The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

DR.. Hollands body was buried ut
Springfield, Mass.
1t is said that the funeral of the
President cost Cleveland $24i 600.
The Irish National Land League
was organized ut Dublin in October,
1879.
The government sold. last year,
nearly ii ,000,oO0 acres of its public
lands.
A banking house in Richmond has
purchased 81 100000 in Confederate
bonds this week.
The Northern Pacific railroad is
Complete to Powder river, within 81
miles of Miles City.
During the present season 47,4l4,-
O64 pounds of salmon have been
canned on the Pacific coast.
The Great Eastern. the largest
ship ever built, sold ut auction in
London recently for 100000.
The body of the late President, is
To he removed once more prior to his
final disposition in the monumental
vault.
Mrs. Garfield proposes that the
life of her husband shall be prepared
from his manuscripts, diary, and
literary remains in the most careful
manner.
The last Mormon conference az.
pointed 100 missionaries, sixty for
Europe and the balance for the Uni
ted States. Twenty-four are now
in New York ready to sail to Europe.
\ son of Judge Folger. Chief
Justice of the n. Y. court of appeals,
has purchased the Ocheeda or Parker
farm in Worthington. with u view to
stock raising, and will put in II hay
press. \ good sign.
The immense sum of money, Il
million and threc.quarters of dollars,
that has accumulated i'll the money
order office ut New York. and re.
mains uncalled for, belongs to people
who are careless in directing their
letters.
Boys and even girls sometimes
evince fearful passion for climbing
Mrs. Kate Dalrymple. of bradford,
Penn. formerly Miss Kate Campbell.
found her iive-year-old boy up IS
feet, on IN oil derrick, the other day,
and her little CIR. not much older,
going after him.
If all the oil wells should all sud
denly become dry there is on hand
sufficient oil to supply all demands
of consumers for year and half.
and the additional production eX-
cecdS the demands of consumers by
at least - 900 barrels day, and yet
gambling speculation has made the
price 90 up from ~ or 80 cents to 80
cents Il barrel. That it must decline
seems certain.
The Chicago Inter Ocem thus dis
poses Of the swelling and upward
tendency of beans:
We have once before alluded 10
the advance in the price of beans.
They are now selling ut $3.50 per
huShcl. and the tendency is still up
ward. This is direct blow ut ORA
tory. and occasions Il great deal of
alarm among certain reform news
papers, who will perish if their am.
unition is cut off.
Are Indians liars! This is the ans.
wCr which John Amir. the scientist.
who WAS Oh the cutter Corwiu. dur
ing the recent Arctic cruise. He
places no confidence in the story of
the wreck AMI four whites seen to
eastward. told by Indians. lie SAYS
Indians on that coast are cOnSIlmInate
liars and make up all kind of stories
to retard the whites. The Esquimaux
have great faculty for transmitting
news along the coast. and such in.
formation rs Indians furnished, would
have been widely disseminated. and
Ohtainable in Il multitude of ways.
There is strong impression existing
among the watchers and walters for
the outcome of the Star-rOute investi-
cations. that the L. :. government
has been sadly Swindlcd. OF course
the chaps who are about To he called
upon To clear up Siindry hold charges.
are the targets for the Sharp-shoOterS
of the editorial fraternity from Maine
to New Orleans. This, which comes
from the Chicago L.tsr Ocean, would
he called Il hilils-eye: Ex-senator
Dorsey has IS 900 head of cattle on
his rancho in New Mexico. He
ought 10 brand every one of them on
the hip with Il star" to indicate the
route they came.
Down in the little State of New
jersey. they would seem. from the
following, to he exceptionally severe
in their construction of the law of
libel. Every publisher of Il paper is
pretty certain in time, in the main
tenance. to eXasperate somebody who
Will at once apply to the courts for
special damages to vindicate injured
honor. The following is Il case in
point: In the SUISSE MdCpcmdsm libel
cases in which the editors pleaded
guilty, Gibbs. the senior editor, was
sentenced to ten months hard labor
in the states prison and $500 fine.
Stanton, the other editor. to six
months and the same fine. The SEN
teCces are considered very severe.