Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-05-08

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dvaLce. Regular sdser ing payable quarterly.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Y The Gordonpres works at Railway,
n. D., which were built by the
ate millionaire inventor, George P. Cor
Ion, have beenclosed on account of busi-
ness depression and difficulty in settling
he estate. m =, .-
1T is likely that the old style of placer
mining will be extensively revived in
California this season. There are 10000
die men in San Francisco withouts pros.
pect OF soon getting employment at liy-
ing wages. An immense fall of rain in
Ehe mountains has made it possible to
work many gulches mot psuslly available.
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The Cincinnati papers claim that the
new organ built for the new Music hall
in that city, and to be used for the first
time at the coming May festival, is the
largest organ in America, and about the
Fourth or fifth in size in the world. 1t
]}hs GO feet in height, 80 feet in depth and
~ feet in width. 1t has 6, 2S7 pipes and
pa stops.
~ "A COMPARISON made between two
zAAtlantic steamers, one built in 1910 and
|zone of to-day's, shows that the modern
steamship carries fifteen times as much
Sfreight as the old one did, at nearly
twice the speed. The consumption of
coal per ton of cargo was, in 1910, nearly
''fleVeh Times as great rs ut present.
q OYSTERS have always been considered
&as forbidden food by the Jews, the law
sof Moses prohibiting the eating of fish
without scales. In consequence, how
ever, of Mr.. Darwin's theories, learned
rabbi has arrived at the conclusion that
oysters are planted, and may therefore
be eaten by Jews. An English paper re-
ports that the problem will be submitted
to a grand council.
PRESIDENT w. S. CLARK, of the agri-
cultural college at Amherst, Mass, offers
to furnish, gratis, seed of the early am
Der cane to all who wish TO try making
their own syrup or sugar. He says the
crop requires just the same treatment as
broom-corn, and that from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred gallons of syrup,
or seven thousand pounds of sugar, can
he obtained from the product of an acre
of land.
The fiendishness Of the Italian pad
rones who conduct an Infamous traffic in
the slavery of children does not seem
hitherto to have been realized to its full
extent, if we may believe story which
comes from New York. A blind child
found in the streets in the custody of an
Italian beggar had, it is said, been pur-
posely blinded to fit her to excite the
sympathy of passers-by, that her mendi-
cant keeper may profit thereby.
A RESOLUTION has been offered in the
New York East Methodist conference
levying an assessment of per cent on
those of $1,000 a year; 2 per cent. on
those of $4,000, and another providing
that all ministers marrying more than
four couples in a year should be required
to give the balance of their income from
this source, all for the purpose of pay
ing ministers living salaries, which their
congregations cannot, or at least do not,
pay.
BANK-RoBBERs will be especially in
terested to hear that the French exposi-
tion commissioners are constructing
streng room for the state Jewels, twelve |
feet deep and ten feet square, thickly
cemented, and with a double iron floor,
and pipes to flood it in case of fire. The
jewels will be exhibited in glazed case
of exquisite design, which will be let
down into the place below Immediately
the exposition doors are closed, and COW
cred with heavy iron trap, ON which
two special guardians will place their
beds. FFR ="
THE latest Yankee industry is a float.
ing apiary, with which Chicago man
is extracting the honey from southern
flowers to sell in northern markets. 1t
consists of one thousand hives of bees on
board of two barges, drawn by a steam.
tug, and the fleet is now in Louisiana.
1t will soon take start north, gathering
sweets by the way, and halting for more
systematic business every fifty miles, at
which rate it will arrive ut the head
waters of the Mississippi about the
fourth of July. when the clover fields of
Minnesota are in bloom.
In Philadelphia the bells of the church
of st. Mark were thought to be such
nuisance that the inhabitants of that
city went to law to obtain their silence.
This bell lawsuit has been lately decided
by the supreme court. The lower court
absolutely forbade the ringing of the
bells, but the supreme court permits
them to be rung every day of public
worship, though not before O'Clock in
morning nor after 8 at night. They may
be rung also on Washingston's Birthday,
the Fourth of 1ulv New Year,s Dav