The Grange advance., 1874-07-08

cotton firm Of Hoyt, sprague & Co., which
failed to meet its extended paper, falling
due On the Let.
MONDAY, July 6.-The building for the
centennial exhibition at Philadelphia in
general plan will be like the London Crys.
Ia! Palace, and like it, will be built most
ly OF iron and glass. 1t will cover ls acres
Of ground and is estimated to cost 81, 2o0,.
, 600, ..~ A train o: ca,s passed through the
tunnel leading from the St. Louis bridge
to Eighth street. about one mile, for the
first time, on Friday last. cunt de
Chambord, who claims by birth to oe King
of France, has issued manifesto, advis.
! ing the French that they have need OF roy.
atty and asserting that if he should ascend
The throne the monarchy would be limited,
admitting OF the existence Of Two cham.
bers, one named by the King and the 9th
er selected by the nation. >. Tangier, op-
posite Gibralter, at the mouth of the Ned
iteranesn, which once, under British rule,
was place Of great commercial import
ance, but, in subsequent possessson Of the
Moors, has been Of little note, is now dis
turbed by revolution in which it is said
the rebels, who are Republicans, have
gained possession Of the official buildings.
! AT che Columbus, O., races Friday,
Granville won the purse for the 2:44 class
! in 2:30t, 2:33 and 1854 In the 2:S0
class, Little Mac won the race in 2:30a
2:5l and 2:294. Ohio Bay made record
Of 2:293, and Annie Collins OF 2:303
In the i've mile doable scull race at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, Friday, Edward
Wood al d Christian Englehardt defeated
the Widdje brothers by ten lengths in 80
minutes. The defalcation by the late
Treasurer o: Holmes county, Ohio, has
been discovered to amount to $23, ,742, be-
sides which the several towns Of the coun-
~ have been regularly cheated in the ap-
portionmen: OF school moneys. The
Secretary Of the Interior has appointed
d. e. sibley, Of Minnesota, aud c. B.
Fiske, OF S.. Louis, to be members Of the
advisory board Of Indian commissioners in
place Of two Of the original members who
lately resigned. AS the appointment OF
a Cabinet officer ad interim is limited to
ten days by law, and as Minister Jewell
cannot return from Russia in that time, the
President has fully commissioned Mr.. Mar
shall, First Assistant, as Postmaster Cen
eral. When Mr.. Jewell has returned and
is ready to enter upon its duties, Mr.. Mar.
shall is expected to resign the Office and
return to his place as First Assistant.
The o. s. Attorney General, in the case
of Nebraska, has decided that State ia
not entitled to i've per cent. upon the VAL
ue of public lands reserved for Indians in
the State Gen. Myers, Of the quarter
master department, and Col. Lyford, Of the
ordnaRce corps, q. s. army, have gone to
Japan, to present to the hikado in person
complete assortment Of all the uniforms,
arms and equipments in use in the U. S.
army. The object is to return in some de-
gree the many presents which have come
from Japan, and to increase the prof table
trade which has grown out of the present
knowledge in either country Of the man
utActures and products Of the other.
The coroner's jury, as1er six weeks ip-
quiry into the Mill river disaster, ceusure
the Massachusetts legislature, the owners
Of the dam, the engineers and contractors,
and the county commissioners. Among
30 manT the divided censure for even that
! great disaster cannot bear heavily O: i'm
ply any legal penalty. :. . The Montana and
Salt Lake coaches which should have met
at Pleasant Valley, Utah, Thursday night
last, were both stopped and robbed of
small sums, and Wells, Fargo T. Co.'s ex.
press Of large sum being conveyed East.
... "A man named George Ferguson, Jr..
was tarred and feathered by q mob At
Lawrenceburg, Ind, Friday afternoon. for
using indecent language to two small girls.
49,. The best time made in the trottine
races at the State horse fair, St. Paul driy.
ing park, Saturday, was BY Star of the
West, who won the free for oil purse in
three heats, and made his third mile in
2:323. The running race. which was the
most exciting Of the meeting, an1 on
which the most money changed hands,
was woa by 9. 6. St. Croix. At = private
trial in the morning, NJ. Murnaue's pony
paced around the n.,le track in 1886. The
purse for the 2:50 class was won by the
g.g. Grey Steel in 2:433, 2:45 and 2:43.