Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-06-05
VARIOUS TOPICS.

VARIOUS TOPICS.
AN act of parliament exists in Eng
land impossng penalties for non-attend-
ance at divine service ON Sunday, unless
absent to attend some other place OF wor-
ship permitted BY the liberation act of
William and Mary. ~
An iron mountain l0.600 feet high,
and rivaling the famous iron mountain
of Missouri, has been discovered in Col
fax county, New Mexico. The ore is
almost entirely pure iron.
THERE are in this county shout seven
hundred cavpetmaking establishm ents
and they represent a permanent invest
ment of $13,000,OOO. The annual pro-
duction of carpets, with good market,
is in the vicinity of $24, ,OOO,O 900.
80 aAt4 4
Two daughters of William M. Tweed
have just been defeated in suit against
the knickerbocker Life Insurance COM
pany to compel the issue to them of a
life policy of $s, 900 taken out by Tweed.
A clause in the original policy prevented
the insurer going to sea without leave
The bee raisers in Los Angeles county,
California, have recently lost by death
10000 stands out Of $4,000, representing
yield of 10000 pounds of honey a
year, worth $75, 600. In San Diego coun-
ty, just south of Los Angeles, the loss is
about a million and a quarter pounds.
ACCORDING to the Shoe and Leather
Reporter, nearly all the patent and en-
ameled leather made in this country,
amounting to $4,000, 600 year, is man
ufactured in Newark, N. j., and it COM
pares so favorably with that made in
England and France that it is exported
to those countries.
THE foothills of California are at
tracing unusual attention, and many
are thinking of settling there in prefer
cnce to the valley. The climate, free
dom from iresl,ets and malaria, the
abundance of wood, the purity of water
and the superior quality of grapes, and
other inducements are beginning to be
appreciated. ...
A SIMPLE method of postal delivery is
said to prevail in Spanish provincial
town. Those who expect letters come
to the postoffice and form queue. The
postmaster then hands all the letters he
has received, in basket, to the first
conner, who looks through them leisure
ly, takes his own, if any, and passes the
basket to the person Immediately behind
him, and this goes on until the basket is
emptied or the queuc exhausted.
AN exhibition of the phonograph was
advertised as a part of the benefit per-
formance in the Grand Opera house,
San Francisco. Sol Smith Russell made
an address explanatory of Edisons in
vention, and then box was placed on
the table. Russell turned crank, and
from the box came talk in tones like
those OF various public men well known
in the city. The audience soon discov-
cred that an actor, concealed under the
table, was giving limitations. Almost a
riot ensued, the people refusing to view
the deception as good joke.
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NEAL Dow says of Maine: Liquor
has absolutely vanished from three
fourths of the state, in the country dis
tricts. 1t fingers little in the dark
places of the city among the foreign
population. Maine, before the law, con.
sumed annually $l3,OOO,0 600 worth Of
liquor. The sixty-eight distilleries no
longer exist. The effects can be seen in
better homes, better farms and better
living"
some of the monasteries of Italy aad
France contribute rare and curious OBJ
jects to the Paris exposition. A watch
is described, made by Florentine friar,
which is only IA quarter of an inch in
diameter, and yet marks hours, days and
months, has an alarm attachment, and
bears upon its cover a figure of saint
and two verses of the "Te Deum." An
other monastery sends an ingeniously
constructed chess table, by means of
which one person can play . game, the
opposite side being maintained by a con
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The schooner Eothen, now lying at
East river, New York, will start between
the first and tenth of June for Repulse
bay, earring q party of thirteen men,
under Captain Thos. F. Barry, as navi-
eating officer, and Lieutenant Schwatka
of the third United States cavalry, as
commander Of body which goes out in
search of the records and relics of the
Sir John Franklin expedition. The ex-
pense of the expedition, it is calculated,
will be about $4,000 for season OF
about thirty months. The plan is to
provision the vessel for journey to Re-
pulse bay, and then to depend upon such
subsistence ~ can be found there
#fA4$ K &N~
GENERAL SACKETT, of the army, has
made a touref inspection among soldiers
cemeteries ut the south. He learned
that the Chalmette cemetery, at New
Orleans, contains the bodies of 2,131
soldiers, of which 6,781 are known, and
3,4OO unknown. In the cemetery at Mo
bile s4l bodies were buried, 749of which
are known, and 80 unknown. At Bator
Rouge 2,944 soldiers were buried, whom
2,4O are known, and 4S4 unknown. Ths
metropolis 1t Port Hudson, is full of tht
bodies of negreea Thenumber Inferred
there is 1904, of which 5e6 are marked
Known" The rro,lnds At Natchez. Miss.