The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-02
TIMELY TOPICS

amounts paid by the national banks dur
ing the last fiscal year as q tux on circu-
lation was S3,36G, SOS 92.
THE heavy rains have seriously dam
" aged tho crops in Minnesotagit being es-
timated that already the loss foots up
fifteen or twenty percent of the entire
crop of the state
The Indians appear to be on the war
path out in western Utah, having at
ready butehered a number of settlers
and miners Troops are being sent for
ward to squelch the redskins
The success of the new Atlantic cable
lnsures communication with Europe Mt
much lower rates than have heretofore
beon charged. The enormous capital now
submerged beneath tho sca can only be
made to pay Il low tariff and large bust
ness.
IHE announcement that 5000 cattle
are under treatment for hoof and mouth
disease in one county in England has
been preceded by anxious discussions of
the spread of the contagion and of the
rapidly increasing prices of meat in that
country.
FRANK HARpER's three-old colt, Ten
Brock, astonishcd the knowing ones mt
Lexington by making the fastest
time on record for tho distance,
beating the supposed invincible Bob
Woollcy. Ten Broeck is by Phaeton, out
OF Nantura, the dam of tho famous
;. Longfellow.
LIE arrangements have been almost
completed in England for the great Pan
Anglican synod, similar to the one held in
London some years ago under the prcsi-
dency of the late Archbishop Loungly.
The American churches will be fully rep
resented in this ecumcnical council of
Anglicanism.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN has written
eleven elaborate letters to prove that the
best thing France can do is to form an
offensive and defensive alliance with
Germany against all comers, especially
Russia. Only one single journal of the
Frenchpress is i'll favor of the idea he is
running go
JUDGE PARKER, whose judicial district
extends over Indian territory and por-
tion Of Arkansas, will, it is said, sentence
fourteen more murderers *, the gallowsh mt
his next term of court. They will prob
ably be hung on the same day as was the
case with the six criminals at Fort Smith
recently.
FENIANIsM has broken out under a
the Order or United irshmcn Redi-
vivi." It's object, as detailed in the
New York papers. is to "gct the best
Irishmcn in its ranks. those fit for SOL
diers and willing to do battle in securing
Irish independence" This /. IS the smell
of gunpowder about it.
THE London Times gives summary
Of the failures in England during the
last three months. The liabilities of
: tweneynne amount to a total of $780,
100000, and their assets to $4,000, 900,
of which about one-third are regarded
.s doubtful. Bat The Times has mis-
giving that this is very far from repre-
senting the total losses of the late panic,
and in this view it is probably correct.
THE secret service authorities have in
formation that company of Italians
have gone west with large amount of
ten-dollar counterfeit bills of the first
national bank of Philadelphia These
countcrfcits arc exceedingly dangerous.
One of them was recently received at
the treasury cash room and exchanged by
the experts for small money. The coun-
terfeit is probably the most dangerous
cxtnnt. 1t is perfect on it's face, but has
few defects on the back
DESPITE the general depression of
business since the panic the New York
Tribune says there has been a steady i'm
provement in the iron business during
the present year. The statistics of the
American iron andistceI association now
"indicatc that. the production of the
whole county during the past year was
equal to that Of previous years. Tie
consumption of iron and steel has ex-
ceeded the general estimate
MONTH after month the wonderful
recupcrative power of France is more
and more palpablc. 1t is officially de.
clared that her trade returns for the first
seven months Of 1875 show an increase
in the value of exports of 26O,OGn, ,0OG
francs (s52,000,000) as compared with
the corresponding period of 1874: in the
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