Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-26
GENERAL NEWS GOSSIP.

The forty-fifth annual report of the sPres-
byterian board ef education showed that
II, 291 900 copies of books, tracts and peri
odicals had been published during the year;
receipts from all sources during the year,
including $3S, $50 balance, 1921, 124; expen-
ditures, 1882, 442; aggregate receipts from
sales, $195, APO Forty-nine cOlpOrtears are
employed in sixty-four Presbyteries, hold
ing 1910 prayer meetings, visiting 56,651
families, distributing gratuitously 80, 324
volumes, and $685., 800 pages of tracts; Or
ganized seventy-tWo Sunday schools in des-
titute places, land visited l, 112 other schools
On the 18th inst, there was shipped from
Mankato, via the Winona e st. Peter
railroad for the Dakota cattle company,
forty cars young cattle, and from New Ulm,
for the same company, sixteen cars more.
The cars will average about forty-four head
each, or total oil 2, AGA head These cattle
were bought in lie Sueur, Nicollet, Waton-
wan, Brown, Blue Earth and Faribault
co unties, and is pretty beavr draw upon
the young stock. Further shipments are
to be made the latter part of this week.
The Lindsay Land and Lumber company,
composed of Iowa and Indiana men, have
been buying timber land in Arkansas for
some time, and now own loo, 900 acres, one
half of which is in Arkansas valley. They
propose to erect at Little Rock, shortly, one
OF the most extensive saw mills in the south
west, which will give employment to 200
men. They estimate that they II cut from
their land, l, 300 OO0, 600 feet of lumber.
The full list of nominations made by the
Kentucky Democratic State convention last
week is as follows: For governor, J. Proc
tor Knott; lie tenant governor, ]. r. Hind
man; attorney general, p. w. Hardin,
treasurer James w. Tate; auditor, Fayette
Hewitt; superintendent of public instruc-
ton. J. Desha Pickett; register of the land
office, J. c. Cecil.
Bradstreets Journal furnishes the follow
ing: There were 1876 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreets during the
past week, seventeen more than the preced-
ing week, fifty more than the corresponding
week of 1882, and seventy-fve more than
the same week OF 1881.
The business failures throughout the coun-
try, as reported to the mercantile agency of
r. G. Dun & Co., during the seven days end
ing Saturday, namber III, as against 156
last week. The New England States, S.
Pacific States and Territories, 10; Canada
and New York, "a.
The Pennsylvania legislature defeated
the prohibitory amendment to the state
constitution, passed the bill laying tax
on oil and agreed to sojourn sine die on
June 6.
1t is said the cheap lands in portions of
Virginia are beginning to attract attention.
Qlite an influx of immigration from the
Northern States has set in.
An assignment has been filed in New York
by Thaddeus Davids & Co., ink manufac-
turers, with preferences amounting to $345,-
900.
The Presbyterian general assembly asks
President Arther to grant Alaska civil
government, SO the missionaries can 90 in.
Chihuahau's latest news is that the APP
aches are still scattering, and Crook and the
Mexicans are marching toward each other.
The capital of American insurance COM
panies diminished So, 493, 572 last year and
dividends Sal, 27O9.