The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-11-18

Norwich, Conn, has sorosIs branch
A shower Of winged ANTS rScently KeIllm
! Pennsylyania.
don. s-1
A Texas man sued q newspaper fOr S1a.oua.
and got 90 ccnfk
The relic buaIness cOntinnsa briak In
| Chicago.
Brick PonerUy has been admitted 10 ihs
New York bar.
Dion BOuciesult aud Sifs ars coming % ~
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The tea plant has done wen this year u
South Carolina, Tennessee and California
Canada man has made 10 gallons Of
whisky from thistles.
Oregon has an office holder whose name "a
Virtue
The bachelors Of Milwaukee propose to es-
tablish joint-stOck hotel and hospital com
bined for their own exclusive use
Mr.. Home, the SpirituaIist, intends givinga
series Of lectures in Paris for the relief Of the
sufferers Of Chicago
The lobster factory at Prospect HArbor,
Maine, has packed, this year, 1850 cans Of
HOLSTERS.
Mad that wife-beating is greatly on the IN
crease in England.
Five thousand copies Of Joaquin Miner'S
Songs Of the Sierras " have been. sold in
this country.
new drama, founded upon Charles Dick
ens's unfinished novel, Is ID preparation at the
Surrey, London. 1t win be called The Mys-
tery at Cloisterham.
Of 1000 graduates at Amherst during 50
years, ISL have become ministers and IS mis-
sionaries.
Charles Reade boasts that S75, 900 copies Of
his last unsAvory novel have been sold in the
United States.
It Is estimated that 3OO.OOO hogs win be
packed at Louisville this season, being 90 900
more than last year
Watertown, Mass. claims the honor OF
having been the first town in New England to
send aid to Chicago
Indiana boasts OF an apple tree which has
blossomed and borne three crops of fruit dur
ing the present year.
Colorado has 449 miles Of railroad, all bull
within the last two years.
A large number Of Swedish emigrants re-
Gently arrived at Savannah.
A Washington ghost is growing rich, his
relatives charging so cents admission TO the
another so emphatically that their horse nan
away and threw them out Of the carriage.
Joaquin MilIer's wife is said 10 be engaged
on a volume of poems.
Chicago received $50 in Confederate money
from Richmond philanthropist.
Hartford, Conn, has extra police officers
| to hunt up tnlants and return them to school
Thn md nnth hw4A haa
killed its ninth man within a year, q y
fourth within the last month.
The latest news concerning the health OF
| W. l.. Alger il very unfayoTable, and 1t Ia
| feared that he has become hOpelessly insane
Hymen has made such havoc in CamArgO,
ILL.,, that il is said there j. not a manageable
young man or woman in the place
| Sewing machines are soon TO be introduced
| n the public schools in North Carolina, and
Instruction given 10 AL those who desire.
The floor of New Hampshire stable fell
iOut lately, and three cows that were hitehed
| to the stalls were hanged
factory for preserving wood and render
| ling il incombustible was destroyed by fire In
| San Francisco recently.
A family in Portland recently celebrated
the 2Oth anniversary Of their wedding by the
marriage of two of their daughters.
| Tammany has heretofore been a caucus
but II Is now pronounced carcass. Chicago
/ Post
"Ah, let me see, 10 Jefferson who is this
10 JetfersOn-is he a son Of Thomas Jeffer-
son ~ anxiously asked Cleyelander a few
/ days since
| No sooner has Brazil abolished slavery than
/ she begins to call for school books. Freedom
and education go together; liberty and the
spelling book are one and inseparable.
The people Of Wyoming, who are already
obliged to get out their sleghs, envy the cn-
mate Of Virginia, where they have Wheeling
all the year round.
A picture Of the value Of 100 guineas, by the
French painter Yvon, has been forwarded as q
contribution toward the Chicago relief fund
| by that benevolent artist.
A New York belle proposes to appear at
the Alexis ball illuminated by q crown Of gas
Jets supplied from a reservoir concealed in
her chignon but is all this trouble necessary