The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-05-29
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Sixty thousand ounces Of gold were
melted in the mint at San Francisco on
Thursday the 18th.
A mastodon skeleton weighing l,6OO
pounds, the largest ever found. has been
sent to Yale College from Onisville, in
Orange county, n. Y, where it was dug
up two years ago.
AZ Louisville, recently, the approaches
to the city At an early hour in the morning
were guarded by the police, who took
from each incoming milk wagon a sample
Of its contents. These samples we're after
ward analyEed, and the milkmen whose
milk was found below a certain standard
are to be prosecuted
The Catholic Oh Irch in ENGLAND has
gained another noble convert, the =" Hon.
and Rev. Lord Francis Godolphin Os-
borne" He was Rector Of Great Elm.
near Frome, and was al advanced Ritu-
alist. He is the son az the late Duke Of
Leeds, and nephew Of the Rev Lord s.
q. Osborne. As he IL married he cannot
enter the Catholic priesthood. He is 45
years old.
BY virtue Of bill recently passed by
the Michigan Legislature, railroad com
panies are required to promptly notify the
nearest coroner Of all accidents resulting
in death. The State railroad inspector is
required to inquire into all causes Of fatal
accidents, and he is also empowered, in
his discretion to make similar examination
IN cases where no deaths occur
4 stupendous fraud in the New York
Custom house has recently come to light.
The parties implicated are Deputy Collec-
tor Robert ;. Anges Charles l.. Law
renee ; Gustave VI Ball Lafayette Graft,
who are charged with defrauding the gov
ernment by a system of false entries under
hcticious names. II il estimated the loss
to the government in duties on imported
silk will amount To nearly one million dol
lars. The operations extend over a period
Of two years
Josh Frazer, colored was hanged at
Camden. ). G., yesterday, for the murder
of Benjamin Cooper. in December last
He was convicted on circumstancial evi-
dence, but after conviction confessed the
crime. On the scaffold he confessed that
ne had murdered also his wife and child
AMI negro woman, and that he had
burned many barns and gin-houses. He
was perfectly resigned The rope shipped
and death was caused bv strangulation in
seven minutes. Six thousand persons
were present, and there was great religious
excitement. but no disturbance.
The life-saving dress with which Paul
Boynton has been making 50 much Of a
stir in Europe was recently exhibited IN
Boston by ". II. Preston, engineer Of the
quarantine steamer Samuel Little. He
proposes, in the course Of week. TO start
from Commercial wharf, Boston. for Ne
ponset, distant 10 miles, with paddle. sail
American flag, cigars and lunch, and after
that trip, to be taken outside Minot's ledge
light, 20 miles from. the city. and be drop
ped, to make his way home as nest he
may.
The National Camp p-meeting to be held
at Urbana, O., July % 80, 1873, by the
unanimous action Of The board Of direc-
tors, will be hello with closed gates on
Sunday, which will render all Sunday ex-
cursion-traIns to that meeting impractical
BILE. Though this reverses the primative
order Of things in the American idea II
camp-meetings, which always has been "a
make Sunday a big day. ia bad sense AZ
well AS good, it seems to strike the public
mind favorably. Mr. Inskip. of New
York, a well known camp-meeting worker.
supported BY other ministers of approved
talents, have engaged t. labor il the r.
ligious services.
An audacIous robbery was committed on
April p III the Rue Neuve, Brussels. A
man and a female entered a jeweler 5
After looking over some very valuable
necklaces and lockets, they chose four
necklaces and two lockets, and ordered
them Ia be sent to hotel, as the sister Of
lhe lady was to choose which she preferred.
An employe was sent with the goods in
the evening, and he found the man sitting
IN the private room which apparently led
| to the bedroom. The wife came in, and
said she would like to show the Jewels to
her sister, and took them to the ad looming
room. In few minutes the husband
began TO get idgety and went to look after
his wife. When quarter Of an hour had
elapsed the clerk became suspicious, and
on ringing the bell was informed the tw,
had lett the hotel Unfortunately. they
forgot to leave the Jewels behind. and 81
the Jeweler Is some 100 900 francs out oi
pocket.
In London, the other day James Castle
aged 2S, hackney-carriage driver. VII,
appeared in the dock with ribbons at
tached to his cap. was charged AZ IN,
Clerkenwell Police Court with disorderly
conduct and causing crowd to assembl,
at lsllngton. A policeman stated that ~
Monday night, April 26, he found the AZ
fendant IN the midst of large crowd
declaimiLg about Moody and Sankey, Az,
singing. He threw his stick about an,
caused great disturbance and hndin,
that he would not 20 away, the constable
took him e. the police station. All tn,
night he had been raving about religion
and singing the songs of Moody and San
key So loudly that the men who lodge,
there could not get any sleep Tn
mother Ut the defendant SAID that he ha,
been little strange for some time past
but since lie had paid visits to the Agri
cultural Hall and heard Messrs Mood
and Sankey he had become worse. Sh
would like 70 have him examined by
surgeon, as she was afraid that if he wa
not attended u he might get worse Th
magistrate directed that Ne should be see
by the surgeon at the House of Detention
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