Nebraska advertiser., 1879-10-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
William II. Vanderbilt employs 81,

William II. Vanderbilt employs 81,
706men.
1t is said that the Indians on Nez
Perces reservation have harvested 40,-
900 bushels of grain.
Mark Twain has returned home
from Europe He has the manuscript
of new book, ready for the printer,
but refuses to tell what it is all about.
Mr.. N. w. Lewis, Washington Ter.
whose farm lies directly north ofThe
Dalles on the mountains side, has
finished his harvesting, and from 65 |
acres of wheat and barley obtained |
2, 205 Bushels, nearly "a bushels per
acre.
1t is now just thirty-one years since
the great discovery of gold was made
IN California. Since that time the
Western States and Territories have
produced bullion to the value of ST.
965 ,527 .936.
GLOBE Democrat: Too much Miss
issippi Is killing the Democratic par
ty In the North. The letters and
speeches of Jefferson Davis, the in
sane rawlings of the Okolona States,
and the murderous- shotguns of the
Gulleys in Kemper County and the
Barksdales In Yazoo, are the most ell
oquent arguments yet offered against
Democratic domination. They will
have due weight in the fall elections
| In the North.
The colored people of Portland Ore
gon, have organized an immigration
society.
The Comstock mines have produced
since 1858, the year of their discovery,
the sum of 1921. III 900.
A Mormon missionary, who at
tempted to lecture in the court house
at Rawlins, Wy, last Friday evening.
was rotten egged by the citizens, and
a more pitifui sight never presented
itself than when the "bOys" got
through with him.
The first church in Desdwood cost
$500 and was erected when lumber
cost $50 per thousand and labor $500
per day. It's size was 25x26. The
membershipof of the church numbers
fifty-two.
The number OF licensed saloons In
Deadwood, South Deadwood and
EIizabethtown, at the present time
is seventy-five.
; A ranchman' aE.med Wardner, on
the Red dwater, Black Hills, raised 5OC
bushels of onions this year.
The New Haven manufacturers
cannot get hands enough to do theil
work, and some of them are so busy
: that they have to refuse orders thai
come to them. One concern recently
refused a $4,000 order from Russis
for 140 platform cars to be fitted with
; oil tanks, as they had too much work
on hand.
; The Post-Offlce receipts for the first
quarter of the present year, following
upon the resumption OF specie pay
, ment, were the largest in the history
of the department, amounting to ST.
$50, ,OSS.
The value of this years. cotton croI
is placed as high as $500, ,000. 600, and
the prospect throughout almost the
d Haf
factory.
The largest cargo OF rosin ever ex
ported from this country has just been
shipped from Savannah to Liverpool
: 1t was valued at $40, 900, aud com
prised $3.50 barrels.
The crop prospects for this year In
Ireland are very gloomy. All kinds
of grain and other products are either
much DehinGi in growth or hopelessly
withered and stunted.
"G'lang!" The Shah of Persis
rides through the streets of lspahar
in Connecticut buggy, and knows q
genuine wooden nutmeg when he
sees it.
There Is scarcely mill in Pitts
burgh now that Is not in operation. A
number that have heen idle for some
years have been put In motion, and II
has been long time since Pittsburgh
wore such q dusky robe as she wears
at present.
The United States may justly claim
to be "going ahead" in their export
business, whatever may be thought Of
their boasted progress in otherdirect'
ions. Unhappily for US, this form Of
prosperity chances to be the very one
most likely to be secured at our ex
, ense.-LOndOn' Globe.
:, The South will raise this year about
ZOO, 900 bales of cotton, 200, 900 hogs
heads of sugar, and very nearly 6OO,'
600 900 pounds of tobacco. This will
be q half million more bales of cotton
twice as much sugar. and 1900 ,OOC
more pounds of tobacco than she evel
raised before.
Inter Ocean: Partisan newspapers
may say what they please about "the
peregrination of the President, "fail
, fiend," etc. These journeys are good
for the Chief Magistrate and for the
people. The cordial manner In which
the President is everywhere received
is evidence that the peopleare pleased
q and it is good thing to please the
, people.