Daily Republican., 1882-05-05
NEWS SUM NARY,
AN INV EsrI4ATION INTO THE
POVERTY OF MILK-6ENEKAL
NEWS FROM ALL sECrIOHs.

. POVERTY OF MILK-GENERAL
81 NEWS FROM ALL SECTORS.
J.. The "Evening Journal" of Chicago
4 reports that "the poverty Of the mil
/, retailed to housekeepers" in that cit
4 has caused an investigation, which "de
! veloEs the fact that most Of the dair
/. farmers" In that region "are fesdin;
0 their cows on sugar corn meal, an arti
, Gle consisting of the residue left atte
extracting the glucose from corn. |
produces = large quantity Of very poo
,, milk, and costs only about one quarter
of the price of good feed. The consu
msrs have no prospect of Stopping tn,
practice, ~ 1t does not violate auy
law"
The printers in Higgins carpet fac
tory struck for on increase of 10 pc.
cent, and the female weavers, 200 In
number, remained out, ,nOtW outstanding
the promise of the firm to grant Their
demands. Later in the day the firm
announced that they would advance
tho wages OF all their employees teu per
cent, and many OF the strikers return
cd to work.
Chancellor Runyon, at Trenton, yes-
terday, vacated the previous order per
mitting an election for Directors of the
Central Railroad of New jersey, but
gave leave to tiiss supplemental pc.
tition and move for a sin liar order, "to
the end that whenever an election is
held the proceedings may be legal and
under the sanction of the Court"
Yesterday morning, both tracks of the
New Jersey Centra. Railroad, near
White House, were blockaded by the
breaking of a wheel under an oil and
coal train. The shock was followed by
an explosion, aud tho wreck caught
fire, causing damage To the lraiL. The
loss ID estimated at $4,000.
A rich discovery of copper is repor-
ted to have been made twelve miles
southeast of Laramie City, Wyoming.
The ore, which lies directly across t he
old overland stage road, il said to con-
tain 90 to 100 per cent. of copper, with
gold and silver in paying quantities. :"
A large crowd gathered at the sale
of the Sprague properties in Providence,
yesterday, the upset price being fixed
at 81, 800, 900. The party Offering this
bid having withdrawn, and there being
no renewal of the bid, the sale was ad-
Journed until the 18th instant.
1t is said that Colonel u. B. Hendsr-
son, who was chairman of the Iowa
delegation in the Chicago Convention,
ia the candidate most likely to be
chosen for Secretary of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee.
The Secretary of the Treasury reports
that the total amount of internal rev.
enue tax collected on raw cotton from
1852 to 1868, when the act imposing the
tax was repealed, amounted to sos, 972,-
3SS
Grow Dog, sentenced to be hanged at
Dead wood, on the 11th instant, for the
murder Of Spotted Tail, has been re
spited bv the President, to allow his
case to go before the Supreme Court of
Dakota.
The Indian Bureau is in receipt of
dispatches denying that there is any
alarm a Fort Washakie. Wyoming, be. |
cause of the withdrawal of tk0ps from
that post, or any danger OF trouble |
from the Indians there
A despatch was received in New York
said to be from pro ninent
Con ressman of that city, asserting |
that Mr.. Lowell our Minister to Great |
Britain, had been recalled.
The Pacific Mail steamer Salvador is
beached in the roadstead of Punta
Arenas, Central America. The crew
and part of the cargo are saved, but
there is little nope of floating the ves-
sell
The engine and several cars of freight
rain on the Chicago and Eastern H.
inois railroad were wrecked yesterday
by an open switch. Three train
hands wore seriously injured.
Only fifteen employing horseshoers
N New York were reported to be hold
ng out yesterday against the demands
If theii men.
The steamship Lake Manitoba, the
irst arrival of the season in the St.
Lawrence, passed Father Point yester-
lay, bound inward.
Owing to the back wardL ess of the sea.
WI ploWlnR HAS Dtkuu Ill oAly d lew
favored localities" in the Province of
Quebec.
Five hundred miners at the Prutt
mines in Alabama have struck against
reduction Qt ten per cent.
The General Conference OF the Color
ID Methodist Episcopal Church Is in
ession in Washington.