Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-07
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worth Il million.
A MAMMoTH's tusk was recently found
fifteen feet below the surface in gravel
claim near Candy, Oregon.
The widow of Senator Grimes, Of
IoTa, has given $1,000 to the Young La
dies Seminary Mt GrinneD, Ia.
TIE Arkansas legislature has passed
bill prohibiting the sale of liquor
within two miles of any church.
THE Prince of Wales will unveil a
statue of Sir Francis Drake, the navi-
gator, in July, at Tayistock, Eng.
TIE Mississippi Silk Company at
Aberdeen and Cotinth has one million
silk-worm eggs for free distribution.
LAND has been purchased and all pre-
liminary arrangements made for the es-
tablishment of needle factory at Phn-
nixvllle, Pa.
THE census OF Denison, Texas, taken
on the 1st of May, shows a total popu-
lation of 1888, an Increase OF 1,452
since the census of 1889.
In seventy-mlie race between /,
bicyclist and horse, at Altoona, Pa,
recently, the bicyclist won easily. The
iiSS VINO iOl u EpSUO Nits1tI.
Mrs. j. G. WALKER, Of Holly Springs,
Miss, raised thirty lemons in her dining
room this year. The fruit compared
favorably with the imported kind.
AT marriage which took place few
weeks ago at Newport, in England, the
bride was widow aged 50, the bride
groom a bachelor aged so, and the bride
was given away by her grandson.
A PACKAGE containing two drafts, one
of $1,000, another of $4,000 and o SIS
gold-piece, belonging t. lady in Beau
regard, Miss, was found 1l0 miles from
that place, blown there by the cyclone.
VIRGINIA claims the Oldest English
church in this country. it is the old
Friends Church at Burton, and was
built III 1892. An ancestor of Martha
Washington is said to be buried in the
churcbyard.
THE Sewanee coal seam of Tennessee
covers an area of 5000 square miles, in
which there are 800, GOO acres, which,
at a low est innate, will yield an average
OF 5000 tons per acre, or sum total of
1900, 000, 000 tens.
CHARLES A. GRAY OF New Bedford,
Mass, who is now lying in bed at his
residence with his light knee. pan broken
for the third time within four years, has
on each time he has been so disabled
lost horse by death.
Mrs. John WHITE, of Uniontown,
Fayetto County, Pa, resisted the at
tempt OF John Bradley, former lover,
to kiss her, when he fired upon her, in
G xryn,1 hn l.,
ed her assailant down.
A NEW mountain tourist road Will soon
be bniit from Woodstock five miles west
to MoosllauEe Summit, N. a., 5000
feet high. 1t passes up Walkers Brock,
over Mounts Waterman ANA jim, c1oss-
ing the source OF Bakers River.
FIVE sea elephants, recently shipped
overland from San Francisco 10 New
York, have been purchased by the Phil.
Adelphia Geological Gardens for $40 600.
The Philadelphia collection is now
one of the most complete in the world.
IT is estimated that California will
produce 1900, 600 gallons of wine this
season. At the vineyard of San Gabriel,
the largest iii the state, 500, 600 gallons
OF vine and 100. .O10 gallons OF brandy
will be made from this years crop of
grapes.
A SorruArF, r. T., man thought it
would be funny to send a bogus loar.
riaec notice TO the Providence Journal.
Bat since he has found that he is likely
to have to pay Il good round tiue for his
joke, his IDEAS of comic journalism have
materially changed.
Z. NJ PATTERSON, of Waterford, Miss.
bns carried Whltworth rife. ball in his
body for nineteen years. Until two
years ago it never gave him any trouble,
and although probed for several times it
couiC never be found. 1t has recently
worked Itself out of his side.
a CoLoRED boy, while sitting on the
iron railing of the Amherst end of the
Lynchburg (Va,) free bridge, fell back
ward Il distance Of some forty feet into
the water. He got out unassisted and
was apparently unhurt, having turned a
complete somersault before he struck
the water.
FELhorrA SERAs, at Los Angeles, Cal,
is charged with having wrapped rags
around the feet ct her 12-year-old
brother aud set fire to them, badly
burning him. The ACT was done out ol
revenge, 1t is said, for the tales the
youngster circulated about her lapses
from virtue.
TAvAREs (Fla.) fishermen have insti.
tuted a new and novel method of catch
ing fish, which seems, however, to be
very successful. A fire is built on a
board laid across a long row. boat, aud
the fish, attracted by the bright light,
leap toward it, fall into the boat, and
are captured.
The principal of the Nevada CITY
(Cal. schools has given notice that any
pupil under his charge who was known
to indulge in cigarette smoking or in the
use OF tobacco i'll any form while in at.
tendance upon or on the way to or from,
the public schools of that city should be
forthwith expelled.
TIE largest single sale of mules evel
made in the United States recently took
place at Columbia, Tenn. The p;;r.
chaser was W. B. Leonard, who paid
SlS5 head for 155 animals, making an
aggregate of s2S,675. They are for use
upon sugar plantations, and will be
taken to Louisiana in August next.
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevails in
Belmont, Tex, over the arrest of Mrs.
johnson and her five children. They
were induced to join sect of sanctified
people, who have created much trouble
by inducing women to leave their iami.
lies and join the fanatical order. The
captured parties will be sent home.
A YOUNG man of Council Bluffs sent
to Denmark for his sweetheart, on til
understanding that she was to marry
HIM when she arriveJ; but she was ali
the while deceiving him, and, afte1
lourneying to America at his expense.
has become the wife of another sultor.
This brings about suit fer damages.
SOME friends of the Quebec govern.
ment have been making capital out ot
the placing of the provincial loan OF
2,0OO,O 900 at par on the London market
through the Bank OF Montreal agents.
The afterclap comes in the announce.
ment that these agents earned s per
cent by the transaction-about Sl6O 600.
LARvE of the apple orchard are found
IN large numbers in the buds of an,,,o.