The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-26
NEWS OF H WEEK.
DOMESTIC.

two steamers.
The Cleveland Herald arises to re.
mark that 1.-THE new comet wears its
tail banged"
A rich vein of silver has been dis.
covered near Fort Sill. in the reServa.
ton of the Kiowa Comanches.
The salt product Of the United
States in 1880 was g, SOC, 2QS bushels.
In 1870 it was IL 800, los bushels.
A reunion of the veteran soldiers
of Southwestern Iowa, will be held
ut Shenandoah, Iowa, August 80, 80
and 81.
They think about 25 700 Montana
cattle will cross the Missouri river
ut Pierre this fall, bound for the
Chicago market.
1t takes five acres of land in Flor.
ida to make Il bale of cotton. Louisi.
II makes tifty.eight one hundredths
of II bale to the acre.
Rev. Il. w. Riley, who for forty
years has been a leader in the councils
of the Baptist church of Illinois, died
in urbana, of sporadic cholera.
North Carolina crops are badly in
jured by the drought. Recent re-
ports say there will not be u one.
third crop of either corn or tobacco"
The penny subscriptions in behalf
of Captain {. n. Cook, of Browns
vile. Ohio, who slapped Il man for
wishing the president would die,
have reached $500.
1t will take five freight cars to
transport the tents and other supplies
loaned by the government for the
soldiers reunion to be held ut Lincoln,
commencing September 5.
Since the beginning of the year.
3,l10 miles of railroad have been
built in the United States, the largest
mileage for the same period since
1872.
CottOn-seed oil is now used us a
substitute for lard for domestic pur-
poses by many families in the South.
They pronounce it rs every way
superior.
There are 81 200 teachers in Iowa,
largely female. The average monthly
compensation of the girls is SO,
while the men an average of
$3l.
The Chicago Union Veterans, ut Il
meeting held last evening, decided to
attend, as a body. the soldiers re.
union ut Bloomington, Ill. September
I, 5. and o.
4 large school Of finback whales
have made sport in Boston Bay for
some weeks past. Vessels had to
stop their speed to avoid collisions
with the monsters.
DeS MOines. Iowa, grain operators
are over 81 ,000,0 900 ahead on the
Chicago grain deal. One man clears
over Sl2l 900, and another. who
started with Sal last night, has made
s ,10O.
Some fancy prices were obtained
for imported sheep ut Paris, KY.
this week. Twenty Cotswold rams
averaged Sl20 each and eight ewes
$s1. The entire flock of fOrty-three
head averaged 1897.
The Georgia peach crop is unprece-
dentedly large. The peaches thus
far received in the Chicago market
have to he hunted with magnifying
glasses to make them look like the
genuine fruit.
Out of 10000 tenements occupied
by the Partisan poor, there are but
200 whose tenants are able to pay
an annual rent of more than $40.
On the other hand, nearly 1000
chambers are let for less than $40 Il
year.
n bartender in Fourth avenue.
New York, on opening the ice-boX
Saturday morning, found the propri-
etor's corpse resting on a beer keg.
1t is believed that, in distress from
the heat. he spent the night IN the
box and died from chills.
a yearling steer was recently taken
from an old well near Belmont,
Wright county, Iowa, where he had
been a prisoner for t~wenty.six days
without food OF drink. The animal
was thin and weak, but promise, to
live to fall another day.
y dastardly attempt was made on
the 18th inst. ut San Antonio, Texas,
to wreck an excursion train carrying
$50 persons, old and young. Ties
had been placed across the rails.
which the engine threw from the
track as it came along.
n cordial invitation has been eX.
tended by the United States Govern
ment, through it's Minister to Ger.
many, to the family of Baron Steuben,
Inspector General of WashingtOn's
to become the guests Of the
Nation at the forthcoming Yorktown
celebration.
An Englishman, who has spent
considerable time in Siberia, states
that pears are very abundant. and
that the trees grown there are never
by blight. Some of those
healthy pear.trees are much wanted
in this country.
Mrs. Guiteau. wife Of a brother of
the wOuld.be assassin of President
Garfield, was in attendance upon the
recent faith convention at Old Orch.
ard, Mass. The Boston Post says
''She is a pleasant lady, an active
worker, and cOncurs in the
published reports concerning the
bad character and antecedents of her
DrOther.in-law."
In the Christiancy divorce case at
Washington, a druggist named Am.
PROSE FalliOt testified that the SEN
ltor, soon after his marriage, admit
ed that he had performed "a criminal
operation upon his wife, and wanted
Medicine to relieve her. Mrs. Chris.
on being visited at that time,
'o~rrOborated her husbands state.
nent, and took the prescription
proposed by the druggist.
FOREIGN.
Yellow fever is raging i'm the
rrap.h pnlnnu of Sa. A.