The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-29
ALL SORTS.


Miss Griswold. the American lady
who recently made successful appear
ance in opera in Paris, is remarkably
pretty girl, with a decidedly Italian
cast of features and u fresh, soft, and
true voice.
Henry Crum, a lawyer of New Cas-
tic, Pa, was recently taken for u horse
thief by n band of vigilantes. and near
ly killed before he succeeded in proving
his identity. Lawyers should stay at
home at nights.
The Khedive at Egypt, it is said, in
tends to create q department to deal
specially with slave questions, the fatal
abolition of slavery in Egypt being
considered by his highncss us of the
greatest Importance.
1t is asserted that some Canadian
women have been doing quite thriv-
ing business in smuggling baby car
riages over the line by coming To the
American side bearing a baby in their
arms and wheeling it back in a carriage.
The Chinese telegraph students ut
Hartford are said to make marvellous
progress. One of them learned the
symbols in about four hours, which is
the quickest time on record.
The characters and groups in tho
Harvard college Edipus have been
photographed, part Of the work being
done in Sanders theatre by aid Of cleo
trio lights.
Lord Airlie has given notice of his
intention to move, in the house of lords,
for select committee to inquire into
the present state of the law and prac-
tice relating to claims and assumptions
of titles of peerage i'm the United King
dom, and in Scotland and Ireland
Thomas Meyers, of Rantoul, S. c.,
ventist. Calling out his son, l3 years
old, recently, lie sent him ahead, and
then deliberately shot him, saying that
he did SO by Divine command.
Judge George w. Dunlap, of Lam
caster, Ohio, attorney for the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, has abandoned
the law for the ministry, and preached
his first sermon. 1t was an able effort,
and bespeaks for him bright future.
The Paris Figaro prOpounds this
cOnundrum: 'Given two widows of the
same age, the same social condition,
the same character, one of whom had
bad husband and the other good
one, which of tho two will have the
stronger desire to get married again?"
Upon the birth of the princess of
Spain" last September Rev. &. ID. Brad
lee, of Boston, wrote congratulatory
poem which was sent TO the King and
Queen of Spain. He has received,
through the Spanish consul ut New
York, "their majesties' most expressive
thanks" for the composition.
About 200 Cinnamon attend the Sun
day-SchOOls in Brooklyn, and in going
to and fro they march in single file.
two rarely walking side by side. They
are exemplary in their attendance, and
are greatly attached to their teachers,
which they manifest by little gifts sent
them from China.
New Haven, Conn, has been designat-
ed as port from which imported mer-
chandisc may be shipped in bond in
transit through the United States TO and
from the Dominion of Canada, by such
routes and under such regulations rs
the secretary of the treasury may pre-
scribe.
A German paper states that in Lap
land an eagle was Shot and that
"arOund its neck it had Il brass chain,
TO which little tin box was fastened.
The box contained slip of paper. on
which was written in Danish: Caught
and set free again in 1892. "
Some of the bodies Of the miners who
were killed in the snOw-slidcs of last
winter ut Alta, Utah, have never yet
been recovered. In searching for one
of them, recently, Il hotel proprietor
named Albert Thomas fell into an
abandoned shaft forty feet deep, the
mouth of which was hidden by snow.
lie was seriously injured.
Mr.. Marshall johnson, of Claiburge,
La, dreamed for two nights i'm success
sion where his grandmother, who died
number Of years ago. had buried Il
quantity of money, and going to the
place which was pointed out To him in
his dream, and digging, he found the
money. 81, 200 in gold.
There is u tribe of hairless people
among the Australian aboriginals, liv-
ing some 500 miles west of Brisbane,
near the Balonne river. Several of
them were brought to Queensland by
Baron Maclcevy, the Russian explorer,
who had them photographed. Their
heads and bodies were entirely FREQ
from hair, and the former was perfect
ly smooth and shiny.
Three colOred men have taken 81 900
worth of stock in new cotton factory
being organized at Augusta. Ga. A
colOred man, slave up to the end of
the rebellion, is, with two or three ex-
ceptions, the largest cotton planter in
Mississippi. The assessors returns
show that the colorcd people are in
creasing their ownership of property
with most satisfactory progress IN all
the Southern States.
At religious convention in Virginia
tho subject of dancing was warmly dis
cussed. 1t was proposed that the square
dance be sanctioned, and the round
dance forbidden. At this juncture a
member of the convocatiOn arose and
said: "Ah! brethren, nightly fear
that if we authOritativcly permit the
square dance that some people may
soon pinch off the corners and make il
q round dance" The proposed COM
promise was not carried.
There are now eighteen societies of
Shakers in the United States, nine of
which are i'm New England. viz: In
Massachusetts, four-One ut Hancock,
one at birmingham, one at Howard, and
one at Shirley; in Connecticut one.
ut Enfield, in Maine, twO-One ut Alfred
and one at New Gloucester; in New
Hampshire, twO-One at Enfield and
ono at Canterbury. The largest and
wealthiest society is that ut New Leb
anon, N. Y, and next in ranks is the
one in Union Village, Ohio.
Senator Malone says in the winter
before Lees surrender that Gencr-
al told him he had urged JEFF Davis
the necessity of making terms with
Grant. Lee demonstrated to Davis
Grants greater strength, and showed
him that surrender would be inevitable
and only q question of time, and he
wanted to shed no useless blood. MIR.
Davis refused. and the result is history.
Gen. Leo wanted to end the war when
he saw that further fighting was USE
less sacrifice of life. That it was not
ended was not his fault.
1t is an almost universal practice
among butchers TO take the calves that
they are preparing for the market TWEEN:
ty-four hours before they are killed and
bleed them until they are faint or fall
from exhaustion. Some of our butch
ers treat all of the cattle and sheep
they kill in q like manner. The reason
given for this is that the meat is rem
dered white, more salable. and less
likely to spoil. Bergh is trying to put
stop to 1t.
Mr.. Henry Bergh, president of the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals, has written q long letter to
the New York State Association for the
Protection of Fish and Game. protest
ing against the slaughter" of 10000