The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24
GENERAL MATTERS.

GENERAL MATTERS.
Two thousand troops left Madrid for
Cuba on the 18th.
The Arkansas Legislature has appro.
priated Git, 600 for the Philadelphia Centen-
NAL.
The new constitution for Alabama was
ratified by large majority at the recent cleo
ton.
The seasons cotton crop, if it can be
gathered, will be, it is said, the largest since
the war.
Tho telegraph operator at Eyanstown
Wyoming, on the 10Th, reports snow three and
a half feet deep ana still falling.
Hon. G. G. Cole, of the supreme court
Of Iowa, has rendered his resignation, to take
effect the 18th of January.
/ The list Of the German exhibitors at
the centennial exhibition at Philadelwhia al
ready numbers eleven hundred and forty.
A fight between Texas State troops and
Mexican bandits took place on the Mexican
side of the river On the 10Th, in which tour
Mexicans were killed.
A Berlin dispatch says that over 1900
priests and 9 canons OF Rhineland have given
notification OF their submission to the ecclesi-
astical laws.
The great hatter's goods importing house OF
Haight, Halsey & Co., has suspended payment.
The house has long ranked A l, and had a
capital OF $25o,0OO.
Abram Culver, Calvin Stephens and
VIM. Shepard, part Of a counterfeiting band
operating in southern Ohio for somo time
past, were arrested at Cincinnati on the 10th,
A London telegram Of the 10Th says an
accident occurred on the railway between
Stockholm and Malino, wrecking sixteen cars
and killing and badly injuriug sixty passen-
gers.
Judge Moore Of Brooklyn. has decided
to grant an order tor a commission to take the
testimony: Of Mr.. Richards, brother Of Mrs.
Tilton, and his wife, in the Loader perjury
case.
Andy Rothfus, Charles Weife, Mike
Hackett and James Keete Of Decatur, Ill.,, sued
by Mrs. Smelsley, for selling liquor to her hus-
band and making him intoxicated, have set
tied by paying $1,000 and costs.
The official report Of the cotton crop
of the year shows a small decrease in products
in the States bordering on the Atlantic, and an
yield in those on the Mississippi, the
aggregate being small increase over the pre-
ceding year.
The census Of Kansas gives total pop.
ulation of 63S, 437. This does not include six
frontier counties, from which no returns
were made, but whose population is estimated
at 4, 1886, which would make the total popula-
ton of the State on the LIST OF March last $685.
373-an increase Of (, 002 since last year.
Isaiah Hanscom, chief Of the bureau of
and repairs at the navy depart
ment, will recommend in his annual report
that policy be adopted of building certain
number Of war vessels annually of both iron
and wood, until the navy shall be able to COM
pete with that OF any nation of the world. -.
Owing to the falling off in prices of
print G oths in this country, the manuactur-
cts of Fall River, Mass, have appointed a COM
mission to visit England to make arrangements
for the expectation OF Fall River fabrics to that
country. A reduction of 10 pei" cent in wages
Is to take effect from December LIST, reaching all
classes.
The subject of the Bible in the schools
was brought before the Chicago Board OF Edu.
cation at it's meeting on Friday evening last,
on the petition ola large number OF clergymen
md other citizens. After a free discussion a
motion to restore the reading of the Bible
without note or comment was rejected by
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