The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-11
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The Worlds Washington special
says: Prominent men say the Maine
election was Blaine's campaign. Hale
ran for the Legislature because the dis
trict was close and he could save it.
Blaine will 60 to Ohio soon, and stump
for Foster.
One of the greatest struggles ever
known in the cotton trade will proba-
| bly, be entered upon by the end Of this
week at Ashton UNDERLINE, England.
Employers decline to withdraw their
notice of five lper cent. reduction of
wages, and the spinners and weavers
are determined to resist the reduction.
If strike ensue nearly all the working
people in Ashton District will be in
volved, and the strike will probably be
protracted, as the Spinners' Union is
amply provided with funds.
The north span, one hundred and
twenty-five feet i'll length, of the bridge
across the Kansas River at Lawrence,
was destroyed last Tuesday. A drove
/ of one hundred and fifty cattle were
being driven across the bridge, when,
by some Encouragement, they were all
concentrated upon the north span, and
it suddenly broke near the middle, fall
ing into the river. The south portion
of the span drew off the pier and fell
| flat in the water with this portion of
cattle. Five cattle were killed outright
and twenty ruined. The cattle be-
longed to Young Brothers, of Southern
Kansas. Old Mr.. Young, their father,
was at the side of the drove, in a
covered wagon, and one of the sons was
Immediately behind the wagon, having
nearly crossed the bridge when the
catastrophe occurred. The cattle on
this part of the bridge, horses, wagon
and the two men We're precipitated to
the bottom. The young man escaped
without a scratch. The old man had
shoulder broken and some of his ribs
l crushed in.
The Bank of California is going to
ask for authority to reduce its capital
from S5,000,000 to $1,000, 900.
DR.. kalloch's condition is improving
daily, and three OF his attending ply
sicians pronounce him out of danger.
English advices state that the emf
grant movement to Texas is caused in
London by the Texas Freehold Farm
and Emigration Union. Under species
of lottery system its subscription tickets
are selling in all parts of Great Britain
at 2 shillings 6 pence monthly. The
drawings are monthly, each ticket Sc
cures eighty acres, fenced, house with
veranda, well of water, teams and
stock, farming tools, and fl0 worth of
provisions, with five to ten years to pay
for the same. Recently arrived English
farmers come under the auspices of this
Union. The Standard says The selec-
ton of South Texas is due to the exer-
lions of DR.. Kingsbury, who year or
two ago was sent over by the Texas
Railway Company to lay before the
farmers the advantages of taking up
sites along the railway. Kingsbury is
the director of the Freehold Farm and
Emigration Union. The Anglo Ameri-
can says that the Trades Unions might
find it to their advantage to support
this Company and so utilize its organi-
zation as to make it of wide benefit to
Englands overstocked labor market.
The Wisconsin Democrats yesterday
| nominated Alexander Mitchell for Gov
ernor, Geo. H. King for Lieutenant
Governor, Samuel Ryan for Secretary
OF State, Andrew Haben for Treasurer
j. NJ. Smith for Attorney General, Ed
ward Soaring for Supt. of Public In
struction. A long platform was
| adopted
Five new cases of yellow fever were
reported in Memphis yesterday. Six
deaths have occurred since last night.
Hearing, in the Supreme Court on
the application of Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague, for the appointment of trus-