The daily gazette., 1877-10-04
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N. Theirs regarded coffee ss poison, aud
never drank tea. ~ no q E.ilil befsa9
1t is estimated that q reutor of crack
scotch shooting pays upwards OF " Tor
every grouse. and 500 for every dear he
Major-Gsns Dragomifof, Prince fIne-
retinsky, aud skobelof have been promo
sian army, ''i' 80" 9 e''' 40
] The railroads in Minnesota are unable to
carry their crops TO Market fast enough :
Al the elevators and warehouses are glat-s
hose bitten BY dogs are advised not TO
apply lunar caustic, but potash caustic, which
latter follows up and eliminates pcisoa In
the veins. ', nf f.,a.'| Z. 5oi %
BY some patent process eargoes OF fresh
meat are now being carried from South
Amerdca 70 France without tho use Of Ice,
salt or Saltpetre- Ia oc,{ ID. q xfr,fs na
In Virginia and North Carolina the acre
age planted in to tobacco is fifty per cent.
larger than last year, and the yield prom
| ises to be better In the same ratio.
The beach at Galveston Is the larges !
and broadest in the world, extending twen-
ty,tve miles, fronting the anbroken tide of
the Cult OF Mexico on the south and east.
Messrs. Percy and Stanley Cotton, who
last month assembled Mont Blanc, are be-
lieved to be the youngest men who ever
made the ascent. They are l9 and l6 re-
spectlvely. .a... ..r.
The correspondent at Yokohama of a
great Burlington firm writes "The jap
anese ure now making a number of articles
which formerly purchased from you, be-
yond the possibility or Europeon competi-
| tion."
Henceforth British regiments are TO be
| supplied with the well-known spiked hel~
met OF the German soldiery, and tina shake
is to be discarded, except perhaps in the
case Of rifle regimsnts, and, maybe, In that
OF the militia. .
Wade Hampton, Jr., son of the Cover
nor, and once aid on the staff of General
j. Il. Johnston, has received, without
asking, a nomination to the Mississippi
Legislature from the Democrats of
Washington county, wherein he ia a
planter.
The stringent regulations in force in
st. Louis against commercial travellers
will soon be submitted to the Courts by
a test case. The United States Supreme
Court has already decided that local laws
discriminating against "drummers" are
| unconstitutional. ....,
The 18th of September beng the birth
day of the Marquis of Bate (Disraeli 8
l"Lothair'') was celebrated at Cardiff by
special service in the Roman Catholic
! Church of the town, and in the evening
by tea fight, to which-be it said to his
honor-"Lothair" invited every child in
Cardiff, Catholic and Protestant alike.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union has number of missionaries IN
| the Madras Presidency, at Nellore, On
gole, Ramapatam, and Kurnoll, in the
very heart Of the famine stricken dis
trict of India, and thsy are doing all
! they can for the native Christians. Five
cents will provide enough rice at whole-
sale to sustain one person there day.
1 The air pump is the most dangerous
tool employed by burglars. - There ia a
small space between the outer and inner
sheets of metal on the safe doors always
left by the manufacturer; and by ex-
haustinH the air with the pump fine
| powder may be forced into the cavity at
the rate ofan inch in an heur. To pre-
vent this some manufacturers fill the
space with a layer Of rubber, which fits
into the inequalities Of the metal and
makes solid door. -.....