 10, 1867, amount TO So, 900, AID
include charges for brushes, combs, resin,
soap, aud cork screws Of course.
TIE National Steamship Company made
ar offer to the British Post Office Depart
ment on the 10 inst, TO carry the mails be-
tween Great Britain and the United States
for one penny per ounce. 1t Is objected,
however, that the steamers Of this line are
too slow.
TIE Emperor Of Russia gets $2J 900 sala-
~ a day the sultan, $4,000; Napoleon,
$l4,2l9; the Emperor of Austria, $l0,050;
the King of Prussia, IS, 200; Victor En-
manuel, 81, $40 Victoria, Sc, 270 Leopold
Of Belgium, ) ,64S and President Grant,
$3.50.
IT is said that the whole number Of books
published and sold ia the United States BY
subscription agency during the past eight
years does not exceed one hundred. Yet
the business ia Hartford alone involved over
6ve million dollars, and required ten thous-
and agents to sell less than thirty books.
The University Boat Race in England has
for the ninth time IN succession beer won
by Oxford. The Cambridge men were deep
ly impressed with the disgrace of eight sue
sessive annual defeats, and even employed
the Oxford professional trainer, but to no
avail.
Ir is reported that the Territory Depart
ment has issued bonds to the Central Pacif-
ic Railroad Company on their road az far as
Ogden c.ty. 750 miles east Of Sacramento,
which establishes that as the meeting point
the Eastern aud Western roads.
THREE children, aged two, four and six
years, respectively, were discovered in q va
cant room in a house in Cairo, Illinois, on
Tuesday, where several days before they
had been left to starvs by their unnatural
father. MOI an article Of furniture or nour-
ishment was in the room.
Tn the French Corps LegisIatif, Saturday,
Marshal Neil, Minister of War, urged the
completion Of the reorganization OF the
army. Peace, he said, was secure, but
France would not tolerate a government
which vas not fully prepared 60 ayenge in
suit if offered.
OEE of the last things Postmaster -Geuer-
al Randall did before leaving Office, it is
stated, was TO grant the requ, 5 Of two re-
publican members Of congress for passes to
China by our mail steamer line from New
York, for the benefit If their sons. By Civ
ing them authority TO act as special agents,
this was accomplished.
DISTURBANCES multiply in Spain. The
republicans are determined to appeal to arms
sooner than have the monarchy and state
church restored. The Cortes must recog.
nize the position OF the people in this mat
ter, or they will be blown up suddenly by
the outbreak Of popular indignation.
THE Canton (0hlo) Rel osttOry says The
Buckeye Works of this Guy are now averag-
ing Buckeye Harvester, q combined Rea
per and Mower every seventeen minutes Of
working time. This, besides making IRON
four to six Sweepstake Threshers, with
horse power and mounted on trucks per day.
TIE plans for the great bridge across the
East river between New York and brooklyn
are being rapidly matured, and the work
will soon be begun. The structure I'll be
suspension bridge of the enormous span Of
sixteen hundred feet, AMI will be one Of
the finest specimens Of engineering in the
world.
GERMAN Capitalization has advanced
another step. The little principally Of Wal
Geek has been sold to Prussia. Its P.Incs,
George Victor, young man Of thirty eli hi
years, had become tirod Of ruling over :
territory OF about twenty geographical
square miles, and population Of less than
10000.
THE depth Of snow in the woods Of Main,
10 almost unprecedented ct this season o
the year. In many places it lies seven fee
deep on level The Bangor Whie say,
some OF the gangs Of lumbermen, in siartin,
70 come out, have found 1t necessary to Do