The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-18
CONDENSED NEWS.

du Now orleans lueSudy.
The official census shows the popu-
lation OF France to be 37,672,04S.
Minister Lowell, in letter, express
es encouragement at the prospect for
international copyright.
In Ireland, during the month of July,
23l outrages were perpetrated, includ-
ing two murders.
Westgate, the confessed assassin of
Lord Frederick Cavendish, has arrived
at Jamaica.
The Denver and Rio Grande road has
completed its Utah extension as far as
Cimarron, $50 miles.
The Italian Antarctic exploring expe-
dition has been wrecked No lives were
lost.
A Chicago company is building
shed in Washington market, New Y DIRK,
for the wholesaling of western beef.
A Hereford cow at Fowler, Ind, has
given birth to three calves in the last
nine months.
There were twenty-eight new cases
of yellow fever and three deaths at
Brownsville Tuesday.
The mills at Cohoes. N. Y. are run
ming with increased force, and the fail
ure of the strike is conceded.
An alarming cattle plague has bro
ken out near Syracuse, N. Y. But one
animal attacked survived. The disor-
der is new one.
Melville and Ninderman, of the jean
nette, were expected at Moscow We'd
nesday, where a reception had been
prepared for them.
The New Y DIRK anti-monopolists have
decided to nominate a full state ticket,
and called a state convention to be held
at Saratoga Sept. 13-
Forty-four imported Clydesdale
horses, of an average cost of $4,000,
are for an Illinois stock-farm.
Severe storms of rain, heat, lightning,
and wind are reported from points in
the upper Mississippi and Missouri
valleys.
The Philadelphia branch of the Irish
National Land league of America has
abandoned its project of having an ex-
cursion for the benefit of Arab Pasha.
Senator HOar has addressed letter
to the people of Massachusetts,, explain
ing his vote for the river and harbor
bill.
An eminent German surgeon has
published a paper, in which he at
tempts to show that General Garfield
might have lived but for improper med
ical and surgical treatment.
Albert Lower, travelling salesman
Tor q Detroit firm, was murdered by
burglars at Columbus, KY, Wednesday
night.
Canadian crop reports indicate that
the fall wheat crop will prove one of
the best on record. Other crops are
good.
President Arthur received few per-
sonal friends at his residence in New
York and drove through Central park
with his son Sunday.
The avowed destination of emigrants
landed at Castle Garden in May shows
the largest number for New York, o.
$50; Illinois stands next with 10.968.
The total number landed was S8,768.
An Irish girl and negro man, though
married, have been convicted, at De-
troit, of unlawful Capitalization The
laws of Michigan do not sanction the
marriage of whites with negroes.
Secretary Lincoln, in discussing the
exclusion of women from the depart
ments, admitted that senators and rep
resentatives had secured them positions
for immoral purposes.
About 1000 emigrants, embracing
many French and German farmers,
were landed at Castle Garden Thurs
day, their destinations being in Iowa
and Minnesota.
caster, Pa, was burned Sunday eve
ming, the inmates, to the number of
la, having been removed. The loss is
$4,000.
New England still suffers from a
wholesale parching of the earth and
shrivelingof the crops. The industries
in which water power is employed are
somewhat crippled.
John +. McCurtain is thought to have
been elected chief of the Choctaw ma
ton at the recent election. His OppO-
nent was T. +. Smallwood, who oppo-
SEES railroads.
The assessed valuation of real estate
in New York is 81 .035 POS, S16, and of
personal property SOS, 272.582. The
amount to be. raised by taxation, this
year. is S29, 412S31.
The Mount Hickory rolling-mill, at
Erie, Pa, started up Monday with
non-uniOn men. Harmony mills, at
Cohoes, N. Y, are running with nom
union men. The strikers are receiving
assistance from all directions.
The extended drought in western
Massachusetts has seriously damaged
crops, and if rains do not speedily come
the loss will be extensive. The grass
in pastures is dry as straw.
Dick Little, who gave information
against the James gang, to which he at
one time belonged, has been arrested
for completely in the robbery of a
United States paymaster at Mussel
Shoals, Ala, in March, 1881.
Commodore Kellogg, of the Talla-
poosa, requests Secretary Chandler to
Investigate by court-martial the charges
against Lieutenant Merry, of that ves-
sci, who, it has been stated, has been
unduly severe with his men.
A crank who bears a marvellous re-
semblance to Guiteau appeared in a
public park at Erie, Pa. announced
himself as the Messiah, and harangued
the rabble ir denunciation of church
Christianity.
The tide of Dutch emigration has
turned from the United States and is
setting in for South Africa. A line of
steamers will he established between