The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-01-08
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HOME NEWS.
Severe snow storms in the north
last week impeded the running of
the trains.
O'Leary and Campana are having
six day walking match of it in New
York.
Ex-Congressman Owen Jones has
been frozen to death in Philadelphia.
Sound condition of the New York
Associated Banks. They hold $40,
47e,775, in excess of legal require
ments.
At the close OF business on Dec.
Both, at the U. S. treasury depart
ment, the available coin balance was
1926, 100000.
Hon. Morton McMichaeI, of the
North american, and Ex-Mayor of
Philadelphia, died on the afternoon
of the 9th.
The Cocheco print works, New
Hampshire, were badly damaged by
fire on the 5Sth OF December. Loss
about 100000 covered by insurance.
A terrific explosion occurred in
the dynamite works at Oak Ridge
n. j., blowing three men to atoms
and completely pulverizing the build
ing.
The funeral of Gen. Caleb Cush-
ing, at Newburyport Mass, was
largely attended, many distinguished
ard prominent gentlemen being pres
ent IRON Boston and Washington.
A Kansas City dispatch says, the
weather the past week has been the
severest known in that region for
twenty-five years. Over two feet of
snow covers the earth. The mercu-
ly has been several degrees below ze-
70. The Missouri river has been
closed week, and the ice is a foot
thick.
Another gold purchasing office has
been established at Helena, Montana,
where the government can obtain
gold direct from the mines and from
individuals who wish to sell, in ex-
change for greenbacks at par. The
other Offices for a similar purpose are
at Charlotte, N. c., Boise City, Idaho,
and Denver.
The cold wave, heavy snow storms
and severe freeze, extended all over
the North, and at some points fal
South. Richmond, Va, thermome
ter 50 below zero. Six inches Of
snow at Vicksburg, Miss. Snow a
foot deep at Shreveport Texas. AT
New Orleans, rain and sleet. The
first snow in Darien, Ga, an inch
deep, for fifty years. Large floats
of ice in Etowah and Oostanawla
rivers, Ga, and hard freeze in Mobile
People skating in Atlanta, the first
time in twenty years, and thousand
pounds of ice were cut and packed,
a thing unknown before. Intense
cold at Chicago; mercury down to
81 degrees below zero; railroads are
blockaded in every direction, some
OF the snow drifts being Is feet deep.
FOREIGN.
The small pox and famine are Gre
atiug appalling distress in Brazil
In the provence of Ceara, in Bra
iii, 600 deaths take place daily from
small pox.
Laborers are emigrating from the
Canary islands to Cuba. One vessel
carried over $780,
The Earl of Carnarvon has married
Miss Howard of Guy Stoke Castle,
England.
Earl Beacons6eld, the British
Premier, is suffering from a severe
attack of the govt.
1t is officially confirmed in St. Pc
tersburg, that the plague has broken
out at Astrachan.
1t is reported that the illustrious
Spanish statesman Don Espartero is
lying at the point of death.
Ex-Presidcnt Grant arrived at
Londonderry, Ireland on the 9th,
and was presented with the freedom
of the city.
Cotton trade at Blackburn, Eng
land much depressed. Six mills are
closed from bankruptcy, and others
closed for several weeks.
A Students riot occurred at the
University of Kief, Russia, against
closing the University. Before it
could be suppressed by the military
some eighty persons were killed and