The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
ALL SORTS,
Ohio has 7,6i3 prisoners in her jails.

might he avertcd.
The sale of Queen Victoria's year
lings has Of late years generally brought
forward lot of very inferior animals.
This year. however, the contrary was
the case; the yearlings, although the
majority Of them were small, realized
an average of nearly 81. 900 u piece.
The Boston Young Mems Christian
association have bought 10000 square
feet Of land on the corner of BOylston
and Berkeley streets for $4,000. The
sale requires the building to be set back
far enough to make 1000 feet unavail-
able for building.
Mrs. Mary Scott. of New Orleans, n
singular character. known rs "Robel
Mary" among tho federal soldiers dur
ing tho war. because of her rabid south
ern proclivitics. whose picture appear
cd in Haipe,'s Weekly at that time,
died recently.
Peter I. Phillippi, u Reading ma
chinist. was wounded in the battle of
Spoitsylvania. the bullet lodging in tho
liver. where it remains to this day.
Mr.. Phillippi is in robust health. and
suffers no pain. except in sudden
changes of temperature.
Jennie Russell, II years old, was in
duced to secretly marry Home: Dan
nett. ut Ncwburg, n. Y, last May. by
his promise to buy her gold watch
and silk dress. and TO take her Oh Il
trip to New York. and now her pa
rents are trying to have the marriage
annulled.
The shoemaker of whom Walters
ordered pair Of heavy shoes. with
half-pound copper toe on the right one,
ut Lodi. New York. wondered what was
the purpose of the strange contrivance
until he heard of Miss Walters beau
being frightfully kicked out of the
house.
The Holy Man of Senoussi. in Trip
oil. who is only awaiting his 49th birth
day-which will be next year-to re-
veal himself rs the "Mehedi'' or re-
former of the Mohammcdans, destined
To drive the christians from Northern
Africa. is visited by thousands Of pill
grims.
A fund is being raised for veteran
soldiers home in San Francisco, to care
for disabled soldiers from any part of
Z
that there are in alms-houses in twelve
counties of the state thirty-four Mexican
veterans. twenty-one Union, and six
United States veterans.
The corporation Of Dublin has po-
litelv declined the offer of the Alliance
and Dublin Consumers Gas company
To make series Of experiments in
lighting the streets by electricity, even
though the company are willing To
make the experiments under the direct
control of the corporation.
Mr.. McGowan, of Fall River, has
seen Paine. the fugitive Fall River EN-
bezzer. in Montreal. lie says Paine is
getting rich and is putting up II large
cloth mill. backed by 100000 raised
by Montreal citizens. lie has limo
house and is happy as u cricket. Mr..
Paine wouldn't go back to the states
for anything"
In rare book ''Contes Fantas-
tiques." by Jules Janin, published at
brussels in 1882, that famous critic de-
clarcs his conviction that Shakespeare
was Il butcher. aud says that when he
visited the poets house ut StratfOrdOn-
Avon he could still see the stains of the
blood of sheep and calves on the floor
and ON the worm-eaten doors.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune re-
lates the circumstances of tho horrible
torture Of little child by its unnatural
mother, residing in that vicinity. The
baby is only year old. and is just
learning to walk. In order to keep it
from getting into mischief while she is
ut work, the mother "stakes it OUT in
the hot sun for hours ut q stretch. The
infant suffers terribly. but its meanings
are UNDECIDED by its heartless parent.
A young fellow in Rouen, La, Dor
rowed an old trunk from his aunt SOM
time ago. and when he got ready to re
turn it the other day. he found it ha,
a false bottom and $4,000 in the hid
den recess. Now he, his aunt, and ;
junk dealer. from whom the woman
bought the trunk, have gone to Law
over the possession of the money.
Sixty miles northeast of SOcorro
New Mexico, are the Grand Quivir:
mountains. They have never beer
thoroughly explored. A prospectol
claims that no has found rich mine:
there. The most wonderful of his dis
coveries was tons upon tons of pottery
mostly broken, but large portion OF
which was rs perfect as the day it was
made.
A woman belonging to the sect called
Perfectionists undertook to run herself
to death at Dallas, Tex. She got the
idea from scriptural passage about
running the race to tho end" that il
she ran till she died she would 90 di-
rect 10 heaven. She could not kill hor-
self by pedestrianism, however. and re-
sorted To drowning.
President Eliot. Of Harvard college,
once said that when he was called to
the head Of that institution no was
neither ID. ID. nor an l.. l.. d., but
that Williams college promptly stepped
in and conferred the latter degree upon
him. Prcsident-clect Carter, of vii.
liams college, was in about the same
position till Union college recently
gave him the longer title.
a notable reduction in the rate of in
terest has just been made by the socie-
" for savings at Hartford, Conn, usu-
ally called the Pratt Street Savings
bank--a large institution with $500.
600 on deposit and S5,0O0,0O0 loaned
on real estate. II announces its readi-
ness TO reduce its mortgage rate To
per cent. on all loans which upon re-
:pprisal of the security are regarded
rs good. The bank pays 4 per cent.
on deposits. This reduction is likely
TO be acguiesccd in by other COnnecti-
cut savings banks.
The Sunday morning meetings of the
members Of the Shaker society, Of
Alfred, Me-. are largely attended dur
ing the summer months by people from
the surrounding towns. and by many
tourists and visitors sOjourning ut the
various seashore resorts between Wells
and Old Orchard Beach. who avail
themselves Of tho opportunity present
ed of Witnessing their peculiar and
somewhat novel mode of worship.
Elder John Il. Vance, the well-knOwn
preacher at these meetings, is II grand
son of tho late Hon. William Vance. Of
Calais. and subsequently of Readiield,
for many years extensively known in
business and political circles in eastern
Maine. and u nephew of the wife Of
ex-senator Morrill,.
The. Shanghai Courier, China, says
that the appointment Of Commodore
Shufcldt, United States navy, TO the
commad of the Chinese navy, has given
special satisfaction TO American resi-
dents in China. 1t protests. however.
that the choice has no such significance
~ has been attributed to it, but shows
only that the Chinese government has
desired ito distribute its favOrs impair
TALLY and TO put different departments
under the command Of foreigners Of
different natiOnalitics.
An extraordinary case of suicide has
occurred mt Duckiniield, Cheshire, the
victim being girl named Amelia
Birch, aged IL years, daughter of Eiz.
abeth Birch. . widow. 1t appears that