, 1876-09-15
WEEKLY ARGUS S.
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

stock at the Centennial Is rather
failure.
Leopold Lichten5urg, San Fran
cisco boy who went to Europe some
time ago to pursue his studies on the
violin, has taken the first prize, with
distinction, at the St. Petersburg
conservatory.
War has been declared by the ne
groes of Nashville against all Chinese
residents.
Prof. Tyndall recommends the
substitution of galvanic battery for
the gdllows in cases of capital pun
ishment. There is certainly some
thing humanizing in the suggestion
to do away with the brute violence
Of strangulation and adopt some
other and easier method of killing.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is in
communication with foreign minis
ters on the subject of the silver coin
age of other countries.
Mrs. Sturgis, mother of Lieut..
Sturgis, who was killed in the Gus
ter slaughter, has become insane by
grief. He was her only child.
The Boston authorities have sent
back to Africa three Arabs, recently
sent to this country and branded in
the forehead as criminals by the Ca
yenne officials.
About the middle of last month
countless millions of grasshoppers
lit in Colorado doing damage to rye,
oats, barley and vegetables; the
prospect is that the wheat, which is
large and fine, will be a two thirds
crop. The grasshoppers remained
two days.
Rev. w. G. England. Methodist
minister, his wife, daughter and four
SONS, were murdered at their home,
six miles from Montague, Texas, on
the night of the Both ult., by a party
of disguised men.
There were 2O,1OS arrests by the
police during the past fiscal year in
San Francisco; 7,642 were for drum
kenness and SO for murder. The po- f.,
lice force numbers $50.
The grave of Tecumseh, the Shaw
nee chief who distinguished himself |
in the war of 1912, has been discov-
cred near RogertowD. Last week |
the remains were exhumed and de-
posted in a vault at Niagara.
Reports from 76 of the chief cot
ton.produoing districts of the South
estimate the crop this year at 4,500,-
900 bales against 3,827,O00 bales
in 1875.
The secret cause of the hard times.
Too many consumers, too few pro-
ducers.
What ails this ere South, says a
philosophical Louisiana man, is too
much bar-room politics.
Ex-Empress Eugenie has not only
lost her station, wealth and dia-
monds, but her beauty.
A man and woman on exhibition
in Rochester, are each seven feet
eleven and half inches in height.
This is tall story but the Rochester
papers declare it is true.
In Japan bankrupt is rarely al
lowed to live, but if he does manage
TO get'out alive he is not permitted
to associate with decent classes. 1t
is different here in America.
Neyada's population is not more
than 10000, and yet the Legisla
ture numbers 75, or one to every 800
inhabitants. This is popular" rep
resentation in earnest.
Old New York spectators saw
that Wall street is not what it used
to be. Since so many of the "old
fellows have died, been killed. or
failed, and Tilden has been called to
run for the Presidency its "glory"
has faded beyond recall.
The new Liverpool docks are COM
pleted, SO that now the docks of that
port cover an area of 420 acres.
Salmon sent from Oregon and
Washington Territory to England,
are sold at retail at 20 cents pound.
The trade is now carried on around
Cape Horn, and the voyage takes
from 100 to 130 days.
There arrived some weeks ago at
Leith, Scotland, from Norway, with
cargo of ice, a bark which was built
in Philadelphia in 1764.
Atlanta, Georgia, has Just finished