, 1872-12-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The hog crop Of Iowa is 1,325,l7s, against |
zoos, GIL last year.
-.rhe Parsons Kansas) graded school, COST
ing $40, 600, has just been completed;
oOne OF the best plantations IN south a. Caro A.
olina, containing 5000 acres, VAS sold 10 S'ooo
recently.
The street lamps in Belleville. H., we're last
week lighted for the first time in nearly year.
The gr eat gas war is at an end
The suit at Davenport, Iowa, OF widow Ma
i 10y to recover 900 damages from Ma1ony @ 1or
causing the death of her husband BY q plo", mas
been compromised on $5 600.
The first engine crossed the Air Line Rail
road BRIDGE over the Connecticut, at Middle
cost COST nearly $4,000
The decision Of the "oo Wisconsin so supEfme Sa
Court, reversing he SSogQ }Wsan ars;nat ty1 r
| A, Noouan Of Milwaukee, is from the hands OF
| Chief Justice Dixon, and concludes With an eiao
crate analysis Of the mental operation Known IS
| Z" intent"
| The Collins Ak Company Of Collinsyille, CT,
which was started forty-si1 years ago By three
men from Hartford, has within the past twenty
years paid the average dividend Of 3a-loo Per
cent, and nov employs 400 men with monthly
! payroll Of S25, ,000
Al a recent wedding in Killingly, c., the
bride wore tho beautiful silk stockings which
her mother wore at her OWL wedding thlrty-nVe
years ago; and the bridegroom wearing the nne
| white ones Worn by bis fatha1 upou Aa "eooAae
| day, fty-one years ago.
4 German firm ia making extensive purchases
Of polecat skins in Bourbon County, Ky. Inc
skins are collected and deodorized in Par1s,
packed in bales shipped to firm II Baltimore,
thence to fur company in Le3pslo germany fan ~
The price paid in Paris Is from LOG 10 ~ 1ot tne
skins, according to quality.
The last rail Of the Paris 1, Decatur Railroad,
and also ths Chicago Southeastern, known IS
the Mattoon, Sullivan & Decatur Railroad. Tas
junction at Mt. Zion, ten miles southeas1 q
Decatur and run into that city rtd the Illinois
Central track, one mile and half south-
The County Court has this week given con.
siderable attention to the liquor cases that have
been accumulating on the docket for some time
past and the good people Of Lake County Tlu
rejoice to know that the result has been entirely
satisfactory to law.abiding citizens, and gives
promise of better things in the future, than ne
. have. heretofore 1Yaukegan Gazeue.
The Cedar Rapids Republican gives Prac'
tical illustration Of the workings Of lows colec-
ton laws, by citing the case OF man IN tne
East who loaned thousand dollars in Iowa 1ol
one year at 10 per cent interest: It took him
four yeara to collect it, under the State laws
and when all the costs for legal services had
t been paid, he only realized about per cent OF
his loan.
: in February next the tract Of land known at
the Omaha reservation will be placed On the
market for sale At 90 so per acre. The territory
embraces district Of thirty-six miles in length
: by twenty-four in breath, or over half millor
!, acres OF bottom land, on the west bank Of TIT
| Missouri, sixty miles north Of Omaha.
9 There is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, = lady wh<
g has perfect genius for making rare and CURIOUS
{ things. She has invented machine Tor maklnf
s lace. consisting Of one hundred bobblns, and OF
r this has manufactured handkerchiefs and col
Q lars and lace equal to any imported from Parls
: The case Of the young man Scharlach, "ho
= = came to Pittsburgh, Pa, from steubenVlue, y
= short time since, to have surgical operation
= performed O., him for the removal OF set
= = false teeth Il at eight months before drop
ned into his :Iet while he Was asleep, resulted
3 fatally last week. ,.,..-:
have go exerted themselves in good work as t
= raise and forward S125 to aid in the completion
=. - Of the Washington National Monument Thl
~ | circumstance reminds us unpleasantly o. n
L brevity Of time, and prompts the remark that
q anybody else has any work OF that !. kind to d
20 "a THE Orleans n. y Republican says: ~
20 20 aunt OF Horace Greeley, Mrs. Dwinell, is no
'e living in the town of Gaines. Some years ag
Il Mr. Greeley was to deliver the address o. In a
!. County Fair add he, being anxious that bis r.
latives family should hear his remarks, Proceee
+ ed to his aunt'a farm, and, pulling of bis cos
"a helped husk alot Of corn, at which all the hane
aiao. n i ioned % With the distinguished editor an
% % that corn was husked in time to allow all hane
sa e1 to attend the Fair and hear Mr. dreeleys n
~ ~ dress.''
i. "A man has 1uat peen Arlesteu Ii OA IAt
10 Pa, on the curious chargeof stealing 1875 pount
a. a. OF nitro-glycerine. A search OF his premises
=" 70 suited in tho discovery OF the dangerous cor
~ pound in the cellar, with his seven little cldre
playing close by, liable at any time to explode
10 10 The explosive force Of the amount found vi
9- sufficient to have blown the whole neighborhoc
T. to atoms. The man seems to have had q man
~ ~ for this kind OF larceny as number Of artlcl
~ ~ from other magazines we're found on the prer
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