The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-12-02
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The Pratt coal mines Of Alabama
have been sold 10 northern company
for 81, 600, 900.
The priviicgc-tax paid by. the whisky
dealers OF Mississippi is said to amount
to $220,O00.
A company is hein" formed to develop
the Cahawba coal fields OH the line of
the Selma. Rome and Dalton railroad.
After tic city OF Worcester. Mass,
had expended $4,000 in erecting an
cngine-house. it was discovered tina,
the city had no title to tho land.
Many Boston capitalists are interest
ed in the Inverness Oil and Land COM
pany, of Nova Scotia, which has bought
twenty-five thousand acres of oil land
in Cape Breton.
AT Big Creek, Ark, a huge cata-
mount, caused stampede among the
stock in large pasture. II followed
the cattle to the house, went into the
yard, Cleared OUT the dogs, and then
went under the house for rest. A
gun was discharged and so was the
catamount
.Waiter." called Henderson. at the
eatinghousc. .this is the worst steak
etcT
"Indeedr' said the waiter, his face
lighting up with pleasure, I'm gladto
hear You say so, sir. There is nothing
like leather. YOU know"
The population of Eureka Springs,
Ark, is about fifteen thousand. Dur
ing the heated summer months il went
down probably to twelve thousand, but
now it is increasing daily. Brick CHM
neys and plastered rooms are coming
into fashion in Eureka Springs; so are
glass windows, in the rural districts Of
Arkansas.
Suits against the Emma Mining conf
pauy in Utah have been compromised,
and the working of the niue will prob
ably be resumed. This Emma mine,
through certain swindling operations,
country. English parties lost large
sums of money in il. aud that it is in
the hands Of new company, il any
richness should be discovered, there
would he Il new howl.
The question who shall adminis,e,
the esta'e of the late Mark Hopkins is
before San Francisco court. Mrs.
Hopkins was lately removed as admin
istrator. The public administrators asks
for it. His application is opposed by
the legal heirs. Moses Hopkins is pre-
sented for the position by Mrs. Hopkins,
and he is opposed by Samuel +. Hop
! kins, rs incompetent. The property is
! valued nj Slj.000.000.
Cap. Maxwell. British naval officer.
who has been cruising with his ship in
tie western Pacific. writes home that Il
! striking popularity of the Ellice island
| ers is the entire absence of arms among
them. lie did not see II club or spear,
, or any weapon whatever, either in ib.
: hands or houses of these natives. AT
! Ponapi, III the Caroline islands, I've was
! greatly impressed with the magnitude
/ aud so!idily of the residences OF former
chiefs. nov in ruins. Ga one islet he
found foar complete squares built one
I in The other. Win walls, some Of them
! thirty-fve feet high and Twelve thick.
By the will OF The late Josiah Parsons
: Cooke. Of Boston. 500 il left for a
monumen, at Northampton. Mass. to
Mai. Aaron Cooke. one OF the first
settlers of Northampton. who died in
1880. Prof. Cooke. Of Harvard, son OF
Tic ltStIt's v
Il sarcophagus Of pink Quincy granite.
seven icet broad and five feet ten inches
high. A fac-simile OF the original stone
is craven on the sarcophagus, and the
stone itself is inlaid in the new monu-
ment.
Water was being bored for at Wovd-
vile. Jefferson county, y. y, aud when
forly.seven feet below the surface a
fountain of water aud gas was reached.
and the drill, weighing six hundred
pounds, was thrown up. aud the water,
thick with some mineral solution, was
also thrown twenty-five feet in the air.
large quantity of gas escaping at the
same time. A pipe was inserted and
the well continues TO flow. Six and
one-haf pounds of water was boiled
down to Onc-fourth pounds. when it be.
came solid matter, which has q saline
pungent taste. the latter resembling
that of sal ammoniac.
The latest crush" in Idaho is to the
North Fork, about fifteen miles above
Ketchum. Were ledge two and a hall
feet wide of milling ore that assays up
in the thousands was discovered recent
". The discovery was purely accident
al. A prosrector slipped from ledge
OF overhanging rock into the water. In
2 crawling on the bank he saw native
silver and copper stains protruding
from a crevicc. A few minutes work
proved the existence of ledge.
..Bobtail cars" those which have a
driver but no conductor, are command
ing the attention of the New York So
ciety for the Prevention of Accidents.
Scanning sidewalks for passengers.
watching the fare-boy and looking after
his horse. etc. is believed to be too
much for one man to do. 1t is con-
tended that Il conductor would lessen
the number of accidents on the tram
ways.
Miss Braidon in trying to bring
SCOTS novels within ..the reach of the
poor and needy" is not satisfied with
merely condcnsing them. Tie London
Saturday Rcriew says she has not only
abridged Scott. but has altered him. In
Rob Roy." she has recast the plot,
suppressed whole characters, corrected
the Scotch and aided touches 10 the
humor. The Rertem says the Bradd-
0nizcd story "opens with ridiculous
scene, which FOR its folly would be a
disgrace even to one Of Miss Braddon's
own novels
About mile north of Durango, AT,
is n wonderful mountain Of solid iron
ore called tho Csrro del Mercado. The
ore is said Ia be entirely free from plIOs-
phor aud sulphur, and to assay from 81
to Is per cent. Of pur'' iron. That part
of the mountain above the ground
measures >. 25O long, 1,200 feet broad.
and 7O2 feet ligh. The iron produced
is SO soft that it bends and twists like
wax, ami will bear comparison with
the best Norway.
In recent explorations in the foothills
of the Cascade range, Washington Ter.
ritory. there was discovered in q wide
ledge of conglomerate and trap rock
the pe,riiied remains of thousands OF
fish-salmon, smelt, and cod. In at-
tempting 10 remove specimens of each
kind with implements at hand, they
were broken, and proved to be rs hard
aud white as flint on the inside. The
elevation above the sen level is fully
fifteen hundred feet where the petrilica
tons were found.
A young lady created quite a sensa'
ton in the public high school in San
Antonio, Tex. recently. After an NIB.
sence of several weeks, her condition
showed plainly that she was enceinte
She told the teachers that her uncle
had locked her in room during the
absence of her stepmoiher, aud with 9
drawn pistol compelled her to submit
to his iiendsb desires. This informa
I a ii, II.