The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

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The July coinage amounted to $3,S96,2OO,
including 2,250,0OO silver dollars.
A government magazine explosion at Mazat-
Ian, Mexico, killed large number OF people
and destroyed number OF buildings. Seventy
bodies have been recovered. Smoking by a
guard caused the disaster.
A meeting of delegates from all parts OF
Kansas was held at AtchisOn and German
American immigration society" formed. The
platform adopted declares that liquor prOhib-
ton is stopping immigration and demands the
repeal Of the prohibitOry Law. The delegates
were all Germans.
The Kentucky election secures the return Of
Senator Beck.
Pratt, Reed Il Co.'s piano key factory at Deep
river, Conn.,, burned. Loss about $4,000.
Two steamers sailed from Yokohama, May
"a, the same day, and arrived In New York
within six hours Of each otter. Distance via
Suez Canal, 1000 miles.
The decrease in public debt, during July, is
OO7S, O23.23.
The Sitting Bull indian party Is to be divi-
ded among several agencies more, and Sitting
Bull himself is 10 DO treated just as other In
dams are.
Daniel Shea of New York city was stabbed
six times on his own doorstep by thief, and
will probably die. He chung desperately to
bis assailant, VINO was finally captured.
New and rich discoveries nine miles west Of
DeadwOOd are reported.
Prof. Bells electrical apparatus has been the
means OF determining the location Of the bull
let in the Presidents body to the satisfaction
OF the surgeons. IL lies, in the front wall OF
the abdomen Immediately above the groin,
about five inches below and to the right OF the
naval. The surgeons do not think it advisable
to attempt .ts removal at present The Pre.i-
dent Is taking more solid food and Is constantly
gaining strength.
A war was broken out among st. Louis
brewers and the price Of beer has fallen from
$8 to So per keg.
Twenty five buildings burned at Deadwood.
Loss 100000.
Guiteau has placed in the hands OF the dis
trct attorney petition asking to be- released
on bail.
Jay Gould has purchased large interest In
the National stock yards at st Louis.
DR.. Hamilton in answer to the question:
"DO you think the President will recover" re-
piled: I have no doubt whatever of his uti-
mate recovery; / consider him out OF danger"
supply Of strawb rites has been forward
ed to tue President from Col. Rhodes farm,
Quebec.
most parts Of the country.
In the Presidents case a marked improve
ment is manifest In the processes OF digestion
and assimilation He is taking a considerable
quantity Of solid food and is sleeping natural
ly.
II is reported that meeting OF 100 Irish
men, hailng from different parts of the cOun-
try, has been In secret session at Chicago all
the week organizing the internal machine Ous-
mess un a large scale.
Colorado Is soon to have rolling mills in
operation at South Pueblo. The works are TO
cost over $l,000,O0O, and will make 10000 tons
Of steel rails the first year.
The denver and Rio Grande road to Duran
90, $50 miles from Denver in Southwestern
Colorado, is completed and opened.
A large conclave of prominent Irish agita.
ton is reported from Chicago. 1t is said that
they met 10 consider the best means OF extend
ing the dynamite plot.
Orvile Grant, brother OF the ex president
who has been an inmate OF the Morris Plains
N. j., Insane Asylum, is dead
II in reported that the government OF China
has modified the order for the return of the
Chinese students In this country.
Lightning killed four and badly injured ten
men out Of gr0up Of twenty who We're stand
ing together near Huntsville, S. G.
Spotted Tail, an Indian chief was shot and
killed by Crow Dog.
Delegates to the Methodist ecumencal confer
ence TO be held in London next month have
sailed from New York. With clergymen
who were not delegates the party numbered
lib.
Agents Of the postOfflce department who
have visited Canada TO investigate the mail Tag
matter make the astonishing report that nine
tenths Of all bags used there belong to the
United States. The Canadian government is
now making bags OF its own.
TIE President now sleeps without the aid Of
an0dynes 1t Is thought that he will soon be
able to sit up part OF the time.
An army OF crickets, several miles wide, Ia
marching at the rate OF two miles and half \
cry kind OF vegetation in its track.
The meeting of Irishmen at Chicago has
delegates from several Irish and English cities,
and appears to DO rather a notable gathering,
but the members deny that they are in the in
fernal machine business. Later reports indi-
cate that the work In hand Is rather arrang-
ing for "bg talk" some time next year
than attempting to destroy England by assass'-
nation.
The total saving by reduction and discontin-
uances In the p. o. department since March
amount IT, $1,3Sl,442.
Mr.. Murphy, iwho was consul general at
under Pierce, has inspected the gov
eminent tea farm In South Carolina and says
that the plant can be raised successfully in
the southern states anywhere sonth of the
frost line.
The annual reunion of army chaplains, In
ion and Confederate, and Of members OF the
Christian and sanitary commission has been
held at Chautauqua.
Hartmann, the Nihilst, lie at Niagara Falls
village. 1t Is said that he intends to place him
self conveniently on the border 80 he can claim
protection Of the United States or Canadian
authorities as circumstances dictate.