The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-05-19
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in New South Wales.
The tenor Of crop report in the West
Ia highly gratifying.
President Grant has said for Europe.
We wish him pleasant voyage and safe
return
The English Quakers have become
reduced to about IL goo persons from co.
QUO century ago.
The valuation Of property in England,
exclusive Of London, was greater by e.
S67 900 in 1876 than in 1875.
"A bill Offering a bounty of five cents
for every rat killed in the State has passed
the Missouri Legislature.
Cholera broke out recently in Akvab.
India, and twenty five per cent Of the Eu-
roPean population died in thirty hours.
A tunnel through the Pyrenees will
plaza krnhae- and Spain in. railroad com.
mnniratif "a ny ths Lee OF January. 1879
The Chinese Government, in conse-
anence OF representation made by the
rIehcn ambassador, has proclaimed full
toleratIon 70 native Christians.
The Iowa Greenback Central Commit
zee have appointed the 9th Of June a. The
day for holding the State Convention.
A Chinese boy took the second
Pr1ze for defamation over six American
youths' at the Stratford, Conn. High
School, recently. y"
nc fA%hee reservation lands in Ne
l@sA@ ~ Oe On the market shortly, the
Indians having been remo M ~ M ind;n :.ie
territory. '''0'A"
The total area Of the discovered
helds of the world amounts to 10000
square miles, and they produced ill 1874
pa, 262, 900 tons.
1t Is stated that about twenty six per
cent of the live stock in Western Texas
has died of starvation and cold during the
past winter.
Five thousand Poles now in Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota are about to move to
Arkansas or Texas. The northern climate
Is too rigorous to suit them.
The Oriental Powder Mills Company
Of CRANKY, Me, on the Penobscot, have
contract nearly completed for $3.50, 900
worth of powder for kussia.
A remarkable phenomenon is reported
from Naples, Italy. II is that for three
days in one week there were no births
out OF population of 800, 900 souls.
About 250,OOO barrels Of apples raised
IN america, we're shipped to Europe.
More than hall went to England, and
ii 900 were taken TO st. Petersburg.
The steamer Alaska, which recently
arrived at San Francisco from China and
japan, had small pox on board with $50
Chinese passengers tor it to operate upon.
At Chesterton, England, recently, a
1 h.. A.
miles in thousand hours, was stopped by
the authorities after she had been two or
three days on the track.
In its trade summary. a New York
! P~Ps- s-.S-s.ons tho favs chat the inmates
OF the Troy Blind ASYLUM are busily ell
gagged making bead work for bogus Indians
to sell at Niagara Falls this Summer.
Statistics show that there are I25 tenn
perance reform clubs in New Hampshire.
with a total membership of 90, 900, Of
which q 900 are men over 2I years uf age,
and over 10000 were habitual tipplers.
A ten-cent piece Of fractional currency
reached Jackson, Mich, the other day,
bearing this inscription :" Black Hills,
feo. 10, lo77-Thls is the last Of $50, OOO
left me by my father two years ago. "
Mrs. Belle Lynch edits the San Fran
cisco Despatch. A thing in pantaloons in
tervIewed her with a COW hide. The lady's
little gun was there, and with it she saw he
assailant down to the squire's office.
-One Of the class known az Bohemians
has been arrested and committed to iail
in New York for furnishing some of tbe
evening papers with narrowing details pf
/ I.OnU Ialand nth 1
wife murders and piratical expeditions.
While other parts Of France are co,n-
paratlvely free from the crime of self-mur-
der, published statistics show that during
the past year nearly one thousand persons
committed suicide in the department Of
the Seine.
In fifteen States there are .-.pubIican
governors and IN twenty three Democratic.
In eighteen legislatures the Republican,
are in the majority, while Of the remaining
twenty the Democrats have pineteen and
the Independents one.
The Turkish contracts placed in this
country amounted to 6O0,OOO muskets,
and 5OO, 900 have already been shipped.
J Both combatants, in fac. the whole world,
now come to US tor cartridges, American
/ copper DOhs OheliOiJ iiOO AASH hoh 0hu
stronger.
A dispatch dated Vienna, Austria,
and coming by way Of New York, intimAtes
that negotiations are pending for All al
lance between Germany, Austria and Eng
land. The report will need confirmation
before reliance can be placed in its state
I IuuuSs.
Germany takes alarm at the Ultra
montane element IN France, and dIstrusts
the policy Of the new Cabinet Of President
MacMahon. Accordingly, the garrisons
OF Alsace- Lorraine will be strengthened
sufficiently to equal the force on the other
side of the frontier.
The Vanderbilt excursion over the
Canadian South railroad recently were
transported IN very fast time. The train
ran the whole distance Of 2lO miles in 22I
minutes This road il furnished entirely
with steel rails OF the continuous pattern.
and the cars run very smooth. without
noise Or iolting.
The life of young man near Mon
treal, was despaired Of, and he had be.
come 50 emaciated and weak that two of
the four physicians who attended MIN vol
unteered te InvIgorate him with their
blood, by the operation Of TRANSMISSION,
but he did not recover.
A Russian has invented what is de-
scribed as "a terrestrial monitor" which
is moved by steam. The artillerymen are
posted within 1t, and can point their guns
in any direction. 1t has been carefully
examined at st. Petersburg but has not
as vet found much favor IN the ewes OF
military experts.
-Ninety-seven years ago one of the Old
Continentals presented bill against the
, Government for supplies furnished to the
> Revolutionary army. Its original sum was