Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-09-04

nave returned to Bismarck from tour
of observation to the Yellowstone. Gen.
eral Rosser, chief engineer of the road,
says that the Yellowstone division of the
Northern Pacific, extending from Bis
marck to the Yellowstone, will be put
under contract at once, and the work of
construction commence without delay.
THE carbonate territssy in the region
south Of Pixies peak, on the Arkansas
river, is lengthening out. Some of the
thoroughly worked mines are turning
out rich beyond calculation, the ore
proving q thick chloride. Excellent
hard carbonates and high grade chloride
ores are brought to light every day.
There are crowds of people in the region,
yet it is hard to get the right kind of
men to work for good wages.
GENERAL GRANT writes to friend in
Philadelphia that, after visiting Austria,
he designs spending some four or five
weeks at some watering place on the
continent. His present intention is to
make u tour of the world, passing
the winter months in India and China.
After observing the methods and man.
ners of most of the people on the face Of
the globe, he will return to America by
way of San Francisco.
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The profits of illustrated journals in
England are enormous. The Graphic
was started with capital of $75, 900, and
this was subsequently increased to $780,
900. The profits of the paper during
the past year has been 100 per cent. OF
this yield 80 per cent. is to be divided
among the stockholders, thirty or forty
in number, and 10 per cent. is to be car
ried to the reserve fund. The capital
actually laid out at the beginning has
been returned to the stockholders.
A TREASURE has just been discovered
in the ancient ducal palace of Audria,
near Naples. 1t consists of 400, 600
ducats, about 100000, in gold. The
present owner, in examining a plan of
the building, noticed q door marked
where no one exists. He had the wall
pierced, and found an entrance into q
chapel, in which was deposited q Golfer
containing the coin. 1t had been con-
cealed there by the Duke d 'Andria when
he emigrated to Germany at the time of
the French invasion of Italy.
The large and rapidly increasing
importation into Germany of American
resh beef, hams, sausages, stoves, glass,
cotton goods, sole leather, canned vege
tables, fruits, oysters and Holsters, ana
machines of all kinds, is worrying the
English a good deal. The Pail Mall
Gazette says: "There cannot be q
doubt that the United States are year
after year taking away from US some
of our best customers, and pushing
trade in quarters where with the ex-
ercise OF little honesty and enterprise
we might have done good business.
SAMUEL MILLER, of Lynchburg, Va,
died seven or eight years ago, one of the
richest and most penurious men in the
state, leaving the bulk Of his fortune to
establish . manual labor school, the
building for which was dedicated near
Batesville, Albemarle county, Last week
with addresses by Governor Holiday,
Congressman J. Randolph Tucker and
other state dignitaries. The war depre-
ciated Miller's property, and his heirs
got big slice from the courts, but &87,.
900 have been spent in building four.
story brick shaped like Ut" with I
front of 225 and central depth of 10.
feet, and there is An endowment fund o.
$3.50, 900, but that is in Virginia bonds
whose reputation is question.
GENERAL w. H. Z. DAVIS, one of ths
United States commissioner to the Paril
exposition, has presented the several in
teresting souvenirs Of Lafayette and
Rochambeau's revolutionary exploits K
their descendants in Paris, which h
carried out with him as gifs from
friends and admirers in America. Tn
souvenirs presented to the Marquis d
Lafayette consist of beautiful gold
mounted cane, made from the hand.rail
inv of the stairwav of the old RethIAhAn