The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-08
MANKATO FREE PRESS.
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OF AIRY Paper Published In Blue Earth County
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

THE war department desires information con-
corning the widow or other relatives of tho late
General A. Schemmelfning, and requests that
the address of any member of his family In sent
to General II. C. Drum, Acknowledgements,
Washington.
If people hatter themselves that the Nor
mons are dying out they are much mistaken.
Not only In this sect increasing in Salt Lake
City but they are constantly receiving converts
from abroad. This month 3i7 Mormon con-
yerts left Liverpool for Salt Lake; l,524 left
Liverpool this year, and there is another large
party coming out next month.
A uEAIrHFuL sign OF rcviylng prosperity in
many parts of the south is the small railway pro-
jectS that are taking shape. Particularly im-
portant in their bearing upon the commercial
movement, are several roads that are being
built in the state that border on the Mississippi
river, running INLAND. and serving as feeders to
the river trade.
THE Indian government has offered Il prize
Of $500 for the best HYGIENE manual for sol
dlers in India. The manual must 10 without
theories" that IL To say, thoroughly practical,
showing the ordinary causes affecting health,
the special dangers TO health Ia which British
soldiers are exposed in India and the best
means of ayerting them.
THE North Topeka Argus depreciates warmly
the appeals which are not infrequcntly made in
the east for money and supplies 10 aid the
coorcd refugees no. in kansas. II declares
that thore are now fewer than 200 refugees in
the barracks in North Topeka, and most Of
these are supporting themselves. The Argus
adds: lit is time this begging abroad stopped.
Ii ls n disgrace every good citizen should con
denim. Kansas is able Ia take care of her.own
poor, and authorizes no begging in her name
The great work Of rcconsiructing the famous
railway suspension bridge across the Niagara
river has just been completed without inter-
ruptIon Of traffic. The task was undertaken
some months ago by Engineer L. Buck, and
though many prominent engineers doubted the
feasibility of the plan he has carried II out,
making an iron and steel bridge cut Of wooden
bridge by process of substitution which has
not occasioned the slightest interruption Of
trains. The casual observer would never have
suspected that anything more than little re-
pairing was going on
NEW ioRK paper asserts that all the rail
roads ccnterng there are doing an immense
business, Judging from the statistics given ont.
Never before have the carrying capacities of the
roads been tested to "a great an extent. The
increase is not confined Ia any one road or one
set of roads, but is general All the companies
share III il. Freight well passenger re-
ceipts are swollen to amounts far III excess of
previous years. Roads that have not improved
and enlarged their terminal facilities within
recent years lind their present arrangement nj
together inadequate TO perform the work de-
handed.
ACCORDING to statement in les MOndes, il
appears that the sea water found in different
parts of the SueZ Canal has proved, on investi-
CATION, to be excessively salt as compared with
that of the Mediterranean. Thus, while the
latter leaves, on evaporation, about forty kilos
Of salt matter per cubic metre. the canal yields
seyenty-iiye kilos. 1t is supposed that this very
considerable excess IL derived from the dissOlg'
ing of salt in the beds along the banks of Bitter
River. II Is noticed that at Port Said, where
the water is frcshened by the Nile, 1t does not
yield residue of more than twenty-five kilos 10
the cubic metre.
The congress of the republic of Columbia has
passed stamp act which went into effect Sep
TENDER l. Every stamp Is the value of twenty
cents, and not only is the omission Of stamp
finablc, but any national or state official who
shall receive any taxable document without the
requisite number of stamps affixed Is subject TO
penalty Of five dollars for every stamp omitted.
The list of taxable documents includes snch
ones rs petitions addressed to the federal au-
thorities, legal documents in civil cases, grants
Of land TO private persons, invoices, manifests,
bills of lading, passports, insurance policies, ac-
counts against the government, diplomas, nat
uraiization papers, patents and copyrights.
Trouble il brewing III the United States of
Columbia.
The lottery agitation in New York, which has
been going on for some time, directed particu-
larry against the sale of the tickets of the Ken
tucky and Louisiana lotteries has got so far
that the grand jury has found indictments
against ten city papers, and the end is not yet.
The law against lotteries is very severe, taking
in every one from the person who has the least
connection with a lottery up To the governor,
who IL liable To impeachment If he does not call
on the district attorney To sue for prizes, and
the district attorney, in turn, is liable To rc-
moval if he fails to do 80. The law, up to the
present time, has had the effect of preventing
lotteries in the state, but the selling of tickets
of concerns outside the state has been carried
on TO an alarming extent and with much de-
Inora2ing results. The Tribune calls upon
the governor to make short work with the police,
ii they do not do their duty by making short
work with the lottery dealerH.
THAT there will yet be found an open Arctic
sca, many Of the ablest scientific men entertain
no doubt. This opinion may BE- said TO be
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