Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-11-14
News Items.

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40 sons of Arkansas for the ensuing yea
- The Indian chiefs Satanic and b
Tree, whose sentence was commute
:, to imprisonment for life, have arrive
= safely at the Huntsville penitentiary
-. The Louisiana State Fair Associ
tion have new and commodious bull,
ing completed, which will be opene
: for the reception of articles on tn
% 18th inst The fair commences O.
> the 18th.
Frank Winslow of the Boston JON
nal, while stepping from car at New
> ton on the 9TH, was struck by anothe
train and instantly killed.
Mr.. Gale built tho first log house
in Brighton in 1885.
The number of cases of small poA
in Philadelphia last week was 5G7
and of deaths 95.
The Georgia Senate Tuesday passed
a bill repeating the usury laws.
A butcher named Sellers was thrown
from his wagon Tuesday at Dayton,
Ohio, and killed.
Many farmers in Livingston Coun-
~ lost heavily by depositing money in
Latourcttes Fenton bank.
The newsboys Of Cincinnati put
their earnings in the savings bank
Two of the boys have upward of three
hundred dollars there.
A quantity of condemned govern.
mcnt clothing has been bought by a
Cuban dealer.
A Vermont man has established q
steam 10Y factory a Nurcmbmg
Sweden has had some great vocal
lists, but no composer of any merit.
Imprisonment for debt is still legal
in New York City-made SO by per.
version of the statute.
The names of persons who presented
books to the historian Prescott were
cut from the title pages and covers by
his heirs previous to the auction sale.
The Chinese in California, with rea
dy adaptation to Mclean mans ways
have commenced suits against the City
of Los Angeles for manages caused by
the riot.
The entrance to the Polar Sea is
now said to be guarded by "theomom-
etric gateways."
The Popes ambassador to the Sui.
tan returned from Constantinople with
ont accomplishing anything,
The Montezuma marshes are dry for
the first time in twenty years.
| Mrs. Hess, the Wayland murderess
confined in the Utic Asylum, climbed
high ladder and falling therefrom brok,
her thigh.
California will make 100000 gallon.
of grape brandy this year.
Seven hundred men are employed
in Colts armory, and pistols and Cat.
! lin guns are being rapidly turned out
The Khcdive has begun in a vigor
Gus manner railroad building in Egypt
The Vermont Central Railroad ha,
a library for its workmen at St. AL
bans.
A New York thief who stole tw,
hundred dollars worth of raw silk
unable to realize on it, returned til,
booty with note.
A Newport dressmaker has achieved
masterpiece in robe composed o
twelve different colors, and besides
large quantity Of silk trimming, ha
on it sixty yards of fine thread lace.
Great excitement has been create,
by the continued discoveries of slve
in the Caracoles district of Bolivia
! where four thousand pounds are pro
duced every day, or $4,000, 900 year
Coal and gems have also been discoy
cred.
Geological changes of great magni
tude have taken place during the las
ten years in the districts adjoining tn
Caspian sea and the Ural River. Th
water of the river has sunk more tha
one foot, and many Dogs on the north
east coast of the sea have been entire
ly drained. The delta of the Ura
7 has diminished from nineteen to fiy
branches, aud its area is now onl
| seven versts instead of one hundred
+ Many islands have joined the mai
lard Guryor on the sea-coast, 10 nov
six versts inland.
: Saturdayweek, near Plymouth, Ind
. Davis Tellers, a well known farmer
discovered two strange men asleep o
bis hay stack, and two strange horse