, 1879-07-24
News By Mail

UP the procession on the Fourth.
Secretary Schurz contemplates visit
ING the Indian agencies duling the sum.
mer
Three hundred and twenty-seven new
money order Offices were opened on the
eth inst.
Two English steamers have Just dis.
charged over $500 tons of Spanish iron
ore at Hoboken
During the past week 1889 pounds
OF quicksilver were shipped from Calls
toga to San Francisco,
The widow of the late Brisadier.gen.
elal James A. Collins died last week at
Sacramento, aged 90 years,
The weather at st. Louis last weel,
was excessively hot, the mercury ranging
from SO to 9S degrees in the shade.
a boy answering the description of
Charley Ross is living near Cowan sville,
Ontario, in FreEch-Canadian family.
The grain crop Of Colusa county, Cal
ifornia, will approximate 10000 tons
this year. Dr. Glenn's farm alone will
yield 100000 bushels
The influx Of Southern negroes into
Kansas is steady and continuous. Sew
enty-fve per cent reach theiY destina-
ton perfectly destitute.
The Attorney General decides that
Captain Eads is entitled to $500,000 for
.twenty-siX-foot channel at the passes
at the mouth Of the Mississippi river.
Forty thousand young California sal
mon were planted in Green Lake, Wis,
in June. Experiments have demon
strated that they thrive in inland waters.
The Jeannette has full equipment
for strong electric light through the
long Arctic nights. The generator is to
be propelled by the engine of the Jean
nette.
Secretary Eyarts has authorized the
postponement of the report from the
Paris exhibition until September lst, as
lG OF the "a reports have not yet been
made.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that the act eXempting quinine
from duty, which took effect on July
lst, did not affect the importations made
before that date.
The soldiers Of the war of 1872 met
oil the Fourth in the old court house,
Philadelphia There were but fourteen
present, tie Oldest being teteg Hay, the
president, aged ninety-two years.
The amount of standard dollars
coined from March |, 1878, to July l,
1879, was $3j,S0l,000 OF this
amount, Sl3, ,942 has been issued,
but $,5lS,9l2 has been returned. This
leaves $6,S4l, 900 in circulation.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
have just turned out from their shops at
Detroit, Mich, two cars designed especi-
ally for the use Of parties of tourist
sportsman, bearing the suggestive names
of "Davy Crockett" and "Izaak Wal
ton"
Grain exports from Baltimore in
June were: 243, It's bushels of corn;
l,29S,l35 bushels Of wheat From
January lst to July lst the exports
amounted to 22,000,000 bushels, against
7,000,0 900 bushels for the same half of
1873 .'..
A mob of illicit distillers and their
friends, recently went to the home Of
two brothers, Poole, who had informed
against the moonshiners, in Pickets
county, Georgia, shot one dead and ia.
tally wounded the other.
About 800 persons recently spent
eight days of six hours each in Bible
study at Clifton Springs, N. Y. This
was the fifth annual conference of this
character. The sixth viii be held in
the same place on the last Thursday in
June, 1880, continuing five days.
From various causes, l05 lives were
lost on steamboats, the past twelve
months During the past twelve months
thirty-one lives were lost by accidents
ashore; the previous twelve months, for
ty-seven. In 1875, the number of lives
lost in steamboats, was COZ; in 1876,
1914; in 1877, 324; in 1878, 202. The
steady decline is attributed to the in.
creasing efficiency of steamboat inspec-
ton.