Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-10-02
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VARIOUS TOPICS.
Ell DORADO county, California, il no
dependent on mining. Five thousant
tons of fruit is this years crop, of which
one man contracts for twelve hundred
tons for canning and drying.
BALTIMORE never had 90 much foreign
shipping in port as now. 1t is attracted
by the petroleum and grain trade, and ,
large proportion of the arrivals are with
out cargo. Of the 1,l4S vessels thai
have arrived this year no less than 644
came in ballast.
The wheat feet gathered in San Fran
cisco to convey the surplus crop of thiI
season is bigger than ever before. Forty
four vessels cleared last month, carryins
an average of about ], 200 tons each, and
there are new some sixty vessels in DOR,
with a carrying capacity of about 2, 800,
600 bushels.
SIBERIA has gold diggings, as we'll q
exiles, and last year the diggings on thu
rivers Amovi and Sci, where 5000 work
men are employed, yielded gold worth
over 1000, 600 roubles. This yield wa,
surpassed by that Of private proprietor
in another part of Siberia, whose outpu,
was no less than 8, ZOO, 900 roubles.
THE first steps have been taken in St
Petersburg to form society for the
purpose of providing educational tour
for children. 1t is proposed to send out
companies of the children every year
and also parties of young men and wo
men when they have completed theil
course in the secondary schools or are
following out their studies in the high
schools.
A BROTHER OF the late California bo.
nanza king has turned up in sick Ra.
leigh, N. c., carpenter, John O'Brien
His rich brother supposed him dead, a.
did wife and two daughters now in
afluent circumstances at New York. A
lawyer has satisfied himself of the miss
ing mans identity, and he is now sup.
piled with ample funds for all his neces.
stiles.
EAST LIVERPOOL, o., is warmed and
lighted by its natural gas wells, one oi
which has been running for 20 years
and sends as strong a stream as ever.
The gas gives fame that almost rivals
the electric light in brilliancy, and il
costs 30 little that the lamps in the city
streets are kept burning day and night
1t it used in private houses and factories
alike, and cooks q steak or heats fur.
mace with equal satisfaction.
IT is doubtful if commander of the
army in this country, after accepting q
"present of 81, 500, 900 from = corrupt
contractor who was furnishing rotten
supplies, would simply be retired from
the service, and sent to a place Gin
exile" That's the "punishment" in.
ficted on the Grand Duke Nicholas, OF
Russia. So the United States is not the
most lenient government on earth, after
all.
IT is but few years since the idea OF
bridging the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers was held to be both impracticable
and undesirable, and rs contemplating
an Infringement on the rights of navi-
CATION. There have been built since
1865 no less than eleven bridges across
the father of waters between Winona
and st. Louis. Ten are on piers and
one is a pontoon bridge. The longest
are at Winona and Quincy, 3,S4O feet
each.
THERE are great number of ex-con-
federates in London. They manage to
pick up living in all sorts of ways
One, an ex-general, is a curb-stone stock
broker; another is life insurance agent;
q third is brimful of hope and large ex.
pectations, living on scanty income
derived from "patent agency" Men
Of lesser grades appear in varied callings.
One does thriving trade in the hard.
ware line, another in the "hard up ;
line. Several are literary and dramatic
agents.
A NEW ORLRANs correspondent oi
the New York Times gives facts which
30 far in his opinion to upset all the old
theories regarding yellow fever. Ac-
cording to his observation, " the cleaner
the streets and the more fashionable the
quarter, the greater apparently is the
virulence of the disease. On the Other
hand "the flthiest streets are either
wholly free from the taint or have only
widely scattered ceases of q mild type"
Against such an epidemic the usual sani
tary measures are of little avail. Tn,
only resource is "to dispute each victim
with the destroyer"
SERvIA achieved her independence il
q most remarkable manner, as is showl
in the proclamation recently issued b.
the prince. 81 called you," he saya
"on the lst of December last to arms TO
the Liberation of your country. Yo'
answered to my call and fought through
outa severe winter. Forcing your Va,
through almost impossible mountain
passes, and surmounting all posdbl
obstacles, in six weeks you arrived .
Kassova, where, after FIVE centuries q
oppression, you captured banners, gun
and ammnnition." An army which lei
its home nine months ago and underwear
Eve centuries of oppression in the il