The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-06-05

A company IN canada Will engage IN the
manufacture Of India-rubber from the com
mon milkweed.
Indiana nov proposes building canal
to connect Lake Michigan with the Wabash
river, thus opening navigation with the
Ohio.
San Francisco has over 81, ,OOO, ,OOO per
manently invested in manufactures. The
annual value Of the products is estimated
at $63, JOO, ,OU
In 1894, the wool exported from san
Francisco was I75, ,0D pounds, valued at
<l4 0OO. In 1874 there were 81, O8S, T0l
pounds exported, valued at -, ls2, 900.
The late President Juarez, Of Mexico,
was a Protestant and attended with his
FIRMLY protestant church In the City OF
Mexico His two sons were educated At
Bethany College, Virginia
The Trade Lat, VI Cincinnati, very per
tinently asks Why not resume specie pay
ment at once Ii can be done this year
as we'll as four years hence, probably, and
the farce will be- souDer played "
In Scott county, Ark. vast beds Of ore
have beeu discovered which yield metal
about the color % nickel. DR., Davenport
writes that it IL ineIhaustible, but the peo-
pie are at loss 10 know what il il.
THE westward tram on the Kansas Pa
ci6c road, from Leavenworth, the other
day, was detained two hours BY running
over grasshoppers. Sand was used on the
rails, and even then portion Of the train
was left.
President Mcmahon gives 100 francs
toward the investigation into the history
Of America previous to the arrival Of
Christopher Columbus with Marx Twain's
ancestors
The great New York furniture-dealer
says the three leading dwelling houses in
this country will be those Of Gov. Stanford
and W. G. RalstOn, Of California, and
George VI. Pullman, of Chicago.
A large meeting of colored citizens at
Richmond, Ind, on Friday night depreca-
ted all measures looking toward unjust
discrimination on account Of race or color,
and regard it as an act Of injustice to give
\ colored children inferior buildings, furni-
ture and teachers.
In connection with the Texas border
recently been large shipments of arms to
Texas. The cahber Of the Springfield rifle
! has been changed from fifty. five humid
dredths to forty-hve hundredths Of an inch,
| and the guns sent to Texas by the Govern
merit have been 1000. The Government
intends to supply the troops in that State
with the new rifle.
| The books Of the hqlor house Of Rinds-
kopf, Of the Bay View Distillery, at Mil
waukee, WIS, were seized on Saturday.
The interference of Louis Rindskopf led to
the use Of pistol on the part Of the Off.
Ger, but RindskOpf escaped unharmed.
The revenue officers assert that the books
are not in their possession Conflicting
statements have led to considerable specu-
latiUn as to the affair. Efforts to unravel
the mystery have thus far proved unsuc-
cessful.
Secretary BristOw states that the nego-
tiations Of the new D per cent. loan are
progressing very favorably. There re.
MAINS but So, 900, 600 Of the $500, 600, ,OOC
vet to be exchanged The high price oi
gold, and the unsettled condition of the
European markets, has greatly embar
rassed the loan contractors, but the re
turns from them for the last few week.
show a marked improvement. Bristow IL
of the opinion that the entire remaining
amount will be exchanged before the meet
ing of the next Congress.
! During a sermon delivered in the Hal
, of the House of Representatives at Jeffer
, son City, Mo-, by the Rev. Mr.. Profits
! man, he alluded to the destituti0n anon
> the people in several counties OF this State
, occAsioned by the grAss-hoppes. Afte
the sermon the sermon the congregation
l resolved itself into n mas meeting, wit
2 Gov. Hardin in the char. Resolution
{ were adopted setting forth that the graAG
) hoppers, chinchbugA, ETC., were rainin
' the agricultural districts, and that Prov
! deuce alone could prevent the terribl
e state Of affairs that Commissioners b