The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-27
Miscellaneous News items.

Miscellaneous News items.
A yellow fever patient in Savannah,
was married in his bed on Thursday of last
week.
The Chicago Exposition is in full
blast, and attracts great crowds. Thirty
thousand peoplew present one day during
the current week.
The United States steamship Frank
lin left Gibralter yesterday tor Vigo to en-
bark William M. Tweed and his companion.
Hunt, for the United States.
There are 900 cases of yellow fever
at Brunswick. The people are in most des-
titute condition, without TODD, physicians or
nurses. A dispatch states it is impossible to
exaggerate their trighttul condition of affsirs,
Editing newspapers in New Orleans
is lively business. A few days ago one editor
killed his assailant, and now the editor of the
Bee has had a thump on the head with big
cane. The city editor came to the rescue
with big pistol and terminated hostilities.
The school question is being vigor
ously agitated in New Jersey. One hundred
and fifty Catholic children have been with
drawn from the public schools at Bayenne,
and six parochial schools established, The
same is being done in other parts of the
State.
| A family moving from Prairie du
Chen to Winona in a skiff encamped on an
island near La Crosse on Friday night Dur
ing the night the child died of exhaustion.
Upon inquiry it was found they were in very
1aof Sfrvfn osr
money.
There is no epidemic in Charleston,
S, C. There have been four SCATTERING yellow
| fever cases traced to persons who communi-
Gated with the quarantine, and refugees from
Savannah. The fever shows no signs of
spreading.
A mercantile firm at Spirit Lake,
Iowa, has adopted new method of doing
business. No books are are kept. When a
customer desires credit he goes to the desk
and borrows money, for which he gives his
note, payable with interest. He then BUYS
his goods and pays for them.
The superintendent of general re-
cruiting has been directed to forward three
hundred recruits to the department of the
South as follows: $50 for the Second Infan-
try, at Atlanta; so for the Third Infantry at
Holly Springs, Miss, and 100 for the Six
tenth Infantry, at Huntsville, Ala.
The Savannah benevolent associa-
ton, formerly the metropolitan fire company,
have resolved to ask aid from abroad for the
sick and destitute. All contributions, wheth-
er of money, provisions or clothing, address
to J. w, Estell, president OF the Metropolitan
Benevolent Association, will be acknowl-
edged.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Pan Handle railroad, on the 22d, about 10
miles from Columbus, Ohio. A passenger
train swinging around a corner, at the rate of
forty miles an hour, was thrown from the
| track and four cars went down high en-
bankment, killing four and wounding over
thirty. The accident is supposed to have
been caused by rapid running around a cor
ner.
The Helena (Montana) papers are
| somewhat discouraged at the slow progress
of the Northern Pacific, and urge the con-
| struction of a narrow-guage railroad from
that place to Fort Benton, the head of naviga-
| ton on the Missouri. The distance is est
mated at 40 miles, and the cost at 81 500, 0OO
| 1t is proposed that the various counties on
the line shall give bonus Of $700,OO0.
A four year-old boy, son of Mason
Sage, of marlborough, VT, was lost in the
woods last week, and had q play spell with
two black bears. They came up to him as
he sat on the. grass in an open glade and
smelt of him. He patted them on their
heads, thinking that they were dogs, and
they then walked away into the forest. Their
footprints disclosed that they were the ssdogs"
the boy told about encountering.
! The new Indian Commission of which
Bishop Whipple and DR.. Daniels Of Mime
tonka, are members seems likely to prove
an utter failure. The object of the Commits
sion was to negotiate peace treaty, disarm
the hostile Indian, aud secure the Black Hills
country. The Commission is at Red Cloud
Agency, bu: at last accounts the Indians re-
fused to meet in Council, and the prospect
was that the Commission would have to
abandon the field.
A Boston letter says that, the re-
striction against the Old South churche be-
ing used for religious purposes is only 80
years, as there was some doubt as to the le-
gality of perpetual stipulation of this sort.
OF course, the money has only begun to be
raised yet. The property has been secured
in such manner as to be held for public pur-
chase, but "it would be premature to speak
of the arrangement in advance OF such state