The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-09-30
NUMBER 1717.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Gear is in perfect health.

The Gear is in perfect health.
The municipal debt Of Berlin, $780,
600 thalers. will be converted from Al
TO A per cent. bonds.
General Skobeloff will command the
expedition against the Turcomans in
stead OF General Tergukasof.
The Cincinnati Commercial looks
around al the seasons crop and pro-
nounces America the cornucopia OF the
world.
A considerable portion OF the Irish
harvest is irieparably lost, Potatoes
have been partially blighted. and on
many farms the whole crop is gone.
A Constantinople dispatch says that
Prince Labanoff has gone to Volta by
the Cars order. He will have an i'm
portant mission 20 the porte. IL is ru-
Inored in Vienna that he has succeeded
tortsch9koF.
A severe hurricane passed over Mon
treal Wednesday. A large freight shed
on tue wharf, belonging to the Allan
steanship line, was lifted bodily. and
ia its descent was completely wrecked.
or 20 men in the building all escaped,
but two, badly bruised.
The society of the Army OF the Cum
/ berland meets IN Washington Novem-
ber 20, when the Statue OF Gen. Thom-
as will be unveiled. Gen. Garfield,
Congressman Young of Ohio, and Gen.
McCook have been appointed a COM
mittee OF arrangements.
About sixty families were rendered
homeless by the Caribou, Colorado, ire
which was more extensive than at first
reported Loss not less than $40, 900.
Fires are raging ali through the noun
tains, aud sky and sun are hidden by
smoke.
The Austrian State engineers have
completed their plaus for the proposed
Arlburg railway. The mountain will
be pierced 5,2Sl feet above the level of
the sea. The tunnel will be 1920
metres long. The minister of COM
merce fayors making it purely State
railway.
King John CT Abysinnia writes that
he has written TO Queen Victoria COM
planning that outlets of his territory
are closed by Egypt. He says General
Kirkham, the English general in his
service, was poisoned at Massowa on
the way to England with letters to the
queen.
There is no prospect Of the bi-me-
tallic congress, which America propos-
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which the British government provis-
ionally assented, meeting this year.
Americas agents have failed, go far, to
obtain the assent of some Of the lead
IN nations.
Chas. Francis Adams celebrated his
golden welding last Wednesday. This
is the third golden wedding of success
siye generation in the same house
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and
Charles Francis Adams. The ages OF
the bridegrooms we're respectively
70, so and 81. The intervals between
the occasions were 30 and 81 years.
The Pioneer-Press editor had better
not venture into Michigan right away.
He says: Michigan is the native
home of the clerical scandal, the hot
bed where the choicest plants OF the
sensational variety are propagated for
transplanting 10 the well-manured gar
dens of the Chicago press. Clerical
scandals sprout spontaneously in the
virgin soil of the rural districts OF the
PeuiLsular State. and twine luxuriantly
about the towering spires OF its suffi-
ciently devout metropolis. There
must be something in the air OF the
lakes that surround Michigan; and it
isn't a salt breeze either.