The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-06-16
PASSING EVENTS.

der while the customer waits.
Two Frenchmen nave patented a som.
niferous apparatus for putting travellers Il
sleep on railway trains.
1t costs only twelve cents A buahel a.
ship wheat from San Francisco to Liver.
pool, ten thousand miles.
! A petroleum well has been bored AZ
Santa Clara, Col, which flows at the rate
oil thousand gallons a day.
Statistics show that more elderly mar.
riages take place in Kentucky than in anV
other State in the Union.
The U. s. Supreme Court decides that
the States may reserve their oyster Ash
cries for their own citizens exclusively.
The San Francisco Examiner enumer.
ates thirty eight Chinese murders in that
city since the last Chinaman was hanged.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury has
been compelled to ask for a special law 70
punish drunken and immoral clergymen.
The British Parliament has defeated
by vote Of l64 to 122, the annually re-
CURING motion to abolish hogging in the
navy.
The Legislatures Of Ohio and Illinois
are passing bills making silver coin q legal
tender for all debts contracted after a GER
tain date.
Prom March L, 1869, till MAY 1. 1877.
the National debt was reduced By S455.
104, GAP 81, and on the latter date the to-
tai debt was g, 181, 565, ,887. %.
Our Government demands from the
Government Of Mexico an apology and full
reparation for the recent imprisonment OF
our Consul at Acapuicn.
1t cost a saloon keeper Of Waupun,
Wis, $500 to kick the editor Of the local
papers. Being Of business turn. the lat
ter Is anxious to be kicked some more.
Such is the strong feeling in England
as to the i'll luck Of marrying in May, that
late dignitary If the church never would
perform marriage in that month for
friends.
Cuban planters are raising funds for
fresh inportationof Of Chinese On the Koop-
manschap plan. A capital of a million
dollars has been already subscribed for the
purpose.
Ole O. Rue, Of Norway township.
Fillmore county, Mimi, entered den Of
wolves the other day, and killed ten ~
them, and for their heads received S5S
from the county treasurer.
The entire Crazy Horse bands of
Sioux Indians surrendered at Red Cloud
Agency on May 8. Crazy Horse himself
led his followers into camp, and they made
a procession two miles long.
Petitions in bankruptcy have been
filed against the Nebraska Land and I'm
provement Company. The liabilities are
nearly SlOO,OOO. and the assets "a, 900
acres Of land and some town lots.
San Francisco drummers cant sell
goods in Sacramento without paying a Ii
cense fee. So twenty drummers have
founded an agency across the Sacramento
river, where they sell goods cheaper than
Sacramento merchants can.
Among the inmates Of the Nashville
Lunatic Asylum is a negro woman who
lives almost entirely npon grass which abe
OBTAINS from the lawn in front Of the build
ing. She has a great antipathy to weeds,
and suffers none to grow within the en-
closure.
The dogs on Mount st. Bernard saved
the lives Of forty persons during the win
ter. At the distance Of an hours march
they can discover through their wonderful
sense Of smell, whether travellers are on
the mountain, and begin to howl as soon
as they do.
Count Alexander Huhn, a Russian,
killed a man in fight, fed to the United
States, fell into abject poverty, and work.
ed as a waiter in a saloon in Eureka, Ne
vada. Lately he received information of
his pardon, and restoration to his former
position Of Colonel in the army. He has
started for home.
The Omaha Bee publishes letter from
DeadwoOd city, Black Hills, dated April
20, which says that during the past two
weeks snow has fallen daily. One day and
night il fell TO the depCh Of ~ inches. The
nights are cold and the days very warm.
The gulches were overfowed and conse-
queDtly placer mining was largely sus-
pended.
-Maine's new Savings Bank law re-
stricts mi-annual dividends I'd "a per
cent. but provides for trienniai vision
Of net earnings. Deposits are limited ho
81, 600, except from widows, orphans, and
certain others. All deposits are exempt
from municipal taxation, and those Of mar
ried women and minors are not subject to
the contral Of husbands OF parents
A new style'of gun, in the shape Of
an ordinary walking cane, is coming into
general usein San Francisco. The new
weapon will propel bullet one hundred
PAGES, and, when fired, makes only triA-
ing report.
The withdrawal Of the United States
troops from Alaska has caused depreas-
ion in business there, and there is talk ot
apprehension Of difficulty between Indians
and white residents.
In the list Of last years French sui
cides, twenty-nine were of children nine
fifteen years of age. SIX fourteen, nine
thirteen, one twelve, .wo eleven, one ten,
and one nine.
A movement is on foot in Great Bri-
tam ID form an offensive and defensive al
lance Of the various trades unions.
A new grove Uf giant trees has recently
been discovered in California about 100
miles South Of the famous grove Of Yose-
mite. s 900 feet above the level II the sea.
Instead of being a small cluster Of 30 or 40
trees. like the Yosemite grove, il contains
over IL, 900 trees, and covers a. section of
country six miles square. = The'ages of the
largest are estimated at between ]. 200 and
4 600 years. while there are also thousands
of young ones from 100 to 600 years
old.
On saturday, May f. the grain in sight in
the States Of Canada was follows Wheat.
5s969 IO5 bushels; corn, 9, 500 bushels;
oats. .s6I .677 bushels; barley, I l9J, 4g2
bushels.
NEW GuANo DEPlsITs An English com
mission sent to examine some rect ntly dis
covered guano deposits TO the South OF Tara
paca. ia Peru, have confirmed the reports of
previous explorers as to the immense quanti-
ty Of the deposit, amounting to at least TO-