The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-11-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Dom Pedro and the Empress of
Brazil, will shortly visit Europe.
The Texas cattle crop this year
amounts to 400, 900 head.
A simple remedy for neuralgia is
to apply grated h~orseradish to the
parts affected.
The actual losses by the Michigan
fires amounted to 81, $40, 600. and are
reduced by insurance to 81, 1870
Congress will pay the late President
Gartield's physicians bill, which will
not fall below 800, 200.
Wholesale dealers in oysters state
that the enormous consumption of
that bivalve will soon exhaust the
Baltimore beds.
The st. Gothard tunnel, which
picrces the Alpine range ut Mont st.
Gothard. is to he opeued for traffic
January l., 1882.
The President will fulfill the de-
sign Of the late President Garfield by
taking steps to stamp out the crime
Of polygamy in Utah.
The Turkish Government has
seized u steamer in the Dardanelles
which had IN board II large quantity
of dynamite for Russia.
There are only one hundred Modocs
left. They are farmers. The squaws
split wood for the kitchen fire with
the ancestral tomahawk.
Sweden has not yet granted full
religious liberty to its people. It's
law empowers the Church Council of
any parish to forbid the preaching by
any other ministers than those of the
State Church.
The value of gold consumed by
manufactures the last fiscal year, was
SD. 100000. more than $4,000, 200
being in United States coin. The
consumption of silver was equivalent
to 81. 1000. 900.
At Quincy, Illinois, the flood is
causing suspension of railroad traffic.
In the country around the city the
farms are deserted, the live stock
being left to help Themselves as best
they could. An immense amount of
damage is reported.
The total membership of the Meth.
odist churches in the world. us re-
ported ut the late General Con
ference in London, is 4,7Q5,l 16, OF
which 100000 are in the Uuited
States and Canada.
American cheese is in demand in
England this season. An English
paper remarks american cheese
is coming into the market in very
great quantities, from 10000 IL
10000 cheeses having been landed il
Glasgow every week during the last
two months. Every lot is picked III
as soon AS it arrives, the quality
being considered fine"
According to the figures of thu
census the vast estates which existed
ut the South before the wal are being
broken up ut Il rate that in the course
of ten years will give the South al
most us large a number of Landed
proprietors as any other portions o.
the country. In Georgia, for instance
there were at the beginning of tn,
war only $4,000 landed proprietors
To-day there are more than twice
, that number. The same" is true o
, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida anC
Virginia.
, 1t is estimated that there are $40,
900 commercial travellers in the Uni
| ted States. Each is supposed to 80
over his route five times Il year. ant
f to carry during that time Il ton %
| baggage. The baggage being gen
, orally bulky. it would require 24.GOl
tcn-ton ears to transport the trunks
, and outfits of these modified gentle
r men. The commercial traveller is
l therefore. n factor in the Transports
e ton problem as well rs the ~strictl,
:. commercial transactions of thu
5 Country.
= In Philadelphia. early in the morn
! ing of Oct. %, Gen. Boulanger, of tn,
! French dragons, awoke in his room
; at the Centennial hotel and found TIVE
, men standing by the table where hi
, had left his watch and Il roll of banl
= notes. The general sprang from thu
! bed, seized his sword and detaine,
the intrudcrs until the arrival of the
police. He identified them as II. NJ
MarstOn, athief, and Buffalo Bill.
, notorious criminal. The grand jur!
ut once found Il true bill against Buf
7 fllO Bill. and he WAS tried, convicted
{ and sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment.