, 1876-11-24
THE WEEKLY ARGUS.
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

Mckee Rankin paid $4,000 fer his
new play, written by Joaquin Miller
A Minnesota photographer has sold
fifty thousand pictures of the bandits.
Tilton and Beecher are>both grow
ing gray. Now they ought to be-
have themselves.
New Workers are fixed in the deter
mination to have the next worlds
fair, about ten years from now.
Senator Sharon's San Francisco
hotel is said to pay the wrong way at
the rate of $1,000 day.
A young woman in New York has
recovered $500 damages from the
owner of dog which bit her.
England talks of leaving Turkey
to her fate. If she does Russia will
possibly gobble her up for Christmas.
Marion Harland" has gone to
Europe, leaving thousands of young
women weeping over her My Little
Love-"
Russia is taking steps to promote
cotton culture in Central Asia, where
the annual product is now about
$4,000 pounds.
The Maharaiah Partah Singh, ac
companied by attendants, is going
over to England as the guest of the
Prince of Wales.
The Smith sisters of Glastonbury,
Conn.,, and their cows come to the
front again, the Attorneys being ad-
vertised for sale for non-payment of
taxes.
Spanish bull-fghts are not yet a
thing of the past. An athlete killed
two bulls in the presence of 10000
people few weeks ago at Barcelona.
Another old Iniun" relict is dead.
He died at Roanoke, Ind, a few
weeks since, and his name was White
Loon, the Chief of the Miamis, aged
10Y years.
A ranchman has observed a hole
in the mountains near Truckee, Cal,
large enough forth Mammoth Cave
in Kentucky to go into and turn
around in.
Conductors on Iowa railroads are
instructed to warn innocent.minded
girls about flirting with commercial
travellers. They know the propensi-
ty of drummers for beating.
The Californian who has beard
FIVE feet long is mere downy cove
beside the Philadelphia German who
has nine feet of beard as the result
of fifteen years abstinence from the
razor.
Sitting Bull is cool customer.
He asked permission for his warriors
to go to the agency at Fort Peck,
Montana, to buy ammunition. One
would think that Sitting Bull might
sit on his cheek.
Martha Angle Dorset applied for
admission to practice law in Mime.
sofa, but Judge Young said that she
passed better examination than
any applicant within his recollection,
and she was therefore rejected.
Curiously enough the only article
saved from a recent railroad explo-
sion near New Orleans was a box Of
matches, which was found says the
Picayune, /" deposited in the top of
tall tree at the scene of the acci-
dent"
Seventy-three years ago the Eng
lish settled Van Dieman's Land near
Australia, with convicts. There were
1000 Tasmanian natives on the island.
The last Of the race, who were hunt
ed to death by convict settlers, was
a woman who died this year.
A society has been formed in Sibe-
ria which compels all males to marry
when Of age and makes the wife the
head Of the family, and the husband
q marked subordinate. Can il be
that the Woman's Rights movement
has been transferred from our coun-
Try 70 Siberiag Where Is Sdsan b.
Anthony
A man in TripOli, Pean., succeed.
ed IN hiccoughing himself 90 death
the other day. The hiccoughs began
a. in the morning, lasted without
interruption .till 2. A., when death
came. A physician prescribed Ian.
danum, hot baths and q dozen other
things without the slightest effect,
and the man himself tried snine
swallows" and al The other folklore
receipts bearing on the ease.