The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1880-07-24
GENERAL NEWS.

county, NY, was sou lhsI week nv $40
per acre.
The loss caused by the break in the
levee below Warsaw is estimated to be
not less than Sl00,000.
Alabama has IL school population. of
736 GA, of which less than one-haif at.
tended school last year.
The total earnings of Sing Sing pris
on for June wero SIS, i20; expendh
lures Slj,G35; profile S2,73j.
In North Devon twins have been
born who ARE attached to each other as
the Siamese brothers were.
Among blooded cattle from Canada
sold ut Chicago the seventh and eighth
Duchess vf ltillhur-t ht""ght s900n
A letter in queen Elizabeth's own
hand writing, beautifully clean aud
neat, has just been sold ut Lcispsic fui
300 francs. ..
Tho western paper barrel manufac-
tories are turning out 10000 BARRELS u
day Every process is done By ma
chinery, even the painting.
New York wants two million more
gallons of water IL day than it can got
from croton ncquedurt, the only pres
ent available source of supply.
w. II. Vanderbilt, it is ut last an
nounccd authoritntively, pays for
bringing tho Alcxondrinu obelisk over.
He stipulated that it should not cost
over 10000.
Cleveland boasts of baby which at
birth weighed but three-quurters of u
pound, and measured but six inches in
length II is perfect in form aud
sound in health.
During tho past twelve months
there have been 81 900 tons of hcma-
tito iron ore brought down the Ten
nessce river to Nashville from Rhen
and Mega counties.
The Mississippi mills, Mt Wesson,
have their four hundred looms running
twelve hours day, and have orders
ahead for the full capacity Of the mills
for the next three months.
John Van Frease, AN old aud re-
pected citizen of Hot Springs, Ark,
recently elopcd to Texas with u Miss
Hardie. He left an nged wife sind
grown children aud srandehildrci. =,
An Indinna farmer 2 5 Tat labor
has not been, so 20 .'''l '''e' high priced
in sixty.GH,'yps INSTANCES the
employn ut OF f,Ctf~non in Ms har-
'teeii fields ut 81 por iay rs proof.
d .In i37WSan francisco ranked tenth
among tile cities oi the United States,
New Orleans and Cincinnati both lead
ing. If her claim of 2S0. O0Q is correct,
she will now lead both the other cities
named, Cincinnati becoming ninth.
Mr., aud Mrs, Thomas II. Ismny, and
Mr., and Mrs. James barrow, who sail
ed in the Celtic lately, will, when they
reach Liverpool, have completed their
trip around the world in less than
eighty days, prnhahly seventy ave.
General Hunco,k is II twin. His
twin brother is u lawyer, pIacticing at
Minneapolis, Minnesota. In their
youthful days the brothers resemhled
each other to such remarkable extent
that their best friends could not often
tell them apart.
Tho wealtlfiest young women in the
metrunois are the daughters of tho
late Cum. Gnrncr, of the great calico
printing works, who VIVA drowned
about Years nro i'm hi. ynrht in Nav
York Inv. They mr.. renut.d to bs
worth Al 600 OD0 or ~ .n0D ODO en,.b
Ih, n,w. n.,aI,.,., -
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w. o"""'S p'u' "p,'9'' :" n'nWi"Neo,
" 'aI" .c nn" onn I W. "h"Ne anu WIS
"p, ,h i pms,,vo "5'"' vo war, '".nu
Philadelphia, and began his Losses nj
the beginning of the war with &. 900.
600 in coal mine in Virginia.
The lara Dr. Kepealv laft his Iottors
and nntncunhs NJ rmin.nt nn,sons ~
tho Rritish mnsonm' nm cnnd;,;on ,ho,
thsv shnll rrmain unonen"d cor ,,ir,r
yonrs in order to avoid INV i,conYc.
nienco m the writera Fran, ,,',ir nn,,
munications being made public during
their lives.
Commissioners reDnc "a roc.,,ir
besn sclecting sites far ten fsrws i,
Georgin The snvannah Uo,njna w.
avs ZEN equal 10 that imnor,eI frnn,
Ain il rnised In "n,nt;tios j., Ia
stote n, +, cnst of not more ,bo, .n''
ne cents n nnnnI and rendilv AL
market nj from fortv IN INV ccrts
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