The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-10-23
NEWS ITEMS.

One Of the soda lakes Of the Laramie
plains IS said to present crystallzation
five feet deep, over ninety acres Of sur
face.
Governor Kemper, IF Virginia has issued
proclamation. appointing October % as
the day FIR unvaiHng Foley's statue of
StonewaII jackson
The broom curn harvest in Central New
York has commenced, and the crop ia
found % be much better than it was ex-
pccted tu ae SIX weeks ago.
The burning Of the Star Linseed Oil
Works AZ New Brunswick, n. J, early
yesterday, caused (Including damage u the
connected white lead manufactory) about
Sll5. 900 loss.
In the town ~ Cri.H Pvrthshire. Scot
laud-the population OF which Is about 4,
OOO-there are forty persons whose ages
range from 80 to 81 years Ten II that
number are go years aud upward and can
60 about singing Aud Lang Syne"
NJ Henri r ebert claims to be the origi
nal inventor W a curious clock, which con
slsts simply ot transparent glass dial,
suspended by two cords from points in its
border 1t has Two usual hands, but they
are apparently free from machinery to
carry them. If either W. moved and then
let 60. 1t returns q It's former position
after a few oscillations. The hands arc
really moved by mechanism within them,
by means II which their center Of gravity
Is continually displaced
A SHAM battle on large scale took place
near LrgnItz, Silesia, recently, between
two corps If the German army. each 80 900
strong The scene Of operations was ON
the ketzhach rIyer. where Blucher gained
a victory over one uf Napoleon's Marshals
/ IN 1918 and that great battle was fought
/ over again, the intention being To repeat
Its movements ana maneuvers which we're
Witnessed by Emperor William, attended
by a brilliant suite
ABOUT one mile from Fredouia. XIV. /.
a sput lf ground about eight w tru fyer
square WHARF nothing viii grow, and wher,
salt can he scraped up by the teacupful al
almost any time. If stick Is laid down
there At nighttall, the next morning IL aIl
be covered with thick coating IT salt
cattle turned into the field viii % to TIN.
spot and lick the dirt for the salt as they
would a salt barrel II Is supposed ther,
is stream of sat water Immediately un
der the spot, and not very far from tn,
surface
The Galveston Nstrs say Ii i
assumed by many that bad the orignia
sandhills been lett standing no such dsas
TER as that NJ last week would have beer
prsstble. and there - a good deal uf soun,
sense in the assumption. 1t vas the velo
, city ettained by the waters, aud not tn
mere volume thrown into the city. tha
displaced houses from their foundations
prostrated fences, and excavated channels
: Had the force pf the waves and the curren
, been wasted M the sandhills. the watr
might have afterward attained a muc
? greater height without doing any NOR
I serions damage than such as would resu
1 from being wet with salt water
\ SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct l9.-The fir
e building i1 the country erected exclusivel
{ for the order Of Sovereigns Of Industr
Il was dedicated here to-day With address,
d by VIM III. Earl Of Worcester. Presidel
/. Of the National Council, and J. F Cha
/. nf Cambridge, President Of the NJ lsAchl
= sets State Council. IL is a three-stnl
N structure, with three cooperative stor
is on the first floor, council rooms aud otic
" on the second, and a hne hall on the thli
d floor. The semi annual session Of Il
State Council will begin here tom orro