, 1879-07-31
News by Mail.

cess Of erection ut Denver.
Wheat crop in Nebraska is good; corn
crop better than ever before
Lynn shoemakers are deyising means
to assist the Fall River strikers.
Two hundred Bayarians are on the
way to Utah to Join the Mormons,
Indians and white horse thieves are
committing depredations in the Black
Hills.
There were III deaths from yellow
fever in Havana during the second week
iii July.
The Sun thinks Sherman the strongest
Republican Presidential candidate in
Pennsylvania.
The common council Of Cincinnati
has voted $4,000 for placing the city
in good sanitary condition.
During the first half Of the current
year the treasure shipments from San
Francisco amounted to $S,997,5S4 SO.
Secretary Sherman is absent from
Washington on u three. weeks vacation.
He will speak at Portland, Maine, on
the 23rd.
A destructive hail storm passed over
Wells River, Vermont, on the 18th.
Many hailstones were an inch in diam
eter.
A Canada dispatch reports the Fall
wheat in Ontario considerably above the
average Of recent years both in quantity
and quality.
The Congress Of San Domingo pro-
poses to the United States free ex-
change of sugar and tobacco against any
two products of The latter country.
A. party of $50 Mormons, bound for
Salt Lake, arrived at Council Bluffs on
the 18th, by the Chicago and North
western road. They occupied a special
train Of 10 cars.
BY order of Governor Bishop the
State offices at Columbus were closed
and the flag on the capitol displayed at
half-mast on the day of the funeral of
Ex-Governor Allen.
OF the "a deaths in San Francisco the
first week in July, 23 were under one
year Of age. The average mortality in
that city during a corresponding period
for five years has been &c.
Our present trade with Brazil shows
an annual balance of $45,000,000 in
favor of that country. 1t is believed
that proper effort will transfer this
balance to the other side of the ledger.
Between 400 and 500 French Cara
dians passed through Plymouth, N. H.,
on the lst Of July, on a pilgrimage to
the shrine Of St. Anna de Beapre, near
Quebec This is the first pilgrimage
from the United States.
About 300 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 will be held in
the same place on the last Thursday in
June, 1880, continuing five days.
Congress having adjourned without
action on the bill authorizing an allow
ance for leakage on export packages of
alcohol between the distilleries and the
port of export, immediate collection of
all drawback assessments for this cause
is ordered, and delayed pending the &c
ton of Congress. The assessments
amount to $4,000 or 100000.
John Taylor and the executors of
Brigham Youngs will, having refused to
to turn over certain properties to the re-
ceiver, were cited to appear before the
Third District Court on Monday morn
ing, and show cause why they should
not be punished for contempt. The
county records bearing on this case have
been spirited away, and the county Off
GERS cannot be found.
Another plot for a wholesale release
of prisoners has been discovered and
frustrated in the Massachusetts, State
Prison. A letter from one cenvict to
another was intercepted, which disclosed
plan to capture certain officers and
railroad train which ran into the prison
yard nearly every day, and with the aid
Of battering ram batter down the en-,
trance gate to the prison, thus opening
the way for the escape Of several hun,
drcd convicts,
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