The patron of husbandry., 1883-01-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

News from Everywhere.
IN the elections for Councils.Canora,
IN Spain the Government was evervwsana
successful. "aeFe
THE Treasurer of the United S,a,a,
the other day received a, 900 from ~ n,
for the conscience fund.
CITIZENS of New York have recently
contributed So 03o to erect Il pedestal for
the bartholdi statue Of Liberty.
lhE other day 1000 applications for
assistance 10 emigrate were made to the
foof Law union at Westport, Ireland.
IN his message to the Legislature the
Governor a Idaho calls attention to the fact
mat m several counties Mormons vote and
hold Office @''0
GOVERNOR PORTER, of Indiana. a
iew days AGO ordered that special election
TOT successor to the late Congressman Orth
be held January oh.
a RUBBER company in Trenton, New
Jersey, recently made for western grain
elevator belt 692 feet long, yard wide.
and weighing three TONS
TIE Denver & Rio Grande Road had
recently pushed its Utah extension to the
western line of Colorado, and expected TO
reach Salt Lake by February Is.
MAJOR E. II. GRArIoT, an early set
tier in the lead-mine region of Illinois. a
brother OF Mr.. Elihu b. Washburue. died
of apoplexy at Plaueville, Wisconsin. the
other day.
JOHN r. BUEOHTEL, of Akron, o..
the other day sold $4,000 stock in the
Buckeye Works, in order 10 make an ad Ii
tional gift OF 500, 900 to Bueehtel College, in
that town.
AT Columbus, o., the Legislative
bribery cases were finally disposed of few
davs since. Representative Wright was ac-
Quilted and nolle entered in the case of
Representative Block.
REV. JOSHUA Corr resigned the pas
torate Of the Lawrence-stree Congregation
al Church 1t Lawrence, Mass, recently. 10
accept the Seeretaryship of the American
Home Missionary Society.
HEpRY JAMES, SR., the philosopher
AMI metaphysician, an associate Of Greeley,
Emerson and Tholeau on this side of the
Atlantic, and of Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson
on the other, died few days since.
A LETTER was received by high Off
cials at London, Eng, a few days ago.
threatening to blow up one or more of the
Government offices within five days, in
Cra fat ba of
derers at Galway.
AT meeting of the French Geo
graphical society the other day NJ. de Les
seps promised that the Panama Canal would
be ready to be opened in 1888. Fears that
the canal would be liable to destruction by
earthquake were unfounded.
THE ex-Empress Eugene wrote to
Romher the other DAY requesting him TO
convey TO Marseiles the park and castle
which the court deereed belonged to her.
The eX-Empress says she believes she is
carrying out the wishes of the Emperor.
THE United States Supreme Court,
in denying writ of babeas corpus to Gen.
eral n. N. Curtis, recently held that the
/ law prohibiting the assessment of Govern
ment employees by Federal officers, for po-
| litieal purposes, is clearly constitutional.
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THE Western Dis,illers' Association,
! at meeting held in Cincinnati, O, the 9TH
! er day, aecided TO assess a tax on every
| bushel OF corn mashed up to forty per cent.
! of the capacity 10 pay for the exporting sur
/ plus, and allow a rebate OF twenty cents per
bushel for every busheI under forty per
| cent. of capacity.
VICTOR JOUANEEAULT, whose death
at GAINESVILLE, H., was reported, few days
1 since, was graduate of the University of
! France, tutor in the royal household at
| Brussels, Catholic priest in New Orleans,
| and teacher OF Brigham Young's children
| at Nauvoo. For the past thirty years he led
the life of a merchant.
IT was recently announced by the
| Secretary of the Treasury that three months
! interest, due February | next, on bonds
| embraced in the 119,h call, would be paid
| by checks forwarded to the registered own
| ers, the fractions Of interest from that date
! 10 February 10 being paid with the prinei-
,...' - bends at the time of redemption.
The preliminary psreeoafatiohs PIE lot
/ rendering the Weser navigable fof sea, '''''i :
j vessels from Bremerhaven to Bremen, Ger
many, were recently finished. The work
was esiimgted TO cost 30,009,000 marks, and
would probably occupy six years. When
+ completed it will give an immense impetus
10 II de between Bremen and New York.
ONE of the severest earthquake shocks
/ ever felt at Concord, n. H., occurred on the
evening Of the 18th. The shock was like a
heavy explosion or OF some heavy object
+ falling. In one building the shock was
sufficient tn extinguish the gas. 1t was al
so felt st Pittsfeld, Great Falls, Manchester
and other places. The shock lasted eight or
ten seconds.
STATISTICS of viticulture in the Aus
tralian colonies for 1880 and 1881, recently
compiled from the Government records,
show that in South Australia there were
4. 337 acres of vines, producing 500, 800 gal /
tons of wine; in Victoria there were 4, 2s4
acres OF vines, producing 574, 143 gallons OF
wine. In New South Wales there were
/ 4.724 1-2 acres of vines, producing 5S4, 262
gallons of wine; and it is predicted that
these figures will be more than doubled iu 8
! few years.
J. E. MCCONNELL, assignee in bank
ruptcy OF ex-Mayor Blackmore, Of Pitts
burg, has brought suits in ejectment to re-
cover all that ground upon which stand the
4 United States Capitol building, the White
| House, Treasury building, Navy and
other Governmental buildings, and hundreds
of fine dwellings and business houses. as
we'll as thousands of acres in Georgetown
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