Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-12

OF Io,l4I feet had been reached. Dur.
ing the past six months an average pro-
gress of 24S feet has been made.
Gov. VANCE, of North Carolina, in a
recent address at fair in that state
spoke OF the larger number of fairs that
usedto be held in the state, as compared
with those now held, and gave his opin.
very decidedly that horse-racing, three
card monte and prize candy were the
three things that have killed them.
The teachers of the public schools in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, whenever they inflict
corporeal punishment on pupil, are OBJ
iged to send the pupil to the school su-
perintendent with certificate explain
ing the otfense for which punishment
was inflicted, the instrument of castiga-
tion and the number of blows struck.
AMERICA annually imports $50, 600, 900
of flax, hemp, jute and ramic-all being
products that may be raised on our soil.
This is an actual fact, NJ in 1870 America
raised 27,0oO,00O pounds of fax, and,
from successful experiments that have
been made, jute and hemp may he pro-
duced in like quantities and of equally
good quality.
The manufacture of steel pens is con-
Quoted extensively in Essex, Mass. Two
hundred hands, mostly girls, are employ
ell. Each pen passes through twenty to
twenty-five distinct operations, many of
which require special machinery and
skilled operatives. The steel imported
comes from Sheffield, and the pens are
exported to Canada, South America,
Mexico, Cuba and even to England.
CHINESE sleight-of- and an Amer j.
can faculty for swindlng were united in
All Foy, an Americanized Chinaman
in San Francisco. He presented at sew
eral brokers counters $40 in gold, and
asked for silver roll. After pocketing
the roll he would change his mind and
ask for trade dollars. The roll that he
returned would be found to be piece of
lead pipe with a silver piece at each end.
This game was successfully played also
on some of his -countrymen.
A CURIOUS case, involving the right of
IL. I. Helmbold to his own name, has
just been decided in New York. In 1872
Helmbold went into bankruptcy, with,
among other assets, the right to use his
name in the manufacture ef certain COM
pounds At the sale Albert l.. Helm
bold purchased this right, and then
sought to retain H. I. from using his
own name in his own business. The
court decided in favor of the bankrupt,
holding that the name belonged to him
to whom his parents gave it, and no law
or court could take it from him,
A WHALE abatoir is situated on a
small island in the extreme north of
Norway. This establishment was found
ed by Norwegian for the regular cap
ture and slaughter of whales. Small
steamers 60 out to the fishing grounds,
which are within easy reach of the
island, and the capture is effected by
firing from cannon an iron bolt armed
with four harpoons and provided with a
shell, exploding as soon as whale makes
traction upon the line. The carcasses
are towed into harbor and worked in the
usual manner
The raising of ostriches tor their
plumage is recommended for Florida
and the Gulf islands, where, it is said,
the climatic conditions are favorable.
Many ostrich farms exist at the Cape of
Good Hope, and also in Egypt. Ostrich
feathers are again becoming fashionable,
and never have they been long supersed-
ed by any other feather. Three healthy
tame birds will yield one pound of
feathers of marketable quality. At a re-
cent sale of these feathers in New York
over $4,000 worth of goods were dis
posed of at prices ranging from 1900 per
pound downward.
A NEW line of railway is projected in
Virginia to develop the mineral resources
of the western part of that state, and
partiularly the immense beds of gypsum
in Smythe county. This road will start
from New River Station, on the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio railroad, about one
hundred miles west of Lynchburg, Va,
thence pursuing nearly air direction
through the counties of Giles, Bland,
Tazevell, Smythe and Buchanan to the
Kentucky line, where the Leviseer fork
of the Big Sandy river breaks through
the mountains, thence by the Big Sandy
river to its confluence with the Ohio
river.
THE equestrian statue of Major Gen
eral Nathaniel Greene, of the revolu-
tionary army, which is to be placed At
the intersection of Maryland and Maasa-
chusette avenues in Washington, Las
been finished in Philadelphia. It is of
standard bronze, of colossal size, repre-
sentling the hero sitting on horseback,
holding the reins in his left hand. Six
thousand pounds Of bronze were used in
the casting, and the cost was &c, 900. 1t
will be mounted on a granite pedestal
twenty feet in height, making the entire
height thirty-three and half feet. The
statue was modelled by Mr.. H. X. Brown,
of Newburgh, N. Y.
GREAT destituti0n is feared this
winter among the Newfoundland fam
lilies who settled recently at Fox Bay,
Anticosti, and applications for their re-
lief have been made to the Dominion and
Quebec governments 1t appears that
the settlement at Fox Bay was made
some time ago by people from New
foundland who have 90 far been able to
provide for themselves Recently, how
ever, number of new comcrs arrived.
and these not having been 10 fortunate